
Esperance
Author: Adam Oyebanji
Narrator: Délé Ogundiran
Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 05/20/2025

Author: Adam Oyebanji
Narrator: Délé Ogundiran
Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Published: 05/20/2025
Adam Oyebanji is the author of A Quiet Teacher. Born in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire, he is a graduate of Birmingham University and Harvard Law School. When he’s not out among the stars, he works in the field of counter-terrorist financing: helping banks choke off the money supply that builds weapons of mass destruction, narcotics empires, and human trafficking networks. He currently lives in Pittsburgh.
Esperance hooked me from page one and didn’t let go. I mean, how could it? It opens with an impossible murder - a father and son drown in seawater inside their 20th-floor Chicago apartment (with no water tank around, floors dry, and nail scratches on the ceiling). A dead barracuda is just lying ther......more
Sci-fi thrillers are right up my alley, but this was just okay. As much as I loved the focus on racism and history, it wasn't enough to carry the story. The novel would be entertaining as a movie or graphic novel, but as a novel, it wasn't really all that exciting until the last 20-25% when the clim......more
Oooh this was a wild ride! It is brutal yet emotional, heartbreaking yet humorous, exciting yet still with well developed characters. Really, I don't think I can find a complaint for Esperance! Without giving too much away (since much of the fun is because the reader is trying to figure out the situ......more
Esperance is a speculative fiction novel which blends together police procedural, sci-fi and alt-history, written by Adam Oyebanji, and published by DAW Books. An impossible murder kickstarts a propulsive novel that doesn't explain much, letting the reader tie the knots between the two POVs, trustin......more
This is a really odd book that I had trouble getting into as I usually don't enjoy fantasy. But once I got the gist of it, I was hooked and couldn't read fast enough! Ethan is investigating three dead bodies that have drowned in salt water in their apartment. There's no fish tank in sight and there......more