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Wildblood

A Novel

by Lauren Blackwood
Kerri McLean
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"This YA fantasy is delightfully narrated by Kerri McLean."- AudioFile Magazine

"McLean's lyrical performance and steady pacing keep the reader engaged in Victoria's story; she deftly narrates the many characters and makes them easily distinguishable to the listener." - Booklist

A thrilling new fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood!
Eighteen-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood. Since she was kidnapped at the age of six and manipulated by the Exotic Lands Touring Company, she's worked as a tour guide ever since with a team of fellow Wildbloods who take turns using their magic to protect travelers in a Jamaican jungle teeming with ghostly monsters.
When the boss denies Victoria an earned promotion to team leader in favor of Dean, her backstabbing ex, she's determined to prove herself. Her magic may be the most powerful on the team, but she's not the image the boss wants to send their new client, Thorn, a renowned goldminer determined to reach an untouched gold supply deep in the jungle.
Thorn is everything Victoria isn't: confident, impossibly kind, and so handsome he leaves her speechless. And when he entrusts the mission to her, kindness turns to mutual respect, turns to affection, turns to love. But the jungle is treacherous, and between hypnotic river spirits, soul-devouring women that shed their skin like snakes, and her ex out for revenge, Victoria has to decide - is promotion at a corrupt company really what she wants?
A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.
A fierce, lush fantasy by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blackwood, Wildblood tells the story of a girl who must find the strength to defeat the demons of the jungle as well as her own to find where she truly belongs.
"A lyrically told story of healing after trauma and finding home, Wildblood is as fierce as it is beautiful, and as hopeful as it is heartbreaking." - Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For the Wolf
"Wildblood is a poignant, thrilling, emotionally complex story of love and sacrifice. Victoria's tense journey through the haunted jungle is filled with terror and beauty, both supernatural and human, and will grip you until the very last page." - L. Penelope, award-winning author of the Earthsinger Chronicles

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    February 7, 2023

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781250883568
      • File size: 291874 KB
      • Duration: 10:08:04

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 2, 2023
      Blackwood (Within These Wicked Walls) explores colonialism and slavery via a treacherous sentient jungle in this ominous adventure. Black 18-year-old Victoria is a Wildblood, a group of people who are treated like second-class citizens for their magical blood science abilities. Kept captive within a community bordered by a high retaining wall and a frightening jungle, they’re forced to protect tourists from the horrors that inhabit the jungle in service to the Exotic Lands Touring Company. Hoping to earn better opportunities for her chosen sibling Bunny and desperate to help him control his unwieldy blood science, Victoria strikes a deal with her white boss: make Dean, her Wildblood ex-boyfriend and her boss’s adoptive, white-passing son, look good to a wealthy mining magnate on the next tour, and she’ll be promoted. But when Victoria and the magnate, Black 21-year-old Laertes Thorn, hit it off, he tries to persuade her that there’s still hope for escape beyond the company’s walls. Blackwood’s creativity shines through via the Jamaica-based jungle setting, which overflows with spirits and creatures of legend. It’s an intense, socially conscious narrative featuring a compassionate and resilient protagonist. Ages 13–up. Agent: Lauren Spieller, Triada US.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Kidnapped as a young child, Victoria, now 18, has become a Wildblood, a guide with magical powers who can protect gold miners who venture into the Jamaican jungle. This YA fantasy is delightfully narrated by Kerri McLean. She fully embodies the young Victoria as she explains why she is driven to become the Wildbloods' leader after having been passed over by her boss. McLean shows a softer side of Victoria as she falls hard for Thorn, a new client, so listeners will be shocked when Thorn's assistant bribes her to arrange for Thorn to die. Victoria's grief at the deaths of two teammates and rage at her dismissive boss are heartfelt, as portrayed by McLean. Rivalries disappear when the tour group battles demons in the jungle. S.D.B. © AudioFile 2023, Portland, Maine

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