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🧡📖🎧FIVE STAR AUDIOBOOK REVIEW🎧📖🧡(@prhaudio#partner)

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🥰Thank you so much to @randomhouse for the gifted book and @prhaudio for the gifted audiobook!

📖Title: Junie
✍️Author: @erincrosbyeckstine
📅Pub date: February 4, 2025
⏳Audiobook length: 13hr, 30min
🗣️Audiobook Narrator: Angel Pean

🧡WOW- I was absolutely stunned by this deep, moving, and beautiful debut. Everything about it was perfect. The cover. The story. The characters. The narrator. Absolutely amazing.

📖Be prepared for this book to win all the awards this year!

🫶This story takes place in 1860-1861 on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama where 16-year-old Junie has spent her entire life enslaved. Junie has always dreamed of life beyond the plantation, but her dreams are haunted and halted by her dark reality and by the ghost of her deceased sister, Minnie.

📖The supernatural aspect of this book, while important, wasn’t overwhelming or too much in my opinion. The idea of historical fiction mixed with supernatural may sound odd, but I really think it worked so well here. If supernatural elements typically aren’t your thing, I think you should absolutely still give this one a shot.

🧡As far as pacing goes, I felt like it kept getting progressively more intense as it went on and built up to an absolutely jaw-dropping end. Every chapter felt more intense than the previous one!

📖I felt the widest range of emotions while reading this book which is a testament to Erin’s immersive writing! I finished the book with tears in my eyes and feel like I could start it again today and feel the same way the second time.

🫶This would be a perfect bookclub pick! The discussion could go on and on since there is so much to unpack. Do not miss the author’s note!

🎧Angel Pean made took this already incredible story and took it to the next level with her reading. I truly think listening to her is the best way to enjoy this book. I heard all the depths of emotions in her voice during the story from joy, to fear, to grief, etc.

❓How many 5 star reads have you had so far this year? I’ve had two! This one and HEARTWOOD by Amity Gaige!