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The Death House

By: Sarah Pinborough
Narrated by: Ben Elliot
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Lord of the Flies meets Never Let Me Go in this compelling and heartbreaking dystopian novel from British Fantasy Award winner Sarah Pinborough.

In the near future, children are tested for the defective gene. Those who possess it are taken from their homes, torn from their families, and sent to the Death House.

Standing alone on a remote island, it looks like a 1940s boarding school. But a school prepares children for life, and these children are destined to die. Idling their time away in pointless classes, supervised by cold matrons, their days have no purpose, because neither do their futures.

When the sickness hits, death comes quickly. Children are taken from their dormitories in the night and never seen again. Forced to confront his own mortality, sixteen-year-old Toby tries to block out his past, and the terrifying unknown that is his future. Until a van arrives with a group of new kids, and everything changes.

Death may be certain, but Toby discovers that his fate is up to him.

©2019 Sarah Pinborough (P)2021 Tantor
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The audio kept skipping, but a good story nonetheless

The audio kept skipping, but a good story nonetheless. Not my usual, but kept my attention.

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Be ready for tears!

This was a great story although unbelievable sad. Eventhough it isn't a real story it is a very well written fiction. The last chapter was extremely hard to listen, I was sobbing until to the bitter end. The narration was very well performed, I could truly feel the emotions of the characters. All in all a very good book if you like fiction and you won't be disappointed with the narrator, he did a fantastic job!

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She has hits and misses - this was a MISS

Stupid way to tell a story. Disappointing twisty plot - bad ending

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Very disappointing

Not a strong story, nor strong characters , I wonder what the book would of been post covid. normally love her books

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Just depressing & lots of tech issues

Not the engaging plot that is typical of her books. Read if you just want to be depressed. Audio kept skipping despite redownloading it.

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Audio skips

more of a love story than I expected from the description. the audio skips which is distracting

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