Orchid Child audio by Victoria Costello

Thank you @vcostelloauthor @KellyALacey @lovebookstours #OrchidChildTour #Ad #LBTCrew #BookTwitter for letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. Orchid Child is 11 hours and 5 minutes long and is narrated by Melissa Kay Benson. The Orchid Child is a pretty front cover and is a metaphysical genre. Orchid Child is a dual timeline that I liked, which is the 1920s and the 2000. I enjoyed listening to the Orchid Child a Mensaly. The narrator Melissa Kay Benson had a great voice, and it was easy to listen to her throughout the whole book. I liked the characters especially Teague and it was good to see the characters develop through the book. The story is well-written and well-researched. Iliked the descriptions flowing through the book, i could really visualise what she was saying. An enjoyable read with a great writing style. 5 stars Blurb Kate is a neuroscientist who covets logic and order, unless she’s sleeping with her married lab director, and then logic goes out the window. So does her orderly life in Manhattan when she's fired over the affair and Kate’s mother presses her to accept responsibility for her fifteen-year-old nephew, Teague, an orchid child who hears voices and talks to trees but rarely people. To salvage her career, Kate agrees to conduct a study in West Ireland where hostile townsfolk rebuff her study of their historically high rate of schizophrenia and a local chief Druid identifies Teague’s odd perceptions as the gift of second sight, thrusting a bewildered Kate on a trail of madness, magic, and armed rebellion that leads to her own grandparents, who were banished as traitors from the same town. When a confrontation with the chief Druid endangers Teague’s life, Kate lands at the intersection of ancient Celtic mysticism and 21st century neurodiversity, where the act of witnessing old wounds can heal suffering in both past and present – even hers, if she can accept the limits of science and the power of ancestral ties.