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    The Arrivals

    Written by Melissa Marr

    Narrated by Matt Burns

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    The second adult novel from the internationally bestselling author Melissa Marr

    Chloe knew she shouldn’t have gone into the bar last night. Now, in addition to a pounding headache and weak limbs, she’s got the guilt of five years sobriety down the drain.

    When she wakes, she’s not in the world she knows. She’s in The Wasteland, a world populated by monsters and unfamiliar landscapes, in the company of people just like her, pulled to the Wasteland out of time and place, for reasons no one knows or understands. Once there, though, their mission is clear: keep the peace, protect each other, and try not to die, because sometimes, after six days of death, you might not wake up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 4, 2013
    ISBN9780007519729
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    The Arrivals
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    Melissa Marr

    Melissa Marr is the New York Times bestselling author of the Wicked Lovely series as well as the adult fantasy novels Graveminder and The Arrivals. When not traveling, Melissa can be found in Phoenix or online at www.melissamarrbooks.com.

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    • 4/5
      Chloe walks into a bar and blows five years of sobriety, but when she wakes in the morning she finds herself in an unfamiliar world in a group of people from all different times and places, and none of them really understands how they got there, or if there’s a way home. The Arrivals is basically a weird west novel with a little bit of romance, a lot of gunfighting, and some monsters.

      I bought this in hardcover last year because I enjoyed Graveminder so much, but it’s resided on my to-read shelf ever since. So it was with some trepidation when I started this and noticed how low the ratings are on Goodreads (3.16 out of 1,519 ratings).

      I can kind of see why this didn’t really resonate with some people -- it’s kind of a genre-bender; in some ways, you’re expecting a wild west showdown; in others, you’re expecting a romance; what you get is a character-driven adventure dealing with corruption and mortality, trust and fear. I enjoyed it -- and I’m glad I gave it a chance despite the reviews.
    • 3/5
      Desert cowboy wild west alt fantasy where folks are suddenly transported to a parallel world. Liked it!
    • 3/5
      Interesting mix of pseudo-historical and fantasy/sci-fi. Ok for an adult book.
    • 3/5
      Let's be clear on this: I loved this for all it's fluffy, action packed, steamy romance glory. This is an awesome idea and, though I wish that a more literary writer would pick up on it, this was the perfect start of summer read. Loved all the entertainment that goes with this book. Not a read for someone who is hypercritical about books: this one skimped heavily on the detail and the art of prose writing. It went straight for the action-romance-otherworld-jugular.
    • 3/5
      Fun book, with a comic-book kind of feel.

      Random people from different time periods have suddenly awakened in an alternate world with an Old West/Post-apocalyptic/Fantasy flavor. Some of these ‘Arrivals’ have banded together against a local honcho who seems rather villainous – and may have something to do with their displacement.

      I thought there was a lot of potential in the scenario that Marr sets up, but the book didn’t live up to that full potential. We’re dropped into the action in media res - this situation has been going on for a while. The starting point is one woman’s ‘arrival,’ but she’s not really the ‘main character’ [it’s more of an ensemble work] and the voice is third-person. The backgrounds of the different characters are sketched very briefly, and the result is that they seem rather flat and similar, where they should be very different.

      There’s some enjoyable action, drama, a bit of romance, some intriguing details about the world that Marr’s introducing, as the characters try to figure out why them, why here? (Not all questions are answered…) There’s the big showdown – and plenty left over for some sequels.
    • 4/5
      The review said "part Matrix, part Wizard of Oz" but I think he was drinking. I would say part Western, part Dark Tower Series (which is sort of western but in an alternate universe) and Oz only if it includes Egyptology and nobody is fixed up in plaid. The story focuses on a group of people who have been pulled - by whom or what they don't know - from their own time period into an alternate universe where the locals are not quite human, monsters lurk in the desert darkness and corruption is led by a mysterious guy named Ajani. They know he's like them - from the earth they knew - but his motives seem to be greed, greed and hey, let's get Ajani some more scary things to do his bidding, eh? The group calls themselves The Arrivals (because, well, they Arrived there), each of them (with the exception of a brother-sister duo who were actually holding each other's hand when they were pulled over) is from a different era - and they travel around trying to undo some of the harm Ajani's done. There are some interesting, if varying, conditions to being in this alternate universe and I don't want to give much away. This was probably the best book I've read so far this year. I love Melissa Marr - Graveminder is another great one, but it's set here on regular Earth- and I like the American west-but-not-qjuite-like-the-history-books vibe.
    • 2/5
      This book was just OK for me. Great concept for a story but it just felt lacking in all areas.

      Plenty creatures in the world of the Wastelands but it felt like you never got to meet them all. A bit of romance-but that felt lacking as well. I didn't really connect with any of the characters. I felt like this story had no real plot. Was a read to pass the time, and that's all.
    • 4/5
      This book may be a bit quirky and slightly odd at times, but for me it was like a breath of fresh air. It's different from the stuff I usually pick up, and ultimately it might have ended up being a little too bizarre for my tastes, but I certainly don't regret reading it. When it comes to originality and interesting ideas, this book gets massive points.Anyway, I love speculative fiction, especially when other genres are infused with a paranormal twist, which is what drew me to this book in the first place. A fantasy western about a group of people from different times and places all mysteriously ending up in an unfamiliar world called the Wasteland? It sounded too intriguing to pass up. Other than reading that the Wasteland is full of monsters and other unsavory types, however, I didn't know much more about the novel, so I settled back and prepared to let myself be drawn in. And that's exactly what the story did, thanks to some of the unusual but simply extraordinary ideas I found in here. The characters are a motley group made up of: Jack and Kitty, siblings from the Wild West; Edgar, a bootlegger from the time of the prohibition; Francis, a hippie; Hector, a former carnie; and Melody, a crazy 1950s housewife. And then there's Chloe, the newest addition to the team, who passed out one night in 2013 after a crazy night of binge drinking, and wakes up in the Wasteland.These "Arrivals" were all ne'er-do-wells in the times they came from, but the most remarkable thing about them is what happens after they die -- or rather, what doesn't happen. Death isn't always permanent, but they don't find out whether it is or not until days later when the Arrival who died either wakes up good as new...or they don't. Their nemesis is a man called Ajani, a force of evil they have been struggling against ever since the first Arrival came to the Wasteland.This is very much a character-driven novel, and their relationship dynamics form the basis for much of the story. Jack and Kitty take center stage most of the time, and sometimes Chloe, but I'd wished more attention could have been paid to the other Arrivals, such as Melody. I gathered she's pretty unbalanced through fearful conversations the others have about her and their reluctance to get too close, but that's more or less all we get. There are great characters here, but it's a pretty short book and it's just a shame we don't get to know more.As I said, the book has many interesting and original ideas, and expect to have a lot of questions when reading this. If you're like me and prefer your books to also provide the answers, then you might find it a little frustrating, because at times this book will make you feel like you're only getting half the story. I was disappointed that there weren't more explanations, but the good news is that this doesn't diminish the quality of the world building. The Wasteland is not as desolate as it sounds, and its creatures and nature will constantly surprise you.In many ways, The Arrivals is the kind of book you just have to take as it is, and go with the flow. I'm not a big fan of info-dumps, but I also like some explanations when they're warranted, and I have to say I enjoyed this book a lot more once I've accepted that I probably won't get answers to all my questions. What this novel offers, though, is a story of adventure about an unusual but fascinating group of people, and what they mean to each other.