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    Into the Jungle
    Into the Jungle
    Into the Jungle
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    Into the Jungle

    Written by Erica Ferencik

    Narrated by Jayme Mattler

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    In this “hypnotic, violent, unsparing” (A.J. Banner, USA TODAY bestselling author) thriller from the author of the “haunting, twisting thrill ride” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author) The River at Night, a young woman leaves behind everything she knows to take on the Bolivian jungle, but her excursion abroad quickly turns into a fight for her life.

    Lily Bushwold thought she’d found the antidote to endless foster care and group homes: a gig teaching English in Cochabamba, Bolivia. As soon as she could steal enough cash for the plane, she was on it.

    But the program was a scam. And bonding with other broke, rudderless girls in the local youth hostel wasn’t the answer. Falling crazy in love with Omar, a savvy, handsome local who’d left his life as a hunter in Ayachero—a remote jungle village—to try city life: this was the last thing Lily could have imagined.

    When Omar learns that a jaguar had killed his four-year-old nephew in Ayachero, he gives Lily a choice: stay alone in the unforgiving city, or travel to the last in the ever-more-isolated string of river towns in the jungles of Bolivia. Thirty-foot anacondas? Puppy-sized spiders? Vengeful shamans with unspeakable powers? None of it matters to love-struck Lily. She follows Omar to a ruthless new world of lawless poachers, bullheaded missionaries, and desperate indigenous tribes driven to the brink of extinction. To survive, Lily must navigate the jungle—and all its residents—using only her wits and resilience.

    “Gripping, breathtaking, and exquisitely told—Into the Jungle pulls you into another world, returning you forever transformed” (Wendy Walker, USA TODAY bestselling author).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9781508267843
    Author

    Erica Ferencik

    Erica Ferencik is the award-winning author of the acclaimed thrillers The River at Night, Into the Jungle, and Girl in Ice, which The New York Times Book Review declared “hauntingly beautiful.” Find out more on her website EricaFerencik.com and follow her on Twitter @EricaFerencik.

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    • 5/5
      Interesting audio book with a good reader. The characters are believable. Now I want to do some research on Bolivia.
    • 4/5
      Erica Ferencik of The River at Night fame returns with a seductive, pulse-pounding tale of a vagabond American teenager following the man she loves into the depths of the Bolivian jungle.

      Nineteen year old Lily Bushwold has found herself in Bolivia, South America, after leaving behind a gritty, unstable existence in America. Her life in Bolivia heads in an unexpected direction when she falls passionately in love with Omar, who has also left a life behind - one as a hunter in Ayachero, an isolated river village deep in the Bolivian jungle. Lily finds herself swept up in her romance with Omar, and when he is called back home after his nephew is attacked and dragged away by a jaguar, Lily follows the love of her life blindly into the jungle. Despite Omar's warnings, nothing could prepare Lily for what awaits her in the deadly and dangerous Amazon.

      Into the Jungle is a riveting, jaw-dropping, heart-stopping tale of survival. Ferencik envelops readers in the depths and darkness of the Bolivian jungle, exposing them to the terrors and turmoil of living on the edge. Don't be surprised if you find yourself pulled into the Amazon alongside Lily, desperate to find a way off of the path you so blindly walked down, but also unable to turn away. Into the Jungle is abrasive and biting, and does not hold back as it throws one nightmare after another at Lily, from vengeful tribesmen, to monstrous animals, to just plain survival in its barest form.

      Aside from the exciting survival elements, I personally enjoyed learning how Lily grows and adapts after she is literally dropped in the middle of the jungle. Her interactions with the Ayachero villagers, especially the women, who don't take kindly to outsiders, was fascinating, and I loved discovering how Lily molded herself to fit into their community - another form of survival of sorts. Furthermore, Ferencik had me considering what I would do in Lily's shoes and wondering if I would ever be so foolish as to traipse into the jungle without a backward glance, nor any set of useful survival skills or knowledge. After reading Into the Jungle, I can resolutely say the answer to that question is NO!

      Anyone who loves a good tale of adventure and survival will enjoy the savage, menacing Into the Jungle.
    • 4/5
      I wasn't sure if I was going to like this book about an adventure in the jungle, but I really liked Erica Ferencik's "The River at Night," so I decided to give it a chance. Am I glad I did! Extremely atmospheric, well-written, fast-paced and suspenseful - it was a great read, and I could hardly put it down. I appreciated the research the author did, apparently on site. The descriptions of the creatures inhabiting the jungle were terrifying!
    • 2/5
      An action movie calibrated to be inoffensive to everyone, and with details to appeal to every demographic. If you love Hollywood blockbusters, check this novel out. Unfortunately, the writing is very uneven, some good and some jarringly bad. The narrator is hateful.
    • 5/5
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      Into the Jungle follows a young woman's (Lily) journey as she moves out of herself into an unknown and unpredictable future. I don't believe I would ever have picked up a book like this, but something caught my attention (probably the Amazonian jungle) in the summary so I entered and won the GoodReads Giveaway. This novel is beautifully written. There is a rich, atmospheric, earthly quality to it. Another word that comes to mind is visceral. The contrast between Lily's before life, even among the civilizado, and her life in the jungle is profound, engaging, and moving. There are a handful of brief spots where I felt that a predetermined plot arc forced an unnatural progression of the story, but these were lacking in nuance only. Also, I chafe at the somewhat cliched view of missionaries as stubborn, arrogant and unsympathetic. But again these are only opinions on nuance. If you are looking for an engrossing dive into a culture that is almost certainly wholly other - this is your book. I'd strongly encourage readers to sign up for the ongoing giveaways at GoodReads or look for this book when it is officially released. 4.5 stars
    • 3/5
      This was a well written and descriptive book but the story just didn't click for me. Lily was not your typical American teenager and it almost seemed like she faced her challenges in the jungle a little too easily. I won an ARC of this book from Goodreads.
    • 4/5
      Into The Jungle is a story of Lily, a nineteen-year-old girl that has lived her life in foster care and longs to be loved and accepted. She travels to South America and although she is struggling there, she meets Omar and falls in love with him. When he is called back to his village in the jungle, she decides to follow him. Lily believes her life on the streets of Boston had prepared her for a life in the jungle. Instead she learns what it is like to really have to survive.A well-researched and developed story that I found engrossing. I’m not sure what I expected but this is a story of survival and love and so much more.