Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
Waking the Moon, Elizabeth Hand
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Waking the Moon

Author: Elizabeth Hand

Narrator: Carol Monda

Unabridged: 21 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/02/2019

Synopsis

A Gothic fantasy set on a college campus from the author of Wylding Hall Sweeney Cassidy is the typical college freshman at the University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine in Washington, DC. She drinks. She parties. And she certainly doesn’t suspect that underneath its picturesque Gothic façade, the university is a haven for the Benandanti, a cult devoted to suppressing the powerful and destructive Moon Goddess. But everything is about to change as Sweeney learns that her two new best friends are the goddess’ Chosen Ones.Rich and engrossing, Waking the Moon is a seductive postfeminist thriller that delves into an ancient feud, where the real and magical collide, and one woman is forced to make a decision that will change the world.

About Elizabeth Hand

Elizabeth Hand is the author of more than nineteen cross-genre novels and collections of short fiction. Her work has received the Shirley Jackson Award three times, the World Fantasy Award four times, and the Nebula Award twice, as well as the James M. Tiptree Jr. and Mythopoeic Society awards.

About Carol Monda

Carol Monda is an Earphones Award–winning narrator and accomplished voice-over artist. She is also an award-winning actor known for her work in Out of Season, After You Left, and The Gentlemen.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

During her first week as a student at The University of the Archangels and St. John The Divine, Sweeney Cassady becomes friends with Angela and Oliver, a pair of charismatic and beautiful young people who have been chosen for great things by the Goddess, and soon her destiny reveals itself to be mys......more

Goodreads review by Gabrielle

Academic setting, secret occult societies, goddess worship… My question here is: how did teenage me never read that book? She would have lost her mind over it! This was exactly the sort of stuff she was into! It was actually a bit how young me fantasized actual academia would be: sophisticated peopl......more

Goodreads review by Amy

This had been my favorite book for years. Despite, or maybe because of, the dark adventures our heroine, Sweeney, witnesses and partakes of, this book really spoke to me and reminded me very strongly of my own younger adventures. Also, this book introduced me to C.P. Kavafy, and I'm forever indebted......more

Goodreads review by Danica

I can tell, even before I've finished typing one sentence into this dialogue box, that this is going to be a very long review. Why? Because I really liked the first two-thirds of this book. Loved it even, for the sensual, pungent writing, the overwrought but undeniably effective atmospherics, the ge......more

Quotes

“A potent socioerotic ghost story for our looming millennium rooted in ancient nightlands of myth and next week’s politics of gender. Hand’s high-resolution narrative never falters.” William Gibson, New York Times bestselling author

“An ambitious, erotically charged thriller” Clive Barker, New York Times bestselling author

“The unstoppable narrative just might make Waking the Moon a cult classic. Literally” Spin

“Hand is a superior stylist.” New York Times Book Review

“Elegantly written…Lush and decadent…A marvelous fantasy thriller” Denver Post

“Blending the ancient with the modern, the fantastic with the real, Hand has created a violently sensual fable helped by smart pacing and vibrant prose.” Publishers Weekly

“Superior. An author worth watching, not to mention recommending.” Booklist

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