Hellboy's Back as a Old Time Radio Drama in The Goddess of Manhattan!
Fans of old time radio will take delight hearing #Hellboy come to life as an old time radio drama in Goddess of Manhatten! Info at:
Some audiobooks are just readings of what’s written, but when it comes to making a world come alive, what’s presented is more like an old time radio play. RBmedia, is doing just that for most of its releases, and this presentation is perfect for those wanting a radio play set in the Mignolaverse. Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Goddess of Manhattan sounds terrific, and this release is third in a…
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Libby, under the pseudonym F. T. Goldhero, is the author of The Falling Children and she’s deep into the troubles of writing the final installation of the series. There are loose ends to tie up and the children are caught in a precarious predicament Libby doesn’t know how to save them from. Not to mention Libby has just been diagnosed with early onset dementia. Enter Peanut, a precocious eleven year old that’s obsessed with The Falling Children and is determined to help Goldhero end their story the right way. Desperate, Libby reaches out and falls in with Peanut and her family in a small town not too dissimilar from the one she’d created.
This story was not what I expected it to be and somehow exactly what I expected. There’s so much heart in these pages and it made me believe in Libby and this series she’s written.
There’s so, so much grief here. Libby grieves herself and the life she’s lived and the ending of something she spent an entire life loving and creating in The Falling Children. All of her grief echoes so beautifully through the rest of the cast, I could spend hours dissecting all of it. It’s not a grief without hope, though. Or without love.
The story speaks to writing and creation and all of the ways that loving something can go. The obsessive fans mercurial relationship to the author. Peanut and her family. Libby and her children. There’s a lot of love here and a lot of healing and it was a joy to read, truly. It made me want to write. It made me want to read. It made me want to sit down and obsessive explain every plot point to someone entirely uninterested just because I have to get how much I love the story out.
I think this book has its flaws, some of which may have come about simply because I read it via audiobook. I might have missed something, especially with the amount of wordplay that takes place, but I wanted a more concrete resolution by the end. I can take a real good educated guess and I understand why it’s a little uncertain, but it just irks me a little. The audiobook’s narrator also took me a while to get used to. She read with an attitude that got under my skin and made Libby’s every thought sound a little rude and judgmental to me, but that’s highly a personal preference.
All in all, I’m going to be recommending this book like crazy for a hot second.
Thank you to NetGalley and RB Media for the audiobook in exchange for an honest review.
