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The First Bright Thing
- Narrated by: Petrea Burchard, Tim Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
If you knew how dark tomorrow would be, what would you do with today?
The First Bright Thing by J. R. Dawson is a spellbinding debut for fans of The Night Circus and The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue.
Welcome to the Circus of the Fantasticals.
Ringmaster – Rin, to those who know her best – can jump to different moments in time as easily as her wife, Odette, soars from bar to bar on the trapeze. With the scars of World War I feeling more distant as the years pass, Rin is focusing on the brighter things in life. Like the circus she’s built and the magical misfits and outcasts – known as Sparks – who’ve made it their home. Every night, Rin and the Fantasticals enchant a Big Top packed full with audiences who need to see the impossible.
But while the present is bright, threats come at Rin from the past and the future. The future holds an impending war that the Sparks can see barrelling toward their Big Top and everyone in it. And Rin's past creeps closer every day, a malevolent shadow Rin can’t fully escape. It takes the form of another Spark circus, with tents as black as midnight and a ringmaster who rules over his troupe with a dangerous power. Rin’s circus has something he wants, and he won't stop until it’s his.
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- Ms S. J. Casey
- 20-01-24
This one will stay with you..
Look, some books require a little work from the reader. If you're looking for sleep fodder this isn't it. I found for me there was familiarity work which required more than the first three chapters to get the hook firmly bedded but stay the distance, get comfy with the split narrative, it pays off.
Very hard to define without giving away much but would say that it's as much about freedom as control, and what might be monstrous and what might or might not be beautiful.
I'll certainly read it again it was full of the kind of detail which can flow past as you're grasping the tale and deserves appreciation.
Amazingly, the narrators barely registered I was too intent on the story but they were magnificent!
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