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  • Stay in the Light

  • The Watchers, Book 2
  • By: A.M. Shine
  • Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne
  • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (26 ratings)

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Stay in the Light

By: A.M. Shine
Narrated by: Jacqueline Milne
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Publisher's summary

Bloomsbury presents Stay in the Light by A.M. Shine, read by Jacqueline Milne.

From critically acclaimed Irish horror writer A.M. Shine, the sequel to The Watchers, now adapted into a major motion picture produced by M. Night Shyamalan.

YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED... BUT YOU'LL NEVER BE FREE.

After her terrifying experience at the hands of the Watchers, Mina has escaped to a cottage on the west coast of Ireland. She obsessively researches her former captors, desperate to find any way to prolong the safety of humankind.

When Mina encounters a stranger near her home, she fears the worst – for she knows the figure is not what it seems. Soon, people she has encountered start to disappear.

Mina knows the Watchers' power is growing. She flees for her life, but when she reports her fears she finds her sanity questioned. Can she convince people that the Watchers are real, and ready to strike – or will she suffer the fate she has dreaded since she first encountered those malevolent beings?

A chilling modern twist on the Gothic horror novel, perfect for fans of Kealan Patrick Burke, T. Kingfisher and classic horror.
©2024 A.M. Shine (P)2024 Head of Zeus
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wow

wow this sequel was everything I hoped for. it's such a good story! I absolutely loved it!!!

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So good! Please send more!

Just as good as the first, but man it gets worse! Literally turns the knife from the word go, PLEASE let there be a next book!

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Might be great, can’t listen

The narrator’s loud inhales left in this edit is bananas & so distracting I couldn’t get through this. So disappointed I was so excited for this sequel, will read the physical book. Not the narrators fault- she’s amazing. So is the author. Editing issue.

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Really unexpected shifts in the scale and nature of the original threat.

The first book ended a claustrophobic survival story with the cliffhanger that the horror was now abroad in the world, which left me interested enough in where that would go to pre-order this sequel.
This book did surprising enough things for me to want a third outing, but that surprise isn’t always a strength.

Shine lays out plots that could be a paranoid anyone-could-be-one-of-them thriller, a claustrophobic cursed archeological dig horror, or a Kaiju-scale apocalypse, then plays a shell game shuffling them around to see which this story will turn out to be. Which way it goes is a bit unexpected, but less because it’s surprising than because you don’t expect those other angles to just be left dangling. There’s a fantastic moment of building dread when a police psychologist tells the protagonist he thinks she’s perfectly sane, given what he’s been hearing lately… but neither it nor the character get developed.
At the same time, another character follows something like a horny idiot plot, missing details and ignoring warnings by being exactly as myopic and cowardly as he needs to be to speed the plot along, without much real texture to his characterisation.

That can be frustrating, and I’m not sure, having finished it, whether I’m actually happy with how it works. But there are some lovely horrific set pieces and occasional inspired turns of phrase.

And the ways it zigs after building to a zag are a fun kind of surprising.

So I am, in the end, looking forward to more.
But let’s hope the author has found another synonym for “illumined” by then.

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what happened to the horror!!!

i enjoyed the first book so much! the creepiness, the forest, the monsters, the nice twist at the end. this wasn’t a bad story at all but it was very disappointing. Mina spends most of the book being unimportant, honestly if her character wasn’t in it it wouldn’t change the story at all until the epilogue. The retcon of the professor having a son and him continuing his father’s research and the dig itself was the most interesting part of the book but the twist at the end was the same twist as the end of book one. all in all it was okay, sucks I have to wait 2 years for the next book.

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Another winner.

I wish this author was putting out books every other week. I cannot get enough.

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Can’t wait for the next one!

I was excited for the next book after reading Watchers. It didn’t disappoint, now I can’t wait for the next one!

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Nope

I really wish this story had ended with the first book. No sequel was needed at all

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I am no better than Kilmartin…

I NEED MORE ANSWERS.. I NEED A THIRD BOOK. I enjoyed both books thoroughly.. both a little slow to start but the plot twist are amazing and the story is really good. I love Madeline. I hope we get more books for this story.

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You can't suspend...

You can't suspend disbelief enough to make this book readable. Wish I hadn't wasted 2 credits on both books before reading all the reviews.

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