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Stranded
- By: Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee, Shukri R. Abdi
- Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Griffin, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,027
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,974
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,974
Separated by 10 years, 3,000 miles, and the unrelenting stresses of adulthood, best friends Janet and Serena plan a 40th birthday girls’ trip to reconnect. But after a massive crash, they’re the only survivors to wash ashore on an uncharted Caribbean Island. Armed with only the clothes on their backs and zero survival skills, they fight to overcome hunger, thirst, deadly wildlife—and most terrifyingly—decades of accrued resentment. Can they find their way home, or will they kill each other first?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Get ready to Laugh
- By Lasheree McFarlane on 11-08-24
- Stranded
- By: Chris Bruno, David Howard Lee, Shukri R. Abdi
- Narrated by: Taraji P. Henson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Blake Griffin, full cast
DNF Halfway Through
Reviewed: 11-18-24
This wasn’t funny at all. Also, every single voice actor seemed to be speaking at a much higher than normal volume.
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
- Cerulean Chronicles, Book 2
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,271
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,161
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,161
Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one. He’s the headmaster of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there. Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Adjust your coziness expectations. This is heavier than the first one.
- By Anonymous User on 09-11-24
- Somewhere Beyond the Sea
- Cerulean Chronicles, Book 2
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrated by: Daniel Henning
Amazing story!
Reviewed: 09-26-24
Amazing story! Definitely a quality follow up to The House in the Cerulean Sea. The narrator did a decent job, but he was a little too extra at some parts. And he needs to learn how to pronounce gazebo. 100% recommend!
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Drop Dead
- By: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo, John Cho
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,904
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,764
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,764
Obituary writer Nadine Barbault doesn’t mind being called “Lady Death”. It suits the ice queen persona she’s cultivated to survive the fast-paced Toronto Herald. So when Nadine learns that famous (and reclusive) author Dot Voline has died, she doesn’t hesitate to run the obituary…only to discover that Dot is very much alive. Nadine’s screw-up has brought Wesley Chen of the rival Spear no end of joy—she’s been a thorn in his extremely ambitious side for years. But the renewed interest in Dot also surfaced chatter about a mysterious past scandal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartwarming
- By JENNIFER BACKUS on 08-05-24
- Drop Dead
- By: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo, John Cho
DNF
Reviewed: 08-22-24
DNF @ 54%. The main characters are childish, boring, and annoying. The only interesting character is gone with over seven hours left in the story. And HOW is such a great actor, John Cho, such a terrible narrator?!
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Last Girl Gone
- The Laura Chambers Mysteries, Book 1
- By: J. G. Hetherton
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20,961
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 19,106
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,029
Investigative journalist Laura Chambers is back in her tiny hometown of Hillsborough, North Carolina, the one place she swore never to return. Fired from The Boston Globe, her career in shambles, she reluctantly takes a job with the local paper. The work is simple, unimportant, and worst of all, boring - at least until a missing girl turns up dead, the body impeccably clean, dressed to be the picture of innocence. Years earlier, 10-year-old Patty Finch left home and never made it back. But for the people of Hillsborough, Patty was just the beginning.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Story is good but
- By jayne120 on 08-27-20
- Last Girl Gone
- The Laura Chambers Mysteries, Book 1
- By: J. G. Hetherton
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Skip this - terrible writing
Reviewed: 08-02-24
DNF @ 50%. Every. Single. Character was HORRIBLE. The MC was the worst (and obviously very poorly written by a man). The writing is terrible. The only thing that kept me for even 50% was the mystery, but even then the book was just too crappy to continue. I listened to the audio version, and the narrator wasn’t very good either— everything was read in a weird monotone voice.
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Black Heart
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 1
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,800
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,460
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,446
When Nigel Baxter, a middle-aged married banker with an unremarkable past, is found dead in the bath of a plush hotel suite, his wrists slit, it looks as if he's taken his own life. At first. But when Detective Inspector Daniel Riley is assigned to the case, he soon realises all isn't as it first appears to be. When a postmortem shows Baxter was poisoned, Riley suspects foul play. And then there's the odd addition of a teddy bear left at the crime scene....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to Love
- By Lynn on 06-06-20
- Black Heart
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 1
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
Awful story, but performance is fine.
Reviewed: 07-30-24
DNF @ 13%. The MC is unbearable and the author’s internalized misogyny is gross. Skip this one.
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The Worst of You
- By: Sarah Richards
- Narrated by: Sarah Desjardins
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,250
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 2,215
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,216
In The Worst of You, just-wed architects Timo and Nia flee a murder scene, setting in motion a chain reaction of lies and betrayals that threaten to unravel everything they have built together. Twisted and propulsive, this thriller is told from the alternating perspectives of the couple and those close to them on Williwaw Island, each with their own motive to use the outcome of the murder case to their advantage. When a huge storm sweeps up the coast, trapping everyone on tiny Williwaw Island, it’s a race against time—and the elements — to stop the murderer from striking again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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So much idiosyncrasies
- By Nel on 05-28-24
- The Worst of You
- By: Sarah Richards
- Narrated by: Sarah Desjardins
Terrible story
Reviewed: 07-26-24
Highly unlikable characters and poor writing. The narrator was okay, but very flat. There also wasn’t really a difference between most voices.
