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Abducted
- Lizzy Gardner, Book 1
- By: T. R. Ragan
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Escaping from a madman should have been the end of her nightmare. Instead it was only the beginning...Lizzy Gardner was just seventeen when she was kidnapped by the psychopath known as Spiderman, a serial killer terrorizing her California hometown. Imprisoned and tormented for months, Lizzy narrowly escaped with her life and Spiderman vanished without a trace. But if she thought he would forget her, she was dead wrong.
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Good story but pretty disturbing torture scenes.
- By Sarah on 10-26-13
- Abducted
- Lizzy Gardner, Book 1
- By: T. R. Ragan
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
Ok, so, this was a reread
Reviewed: 01-29-25
and it was not the masterpiece I remember but it was still pretty good for a thriller, with serial killers, which I love.
I really like that we have the killer’s POV, and several POVs, presented in a way that you don’t know who they’re at times. Making the guess work really fun.
The main character is pretty cool, dealing with a lot of shit from her own time with her abductor. The romance is nice and her relationship with the other female characters, all in a way trying to survive their own dealing with bad men, with the patriarchy is really good.
Overall, a super entertaining and well written book.
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System Collapse
- The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there's something wrong with Murderbot; it isn't running within normal operational parameters.
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The (Rescue) Party Is On!
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 11-14-23
- System Collapse
- The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
The weakest of them all
Reviewed: 01-17-25
But, still a fun read. It’s interesting how much Murderbot is evolving, and being ever closer to feeling like a human. The trauma exploration on this one was the best part.
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Wind and Truth
- Book Five of the Stormlight Archive
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
- Length: 62 hrs and 48 mins
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Dalinar Kholin challenged the evil god Odium to a contest of champions with the future of Roshar on the line. The Knights Radiant have only ten days to prepare—and the sudden ascension of the crafty and ruthless Taravangian to take Odium’s place has thrown everything into disarray. Desperate fighting continues simultaneously worldwide—Adolin in Azir, Sigzil and Venli at the Shattered Plains, and Jasnah in Thaylenah. The former assassin, Szeth, must cleanse his homeland of Shinovar from the dark influence of the Unmade.
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Brandon Sanderson saldy sold out.
- By Brian on 12-18-24
- Wind and Truth
- Book Five of the Stormlight Archive
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
A worthy midpoint final
Reviewed: 01-14-25
4.75⭐️
It’s hard to put into words. Brutal and epic might be too little, but it is that. It’s not my fave or the most action packed of the five but it delivers what it promised with unexpected twists and expected losses.
There were many tears as each character reached a crucial or ending point in their arc. Kaladin and Adolin I will miss you so much!
This book contained so much information, so much setting for the future, that I will need many rereads of the Cosmere books to truly understand it all.
It’s difficult to say goodbye, for who knows how long, to Roshar, still I can’t wait for whatever is coming to the Cosmere meanwhile.
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The Scottish Boy
- By: Alex de Campi
- Narrated by: Richard Pearce
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
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1333. Edward III is at war with Scotland. Nineteen-year-old Sir Harry de Lyon yearns to prove himself and jumps at the chance when a powerful English baron, William Montagu, invites him on a secret mission with a dozen elite knights. They ride north, to a crumbling Scottish keep, capturing a feral, half-starved boy within and putting the other inhabitants to the sword. But nobody knows why the flower of English knighthood snuck over the border to capture a savage, dirty teenage boy. Montagu gives the boy to Harry as his squire, with only two rules.
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Unexpectedly wonderful
- By Salrena on 02-07-23
- The Scottish Boy
- By: Alex de Campi
- Narrated by: Richard Pearce
A surprise
Reviewed: 12-12-24
A super happy and sobbing one. What a beautiful romance, and the setting so well done.
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Network Effect
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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You know that feeling when you’re at work and you’ve had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot. Come for the pew-pew space battles, stay for the most relatable AI you’ll listen to this century.
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Pretty Good, but Downhill from the earlier stories
- By James on 05-23-20
- Network Effect
- By: Martha Wells
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
Amazing
Reviewed: 10-20-24
The more I read of Murderbot and Art and all the companions the more I love them! I could read Murderbot diaries forever!
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Sirens & Muses
- A Novel
- By: Antonia Angress
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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It’s 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarefied bubble. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old when she transfers to Wrynn as a scholarship student, but she soon finds herself adrift in an environment that prizes novelty over beauty. Complicating matters is Louisa’s unexpected attraction to her charismatic roommate, Karina Piontek, the preternaturally gifted but mercurial daughter of wealthy art collectors.
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Love the messiness! Everyone’s a mess!
- By Cierra Brown on 08-24-24
- Sirens & Muses
- A Novel
- By: Antonia Angress
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Candid and beautiful
Reviewed: 09-26-24
4.75⭐️
Absolutely loved this art immersive tale of flawed painters and artists, of young lovers, of jaded people, of life as it is for the 99 and 1%.
A meta story of art inside art.
The sapphic love story was candid and beautiful, pained and hopeful.
A coming of age, a love story, but also a great critique into the art business.
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1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
- Length: 46 hrs and 45 mins
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The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....
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WOW, WOW, WOW.
- By Amanda on 11-06-11
- 1Q84
- By: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin - translator, Philip Gabriel - translator
- Narrated by: Allison Hiroto, Marc Vietor, Mark Boyett
Quirky but great
Reviewed: 07-17-24
4.25⭐️
This is such a quirky, unusual, and long book.
It’s almost like it is about nothing, or just about the mundane daily things, of course there’s the “little people” and the “cult” but even though it seems that way, in truth, it is about greater themes, the ones hard to put in words- love, good and evil, and the choices that graze the gray line between it all.
I think the audio made it a more pleasant read, as it’s such a long, at times repetitive book.
Also, don’t look for explanations, a bow tying everything, because only one thing matters in the end, and I think that is the way it should be and, definitely, how the author saw it as well.
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The Wind Knows My Name
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Maria Liatis
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht—the night his family loses everything. As her child’s safety becomes ever harder to guarantee, Samuel’s mother secures a spot for him on a Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of clothes and his violin.
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Reminiscences of House of the Spirits; too short, underdeveloped
- By J. Mirabal on 06-08-23
- The Wind Knows My Name
- A Novel
- By: Isabel Allende, Frances Riddle - translator
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Maria Liatis
Beautiful moving story
Reviewed: 05-27-24
I found the narrative not the best but the story was otherwise really compelling, moving, and, despite the many tragedies, really beautiful and hopeful.
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Hopeless
- A Novel
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Angela Goethals
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies? Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust--and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring.
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Seems Like An X Rated YA Book- Has Promising Start
- By Wendi on 01-02-14
- Hopeless
- A Novel
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Angela Goethals
Dark and twisty and romantic
Reviewed: 04-18-24
I felt a bit disconnected from the characters, in a way their pain was just so far out and described in a way that it was hard to understand, the same with the romance, however it was very entertaining and a quick read.
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Stay with Me
- A Novel
- By: Ayobami Adebayo
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
- Length: 8 hrs
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Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: Polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage - after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures - Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time - until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife.
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Do better
- By Adetoun Kolapo on 01-29-18
- Stay with Me
- A Novel
- By: Ayobami Adebayo
- Narrated by: Adjoa Andoh
Wow
Reviewed: 03-29-24
Wow, such a complex cast of characters and story. Unforgettable, heartbreaking, and with such a unique perspective.
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