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Glimpse: A Novel Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Jonathan Maberry (Author), Emma Galvin (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher)

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Best-selling author Jonathan Maberry's Glimpse is a chilling audiobook thriller that explores what happens when reality and nightmares converge, and how far one will go to protect the innocent when their own brain is a threat.

Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was 16. Still grieving for the boy’s father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head. One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume. There is a small crack in one lens and through that damaged slice of glass she sees a young boy go running down the aisle of the subway train. Is he screaming with laughter or just screaming? When she tries to find the boy, he’s gone and no one has seen him.

The day spins out of control. Rain loses whole chunks of time. The voices she hears are telling her horrible things. And Doctor Nine, a spectral boogey man conjured in drug induced hallucinogens is now hunting her in the real world. Doctor Nine is also chasing that boy. A boy who looks so much like Rain’s dead boyfriend. Unsure whether she is insane or if the world itself is broken, Rain begins a mother’s quest for her lost child through a world where reality and nightmare are in a head-on collision. How far will one person go to save someone they love?

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Listening Length	13 hours and 8 minutes
Author	Jonathan Maberry
Narrator	Emma Galvin
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	27 March 2018
Publisher	Macmillan Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B079HD6HRP
Best Sellers Rank	144,326 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 2,113 in Supernatural Thrillers (Audible Books & Originals) 4,529 in Horror Fiction 8,416 in Supernatural Thrillers (Books)

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Mr. Db Marshall

For lovers of Barker and King

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 June 2018

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I loved the scope and range of this book. Such imagination. And in Monk there’s a character to match Harry D’Amour. Marvellous stuff.

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Avid reader

Best of all his books....

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 June 2019

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Powerful, strange, clever and twisting. What a good book. What a talented writer. Reminiscent of Stephen King, just as good, haunting.

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Lewis Froese

So very good

Reviewed in Canada on 17 November 2018

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After reading the synopsis and a few reviews, I hesitated to buy this book. However, as a Maberry horror fan, I was instantly hooked and found it to be one of my favourites. I expected it to be more of a suspense story, but it is an excellent, full-on horror story.

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Patrick Freivald

Slow-burn horror from a master of thrillers

Reviewed in the United States on 2 April 2018

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Most fans of Jonathan Maberry know him from one of two worlds: the frantic-paced ass-kicking of the Joe Ledger series, and the coming-of-age zombie stories of Rot and Ruin - with maybe the "of Night" zombie thrillers to bridge the two. Okay, or maybe V-Wars. Or the Pine Deep Trilogy.... Let's face it, the guy writes a LOT.

But Glimpse is none of those. Glimpse is a slow-burn, dreamland horror story reminiscent of (and with homages to) Joe Hill's NOS4A2 with a sprinkling of F. Paul Wilson's REPAIRMAN JACK. Doctor Nine is a terrifying villain that you really don't want haunting your dreams!

Glimpse is classic Maberry in that the characters are compelling, the setting an excellent off-kilter twist on the real world, and the themes as broad as they can get - guilt and hope, love and loss.

The end result is a great story you can burn though in a day. Highly recommended!

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Russell Ricard

We Can Be Our Own Vampires: A Gripping, Psychological Tale

Reviewed in the United States on 11 April 2018

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Glimpse by Jonathan Maberry hooked me on page one. And I literally found myself (as the saying goes) not wanting to put the book down until I finished reading it.

The story centers around Rain, a former dancer, and three-years-clean addict, who still blames herself for the baby she gave up (at sixteen) for adoption—that and the death of her child’s father, a soldier, who died in the Iraq war.

This is a story about PTSD, a nuanced exploration (through Rain and several other characters) of how our past can still haunt us. It’s a story about Will Power and Friendship’s role in healing. Largely, it’s a story about the fierce determination of a mother’s love—the fight against making the same mistakes her own parents made.

Reflections about, and Questions on Life that Maberry brings to the reader’s attention:
How much of our mental anguish (internalized, self-inflicted pain) is the result of us not forgiving ourselves? How are we dead and alive at the same time as a result of our past mistakes? And how much power do we give those ghosts from our past? After all, we can be our own vampires, sucking life from our selves.

Maberry captures the reality and humanity about PTSD and addiction. I fell in love the protagonist Rain, the bold and empowering woman who works against all odds to find redemption. So, too, of the wide array of characters, I particularly loved Rain’s friends (multi-dimensional, true-to-life New Yorkers) who have their own PTSD horrors to work through yet find ways to help Rain on her journey.

Ultimately, Maberry takes you deep into horror for a heart-pounding psychological ride as Rain struggles to find peace, truth, and forgiveness. And it’s a visual wonderland that strikes visceral responses: you’ll see, hear, and taste everything through Maberry’s rewarding prose.

I agree with Clive Barker, who says that Glimpse is, “A waking dream, at once powerful and subtly sinister.”

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