“The anxiety-inducing stress of COVID-19 made it hard to focus. Lawrence, who read the series in its original format, is now listening to the audio version for the second time. The production level made it possible for me to really dive into the world of the story.” Rebel of the Sands author Alwyn Hamilton sums up the book’s unique blurring of genres: “By the end, I half believed Sadie was a real missing girl and not a fictional character.” Rocha agrees: “It was as if I were listening to a real true-crime podcast, not a fictional one.”įor readers looking for something as pace-y and character-driven as a classic YA, but leaning a bit more into the adult category, Patrice Lawrence, author of Orangeboy, swears by Ben Aaronovitch’s urban-fantasy series on audio: “A police procedural with urban-fantasy elements that brings out the geek in me - what’s not to like?” It features a podcast investigation alongside the character’s story, and they recorded it just like a real true-crime podcast, with the speaking style and quirks of something like the Serial podcast.” For Lucas Rocha, author of forthcoming Where We Go From Here, Sadie was a revelation: “It was very different from what I’d normally read, so I think the audiobook was incredibly delivered. Lauren James, author of The Reckless Afterlife of Harriet Stoker, says: “It’s such a creepy, atmospheric story, and the narration really captured that. Three of our experts recommended Canadian author Courtney Summers’s innovative true-crime-podcast-inspired YA thriller Sadie.

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