Nightfall
Written by Jake Halpern and Peter Kujawinski
Narrated by Nicholas Guy Smith
2.5/5
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About this audiobook
The dark will bring your worst nightmares to light in this gripping and eerie survival story, perfect for fans of James Dashner and Neil Gaiman.
On Marin's island, sunrise doesn't come every twenty-four hours-it comes every twenty-eight years. Now the sun is just a sliver of light on the horizon. The weather is turning cold and the shadows are growing long.
Because sunset triggers the tide to roll out hundreds of miles, the islanders are frantically preparing to sail south, where they will wait out the long Night.
Marin and her twin brother, Kana, help their anxious parents ready the house for departure. Locks must be taken off doors. Furniture must be arranged. Tables must be set. The rituals are puzzling-bizarre, even-but none of the adults in town will discuss why it has to be done this way.
Just as the ships are about to sail, a teenage boy goes missing-the twins' friend Line. Marin and Kana are the only ones who know the truth about where Line's gone, and the only way to rescue him is by doing it themselves. But Night is falling. Their island is changing.
And it may already be too late.
Includes two songs written and performed by Celia Rose.
Jake Halpern
Jake Halpern is a journalist and author born in 1975. His book, Braving Home was a main selection for the Book of the Month Club by Bill Bryson and was a Library Journal Book of the Year. He is a contributor to NPR's All Things Considered and This American Life. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, The New Republic, Slate, Smithsonian, Entertainment Weekly, Outside, New York Magazine, and other publications. He is a fellow of Morse College at Yale University, where he teaches a class on writing.
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Reviews for Nightfall
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I didn't enjoy this book so much as I was captivated by it. With Nightfall Stuart writes a very dark, angsty story -- like a train wreck you can't look away from. Richard Tiernan is a complex and interesting character who provides the majority of substance for this novel. Cassidy Roarke, not so much. Her role in the plot is mostly reactionary, as she is manipulated and led around by everyone around her. She runs on shear nerves most of the novel, and I do appreciate the dramatic quality of that, but she was like a tennis ball getting smacked around by various people and, at times, all I wanted was for it to end. Which, I'm sure, was largely the author's intent. I think the plan backfired, though, making Cassie a less-appealing heroine and imbedding a sort of redundancy into the story. So, although I couldn't put this book down, I was relieved when it was done.