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I Am Not a Serial Killer
- John Cleaver, Book 1
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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John works in his family's mortuary and has an obsession with serial killers. He wants to be a good person but fears he is a sociopath, and for years he has suppressed his dark side through a strict system of rules designed to mimic "normal" behavior. Then a demon begins stalking his small town and killing people one by one, and John is forced to give in to his darker nature in order to save them.
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Great, if visceral book, terrible narrator.
- By Digital Prophet on 03-31-10
- I Am Not a Serial Killer
- John Cleaver, Book 1
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
Combo of ok writing but sub-par narration
Reviewed: 01-09-15
I read the other reviews - I was warned. But I listened to a sample and thought, "The narrator isn't bad. I'll give it a shot."
Yeah, I should have heeded their advice. The narrator starts out as tolerable, but it just wore me down the further I got into the book. And while the subject of the book is interesting, the writing isn't enough to entice me to finish the book. When you're wincing at the thought of listening again, that's not a good sign.
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The Rising
- By: Brian Keene
- Narrated by: Peter Delloro
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Nothing stays dead for long. The dead are returning to life, intelligent, determined...and very hungry. Trapped by the undead, escape seems impossible for Jim Thurmond. But Jim’s young son is alive and in dire peril hundreds of miles away. Despite overwhelming odds, Jim vows to find him—or die trying. Joined by an elderly preacher, a guilt-ridden scientist, and a determined ex-prostitute, Jim embarks on a cross-country rescue mission.
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You'll either love it or hate it. I love it!
- By Chris on 01-05-11
- The Rising
- By: Brian Keene
- Narrated by: Peter Delloro
Interesting origin story but ...
Reviewed: 12-13-14
First, I will say that this is an interesting slant on the standard zombie apocalypse. But that's that last bit of positive feeling I have for this book. I've read a fair number of apocalypse novels but the level of violence directed against female characters was significant to the point that I'm still bothered by it about a month after listening to this.
Hold up now. I know what you're going to say. "It's a book about the apocalypse. It's supposed to show humankind breaking down to the cesspool we crawled out of." Sure. I get that. And again, I read a lot of books like this. I'm not coming at this review from a void.
Over and over again, women are subjected to beatings, rapes and imprisonment. The pretty ones are put in a "meat wagon" where they are sexually assaulted pretty much on a continuous basis. At one point, the main female character coaches the women on how to endure the rape and then kills another woman imprisoned with them within a few pages.
And the frequency of this abuse to all the women characters is what really heats up my irritation. Frankly, it feels a bit personal - as if the author has a real hatred against women and is using the book to work that out.
If you listen to you, you can make up your own mind how you feel about it overall and this specific issue. But I prefer a book that presents women as complex characters as opposed to 2-D meat bags designed for punishment.
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Two Ravens and One Crow
- An Iron Druid Chronicles Novella
- By: Kevin Hearne
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Two-thousand-year-old Atticus may have outwitted and outfought everyone from Odin to Bacchus, but in this eBook original, he’s about to discover what comes around when you go around messing with gods. Six years into the training of his beautiful apprentice, Granuaile, a large crow swoops down and transforms into none other than the Morrigan, a goddess who insists that Atticus come with her at once. He must leave his apprentice behind, along with his Irish wolfhound, Oberon - and he must also leave his sword.
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worth the price? Maybe not on audible..
- By breckoz on 10-28-12
- Two Ravens and One Crow
- An Iron Druid Chronicles Novella
- By: Kevin Hearne
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
This is a great series
Reviewed: 10-01-12
I've really enjoyed this entire series. The content is fresh and interesting and it's very well written and performed. The dog stuff gets a little too cutsey sometimes but that's a very small part of a fantastic book.
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The White Devil
- By: Justin Evans
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between his son and his troubled past in the States. But trouble - and danger - seem to follow Andrew. When one of his schoolmates and friends dies mysteriously of a severe pulmonary illness, Andrew is blamed and is soon an outcast....
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Eerie tale, well read
- By MJ on 12-21-11
- The White Devil
- By: Justin Evans
- Narrated by: Christian Coulson
Eerie tale, well read
Reviewed: 12-21-11
ffffooooooooorrrrrraaakkkkkkk
I'm walking the dog in broad daylight, listening to the book and when the narrator makes this sound - the sound of the antagonist's labored breathing - I stop, hunch up and start looking over my shoulder. Wonderfully eerie, adept job of narration with one of the best American accents I've heard from a British narrator. The book serves up some serious suspense, with an amazingly creepy scene (where a female character is infected with - oh wait - better not spoil the plot for you) that still disturbs me when I inadvertently remember it.
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Buried Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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A house demolition provides an unpleasant surprise for Minneapolis - the bodies of two girls, wrapped in plastic. It looks like they've been there a long time. Lucas Davenport knows exactly how long.In 1985, Davenport was a young cop with a reputation for recklessness, and the girls' disappearance was a big deal. His bosses ultimately declared the case closed, but he never agreed with that. Now that he has a chance to investigate it all over again, one thing is becoming increasingly clear: It wasn't just the bodies that were buried. It was the truth.
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This is my "Prayer Review"
- By Dave Staats on 05-17-11
- Buried Prey
- By: John Sandford
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
Welcome back, Lucas!
Reviewed: 06-05-11
Extremely well written, narrated and produced. I took longer walks and drives to hear more. I've been reading this series for ages. However, the ones of late seemed a bit (I hate to say this but) stale. This book revitalizes the series and gives you back that whole ticking time bomb intensity.
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