Collection 500 years in the future, a mad cow-like disease called “Bent Head” has killed off most of the U.S. people. Those remaining turn to magic and sacrifice to cleanse the Earth.

Wonderblood is Julia Whicker’s fascinating literary debut audiobook, set in a barren USA, an apocalyptic wasteland where warring factions compete for control of the land in strange and dangerous carnivals. A mad cow-like disease known as ‘Bent Mind’ has killed off millions. Those that stay worship the ruins about Wonderblood: A Book of NASA’s space shuttles, and Cape Canaveral is usually their Mecca. Medication and science have been rejected and only magic, prophecy, and bloodstream sacrifice.

When vacationing marauders led with the bloodthirsty Mr. Capulatio invade her camp, a girl called Aurora is used captive as his bride-to-be and forced to become listed on his band on the trip to Cape Canaveral. As war nears, she must determine if she actually is willing to become her captor’s queen. But other queens emerge, some grotesque yet others aggrieved, and not all are pleased with the girl’s ascent.

Politics and survival are in the centre of this ravishing audiobook

Compliment for Wonderblood:

‘Julia Whicker’s Wonderblood…plunges the readers right into a marvelous and brutal world of pseudo-magic, religion and astronomy…The political machinations of the carnivals are thrilling, and the narration lush and wild.’ — Washington Post