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Into the Jungle
- Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
In this pulse-pounding thriller from the author of the 'haunting, twisting thrill-ride' (Megan Miranda, New York Times best-selling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the jungle of Bolivia, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.
Nineteen-year-old Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it.
When the gig falls through and Lily stays in Bolivia, she finds bonding with other broke, rudderless girls at the local youth hostel isn’t the life she wants either. Hustling and world-weary already, crazy love finds her in the form she least expects: Omar, a savvy, handsome local man who’d abandoned his life as a hunter in Ayachero - a remote jungle village - to try his hand at city life.
When Omar learns that a jaguar has killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: Stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in a string of ever-more-isolated river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anaconda? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? Love-struck Lily is oblivious. She follows Omar to this ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle - its wonders as well as its terrors - using only her wits and resilience.
Primal, gripping, and terrifying, Into the Jungle features Erica Ferencik’s signature 'visceral, white-knuckle' (Entertainment Weekly) prose that will sink its fangs into you and not let go.
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- Brett-Morgan Nielsen
- 14-09-22
Very Immersive
Such a great blend of characters and so well written, I feel like I have actually paid a visit to the Bolivian jungle.
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- Pavlina
- 09-04-21
Adventurous, real, thrilling
What an adventurous endeavour into nature. A young American girl meets Omar who is returning back to his home village in Bolivian jungle. Lily joins him and tries to survive the toughness of living in the Bolivian wilderness.
Pulsing with love, action, danger and beauty of nature.
I traveled a lot in my life and this book reminded me my adventurous travels in Chile a few years ago. I wanted to visit Bolivia then. That’s why I bought an adventurous book, I crave travelling these days.
I was so much into this book that I cried when it finished. Literally, I was sorry I couldn’t continue learning about the life of aboriginal Tatingas, villagers of Chocabsmba, jaguars, spiders, food, poachers etc. The book gave me a great insight into wild life, peoples abilities, love and appreciation.
I would only question why a Bolivian man has an Arabic name and why is Lily only 19.
It didn’t spoil the story for me but I guess Lily must have been very mature mentally to survive and also describe her experience with such a vibrant language. Having said that I don’t underestimate young people but the reason I started listening to this story a year later after I purchased it were my doubts about a love story of a 19 years old practically homeless girl. I didn’t resonate with a teenage love story in my forties at first.
How mistaken I was, I would definitely recommend this book for anyone who is after something different, exciting, dramatic and artistically written.
Give it a go, be open minded and you won’t be disappointed.
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