The Knowing, Carolyn Mitchell Boykin
The Knowing, Carolyn Mitchell Boykin
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The Knowing

Author: Carolyn Mitchell Boykin

Narrator: Lynnette R. Freeman

Unabridged: 13 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 02/20/2024


Synopsis

A mysteriously chilling and provocative page-turner for devotees of supernatural and suspense thrillers.

Cora was born with a veil. She is able to discern spirits and wield the power of both the dark and the light as well as the ability to heal. Her grandmother, Mi, called it The Knowing. Cora has carried it as both a prophetic blessing and a curse, struggling under the burden until
one decision changes her world. Possessed with a healer’s compulsion to help, she is unable to turn away when Fannie arrives on her doorstep, ripped, torn, and hanging precariously on the knife’s edge of death.

As torn at the birth of her child, Clyde, as she was at his conception, Fannie believes she has been chosen as the vessel for this coming savior.

In this tale of magical realism and spiritual folklore, Clyde and Cora are bound by a contract of which neither can be extricated except by the destruction of the other.

Will Clyde honor his mission, or will he save himself from a war he’s not ready to fight?

Reviews

I received a gifted advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via the publishers. The Knowing is a well written and atmospheric historical fiction book with gothic undertones. Set in 1900s New York and later travelling to Manchester in the UK, I jumped at the chance to......more

The Knowing is a Gothic, historical fiction novel that offers a captivating journey into the 19th century and begins in the slums of New York. Flora is a painted lady and tattoo artist working for the man who took her for his own and treated her badly. He inked her skin with his designs and used her......more

Goodreads review by Emma

This was a book whose blurb roused my interest and yet somehow the story failed to deliver despite starting well. I was hoping for more atmospheric details and cohesive plot. I did not really connect with any of the characters. Thanks to Netgalley for an arc of this book.......more

I finished reading The Knowing and I enjoyed it. It was a very easy read. It was concise and very to the point . The Knowing follows Florence who is the only tattooist in Five Points and probably the only woman covered in tattoos. She works for and with Jordan who has an obsessive hold on her, he for......more