Wonderblood: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Place 500 years in the foreseeable future, a mad cow-like disease called “Bent Mind” has killed off a lot of the U.S. populace. Those remaining consider magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker’s fascinating literary debut audiobook, set in a barren United States, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease called ‘Bent Head’ has killed off millions. Those that remain worship the ruins about Wonderblood: A Novel of NASA’s space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is usually their Mecca. Medicine and science have already been rejected in favor of magic, prophecy, and bloodstream sacrifice.

When vacationing marauders led by the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a young girl called Aurora is used captive as his bride and forced to become listed on his band on the journey to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must decide if she actually is ready to become her captor’s queen. But other queens emerge, some grotesque and others aggrieved, and not all are happy with the girl’s ascent.

Politics and survival are in the centre of the ravishing audiobook

Compliment for Wonderblood:

‘Julia Whicker’s Wonderblood…plunges the readers right into a marvelous and brutal world of pseudo-magic, religion and astronomy…The political machinations of the carnivals are thrilling, as well as the narration lush and wild.’ — Washington Post