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The Witchstone
- By: Henry H. Neff
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
- Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway.
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Clever and highly entertaining
- By Valerie Yanetta on 08-03-24
- The Witchstone
- By: Henry H. Neff
- Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
Best book I've read in such a long time
Reviewed: 08-29-24
Loved this book so much. I could say that it's like if Neil Gaiman and Douglas Adam's had a demonic baby... but it's better even than that. The bureaucracy of hell was intensely funny, the main character Lazslo was simply fantastic (one of those characters who I will literally never forget) and now everyone needs to read this book so I can make funny references that people will understand. The world building was also superb. It would make a great movie. Reeeeead it. You definitely won't regret it.
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The Familiar
- A Novel
- By: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position.
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The performance was superior!
- By anonymous2812 on 04-14-24
- The Familiar
- A Novel
- By: Leigh Bardugo
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
Should have been a short story
Reviewed: 06-27-24
Coming off the heels of a Ninth House & Hell Bent, I had high expectations. I was hoping for a tale of basque region witchcraft, and was sorely disappointed. Throughout the book, the histories were shallow and the entire thing would have been much better suited as a short story. I found it to be incredibly boring, ultimately... as much as I wanted and was hoping to like it.
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Delicate Condition
- By: Danielle Valentine
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she's gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.
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Awful story
- By SLW on 10-27-23
- Delicate Condition
- By: Danielle Valentine
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
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Reviewed: 05-03-24
It's not great. It wasn't terrible... but there's not a lot of depth to the story. There's not a lot of originality here, and the ending was pretty anti-climactic. It's like the author decided to re-write Rosemary's baby and do a spin.
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Rosemary's Baby
- By: Ira Levin
- Narrated by: Mia Farrow
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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She is a housewife: young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor: charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home, a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin, where terror is as near as your new neighbors and where evil wears the most innocent face of all.
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Here Be Witches
- By Michael E. Wallster on 08-05-11
- Rosemary's Baby
- By: Ira Levin
- Narrated by: Mia Farrow
Excellent
Reviewed: 04-27-24
I've always been a big fan of the movie, never had a chance to read the book though. I'm happy I thought to look up the audio book though, because Mia Farrow did a phenomenal job. I'll listen to this more than once.
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Besom, Stang & Sword
- A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape
- By: Christopher Orapello, Tara-Love Maguire
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Regional traditional witchcraft is an animistic form of witchcraft that moves away from the religious harvest festivals and fertility-minded practices associated with the more common Wiccan form of witchcraft. Very few of us in this age are farmers or dependent upon crops and harvests. Regional traditional witchcraft teaches people to find their craft in their own backyards, in the uncultivated land or urban cityscape alike, and in their ancestors rather than in ancient foreign deities or in a neopagan religious form of witchcraft. It's not about where you're from but where you are.
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Love the darker twist
- By VB on 11-22-19
- Besom, Stang & Sword
- A Guide to Traditional Witchcraft, the Six-Fold Path & the Hidden Landscape
- By: Christopher Orapello, Tara-Love Maguire
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
great book, bad narrator
Reviewed: 03-11-21
Great book, really not crazy about the narrator though... just his voice.
also, can't listen to it a second time for some reason.
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