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Edit: I did a reread of The Ferryman by audiobook and it was even better the second time around. Scott Brick and Suzanne Elise Freeman are superb performers!

Original review:
I’m a huge fan of Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy so when offered an early eGalley of The Ferryman I may have squealed a bit.

The Ferryman tells the story of an island paradise known as Prospero which is hidden from the rest of the world. Proctor is a Ferryman who counsels and helps the elderly go to an island known as The Nursery where they “retire��, their bodies and minds are renewed and they come back to Prosperos as older teens to live with their newly assigned guardians. Prosperos is a perfect utopia and everyone who lives there are happy and healthy and have everything they could want or need.

The Annex is another island where all the laborers live who are there to serve the Prosperos residents.

While reading this book, I was getting mad vibes of The Giver, Logan’s Run, Lost, The Matrix, and a few other books/TV. No matter what happened, I just couldn’t predict what could possibly happen next. Eventually, an event happens whereby Proctor begins to recognize that everything is not as it seems and the twists and turns started blowing my mind.

Yes, there were times when I felt as lost as Proctor but those twists! Brilliant! Everything finally made sense.

The Ferryman is a big mix of dystopian, sci-fi, and fantasy, and I loved it all. Although this book was almost 600 pages I flew through it too fast and purposely would stop reading because I didn’t want it to end. I’m definitely going to experience a book hangover after this.

*Thank you so much to Ballantine Books and NetGalley for this amazing advance copy!*