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    Ring Shout
    Ring Shout
    Ring Shout
    Audiobook5 hours

    Ring Shout

    Written by P. Djèlí Clark

    Narrated by Channie Waites

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    About this audiobook

    In America, demons wear white hoods.

    In 1915, The Birth of a Nation casts a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the
    darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation they ride, spreading fear and violence among the vulnerable. They
    plan to bring hell to Earth. But even Ku Kluxes can die.

    Standing in their way are Maryse Boudreaux and her fellow resistance fighters, a foulmouthed sharpshooter and a
    Harlem Hellfighter. Armed with blade, bullet, and bomb, they hunt their hunters and send the Klan’s demons straight
    to hell. But something awful’s brewing in Macon, and the war on hell is about to heat up.

    Can Maryse stop the Klan before it ends the world?

    Editor's Note

    Haunting and rousing…

    In this propulsive alternative history (with a supernatural twist), a group of resistance fighters hunt down Ku Klux Klan members. Simultaneously haunting and rousing, P. Djèlí Clark’s novella has been hailed by author Annalee Newitz as “a fantastical cross between Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ and ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer.’”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateOct 13, 2020
    ISBN9781980064695
    Author

    P. Djèlí Clark

    Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. DJÈLÍ CLARK (he/him) spent part of his childhood in Trinidad and Tobago, the homeland of his parents. He is the author of the novel A Master of Djinn and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. He has won the Nebula, Locus, and Alex Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon Awards. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies, including Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.

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    Readers find this title to be a highly enjoyable and exhilarating audiobook. The narrator's passion and embodiment of the story adds to the experience. The book is a brilliant mix of horror, alternate history, magical realism, and social narrative. The characters are well-developed and the deeper topics are explored effectively. The narration is expressive and great for storytelling, although some found it hard to follow along at times. Overall, this book is fantastic and immersive, with a powerful message and excellent narration.

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    • 4/5
      Set in 1920s Macon, Georgia, it is the tale of a group of young Black women who can see monsters. They mainly fight the Ku Kluxes, who are Klanspeople corrupted by their hatred.

      It's a moving tale of fighting white supremacists interspersed with bits of ethnomusicology.
    • 5/5
      This book is amazing and the narrator knocked it out of the park. One of the best stories and audiobooks I've listened to all year.
    • 5/5
      Historical SciFi? Dark fantasy? However you want to categorize this novel, it's an excellent read. Wildy creative and suspenseful.
    • 5/5
      The narration was superb. Voice over to separate characters and highlight dialogue brought life to the story. The storyline or plot was well documented and thought out. Left the reader with a sense of redemption but also to delve into the psyche of slavery and how it has affected the enslaved as the slave owner generationally. Excellent!
    • 5/5
      This book is a brilliant mix of horror, alternate history, magical realism, and social narrative. The imagery invoked is some of the best I have read in a long time. I really want to see this made into a short film with a strong focus on cinematography. I really enjoyed the characters and the deeper topics the story touches on. I listened to the audiobook as well and felt the narrator did a fantastic job.
    • 4/5
      This was a highly enjoyable audiobook, not least because the narrator was so passionate and really embodied the story, I feel.
    • 5/5
      the ending had me all up in my feels!!!! amazing story!!!!
    • 4/5
      Nicht nur ein geniales Buch, sondern auch ein geniales Hörbuch!
    • 5/5
      This is definitely a new favourite. It’s exhilarating, cinematic and while my heart is cold and dead my eyes started tearing up right there at the end.
    • 3/5
      The narration was very expressive and great for storytelling but it wasn’t too much of my taste because it was sometimes hard to follow along or hard to hear (the voices of certain characters). I am a fan of the gruesome fights and it was sweet that she was able to make her peace and bury her burdens after she got help from Sadie, her brother and everyone else that helped her fight. I wish she would have an actual fighting team by her side because she already seems exhausted and always seems like there will be klans to extinguish.
    • 5/5
      This novella is about 180 pages, but so many things happen in a such short book.
      (Also, the audiobook has a great narrator.)
    • 5/5
      Great book, absolutely phenomenal narration!!! I loved this book so much, and Channie Waite's narration is just stellar. I would suggest this to anyone who loves speculative fiction. Bravo!
    • 5/5
      This is a great story. And the narration is fantastic. I have some minor quibbles (like similar voices used for the supernaturals), but overall the narrator brings great life to the story.
    • 5/5
      AMAZING!!! The audiobook performance is phenomenal! This is probably one of the best short stories I’ve read this year!
    • 4/5
      ?Spoiler Free Audiobook Novella Mini Review?
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      ⭐️⭐️⭐️? (3.5 rounded up)
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      Maryse, Sadie, and Cordy are young Black women on a mission to fight Ku Kluxes, but not the Klan you might be picturing though.
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      This was a rare case of the audiobook not working for me. I’d like to reread the physical book at some point because I think I’d like it more. To be clear, this isn’t a dig at the narrator; many people have loved the audio. I just had a hard time understanding one character’s accent and found the change in pitch and tone for the antagonist too shrill, which took my attention from the story.
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      I did really enjoy the plot, the characters themselves, and the underlying themes throughout. A powerful message brought forth in a dark, fantastical tale that unfortunately just didn’t mesh for me in an audible format.
    • 5/5
      Wait! Is there à sequel with this Providence Rhodes Dark Prince!? Loved this! Her books are pan African - Diasporic life blood.

