The Completionist
- Author: Siobhan Adcock
- Narrator: Jacques Roy
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Duration: 9:37:13
Synopsis
One of Entertainment Weekly’s “10 prescient new feminist dystopias to read after The Handmaid’s Tale”; one of the “11 Best Summer Books Of 2018” by Women's Health; this “perfect beach book” (Entertainment Report) follows the search for a missing sister in a near-future world where infertility has produced a dangerous underground.
“Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I’m afraid of what might’ve happened to her. You be afraid too.” After months of disturbing behavior, Gardner Quinn has vanished. Her older sister Fredericka is desperate to find her, but Fred is also pregnant—miraculously so, in a near-future America struggling with infertility. So she entrusts the job to their brother, Carter.
Carter, young but jaded, is in need of an assignment. Just home from war, his search for his sister is a welcome distraction from mysterious physical symptoms he can’t ignore, not to mention his increasing escape into the bottom of a glass.
Carter’s efforts to find Gardner lead him into a desperate underworld, where he begins to grasp the risks she took on as a Nurse Completionist. But his investigation also leads back to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth, one that neither Carter nor Fredericka is ready to face.
“Fans of dystopian novels will love Siobhan Adcock’s disturbing speculation on just how bad things can get when resources are rare and personal lives are heavily policed” (Booklist). In the tradition of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Completionist is speculative fiction at its very best: it will “transport you to an entirely new world” (PopSugar) while revealing our own world in bold and unexpected ways.
Chapters
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Completionist 001 Open
Duration: 13s -
Completionist 002 Prologue
Duration: 11min -
Completionist 003 Ch1
Duration: 27min -
Completionist 004 Ch2
Duration: 38min -
Completionist 005 Ch3
Duration: 19min -
Completionist 006 Ch4
Duration: 52min -
Completionist 007 Ch5
Duration: 35min -
Completionist 008 Ch6
Duration: 30min -
Completionist 009 Ch7
Duration: 38min -
Completionist 010 Ch8
Duration: 48min -
Completionist 011 Ch9a
Duration: 54min -
Completionist 012 Ch9b
Duration: 42min -
Completionist 013 Ch10
Duration: 35min -
Completionist 014 Ch11
Duration: 36min -
Completionist 015 Ch12
Duration: 27min -
Completionist 016 Ch13
Duration: 27min -
Completionist 017 Ch14
Duration: 50min -
Completionist 018 Credits
Duration: 19s