Ghosts of Harvard - Francesca Serritella Audiobook

Written by Francesca Serritella
Read by Karissa Vacker
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: May 5, 2020
Duration: 16:46:43

Cadence Archer arrives on Harvard’s campus desperate to understand why her brother, Eric, a genius who developed paranoid schizophrenia took his own life there the year before. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady’s life, and while her decision to follow in her brother’s footsteps threatens to break her family apart, she is haunted by questions of what she might have missed. And there’s only one place to find answers.

As Cady struggles under the enormous pressure at Harvard, she investigates her brother’s final year, armed only with a blue notebook of Eric’s cryptic scribblings. She knew he had been struggling with paranoia, delusions, and illusory enemies—but what tipped him over the edge? Voices fill her head, seemingly belonging to three ghosts who passed through the university in life, or death, and whose voices, dreams, and terrors still echo the halls. Among them is a person whose name has been buried for centuries, and another whose name mankind will never forget.

Does she share Eric’s illness, or is she tapping into something else? Cady doesn’t know how or why these ghosts are contacting her, but as she is drawn deeper into their worlds, she believes they’re moving her closer to the truth about Eric, even as keeping them secret isolates her further. Will listening to these voices lead her to the one voice she craves—her brother’s—or will she follow them down a path to her own destruction?

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This audiobook is not what it seems, and its unpredictable twists make Francesca Serritella’s mystery worth listening to. The story focuses on Cady Archer, a Harvard freshman dealing with the emotional baggage of her brother’s suicide who begins to hear multiple voices–not just any voices, but voices whose existence is tied to her new school. Listeners will appreciate Karissa Vacker’s fine performance as she inhabits Cady and conveys her emotions as each voice speaks and attempts to torment and control her. But all is never as it seems, and Vacker’s ability to use nuanced tones and a varied pace to handle those moments allows listeners to share Cady’s journey, and the ultimate resolution of her conflicted psyche.