The Infinite Noise: A Bright Sessions Novel
Written by Lauren Shippen
Narrated by Briggon Snow and James Fouhey
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
"Narrators James Fouhey and Briggon Snow give stellar performances in this quiet YA romance...Both narrators authentically capture the ups and downs of teen romance and keep listeners engaged." -- AudioFile Magazine
Lauren Shippen's The Infinite Noise is a stunning, original debut based on her wildly popular and award-winning podcast The Bright Sessions.
Caleb Michaels is a sixteen-year-old champion running back. Other than that his life is pretty normal. But when Caleb starts experiencing mood swings that are out of the ordinary for even a teenager, his life moves beyond “typical.”
Caleb is an Atypical, an individual with enhanced abilities. Which sounds pretty cool except Caleb's ability is extreme empathy—he feels the emotions of everyone around him. Being an empath in high school would be hard enough, but Caleb's life becomes even more complicated when he keeps getting pulled into the emotional orbit of one of his classmates, Adam. Adam's feelings are big and all-consuming, but they fit together with Caleb's feelings in a way that he can't quite understand.
Caleb's therapist, Dr. Bright, encourages Caleb to explore this connection by befriending Adam. As he and Adam grow closer, Caleb learns more about his ability, himself, his therapist—who seems to know a lot more than she lets on—and just how dangerous being an Atypical can be.
“What if the X-Men, instead of becoming superheroes, decided to spend some time in therapy?” (Vox on The Bright Sessions)
Lauren Shippen
LAUREN SHIPPEN, author of The Infinite Noise, is a writer best known for her work in fiction podcasts. She is the creator and sole writer of the popular audio drama, The Bright Sessions. She went on to executive produce The AM Archives and co-produce Passenger List before founding Atypical Artists, a company dedicated to audio storytelling. She wrote MARVELS, an audio adaptation of the popular comic, released in 2019 by Marvel and Stitcher. Lauren was named one of Forbes's 2018 30 Under 30 in Media and one of MovieMaker Magazine's and Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch. She was born in New York City and grew up in Bronxville, New York. She currently lives in Los Angeles but travels frequently to New York.
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Reviews for The Infinite Noise
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was an ok book, the ending was kind of disappointing, I feel like it was rushed a bit and did not tie in everything that had happened in the book.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It was really great to see the things that happened in the podcast through a different lens and having the narrators be the actual voice actors for the characters was just such a fantastic choice! I can imagine it would be really confusing to read this without having listened to the podcast though, especially considering the next book in the series follows a completely different story. Still, a really sweet book and absolutely incredible for anyone who enjoyed The Bright Sessions!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Beautiful addition to the Bright Sessions universe, this book was joy and sweetness, with a good dose of anxiety for the characters that kept me hooked until the very end. I loved seeing the building of their world outside of Caleb’s sessions with Dr Bright.