
Jelly
Author: Clare Rees
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/29/2022
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction

Author: Clare Rees
Narrator: Mary Jane Wells
Unabridged: 6 hr 41 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 03/29/2022
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Clare Rees works as an English teacher and writer. She feels privileged to work with teenagers and loves that she gets to spend her days encouraging reading and writing skills in others. Jelly began life as an exercise with her class, and all its most perilous, rude, or graphic parts are influenced by their voluble feedback. She lives in Berkshire, England.
Mary Jane Wells (a.k.a. McAllister Lee) is a British actress, writer, voice-over artist, and Earphones Award and Audie Award–winning narrator. A graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, she held a recurring role on the BBC’s Half Moon Investigates and narrated the BBC Three television show My Children, which won a Scottish BAFTA.
5/5 This book is so stupid. I started reading it and it was so stupid it made me question my existence. First off, there are characters named "Pitiful Pete" and "Stinky" and the writing style feels like it is for young kids. But then people are out there having sex and trying to convince people to ha......more
This was a wild ride. I didn't think the concept of "trapped on a giant jellyfish" would be taken literally, but it 100% is. Lately I've been DNFing a lot of books, but this one kept me reading right to the end. I'm interested to see where the author's imagination goes yet – I hope somewhere just as......more
It is not often that I read a book with a totally novel setting. But apocalypse survivors trapped on a rugby pitch sized jellyfish floating just out of reach of the coast? New to me! It was great to read a book that is obviously aimed at teenagers, but is not in the "angst" category. It was actually......more
I liked the idea and premise that this book was built on. A massive jellyfish floating in the middle of the sea keeping a bunch of people kind of, as pets, on its back. The thing that drew me in is the fact that I love jellyfish and also was unlike any other book I'd ever seen. However, I did feel l......more
It was a silly nice book! not too bad. i found mysellf trying to like it in the first half of the book , then it got a little weirdly interested , that just made me continue reading all day. it was an experience i will not regret. i sort of wish it continued a bit further after their escape. i start......more
“Poignantly describing the tenacious flickers of hope that persist in spite of seemingly insurmountable obstacles.” Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
“Rees marries a darkly funny survival account with a climate change creature feature…Rees offers a testament to human ingenuity and younger generations’ fortitude while cautioning against ignoring environmental problems.” Publishers Weekly