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    Rise of the Jumbies
    Rise of the Jumbies
    Rise of the Jumbies
    Audiobook6 hours

    Rise of the Jumbies

    Written by Tracey Baptiste

    Narrated by Robin Miles

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    About this audiobook

    Corinne LaMer defeated the wicked jumbie Severine months ago, but things haven't exactly gone back to normal in her Caribbean island home. Everyone knows Corinne is half-jumbie, and many of her neighbors treat her with mistrust. When local children begin to go missing, snatched from the beach and vanishing into wells, suspicious eyes turn to Corinne. To rescue the missing children and clear her own name, Corinne goes deep into the ocean to find Mama D'Leau, the dangerous jumbie who rules the sea. But Mama D'Leau's help comes with a price. Corinne and her friends Dru, Bouki, and Malik must travel with mermaids across the ocean to the shores of Ghana to fetch a powerful object for Mama D'Leau. The only thing more perilous than Corinne's adventures across the sea is the foe that waits for her back home. With its action-packed storytelling, diverse characters, and inventive twists on Caribbean and West African mythology and fairy tales, Rise of the Jumbies will appeal to readers of A Snicker of Magic, A Tale Dark and Grimm, and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 19, 2017
    ISBN9781501972294
    Rise of the Jumbies
    Author

    Tracey Baptiste

    Tracey Baptiste is the New York Times bestselling author of the middle grade novels Minecraft: The Crash, The Jumbies, Rise of the Jumbies, and The Jumbie God’s Revenge. A former elementary school teacher, Tracey is now on the faculty at Lesley University’s creative writing MFA program. Raised in Trinidad until she was fifteen, she now lives with her family in New Jersey. You can visit her online at traceybaptiste.com.

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    • 3/5
      Corinne La Mer, the half-human, half-jumbie girl whose story began in Tracey Baptiste's The Jumbies, returns in this second fantasy novel devoted to her adventures. When children on her Caribbean island begin to go missing, Corinne finds herself once again an object of suspicion for many of her neighbors. She herself suspects that Severine, her jumbie mother's sister, has returned from the sea into which she was cast at the end of the last installment of the series. Together with her friends, Dru, Bouki and Malik, Corinne sets out to enlist the aid of powerful water jumbie Mama D'Leau in her quest to find and rescue the children. This aid comes with a price however, and Corinne and her friends soon find themselves involved in an epic adventure stretching from the Caribbean to West Africa and back again, dealing with mermaids, missing magical jewels, the transatlantic slave trade, and Papa Boi - the powerful jumbie who protects the forest on their island home - along the way...Like its predecessor, I found the story in Rise of the Jumbies quite engaging. I appreciated Tracey Baptiste's incorporation of the folklore and mythology of her native Trinidad into the story, and the ways in which she tied that folklore to the stories and traditions of West Africa, from which it is no doubt descended. Although the question of the relationship between Mama D'Leau and Mami Wata is never quite answered in the story, the implication is that they are either related, or the same figure. Whatever the case may be, I appreciated this glimpse into folkloric traditions that don't always find their way into American children's books. I also greatly enjoyed meeting the gentle Papa Boi, who, in traditional lore, is married to Mama D'Leau. The story-line involving the mermaids was fascinating and tragic - they are revealed to have once been human girls, captured as slaves in Africa, and survivors of the sinking of the slave ship on which they were being carried - although the historian in me couldn't help but wince a bit at the idea that they would find descendants of their families along the coast of West Africa, given what I know of the slave trade. By sheer coincidence, I happened to be reading an article about the involvement of coastal West Africans in the slave trade, while I was also reading the conclusion of Rise of the Jumbies, and the critical adult in me kept thinking: wouldn't it be more likely that the children and mermaids would encounter descendants of those who had sold the girls/mermaids, rather than their own families, who probably came from further inland? Of course, this is a fantasy novel, so despite my historical qualms, I still enjoyed the story.On an entirely separate note, I did feel, much as I did with the first book, that the conclusion here was a little rushed. The narrative never really explains why, or describes how the islanders, so hostile to Corinne after she rescued the children, had a change of heart, making their reverse course, in offering gifts in order to recall the mermaid Corinne to the island, and restore her to human form, rather mystifying. In one scene, Laurent is disgusted by Corinne, but the next time we see him, he's encouraging his mother to participate in the efforts to bring her back. Baptiste never really accounts for the change of heart. One wishes that she had fleshed out the chapters occurring after Corinne departs, in order to make these developments feel a little less random. Still, despite that criticism, and the historical issue mentioned above, I did find Rise of the Jumbies entertaining, and often quite moving. I liked the incorporation of the history of the slave trade into the more folkloric narrative - after all, folktales have helped many human groups to survive times of great suffering and injustice - and I appreciated the discussion throughout of issues of difference and belonging. In short, I enjoyed this enough that I will be tracking down the third installment of the series, The Jumbie God's Revenge.