The Sea of Tranquility
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Narrated by:
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Kirby Heyborne
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Candace Thaxton
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By:
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Katja Millay
About this listen
I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the Earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.
Former piano prodigy Nastya Kashnikov wants two things: to get through high school without anyone learning about her past and to make the boy who took everything from her - her identity, her spirit, her will to live - pay.
Josh Bennett’s story is no secret: Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at 17 years old, there is no one left. Now all he wants is be left alone and people allow it because when your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space.
Everyone except Nastya, the mysterious new girl at school who starts showing up and won’t go away until she’s insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But the more he gets to know her, the more of an enigma she becomes. As their relationship intensifies and the unanswered questions begin to pile up, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she’s been hiding - or if he even wants to.
The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
©2012 Katja Millay (P)2013 Simon & SchusterListeners also enjoyed...
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When Beatrice Trixie Jordan replies to a personal ad, she meets Jacob Grace, a charming, effervescent 30-something free-spirit writer passionately seeking life. He possesses his own turns of phrase and ways of thinking and feeling that dissonantly harmonize with Trixie's off-center vision. As they rollercoaster through the joys and furies of their wrenching romance, they try to come to terms with the hurt brought about by both of their distant fathers who, in different ways, forsook them.
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To see a fortune teller or not to see one...
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Falling in love wasn't the plan. But how could I resist his promises of hope? Of forgiveness? Of a future I had stopped dreaming of? We were shattered. We were scarred. We were something strange and beautiful. We were two lost souls holding on to the only thing that could keep us together. Each other.
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5 Soul Stars
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I <3 this book!
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Strike
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A summer job. That's all it was supposed to be. It never crossed my mind that I was about to collide with a man who would obliterate every plan I ever made. My mother has always warned me that love is like a lightning bolt and it strikes without warning. But I had no intention of getting struck by either lightning or love anytime soon. I'd be too busy finishing my journalism degree and landing a job in a city far more sophisticated than Phoenix. There was certainly nothing in the cards about getting involved with an ex-ballplayer turned nightclub boss.
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worth a read
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Traitor
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I've lost my family, my wealth, and the place I've called home for the past five years. Now I’ve moved back to where it all began...with the guys I thought I’d never see again. Abel, Ronan, Wells, and Bishop were my friends at one time. I was the only girl they would let into their inner circle. Now they hate me. They think I’m a traitor. And I don’t know why. But I am bound and determined to find out.
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The story is fun!
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HS romance
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Brilliant- really good!
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No need to check your scepticism at the door!
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Couldnt finish so bad
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Davie—an ugly duckling growing up in small-town Mississippi—is positive her life couldn’t be any worse. She has the meanest mother in the South, possibly the world, and on top of that, she’s pretty sure she’s ugly. Just when she’s resigned herself to her fate, she sees a movie that will change her life— Sixteen Candles. But in her case, life doesn’t imitate art.
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2 High Fives - for Monkey Night
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Five
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Five Aston has known Rory Shrike for as long as he can remember. He played with her in the sandbox. He went to every damn horse show just to be supportive. He helped her with her French, walked her home from school, and faked his test scores just to stay with her a little longer and not be sent off to college early. But eventually he had to move on. And so did she. Never has a second chance meant so much to a boy who loves a girl.
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✫✫ 5 Stars ✫✫
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Well Written, great narrator
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- Sugarpucker
- 02-06-14
There is NOTHING wrong with this book
This sounds like lackluster praise. To the contrary, it is the best thing I can ever say about a book. You know how you read a book and you get aggravated by some little annoyance, or you feel something was left out or unexplained, or you start to feel differently towards the characters than you think you should? Or maybe you know how a turn of phrase or plot line can make you roll your eyes. All these things pull you from the story. It can still be a great book. You can still love it. But there are things wrong with it none the less. In my opinion, there is NOTHING wrong with this book. If there were any imperfections, it was so completely fantastically amazing that I didn't even notice. I was not pulled from the story once. I am still thinking about the characters now. It was all real. Funny, witty, heartbreaking. Let me repeat - funny (in case you missed it). Yes there is heartache and anguish. But there is humor and redemption, too. Just like life. This is my first Audible review. I liked it so much that I couldn't not rate it.
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- Amanda W.
- 12-08-14
Great Book, Great Characters, Keeps you listen
Would you consider the audio edition of The Sea of Tranquility to be better than the print version?
Have not read the printed version.
What did you like best about this story?
I love the characters, you just really want them to succeed.
