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Audio Book: Raging Sea by Michael Buckley

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Audio Release Date:  February 2, 2016 Publisher:  Recorded Books Format:  Audible Narrator:  Jennifer Grace Length:  11 hours 8 minutes Genre:  Fantasy YA Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  | Hardcover  |  Audio Synopsis:  In the first book of Michael Buckley’s Undertow trilogy, the Alpha arrived and the world was never the same. At the start of the second book, most of south Brooklyn is in ruins and the nation is terrified. Nearly everyone that Lyric Walker loves is either missing or presumed dead, including the mesmerizing prince Fathom. It’s up to Lyric to unite the Alpha before the second wave of a cataclysmic invasion wipes out mankind for good. Review: This book picks up immediately after the first book ends.  There is no coddling or rehashing of book 1 so if you haven't read it you won't understand this one.  While many middle trilogy books often feel just like filler this one really had its own ...

Audio Book: Undertow by Michael Buckley

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Audio Release Date:  May 5, 2015 Publisher: Recorded Books Format: Audible Narrator: Jennifer Grace Length: 12 hours 4 minutes Genre: Fantasy YA Buy: Kindle | Paperback | Hardcover Audio Synopsis:  First, we feared them. Then we fought them. Now they might be our only hope. Sixteen-year-old Lyric Walker’s life is forever changed when she witnesses the arrival of 30,000 Alpha, a five-nation race of ocean-dwelling warriors, on her beach in Coney Island. The world’s initial wonder and awe over the Alpha quickly turns ugly and paranoid and violent, and Lyric’s small town transforms into a military zone with humans on one side and Alpha on the other. When Lyric is recruited to help the crown prince, a boy named Fathom, assimilate, she begins to fall for him. But their love is a dangerous one, and there are forces on both sides working to keep them apart. Only, what if the Alpha are not actually the enemy? What if they are in fact humanity’s best chance for surv...