Author: Matt Killeen
Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld
Unabridged: 11 hr 51 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Listening Library
Published: 03/20/2018
Matt Killeen was born in Birmingham, in the UK, back in the war-mad seventies—a hometown largely demolished and rebuilt in his lengthy absence. People tend to dismiss what comes more easily to them as unworthy, so it took him far too long to realize he was a writer. He worked as an advertising copywriter and a largely ignored music and sports journalist in the aughts, before fulfilling a childhood dream to join the LEGO® Group in 2010. He left after eight years, and an unconscionable amount of money spent in the staff store, to become a full-time author. A lover of costume parties, he is an avid gamer, soccer fan, toddler wrangler, and warrior for truth and social justice. Although a devout urbanite, he has somehow ended up surrounded by fields in a house full of LEGO bricks and musical instruments, with his two diversely aged children, Nuyorican soul mate, and neurotic fluffy dog. Orphan Monster Spy was his debut novel, and he has still not learned to touch-type.
Bueno, por dónde empezamos. Orphan Monster Spy nos trae la historia de Sarah, una chica judía que trata de escaparse de la Alemania Nazi. En su intento de huida conoce al Capitán, un hombre británico que trabaja en cubierto para los Aliados en el seno del tercer reich: Berlín. A forma de pagar una de......more
This is an emotional and heart-pounding story!......more
This was intense and I loved every section of it. You thought the girls in your high school were mean? Think again. This was an interesting fictional perspective on the horrors of Nazism from a Jewish girl who "passes" and infiltrates a community of Nazi elites. Disclaimer: A few scenes were a bit c......more
Un libro de estilo juvenil pero que se adentra en un tema escabroso como son las Napolas nazis. Las napolas eran una especie de internados donde estudiaban los hijos de los nazis más fervientes, siempre que cumplieran con el arquetipo ario; aunque más que historia/matemáticas/literatura, les enseñab......more
“A stunning, smart, grounded tale of intrigue in Nazi Germany, so guilty and detailed it feels like true memory rather than fiction. Sarah is an angry, appealing, heart-wrenching hero, superhuman and achingly frail in equal measure. I wish I’d written this myself. Deeply disturbing and chillingly good.”—Elizabeth Wein, New York Times bestselling author of Code Name Verity
“I found myself mesmerized by Sarah’s journey into a world of human monsters. Orphan Monster Spy weaves one heroine’s courage through a spectrum of darkness, and the effects resonate long after the final page.”—Ryan Graudin, award-winning author of the Wolf By Wolf duology
“Killeen expertly conjures the day-to-day evil of Nazi Germany in this terrific page turner.”—Paul Dowswell, award-winning author of The Auslander
“A powerful, bleak, and penetrating portrait of an isolated young woman excelling in unimaginable danger.”—Kirkus Reviews