Wanderers
A Novel
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Wanderers
Narrated by:
Dominic Hoffman, Xe Sands
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Narrated by:
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Dominic Hoffman
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Xe Sands
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By:
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Chuck Wendig
About this listen
NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Polygon
Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and her sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other “shepherds” who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead.
For as the sleepwalking phenomenon awakens terror and violence in America, the real danger may not be the epidemic but the fear of it. With society collapsing all around them—and an ultraviolent militia threatening to exterminate them—the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart—or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.
In development for TV by Glen Mazzara, executive producer of The Walking Dead • Look for the sequel, Wayward, now available!
“This career-defining epic deserves its inevitable comparisons to Stephen King’s The Stand.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A suspenseful, twisty, satisfying, surprising, thought-provoking epic.”—Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away
“A true tour de force.”—Erin Morgenstern, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus
“A masterpiece with prose as sharp and heartbreaking as Station Eleven.”—Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M
“A magnum opus . . . It reminded me of Stephen King’s The Stand—but dare I say, this story is even better.”—James Rollins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crucible
“An inventive, fierce, uncompromising, stay-up-way-past-bedtime masterwork.”—Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World
“An American epic for these times.”—Charles Soule, author of The Oracle Year
Critic Reviews
“Wanderers is amazing—huge, current, both broad and intensely personal, blending the contemplative apocalypse of Station Eleven with the compulsive readability of the best thrillers.”—Django Wexler, author of the Shadow Campaigns series
“A riveting examination of America.”—Scott Sigler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Generations Trilogy
“If you ever wanted to know what America's soul might look like, here’s its biography.”—Rin Chupeco, author of The Bone Witch
“A tsunami of a novel.”—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of Into the Black Nowhere
“A defining moment in speculative fiction.”—Adam Christopher, author of Empire State and Made to Kill
“Trust me: You're not ready for this book.”—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma
“An astounding adventure.”—Fran Wilde, Hugo-, Nebula-, and World Fantasy finalist and award-winning author of the Bone Universe trilogy
“Utterly brilliant and frighteningly plausible.”—Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
“Beautiful and harrowing—and timely as hell.”—Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of The Grand Dark
“A harrowing portrait of an unraveling America . . . terrifyingly prophetic.”—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room
“A brilliant, Hollywood-blockbuster of a novel.”—Peter Clines, author of Dead Moon and Paradox Bound
“Approach Wanderers like it’s a primetime television series, along the lines of The Passage [or] Lost. . . . Make Wanderers a summer reading priority; you won’t regret it.”—Book Riot
“A riveting examination of America.”—Scott Sigler, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Generations Trilogy
“If you ever wanted to know what America's soul might look like, here’s its biography.”—Rin Chupeco, author of The Bone Witch
“A tsunami of a novel.”—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of Into the Black Nowhere
“A defining moment in speculative fiction.”—Adam Christopher, author of Empire State and Made to Kill
“Trust me: You're not ready for this book.”—Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma
“An astounding adventure.”—Fran Wilde, Hugo-, Nebula-, and World Fantasy finalist and award-winning author of the Bone Universe trilogy
“Utterly brilliant and frighteningly plausible.”—Kat Howard, Alex Award-winning author of An Unkindness of Magicians
“Beautiful and harrowing—and timely as hell.”—Richard Kadrey, New York Times bestselling author of The Grand Dark
“A harrowing portrait of an unraveling America . . . terrifyingly prophetic.”—Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and The Pandora Room
“A brilliant, Hollywood-blockbuster of a novel.”—Peter Clines, author of Dead Moon and Paradox Bound
“Approach Wanderers like it’s a primetime television series, along the lines of The Passage [or] Lost. . . . Make Wanderers a summer reading priority; you won’t regret it.”—Book Riot
The duel narrators have done pretty well, though they each have certain reading styles that annoyed me a little.
The cadence of one always pitched down on most sentences, like a sad newsreader. And the female narrator constantly did this weird quaver to convey emotional passages, which got annoying by the half way mark.
Okay story, but a little slow in parts with more than a passing similarly to Stephen King's The Stand . Seems Colorado is the place to go when the world ends.
Kinda like The Stand, should be called The Walk.
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I wish I had stopped listening when it first got sordid. It’s left me feeling …bad
Swearing is too much!
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Two of the main characters are a black scientist (epidemiologist) who works for the CDC & a young/teenage woman. Some people don't want to hear how human behaviour (farming, deforestation) affects the spread of zoonotic diseases. And they don't want their heroes to be such figures while consiparacy theorists, right wing militia, Fox News, Pentecostal/nationalistic Christianity, & other fringe groups are portrayed as ridiculous or narrow minded or similar. These issues are not the focus of the story - they are background setting at best. But it's enough to explain why some people might write negative reviews and not like the story.
Preppers & extremist groups often see themselves as the heroes of a dystopian future & that's certainly not the case here.
Don't be swayed by negative reviews!
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Keeps you hooked from start to finish
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Just ok
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