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The Stranded

by Mike Carey

Science FantasyContemporary Fantasy
Published 2008 0 Audience Adult Heat 🔥🔥 Pacing Mixed Magic Soft
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Darkness Level 4 — Dark
Violence, trauma and morally harsh outcomes

Synopsis

In The Stranded, the first Virgin/SciFi book, five ordinary people must face a terrifying question: What if your entire world - your childhood, your family, all your memories - was a lie? For the Stranded, it's true; they're all, secretly, from another world. And now a deadly, otherworldly force has returned to try and kill them, operating through …

Tropes

Secret IdentityPortal FantasyOutcast Hero

Tone

Dark & SeriousMysterious

Content Warnings

graphic-violenceabusetorturepsychological-trauma

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