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Victorian Psycho
- By: Virginia Feito
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 312
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 306
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Story4 out of 5 stars 306
Grim Wolds, England: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect governess—she’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But long, listless days spent within the estate’s dreary confines come with an intimate knowledge of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Pounds family—Mr. Pounds can’t keep his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Pounds takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze.
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3 out of 5 stars
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meh
- By Pamela Y. S. on 02-13-25
- Victorian Psycho
- By: Virginia Feito
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
Kinda disgusting, but I loved it
Reviewed: 05-01-25
I bought Victorian Psycho based solely off a single sentence describing this book as American Psycho but with a Victorian governess, and I was not disappointed. I loved this story so much. I love the references to some of my favorite classic stories. I'm not usually a fan of storytelling in such a disjointed manner, but it works really well here.
It's definitely not for everyone, but I know the people it is for will love it.
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When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,258
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,151
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,151
For some it’s an opportunity. For others it’s a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Buyer's Remorse
- By Amy on 03-31-25
- When the Moon Hits Your Eye
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Buyer's Remorse
Reviewed: 03-31-25
It's not bad, but I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would, and I regret spending a credit on it instead of something more enjoyable. I'm typically a fan of Scalzi's work, but this one seemed to drag. I kept waiting for it to get really good, and it never did. And while I also typically enjoy Wil Wheaton narrating Scalzi's books, it didn't work for this book. The whole thing just feels off. I wish I liked it more, and I'm really sad that I don't.
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- By: John Wiswell
- Narrated by: Carmen Rose
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 384
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 343
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 343
Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she's found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warmhearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human
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4 out of 5 stars
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Weird, but good
- By Kris Rudin on 12-08-24
- Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- By: John Wiswell
- Narrated by: Carmen Rose
A very different story
Reviewed: 12-15-24
I really love the book being from the perspective of the "monster" trying to pass as human when humans make little sense to her. I find it relatable. She loves things about humans that other humans ridicule. Beautifully written characters and a great story with lots of action and intrigue.
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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
Perfection
Reviewed: 08-06-24
I love everything about this book. It's such a cool take on the slasher genre, and it's so beautifully written. It broke my heart in ways that will stay with me forever. I will keep coming back to this one.
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Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 189
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 164
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Story5 out of 5 stars 164
So often, Africa has been depicted simplistically as a uniform land of famines and safaris, poverty and strife, stripped of all nuance. In this bold and insightful book, Dipo Faloyin offers a much-needed corrective, weaving a vibrant tapestry of stories that bring to life Africa's rich diversity, communities, and histories. Starting with an immersive description of the lively and complex urban life of Lagos, Faloyin unearths surprising truths about many African countries' colonial heritage and tells the story of the continent's struggles with democracy through seven dictatorships.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant!
- By Jane on 01-26-23
- Africa Is Not a Country
- Notes on a Bright Continent
- By: Dipo Faloyin
- Narrated by: Dipo Faloyin
A MUST READ
Reviewed: 04-20-24
I have learned so much more about the history of Africa from this one book than I was ever taught in school. This book should be required reading as a jumping off point.
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Chain Gang All Stars
- A Novel
- By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,259
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,159
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,158
Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars, the cornerstone of CAPE, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment, a highly-popular, highly-controversial, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can’t wait for more from this author!
- By Brian Sheldon on 06-04-23
- Chain Gang All Stars
- A Novel
- By: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Narrated by: Shayna Small, Aaron Goodson, Michael Crouch, Lee Osorio
I'll never forget this book
Reviewed: 03-05-24
I keep typing paragraphs and deleting them because there's nothing I can say about this book that's an adequate summary. It's an important book that many of us NEED to read. Read it.
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Dark Moon, Shallow Sea
- The Gods of Night and Day Series, Book 1
- By: David R. Slayton
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 291
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 291
When Phoebe, goddess of the moon, is killed by the knights of the sun god, Hyperion, all who follow her are branded heretics. With Phoebe gone, the souls of the dead are no longer ferried to the underworld, and instead linger on as shades who feast on the blood of the living. Raef is a child of the night. He lives in the shadows, on scraps, eking out a meager existence as a thief. But when an ornate box is sequestered in the Temple of Hyperion, the chance of a big score proves too great to resist. What he finds within propels him on an odyssey across the sea and back again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Sea Might Be Shallow, But the Story Is Not
- By Michael on 12-19-23
- Dark Moon, Shallow Sea
- The Gods of Night and Day Series, Book 1
- By: David R. Slayton
- Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
DNF
Reviewed: 02-11-24
I don't often leave books unfinished, but after only a few chapters, I was already dreading having to listen to any more. It's partly due the narrator, but even more so due to the writing. The storyline is interesting enough, but the execution is lackluster at best.
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War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
- Length: 60 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,245
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,137
War and Peace is at once an epic war chronicle and an exploration of everything that make us all human: love and hate, ambition and despair, life and death. Allow yourself to get lost in the lives of three Russian aristocratic families, whose triumphs and challenges are every bit as resonant to today’s listener as they were to original readers. Thandiwe Newton inhabits each character with such flair that it is easy to forget that you are listening to one voice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Tad Davis on 11-14-21
- War and Peace
- By: Leo Tolstoy, Louise Maude - translator, Aylmer Maude - translator
- Narrated by: Thandiwe Newton
Thandiwe Newton is the only reason I finished this
Reviewed: 02-07-24
The story is overly long, and it honestly feels like he wrote the entire thing as a foundation for the second epilogue where he argues about free will vs inevitability. It's not a bad book, but it's certainly not one of the greatest novels ever written, as it's been dubbed. I wouldn't even call it a classic. It's just old and excessively long and moralizing. I won't be recommending it to anyone.
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Life Ceremony
- Stories
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 82
With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excelente calidad
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-25
- Life Ceremony
- Stories
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller, Jeena Yi, Nancy Wu, Natalie Naudus, Eunice Wong, Pun Bandhu
Disturbingly beautiful
Reviewed: 12-20-23
Murata's style is so unique, and I always end up loving it. She is well on her way to becoming one of my all-time favorite authors.
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An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,933
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,624
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,616
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. In An Immense World, Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us.
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2 out of 5 stars
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If you’ve never read about the wonder of animal sensory capabilities this is for you
- By MediaBaron on 06-27-22
- An Immense World
- How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
- By: Ed Yong
- Narrated by: Ed Yong
Utterly Enthralling
Reviewed: 06-23-23
I love the way Ed Yong takes really complex and complicated subject matter and not only makes it easy to understand, but also makes it fascinating and fun. I will be rereading this one for sure.
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