What about Kirby Heyborne and Candace Thaxton ’s performance did you like?
It was good over all.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Are second chances even possible?
Any additional comments?
I loved this book!!
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- Alicia
- 08-29-18
Love story with a twist!
Wow! Could not put this book down. I really thought this book was well thought out and loved that it was narrated by two people.
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- Stacia
- 11-16-15
Good book from start to end
A story so detailed that only a literary artist could come up with. I would have changed one thing and set it in college rather than high school as I feel this would have been more believable. Good weekend read for 20 somethings
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- DesertReader
- 05-06-15
Simply stunning
One of my favorite books ever! I have read it several times, but the Audio version is just as amazing.
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- Tony
- 08-04-18
loved it although I don't listen to this genre
took a chance on the book and was very surprised I liked it. good narrators added to the story mystique
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- Nana
- 02-20-14
Disturbing but good story
Didn't expect it to be a young adult book but it did hold my interest and was a nice break from other genres.
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- the One
- 08-06-18
Great performance!
If I had simply read this book, probably would have rated it 3-4 stars, but the narrators brought so much emotion to the novel, it was really hard to stop listening. Kirby Heyborne was incredibly passionate during the character Josh’s exuberant moments, really bringing to life his frustration. Candace Thaxton has such a cool, smooth undertone, very fitting for Nastia’s personality. Thanks for the good Audible!
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- Steven Murray
- 11-03-17
Favorite Book
First off I loved the book itself. Katja Millay has a way of making the mundane exciting and still relatable. The way the book in narrated is also fantastic. Kirby brings the pain and power to Josh and Candace makes Nastya feelings more understandable. This is my absolute favorite Audiobook. I listen to it as much as I can.
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- Torgo
- 02-19-16
Im ok. Im ok. I need to keep telling myself that!
Who was your favorite character and why?
Josh Bennett is my favorite. He is protective and vulnerable. Loved him.
Which character – as performed by Kirby Heyborne and Candace Thaxton – was your favorite?
BOTH. Nastya and Josh were incredible.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
All of the above and more.
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If there was a way to double up the stars I could give this book I would. I was skeptical about it at first, the genre wasnt one I would usually pick, but I am a big enough woman to say I was wrong.
I was dead wrong.
I wish I could say that I was speechless, but Im not. I want to say so much about this that the words have backed up in my brain and the narrow passageway were words filter into my surface thoughts is all sorts of jumbled and hectic. I feel as it Katja Millay gathered up all my feelings and then racked them through hot coals. There was so much laughter, even more pain, anguish, joy, hate and angst that reached me from these pages. The narrators became the characters and even the most two dimensional characters popped out of the page and earned their third dimension by the end of the book. The narrators were phenomenal. In fact Im tempted to listen to every single book Kirby Heyborne and Candace Thaxton have recorded. Kirby made me cry and Candace's voice is perfection.
The author thrusts you, not into action and adventure, but into the minds of young adults just wadding out of the small pond. For the majority of the book you are treated, not to spoken words, but to the main character's thoughts, their feelings, jumbled and imperfect but so eloquent that you begin to wonder if at one point in time you werent just like them. I know I was.
Josh Bennet has lost everyone he has ever cared about. They are all gone and he is alone. He is lost and broken, taking his days one at a time while trying to distract himself by creating. Nastya Kashnikov was a child prodigy in the piano. She had a bright future, a loving family, a community who raised her and all that was dashed away by a random act of violence. I loved how you knew what happened, sort of, throughout the book, she thought about it constantly, but the author does not give away the extent of it until the end. Instead, she makes you focus on the pain, on seeing this bright, clever and angry girl both the way she sees herself and how others see her. Nastya does everything she can, not to hide so much as to force others to ignore her. This is a heart wrenching story, filled with mistakes.
I may not agree with how Nastya handles her pain, how she copes and makes the choices she does. We like to think that if something terrible happened to us, that we would be able to pick ourselves up, dust off the knees, patch the hurt and move on in a show of strength. We like to think that if someone we loved went through such trauma that we could give them all the support they would need and maybe every one of us would be forming a line to dish out advice on how to get better. There is no perfect recipe for healing, there is no right way. There are only tailored choices that each of us have to make. Nastya makes mistakes and then she makes even bigger ones and it doesnt get better right away but the reader follows her and Josh through their broken spirits and watch, with joy as two broken people learn to fit perfectly together. This has easily become one of my most favorite books and I truly hope that Millay has more in store for us.
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