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  • The Binding

  • A Novel
  • Auteur(s): Bridget Collins
  • Narrateur(s): Carl Prekopp
  • Durée: 15 h et 29 min
  • 4,2 out of 5 stars (119 évaluations)

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The Binding

Auteur(s): Bridget Collins
Narrateur(s): Carl Prekopp
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Description

Proclaimed as “truly spellbinding", a “great fable” that “functions as transporting romance” by The Guardian, the runaway number one international best seller arrives in America.

"A rich, gothic entertainment that explores what books have trapped inside them and reminds us of the power of storytelling. Spellbinding.” (Tracy Chevalier)

Imagine you could erase grief. Imagine you could remove pain. Imagine you could hide the darkest, most horrifying secret. Forever.

Young Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a strange letter arrives summoning him away from his family. He is to begin an apprenticeship as a bookbinder - a vocation that arouses fear, superstition, and prejudice among their small community, but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse.

For as long as he can recall, Emmett has been drawn to books, even though they are strictly forbidden. Bookbinding is a sacred calling, Seredith informs her new apprentice, and he is a binder born. Under the old woman’s watchful eye, Emmett learns to handcraft the elegant leather-bound volumes. Within each one, they will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there’s something you want to forget, a binder can help. If there’s something you need to erase, they can assist. Within the pages of the books they create, secrets are concealed and the past is locked away. In a vault under his mentor’s workshop, rows upon rows of books are meticulously stored.

But while Seredith is an artisan, there are others of their kind, avaricious and amoral tradesman who use their talents for dark ends - and just as Emmett begins to settle into his new circumstances, he makes an astonishing discovery: One of the books has his name on it. Soon, everything he thought he understood about his life will be dramatically rewritten.

An unforgettable novel of enchantment, mystery, memory, and forbidden love, The Binding is a beautiful homage to the allure and life-changing power of books - and a reminder to us all that knowledge can be its own kind of magic.

©2019 Bridget Collins (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers
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  • Catégories: LGBTQ2S+

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
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Surprising

Looping story and beautiful writing. If you can let the story lead you without knowing where you're going, and not get frustrated, this will be a real treat. Let yourself be swept away with what some call unnecessary side stories, and watch it all carefully fall into place in the end. Heartwarming and heartwrenching and creative all in one. This is to say nothing of the impressively wonderful narration.

Rarely leave reviews, but this one deserves the praise, if not just for the narration. Open your heart and give it a listen.

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Top notch!

I really thought the story examines both sides of the role our memories play in our lives. I thought the plot was well planned with excellent foreshadowing.
I loved the narrator’s voice. His voice was soothing and almost hypnotic in the way he drew me into the story.
I did think that it would have been good though to hear about Alta and Emmett’s parents after Emmett had his memories wiped and how that impacted them once he gets his memories back. Perhaps though that could almost be another book!

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Kind of a bummer and then really dark. DNF

I thought the story itself was interesting enough up until about chapter 4. Only one review that I saw even really mentioned it but it is really dark. It was kind of a bummer up until when I stopped but it got really dark suddenly and I had to stop. 3 stars because the writing itself was my style and I thought that the performance really suited the book.

I don't want to say anything that might spoil things for people who might like this book but in a way this book is about regrets that people struggle to live with, and people do some pretty dark things.

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So slow

Everything about this book is slow. The narrator could give you depression after hours of listening to him. The story unravels really slowly too. I’ve got more than half Into the book and I still have no idea what’s going on and I don’t have the desire to find out either. Everything is so monotone and dark. Not a good listen at all.

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Too Dark..like a wet blanket

Too dark for my liking..and that’s saying a lot. I’m not faint of heart but this type of dark just makes you feel like a heavy wet blanket thrown on you. I’ve listened to books with lots of “dark” in it but I think what made me abandon this book was the overall boringness of it. Dark and boring. Blah. It kind of droned on and a few hours in I decided this wasn’t the book for me,

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Meh

This book had a lot of potential but it fell flat. It was pretty winded and would have been better as a short story.

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Captivating

I came across this audiobook after searching for anything narrated by Carl Prekopp, as he is my newly favourite narrator. His voice combined with this story is so captivating, I didn't want it to end.

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🤦🏻‍♀️

This has an interesting concept but unfortunately falls very flat. Very long dragged out. I honestly wanted to like this story but it just gets lost and doesn’t really go anywhere with the binding and focuses on other crap.

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Not what it was portrayed

Not much magic or fantasy involved. Turned out to be a story about generational dysfunctional relationships Should be in the LGBTQ catagory.

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Incredible all around!

Not only was this story absolutely gripping and constantly surprising, but the narration of it was unlike anything I’ve experienced. The way that Carl Prekopp performs this spectacular story left me awestruck and constantly entertained. It was as if there was an entire cast of rehearsed performers acting out this narrative!

The story itself was wondrous! The writing is so rich with beautiful metaphors and illustrations. The scenes were so vividly described that you felt as if you were remembering them from your own experiences. The narrative is full of so many incredible twists that it feels impossible to put down and the fantasy world crafted by Collins feels just believable enough to wonder if it’s real, while still remaining truly original. I cannot recommend this enough!

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