The Reader

De: Traci Chee

Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a world where reading is a lost art, a young girl undertakes a perilous quest in order to rescue the one person she has left.

“I was spellbound from the first page. This is a book you will not soon forget.”—Renée Ahdieh, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn

“Highly recommended for fans of Inkheart and female-powered adventures.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Once there was, and one day there will be. This is the beginning of every story.

Sefia lives her life on the run. After her father is viciously murdered, she flees to the forest with her aunt Nin, the only person left she can trust. They survive in the wilderness together, hunting and stealing what they need, forever looking over their shoulders for new threats. But when Nin is kidnapped, Sefia is suddenly on her own, with no way to know who’s taken Nin or where she is. Her only clue is a strange rectangular object that once belonged to her father, something she comes to realize is a book.

Though reading is unheard of in Sefia’s world, she slowly learns, unearthing the book’s closely guarded secrets, which may be the key to Nin’s disappearance and discovering what really happened the day her father was killed. With no time to lose, and with the unexpected help of swashbuckling pirates and an enigmatic stranger, Sefia sets out on a dangerous journey to rescue her aunt, using the book as her guide.

In the end, she discovers what the book had been trying to tell her all along: Nothing is as it seems, and the end of her story is only the beginning.

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Praise for The Reader:

★ “Commanding storytelling and vivid details, particularly of the magical process of reading, bring the story to life… the first of what promises to be an enchanting series.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

★ “Deftly rendered in beautiful prose, narrated through three shifting time lines woven into an interconnected history of duty, honor, and magic. . . . This is a must-have for all those who value a good read with genuine character growth, mystery, unique world-building, adventure, unyielding bonds of loyalty, and pirates. . . . A fresh, diverse fantasy; highly recommended for fans of Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart and female-powered adventures.”—School Library Journal, starred review

★ “Chee’s debut is an intricate, multilayered reading experience… An exploration of self-determination and the magic of the written word, Sefia’s story is an absorbing introduction to the Sea of Ink and Gold series.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

★ “With evocative language, fascinating world building, multifaceted characters, and a compelling plot, this is a series fantasy lovers will want to sink their teeth into.”—Booklist, starred review

"The Reader weaves golden threads through land, sea and the fabric of time in a complex web of powerful magic and dangerous words."—Shelf Awareness

"Traci Chee's The Reader Could Be The Next Big YA Fantasy Series"—Bustle.com

“I was spellbound from the first page. An utterly transportive tale of swashbucklers and sharpshooters, masterfully written. Traci Chee has penned a beautiful novel about the power of story, complete with a fantastic cast of characters and an expertly rendered fantasy landscape. This is a book you will not soon forget.”—Renée Ahdieh, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn

Love it!

I stumbled onto this trilogy, and so far I absolutely love it! At first I only half-listened and had trouble following along as it weaved through intertwined storylines, but once I started actually listening I got it.

LOVE!

So sad that it is over and not another book to start listening to! I enjoyed the multiple story lines and the characters. I look forward to more stories by the author and the narrator was marvelous!

Ehhh

The book is a bit slow. I feel a little more revision would have taken this really good story and made it great. I don't I would have finished reading the book because of it. Hopefully the next book addresses this issue

the childlike narration

the male characters sound ridiculous when read with the "youthful tone" of the narrator. worse when canibalism is the topic. I want to take it seriously but can't.

Reading one's own future is interesting!

This was an excellent story filled with such great adventures! I really enjoyed how the story flowed together. Sefia learns a lot more about herself and her family after her aunt is kidnapped. She sets off on a journey to find her, but has a gift for something that most people don't. She can read and then some.

I definitely appreciated this story and am glad that I finally got to read it! Now to read the sequels too! How beautiful. It reminds me slightly of The Neverending Story (one of my all time favorite books), but takes on its own twists and origins. Of course, any book that has stuff about sailing the seas also makes me happy.

I know my review is so vague, because I went into it barely knowing what it was about and want other to have that experience too.