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The Locked Door
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,235
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,153
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,153
While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. `Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered. In the same unique and horrific manner that her father used to kill his victims.
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4 out of 5 stars
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This is a Re-release from 2021!
- By Itwasntme on 12-19-24
- The Locked Door
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Leslie Howard
Get "The Boyfriend" Instead
Reviewed: 01-10-25
Oof. Hard to listen to. Annoying protagonist, not aided by narrator's choice of delivery. If the character was male I would feel the same way. Get the author's book "The Boyfriend" instead.
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Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- By: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,474
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,472
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an ill-conceived diatribe at a dinner party. He enters the forest, spellbound by the beauty of the Canadian wilderness, and suddenly hears the notes of a violin echoing in an airship terminal—an experience that shocks him to his core.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent listen.
- By Mark on 04-11-22
- Sea of Tranquility
- A Novel
- By: Emily St. John Mandel
- Narrated by: John Lee, Dylan Moore, Arthur Morey, Kirsten Potter
Stark Contrast in Quality of Narrators
Reviewed: 11-23-24
Stark contrast in quality of narrators across chapters. Shifting from Part 3 to Part 4, for example -- you go from really feeling what this woman is going through, with snappy, believable, emotive narration, to wanting to stab your eyes out with a violin bow.
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Middle of the Night
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,539
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,473
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,473
The worst thing to ever happen on Hemlock Circle occurred in Ethan Marsh’s backyard. One July night, ten-year-old Ethan and his best friend and neighbor, Billy, fell asleep in a tent set up on a manicured lawn in a quiet, quaint New Jersey cul-de-sac. In the morning, Ethan woke up alone. During the night, someone had sliced the tent open with a knife and taken Billy. He was never seen again. Thirty years later, Ethan has reluctantly returned to his childhood home. Plagued by bad dreams and insomnia, he begins to notice strange things happening in the middle of the night.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved it
- By cristina on 08-21-24
- Middle of the Night
- A Novel
- By: Riley Sager
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Yay 90s! Boo narration.
Reviewed: 09-24-24
Filled with 90s memorabilia which made my heart happy! Also filled with the narrator's unchanging / irritating pacing, tone, and pronunciations, which made my ears sad.
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The Midnight Feast
- A Novel
- By: Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre, Sarah Slimani, Roly Botha, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,129
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,129
It’s the opening night of The Manor, the newest and hottest luxury resort, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Anticlimactic
- By Donathan Caudill on 06-25-24
- The Midnight Feast
- A Novel
- By: Lucy Foley
- Narrated by: Joe Eyre, Sarah Slimani, Roly Botha, Laurence Dobiesz, Tuppence Middleton
I Went, "Like, I Was Like Really, Like, Looking Forward To The New Lucy Foley Novel."
Reviewed: 06-24-24
And then I went like, oh my god, there are like, ZERO likeable characters...and, like, the flashbacks -- they all went like, talking in this like, pseudo-teenage trash language. Add in endless obnoxious inner dialogue from the main character, designed only to irritate, and dearest "grandfa" would be like, "Authors wouldn't inflict this pain on their fans in my day".
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One Perfect Couple
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,555
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,458
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,458
Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she’s pretty sure they won’t extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren’t going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she agrees to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla finds herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, where the two of them will compete against four other couples in order to win a cash prize. But not long after they arrive, things start to go wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Modern premise
- By will33 on 05-24-24
- One Perfect Couple
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Extraordinary Narration
Reviewed: 05-30-24
Imogen Church is amazing, nailing the performance of all the many characters of this book. Crazy good.
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Local Woman Missing
- By: Mary Kubica
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,827
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,468
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 29,424
Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not long after, Meredith Dickey and her six-year-old daughter, Delilah, vanish just blocks away from where Shelby was last seen, striking fear into their once-peaceful community. Are these incidents connected? After an elusive search that yields more questions than answers, the case eventually goes cold. Now, 11 years later, Delilah shockingly returns. Everyone wants to know what happened to her, but no one is prepared for what they'll find....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Kubica yet!!!
- By LA book lover on 05-18-21
- Local Woman Missing
- By: Mary Kubica
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Jennifer Jill Araya, Gary Tiedemann, Jesse Vilinsky
Felt like a PSA. Silly twists.
Reviewed: 05-22-24
I felt like I purchased a PSA or Facts Pamphlet on mis-attended mothers-to-be. While the information was welcome, I was consistently begging for any sort of plot advancement in each chapter after the opening. "Twists" occurred, but they were really just revelations that the author had initially lied about things. Well-performed, though.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16,085
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,407
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Story4 out of 5 stars 14,356
Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, and gray skies fall.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hours and hours of tired...
- By ROBIN on 07-28-16
- The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Great Narrator, Meh Protagonist.
Reviewed: 05-07-24
The main character does the worst possible thing at every turn, so much so, that I started to root against her. __Self-proclaimed__ "stupid" actions, over and over and over, ad nauseum...
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On a Quiet Street
- By: Seraphina Nova Glass
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,719
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,493
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,480
The perfect neighborhood can be the perfect place to hide… Who wouldn’t want to live in Brighton Hills? This exclusive community on the Oregon coast is the perfect mix of luxury and natural beauty. Stunning houses nestle beneath mighty Douglas firs, and lush backyards roll down to the lakefront. It’s the kind of place where neighbors look out for one another. Sometimes a little too closely…
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2 out of 5 stars
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Minority opinion
- By Sheila S on 06-19-22
- On a Quiet Street
- By: Seraphina Nova Glass
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Not What I Signed Up For
Reviewed: 04-28-24
It was touted as a psychological thriller - perfect for fans of Foley and Ware. But it just wound up being a Soap Opera. Fine if you like that sort of thing. I had no problems with the narration.
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The Paradox Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Rob Hart
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 235
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Story4 out of 5 stars 235
Not that running security at the Paradox was ever really easy. Nothing’s simple at a hotel where the ultra-wealthy tourists arrive costumed for a dozen different time periods, all eagerly waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. Or where proximity to the timeport makes the clocks run backward on occasion—and, rumor has it, allows ghosts to stroll the halls.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Sure I'll Guard Your Timestream
- By Charles Elmore on 03-01-22
- The Paradox Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Rob Hart
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Tone-Heavy
Reviewed: 04-12-24
If someone on the far right, wanted to write a book as a characterization of how someone on the far left would write a sci-fi book, this is what might emerge.
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Chaos Terminal
- The Midsolar Murders, Book 2
- By: Mur Lafferty
- Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her—and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.)
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3 out of 5 stars
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May not be for you, even if you liked Mur's other works.
- By Anonymous User on 02-19-24
- Chaos Terminal
- The Midsolar Murders, Book 2
- By: Mur Lafferty
- Narrated by: Kelsey Navarro Foster
May not be for you, even if you liked Mur's other works.
Reviewed: 02-19-24
The intense intrigue of the previous novel is replaced by a focus on romantic issues, and the novel gives us little in the way of depth for the Station's previously introduced characters. Regarding the narration - most lines are delivered with a kind of breezy sarcasm - that style is not my cup of tea.
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