Listen free for 30 days

  • The Call of the Rift: Flight

  • Written by: Jae Waller
  • Narrated by: Sera-Lys McArthur
  • Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

Try for $0.00
1 credit a month, good for any title to download and keep.
The Plus Catalogue—listen all you want to thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts, and audiobooks.
$14.95 a month plus applicable taxes after 30 day trial. Cancel anytime.
The Call of the Rift: Flight cover art

The Call of the Rift: Flight

Written by: Jae Waller
Narrated by: Sera-Lys McArthur
Try for $0.00

$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $25.43

Buy Now for $25.43

Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Tax where applicable.

Publisher's Summary

A rebellious heroine faces a colonial world coming unstitched in Jae Waller's stunning debut fantasy

Seventeen-year-old Kateiko doesn’t want to be Rin anymore - not if it means sacrificing lives to protect the dead. Her only way out is to join another tribe, a one-way trek through the coastal rainforest. Killing a colonial soldier in the woods isn’t part of the plan. Neither is spending the winter with Tiernan, an immigrant who keeps a sword with his carpentry tools. His log cabin leaks and his stories about other worlds raise more questions than they answer.

Then the air spirit Suriel, long thought dormant, resurrects a war. For Kateiko, protecting other tribes in her confederacy is atonement. For Tiernan, war is a return to the military life he’s desperate to forget.

Leaving Tiernan means losing the one man Kateiko trusts. Staying with him means abandoning colonists to a death sentence. In a region tainted by prejudice and on the brink of civil war, she has to decide what’s worth dying - or killing - for.
©2018 Jae Waller (P)2018 ECW Press
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Show more Show less

What the critics say

“Waller's world-building is impressive.... While the magical and romantic elements of Waller's story are most likely to hook teen readers, it's the commentary on colonized cultures that really sets this novel apart from other YA fantasy tales.” (Quill & Quire)

What listeners say about The Call of the Rift: Flight

Average Customer Ratings
Overall
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Performance
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0
Story
  • 5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    1
  • 4 Stars
    0
  • 3 Stars
    0
  • 2 Stars
    0
  • 1 Stars
    0

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Audible.ca reviews

Audible.com reviews

Amazon Reviews
No reviews are available
Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    4 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    3 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Eric C.
  • Eric C.
  • 2020-08-28

Nice world building, missing character growth

The world building in this book is good and detailed.
The story is interesting.
My issue is with the main character. She’s a whiny little .... To some extent, that’s fine, she’s 18, and raised in a remote area with no education beyond really idiotic wrote memorization of mystical crap, so it’s not a surprise that she doesn’t have much of a clue. But she never gets a clue, doesn’t learn. And one minute she’s worried about the entire world, the next a specific individual and to hell with everyone else...oh, and everything, absolutely everything, no matter what (so long as it’s bad) is her fault and responsibiiity. That crap gets old.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars
Profile Image for Barely Audible
  • Barely Audible
  • 2018-12-29

Brutal and real

It's difficult to describe what lore this could best be described as. Druidic? Native American? The different tribes from Avatar?

Kako, our protagonist, is able to commune with spirits and find water and bend it to her will, though this isn't the most interesting thing about her. This could be considered a coming of age tale, but only in the most technical terms. Most of the time, coming of age tales don't depict brutal violence and the consequences it brings.

But what this tale does depict, are a range of topics that tend to focus me into a story, and I am probably not alone. Things like the grim inevitability of arranged marriages. Leaving home with no certainty you will reach anywhere that is safe. The horrors of violence. What it means to live in a world that is changing around you. This is a story that could have very easily taken another direction and not looked so hard at its world and its characters. Kako sets off away from her people. Some things will happen. In the strictest YA sense, the book didn't need to spend the time where it did. Instead, Waller allows us to see what it means to be injured. What it means to accept local customs. What it means to have consequences for your actions. For that alone, it will keep you hooked. You won't just want to see what the characters will do next, but how an indifferent universe will balance their actions.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!