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Rainforest

The atmospheric new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver

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Von: Michelle Paver
Gesprochen von: Richard Armitage
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'Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!' Bridget Collins, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding

ENTER - AND YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME

Mexico, 1973

Simon Corbett has come to the jungle the way people do: to salvage a ruined career, and outrun a past he cannot face.

But the forest is no refuge.

As he ventures deeper, his days lose their edges. Footsteps follow that leave no trace. The path he cuts disappears behind him.

Something is leading him off course. It's older than the trees, watching, and hungry.

He came to the jungle to lose himself.

He may get his wish.

A terrifying supernatural tale from Sunday Times bestseller Michelle Paver, author of Dark Matter, Thin Air and Wakenhyrst.

Praise for Rainforest:
'Her most unsettling novel yet!' Olivia Isaac-Henry
'Michelle Paver at her terrifying best. A novel of masterful suspense and slow-burning horror' Elaine Thomson
'Phenomenal. All of the stars... Easily my top read of the year so far' 5-star Reader Review
'The malicious uncanny slithers through the story' Natasha Pulley
'Intoxicatingly weird...Takes a stalker story and makes it uniquely her own. She has cemented herself as our modern day MR James.. I can't wait to see what she does next!' Sarah Pinborough
'Profoundly wonderful storytelling' 5-star Reader Review
'Rarely have I finished reading a book, immediately returned to the first page and started reading again. Rainforest is utter brilliance' Carly Reagon
'No one does terrifying like Michelle Paver' Sharon Bolton
'Incredible! Really was an experience like no other' 5-star Reader Review
'Paver has proved once again that she is master of the ghost story. With its vivid, brilliantly realised setting and creeping dread, I found this a truly terrifying read' Rebecca Netley©2025 Michelle Paver Belletristik Fantasy Horror Psychologie Thriller Übernatürliches

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A tense and strangely beautiful narrative
Spellbindingly creepy
A tale of terror and beauty and wonder
Sinister, succulent, with a stifling sense of claustrophobia, this is Michelle Paver at her terrifying best. A novel of masterful suspense and slow-burning horror, Rainforest blends psychology and the supernatural in a sweating compelling tale that kept me up long past bedtime. I loved it.
In Rainforest, Michelle Paver perfectly captures the beauty and brutality of a lost Mayan kingdom, and creates the haunting backdrop to a tale of self-loathing and self-discovery...her most unsettling novel yet!
Terror on a grander scale
Paver is the mistress of suspense
I basically aspirated it all in one go. That signature sense of the malicious uncanny slithers through the story and a setting that branches right away from the comparatively easy scares of the cold-weather Gothic into something that, for me, feels even more technically accomplished and clever.
Michelle is such a brilliant writer, and an absolute master of the genre!
Alle Sterne
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The story follows Simon Corbett, who, after a career-threatening event, takes a job in the Virgin rainforest to study mantids. Haunted by the incident involving a woman named Penelope, he writes down his thoughts, feelings and beliefs in diary form for his therapist. However, Simon feels compelled to participate in the excavations of a local professor, which robs him of time for his true passion. He is finding it frustrating that he is unable to locate many mantids in the rainforest. The Yachikel, who are Maya descendants, are helping out with the digs, but Simon's technique of smoking trees to find dead insects is a no-go because it not only keeps the mantids away, but also kills other forest creatures. Simon becomes increasingly fascinated by the shamanic practices of touching death. He hopes that this will allow him to finally leave his dark past behind.

Simon is not an easy character, but he is pitiful—despite his seemingly obsessive traits. Driven by the rejection of the woman he loves, he tries to find peace in the rainforest, to clear his mind and shed his feelings of guilt. He is willing to risk everything for this.

Richard Armitage is absolutely unbeatable, and his talent is undeniable.

Creepy and dark!

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Die Autorin nimmt den Hörer in eine neue Welt mit und beschreibt den Regenwald mit seinen Pflanzen und Tieren in vielen Details. Inhaltlich steigert sie die Spannung gegen Ende fast ins Unerträgliche, als der Ich-Erzähler, Dr. Simon Corbett, im Regenwald verloren geht. Seine Obsession mit einer vergangenen Liebe, Penelope, wird in seinem Talisman, einer Haarsträne von ihr, überdeutlich. Die Gottesanbeterinnen, die er sucht und erforscht, erscheinen faszinierend.
Richard Armitage liest hier sehr tief. Da er ausschließlich Männerstimmen zu lesen hat, zeigt er seine Brillianz durch extrem spannendes und variantenreiches Vortragen. Bedrohliche Stellen kommen beim Hörer ebenso an wie die vor Liebe blinden Stellen, die er mitreißend und intensiv spricht.
Er ist auch hier wieder der beste aller Sprecher!

"How do I know I exist"?

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love all paver ghost stories, and this one takes second place between dark matter (my n1) and thin air (which was storytelling wise al little too similar to dark matter, but still amazing)

i hated the main character yet loved every second of the story

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