Audiobook6 hours
Sip
Written by Brian Allen Carr
Narrated by Rudy Sanda
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
It started with a single child, and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.
Gangs of shadow addicts chased down children on playgrounds, rounded up old ladies from retirement homes. Cities were destroyed and governments fell. And if your shadow was sipped entirely, you became one of them, had to find more shadow, at any cost, or go mad.
One hundred fifty years later, what's left of the world is divided between the highly regimented life of those inside dome-cities that are protected from natural light (and natural shadows), and those forced to the dangerous, hardscrabble life in the wilds outside. In rural Texas, Mira, her shadow-addicted friend Murk, and an ex-Domer named Bale, search for a possible mythological cure to the shadow sickness-but they must do so, it is said, before the return of Halley's Comet, which is only days away.
Gangs of shadow addicts chased down children on playgrounds, rounded up old ladies from retirement homes. Cities were destroyed and governments fell. And if your shadow was sipped entirely, you became one of them, had to find more shadow, at any cost, or go mad.
One hundred fifty years later, what's left of the world is divided between the highly regimented life of those inside dome-cities that are protected from natural light (and natural shadows), and those forced to the dangerous, hardscrabble life in the wilds outside. In rural Texas, Mira, her shadow-addicted friend Murk, and an ex-Domer named Bale, search for a possible mythological cure to the shadow sickness-but they must do so, it is said, before the return of Halley's Comet, which is only days away.
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Reviews for Sip
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3.5/5
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mixed feels about this one. It's a dystopian...Western? It's weird, wild, and refreshingly unique.It's 300 pages and I read it in a single sitting in a couple of hours...if it hadn't read fast, I probably wouldn't have stuck it out.Tonally, it produced a similar feel in me to The Road where afterwards, I felt a little empty. There are several characters, none of whom I really rooted for or against. I cared more about the world than the people in it, which is...weird, right? Not all of them work, but there are some intriguing and brilliant flashes in the story elements that I'd never seen done before - the shadow junkies! the shadowless army! the doc! the dome and those who live in it! the guard train that circles the perimeter!And/but--I've seen this book described as funny and...let's just say that light and quirky, this is not. It's extremely edgy and relentlessly violent with some very graphic language.