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Gifted & Talented
- By: Olivie Blake
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4 out of 5 stars 35
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.
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2 out of 5 stars
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It is finally
- By crperkins on 04-15-25
- Gifted & Talented
- By: Olivie Blake
- Narrated by: Eunice Wong
It is finally
Reviewed: 04-15-25
It is finally over. I’ve never in all my years of reading stayed up late to finish a book simply to get it over with. I’m being a bit harsh. Basically, this book wasn’t for me. I imagine many readers will love this book. In a nutshell, I didn’t like this read because I never for a minute felt the characters would not turn out okay. Good for them. I also really did not like the narrator of the book (not the voice actor reading the book but the narrator in the book [you know what I mean]). Multiple times during the book I thought to myself: I really wish this person would stop talking. Unintentionally while I was listening to this book about a magical family I was also reading another book about a very different magical family: Mariana Enriquez’s our share of night. That book has kept me riveted. Reading late into the night for reason more appealing to me. Ultimately, I think it is down to what is more interesting to you. Look at both of these books you’ll know which one you’re more interested in.
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The Vivaldi Cipher
- Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers
- By: Gary McAvoy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 193
During the election of a new Pope in the mid-18th century, famed violinist Antonio Vivaldi learns of a ring of art forgers who are replacing the Vatican’s priceless treasures with expertly-painted fakes. Desperate, the composer hides a message in a special melody, hoping someone, someday, will take down the culprits....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Novel or product placement?
- By Cincyreader on 06-25-23
- The Vivaldi Cipher
- Vatican Secret Archive Thrillers
- By: Gary McAvoy
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Not for me but you may like it
Reviewed: 03-11-25
Not for me but you may like it. I found the story boring. I understand the value in a low key mystery but I just didn’t care for this story.
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 344
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Story4 out of 5 stars 315
1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So much fun
- By Amber on 08-13-24
- I Was a Teenage Slasher
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones
Here is the deal.
Reviewed: 07-29-24
The story was fine. It didn’t really hold my interest. But here is the weird thing. I loved the acknowledgements. I want book of just that. I typically enjoy this writer’s work but not this.
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The Ministry of Time
- A Novel
- By: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrated by: George Weightman, Katie Leung
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,609
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,490
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,490
In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats” from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.
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4 out of 5 stars
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More than the sum of its parts but…
- By L. Williams on 05-17-24
- The Ministry of Time
- A Novel
- By: Kaliane Bradley
- Narrated by: George Weightman, Katie Leung
Not for me maybe for you
Reviewed: 06-18-24
I appreciate that this book was not “hard time travel” and more a storytelling device. That said this story was not for me. It was fine enough but didn’t really see a point in it. You may like it though.
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Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,921
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8,653
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,629
Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating Social Study
- By Henry V on 02-26-21
- Piranesi
- By: Susanna Clarke
- Narrated by: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Not my kind of magic
Reviewed: 02-26-24
I realize I am in the minority here but this book wasn’t for me. It is a magic trick of a book. All I heard was “wait till it starts falling into place”. Well, I did and I still found it sort of bland. But again that is just my opinion. Plenty of people love this story. You might as well.
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