Mara realizes that there’s a sinister presence lurking in the town with its sights set on getting rid of the sideshow freeks. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need if they set up camp in Caudry, Louisiana, Mara meets local-boy Gabe…and a normal life has never been more appealing.īut before long, performers begin disappearing and bodies are found mauled by an invisible beast.
Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Welcome to Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act… (Jan.Freeks by Amanda Hocking – Free eBooks Download Important questions about poverty and privilege are at the core of this standalone novel, and they’ll keep readers hooked just as much as the paranormal peril.
The story is set in 1987, allowing for playful nods to the pop culture and fashion of the day. Although Mara doesn’t seem to have the same gifts as her fellow travelers, she is strong, independent, and pragmatic-no damsel in distress.
Hocking (the Kanin Chronicles) takes time to examine Mara’s complex emotions regarding Gabe, her ramshackle life on the road, and her mother. Mara and Gabe’s whirlwind, class-crossing romance plays an important role without drowning out other central relationships.
But her family of misfits is falling prey, one by one, to a beast that is stalking the campsite, and a series of shadowy encounters and twists builds to a battle-driven reckoning. A traveling supernatural sideshow has just arrived in a sleepy Louisiana town, and Mara Beznik, daughter of the troupe’s fortune-teller, quickly becomes smitten with Gabe Alvarado, a wealthy local boy.
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