Joy Ann Karsner
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Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 25,944
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,439
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,431
Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Definitely needed the trigger warning, but..
- By Hillary on 02-01-16
- Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Not great
Reviewed: 07-02-24
Yuck. Zero stats do not recommend. I don’t need 15 words to tell you this is awful.
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The Deep Sky
- A Novel
- By: Yume Kitasei
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 101
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 90
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 90
It is the eve of Earth’s environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity’s last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation of children in deep space. But halfway to a distant but livable planet, a lethal bomb kills three of the crew and knocks The Phoenix off course. Asuka, the only surviving witness, is an immediate suspect.
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2 out of 5 stars
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The synopsis was better than the story
- By Faisal Sultan on 07-22-23
- The Deep Sky
- A Novel
- By: Yume Kitasei
- Narrated by: Sarah Skaer
Great story. Really bad narration.
Reviewed: 01-31-24
I loved the story- great author and I can’t wait to read more from them. However for this audio version, the narration/editing was very poor. The mispronunciation of multiple words throughout was so distracting.
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Beholder
- By: Ryan La Sala
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 47
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4 out of 5 stars 40
Athanasios “Athan” Bakirtzis has made it far in life relying on his charm and good looks, even securing an invitation to a mysterious penthouse soiree for New York City’s artsy elite. But when he sneaks off to the bathroom, he hears a slam, followed by a scream. Athan peers outside, only to be pushed back in by a boy his age. The boy gravely tells him not to open the door, then closes Athan in. Outside the door, the party descends into chaos
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes!
- By Jason on 03-21-24
- Beholder
- By: Ryan La Sala
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
Great story. Narrator “scary” voice… no thanks
Reviewed: 10-25-23
Love Ryan La Sala’s work. I should have done this as a hard copy and not audio. The “scary” narration voice was so grating I almost quit reading.
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The Every
- A Novel
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 503
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 435
Delaney Wells is an unlikely new hire at the Every. A former forest ranger and unwavering tech skeptic, she charms her way into an entry-level job with one goal in mind: to take down the company from within. With her compatriot, the not-at-all-ambitious Wes Makazian, they look for the Every's weaknesses, hoping to free humanity from all-encompassing surveillance and the emoji-driven infantilization of the species. But does anyone want what Delaney is fighting to save? Does humanity truly want to be free?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator sounds like he works for the Every!
- By Bug on 11-22-21
- The Every
- A Novel
- By: Dave Eggers
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
Narration was not edited??
Reviewed: 01-30-23
A few mispronunciations throughout. Weird/distracting pauses every time the narrator read a quotation that ended in “xyz said.” That aside, the story was ok.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- A Novel
- By: Maria Semple
- Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,255
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,470
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Story4 out of 5 stars 15,451
Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply, Mom.
Then Bernadette disappears. It began when Bee aced her report card and claimed her promised reward: a family trip to Antarctica. But Bernadette's intensifying allergy to Seattle - and people in general - has made her so agoraphobic that a virtual assistant in India now runs her most basic errands.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Misleading cover contains excellent novel
- By JillHen on 01-28-16
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette
- A Novel
- By: Maria Semple
- Narrated by: Kathleen Wilhoite
I'd rather listen to someone read the digits of Pi
Reviewed: 01-26-23
This book was the worst, which I will describe in four points:
1. The hype. Why does it have so many good reviews? I will never know.
2. The characters. Awful, every last one. There were zero people to root for.
3. The logic of the plot and the characters' decision making. There was none.
4. For the audiobook, the narrator. Why did she voice the 15-year-old character, who was born and raised in Seattle, to sound like Natasha Lyonne?
I recommend this book to nobody, not even my worst enemies.
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How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,655
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,388
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,387
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, gets fired from one job after another, and resents her success.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nope, nope, nope.
- By Karen Johnson on 01-24-23
- How to Sell a Haunted House
- By: Grady Hendrix
- Narrated by: Jay Aaseng, Mikhaila Aaseng
Yo
Reviewed: 01-20-23
Why did the narrator switch between the pronunciation Louise/Luis the whole time. Very distracting.
Story is wildly entertaining.
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