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Happenstance Found
- Books of Umber, Book 1
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Series: Books of Umber, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Categories: Children's Audiobooks, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
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- S Crum
- 11-17-20
Fun story to get lost in
These was a fun story to get lost in. With interesting twist and turns. Definitely worth the purchase.
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- hannah
- 09-24-17
Great concept so far
I got this to listen to on a car ride with my kids but they already read them, so, I listened solo. Im quite pleases with where it is going & recommend this book.
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- michael
- 05-15-12
Did not deliver
the Story sounded so good when I read what it was about and bought all 3 books. I was very disappointed the story took ages to get going and didn't delivery much.
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- Tiffany
- 07-30-12
Great Fantacy
Where does Happenstance Found rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
Top of the List
What other book might you compare Happenstance Found to and why?
One of a Kind
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Happenstance
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
In a world were you know everthing except who you are, what can be your purpose except to save the world.
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- Jay Dunlop
- 12-26-09
A Happy Happenstance
This is a delightful tale which unwinds with delicious hints of the past. present and future of the boy, intertwined with that of a man who has come into the world from the future and an almost medieval feel to the world which they both must now inhabit. Your initial scepticism of this tale about a boy who wakes, he knows not where, in a darkness in which only he can see clearly, and without a name or a past, would be unfounded.
Happenstance, who is told his name by a voice whose speaker even he cannot see, is taken out of the darkness and onto a boat. The physical fact of being on a boat, terrifies him, not so much because of the very odd nature of the boat, but by his intense fear of water. The cause of that can only be guessed at, and perhaps may be explained by the fact that when he first awakes, he is soaking wet!
The world he finds himself in is one in which magic is normal. Happenstance and his new friends (a giant of a man who must speak the truth; a young girl who has lost one hand and his new master, a man who is almost always fascinated with the natural world around them and who is usually very happy), soon find themselves followed. The adventure begins!
I loved both the writing and the narrator and I look forward to 'reading' the next book in the series.