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Influencer
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Isabela Merced, Christopher Briney, Brittany Pressley
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,760
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,698
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,697
Aaron Fortin is new in town. He drives a brand-new Acura—a gift from his parents for uprooting him in the middle of senior year. Showing up on his first day at the local public school in that nice of a car? He knows he’ll never blend in, and he doesn’t care to try. The car, the new-kid mystique, he can use all that.... Crystal Giordano carpools to the same school in her friend Trevor’s beat-up van. In the van along with Crystal and Trevor are Paul, Harmony, and Gayle. Crystal’s technically part of their misfit group, but most of the time, she feels like she’s the only one who doesn’t fit.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It is BINGE WORTHY!
- By Bbecca_marie on 11-03-23
- Influencer
- By: Adam Cesare
- Narrated by: Isabela Merced, Christopher Briney, Brittany Pressley
Terrible Performances, Awful Writing
Reviewed: 02-10-24
I DNF's this at about 2 hours in. Both main narrators are awful and the story is poorly written. Cesare writes like a teenage boy writing a teen girl's perspective.
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Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus
- By: R. L. LaFevers
- Narrated by: Charlotte Parry
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 170
Being able to detect black magic isnt all tea and crumpetsand for Theodosia Throckmorton, it can be a decidedly tricky business! When Sticky Will drags Theo to a magic show featuring the Great Awi Bubu, she quickly senses there is more to the magician than he lets on, setting in motion a chain of events she never could have bargained for.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book
- By Moonlighter on 02-20-13
- Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus
- By: R. L. LaFevers
- Narrated by: Charlotte Parry
Great Story, Awful Narrator (Strange Sounds)
Reviewed: 10-06-23
This book is excellent and I highly recommend it. I’d even say it’s the best so far in the series. The issue, however, is the narrator.
She’s usually fantastic, but there must have been something wrong with her when recording this. About every thirty seconds or so she would, between lines, make a loud squelching/gulping noise as if she were trying to create saliva. It was incredibly distracting and almost ruined the book.
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See How They Run
- A Novella
- By: Rachel Howzell Hall
- Narrated by: Imani Parks
- Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 8,557
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7,913
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 7,885
Still mourning the death of her own fiancée, Lauren Hudson must put on a brave face for her family as they gather in Zion National Park for her brother’s wedding. He’s co-founded a “glamping” (glamorous camping) start-up with Sadie, the soon-to-be bride whom the rest of the Hudsons have yet to meet, and they’re hosting their small destination wedding for their nearest and dearest right on their own campgrounds.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Stereotyping
- By Anonymous User on 04-11-22
- See How They Run
- A Novella
- By: Rachel Howzell Hall
- Narrated by: Imani Parks
Don’t Waste Your Time
Reviewed: 04-17-23
The story is terribly written and the narrator is awful. She reads the story with almost no emotion, has barely any differentiation between voices, and mispronounces words. The plot is ridiculous, predictable, and, quite frankly, stupid. Save yourself almost 3 hours and skip this.
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The Guilty Dead
- A Monkeewrench Novel, Book 9
- By: P. J. Tracy
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 380
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 350
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 350
Gregory Norwood is Minnesota's most beloved philanthropist, and the story of his son's overdose was splashed across the front page of all the papers. When a photojournalist sets out to get a candid shot of the highly successful businessman on the one-year anniversary of his son's death, he's shocked to find Norwood dead with a smoking gun in his hand. The city is devastated, and Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are called in to handle the delicate case. It should be open and shut, but something is not right. Norwood's death is no suicide.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Who is this narrator?
- By TL on 09-20-18
- The Guilty Dead
- A Monkeewrench Novel, Book 9
- By: P. J. Tracy
- Narrated by: Sarah Borges
The Novel ROCKS, But the Narrator Ruins It
Reviewed: 03-29-19
I LOVE this novel. I adore everything P.J. Tracy writes, but especially this one. This novel combines her usual Monkeewrench tech prowess with good police work. There is a terrorism sub plot along with a murder mystery. If you haven’t read/listened to the others in the series you may be a bit lost, but it can still be good on its own as Tracy gives enough backstory for the characters. It is phenomenally written and is an absolute MUST READ.
That being said, this narrator SUCKS. She is just plainly AWFUL. Half of her voices sound identical. For example, when you’re trying to differentiate between speakers in a conversation it’s easy to get lost.
Also, her voice for Gino is just terrible. It’s like someone googled “How to Speak Minnesotan” (true, but also a joke for long time readers) and spoken like that.
She also mispronounces MANY words. And I don’t mean colloquial mispronunciations. She literally mispronounces words. The one that comes to mind right now is ‘nefarious.’ She literally pronounces it “nef-er-ous.” And when she says ‘hovering’ she says “ha-overing.” I’ve found many more in my listen, but those stwo stick out the most.
While this novel is NOT to be missed, you’d do better to read the novel. This speaker ruins the book.
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