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    Secret Origins
    Secret Origins
    Secret Origins
    Audiobook8 hours

    Secret Origins

    Written by James Riley

    Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

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    Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves—which was called a “fast-paced, action-packed tale” by School Library Journal—from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy.

    Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. But they didn’t make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world.

    Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there’s nothing left but the Dark. Even the villains are terrified of the Dark’s shadows, and most of the heroes have either disappeared or been lost to mind control. The one hero who might have stopped all of this, Doc Twilight, has been imprisoned by the Dark.

    But who is Doc Twilight really? And how can Bethany and Owen defeat the Dark without superpowers of their own? They’ll definitely need the help of some old friends and new allies to bring the light back to Jupiter City, and find out the truth behind the Dark.

    It all comes back to Bethany’s own secret origins. What really happened when her fictional father disappeared years ago? Who is Nobody, and why is he writing these Story Thieves books? And what kind of supervillain name is The Rotten Banana?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJan 17, 2017
    ISBN9781508228950
    Author

    James Riley

    James Riley lives in Virginia. He is the New York Times bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time, Story Thieves, Revenge of Magic, and Once Upon Another Time series.

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    • 5/5
      I would rate it 10 stars I loved it .

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    • 5/5
      Amazing best one in the series so far I love how at the end Bethany found her father and that Owen disappears in the book and how Bethany’s gone That explains. Why there’s a girl with sort pink hair and Owen can’t what for the next book but it is confusing is Bethany and Owen fictional characters because there a story about. Them I have to find out?

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    • 5/5
      This book is so good I,v listened to it three times and it’s still a great book

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    • 5/5
      Oh-My-gosh!! This book has been, so far, da best!! And now, I’m dyeing to read “Pick the plot”!!

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