The Spear Cuts Through Water
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Narrated by:
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Joel de la Fuente
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By:
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Simon Jimenez
About this listen
WINNER OF THE IAFA CRAWFORD AWARD - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Oprah Daily, Vulture, Polygon, She Reads, Gizmodo, Kirkus Reviews, The Quill to Live
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family--the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors--hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace. But that god cannot be contained forever.
With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom--and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined. Both a sweeping adventure story and an intimate exploration of identity, legacy, and belonging, The Spear Cuts Through Water is an ambitious and profound saga that will transport and transform you--and is like nothing you've ever heard before.
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- samantha
- 18-07-24
Just wow!
A fabulous tale, fabulous narrator, cannot recommend enough - fall in love with Jun and Keema’s story via the inverted theatre. This is a love story, blood soaked as it is.
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- Jessica Murray
- 23-11-24
wonderful!
beautifully written and imaginative, kinda like being submerged in a dream! a bit slow to start but well worth it! I liked the mix of fairytale elements and modern life
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- J. A. Greenhalgh
- 16-07-24
Good ideas, pretty original, but doesn’t quite maintain a momentum
This is a really inventive and excellently written fantasy that is a better exercise in literary composition than it is a story. It’s still very good, but I felt it lacked a really strong central momentum. The story itself just wasn’t, for this reader, all that engaging.
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- Matthew Spencer
- 03-12-24
Not great
No idea what was going on the whole time, I really tried. Had to give up half way through as I was so confused. Reader was great though.
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- Nina
- 03-11-24
Not for me
Very confusing writing style and not a great story. Definitely not worth all of the hype it gets!
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