      Ms. Clark is a Djeli for true!
    • 5/5
      Amazing what a great horror story about the fighters of the klan. I also love Cheney Waits narration. She is so good. I had the actually buy the written text to go back and read it along with the narration
    • 3/5
      Rich and juicy blues, spicy. Narration spot on. Interesting themes like would you sell your anger. But still just not my thing. Somehow it was too theatrical for me. But I recommend to sample this one. Some will like it a lot.
    • 5/5
      For such a short story the character development and plot were fantastic. I was truly scared when reading. Hope there is a sequel.
    • 4/5
      Really good and unusual story , but the narrator brought it to life and made the characters so real.
    • 4/5
      Great book and what an excellent narrator!! Really brought the book to life
    • 4/5
      A fun one, keying in to Gulla culture, demonology and cosmic horror. More splatterpunk than terror-inducing, but I’m not mad. Fun concept makes for an easy if a bit formulaic read, and a big and that everyone can root against (unless, yknow, you’re one of them).
    • 4/5
      Excellent story that shows a wonderful imagination.c Wonderful voice and language. The narrator did a great job.

      My only quibble was one or two of the sections, transliterated from the Gullah, that were difficult to understand, possibly would have been easier with an ebook or printed version.
    • 5/5
      This book is fantastic unlike any other novel I’ve ever read. The narrator did such an amazing job displaying the emotions that the characters were going through throughout the book and I got completely immersed into the story. It is quite a heavy read, but I think a very important one, as it really explores how people can be full of hate.
    • 4/5
      Weird but really good. Amazing narrator and awesome action scenes.
    • 5/5
      P. Djèlí Clark has done it again! This is the 5th book I’ve read by this incredible author this year. Mr. Clark is an American speculative fiction writer and historian and he gives us the gift of “a win”.

      I’m madly in love with his queer centric BIPOC characters. I can imagine his systems of magic would be envied by Brandon Sanderson. I love the lens of his narrative, seeing the story for what it could have been. But most importantly for me, in this moment -a win against white supremacy. A hard hitting battle crashing, sword wielding win against an philosophy that is ruthlessly embedded in so much of our country.

      I am a pacifist. But when your monster is imagined from the bowles of the worst our society most hateful groups my grin burns in cathartic vengeance.

      This was not my favorite of his books, but it was timely. Grimly timely.
    • 5/5
      Amazing book from a fave writer. The audiobook narrator pulled out all the stops!
    • 3/5
      Ring Shout is a good story. The narration is cringe-worthy though. I'd love to see the story adapted into a short film.

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    • 5/5
      Interesting magical realism/horror book. The premise is a trio of black women fighting waging a resistance war against the Ku Klux Klan in post WWI Georgia - with a big twist that the Ku Klux Klan are actually creatures from another dimension driving by hate.

      I love magical realism because literally anything can happen - and this book is full of wild twists and turns.
    • 5/5
      I am continually impressed with the work of P. Djèlí Clark. I only heard of him recently (on the May 2, 2021 episode (S12E8) of The Coode Street Podcast). I think he is an exceptional writer - I am drawn into his work almost effortlessly, even on those days when reading seems more of a chore.

      Ring Shout starts off well but for the first half of the book, I was thinking that it was not quite as good as The Haunting of Tram Car 015. However, Ring Shout pulls together for a tremendously impactful and deeply moving climax that made this one of the best books I have read this year. I am quite liberal with 4-star reviews but stingy with the 5s - this was an easy 5 stars for me.

      I am glad that I recently started taking more active steps to read a wider range of SFF authors as I otherwise might have missed out on P. Djèlí Clark (though it also makes me realize that there are probably still a lot of great SFF authors out I am missing and still need to discover).

      It goes without saying that I am eagerly awaiting A Master of Djinn...