Brian Sells
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Monsters Mayhem and Misfits
- By: Marcus Sloss, Jack Spry
- Narrated by: Jessica Threet
- Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 397
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 397
When Josh Underwood is thrown through a wormhole and lands on an unfamiliar world, he is immediately attacked by flesh-eating worms and snarling wolves. He has one huge advantage. A ring sits on his finger, but it's no ordinary ring. It's alien tech designed to improve its host’s strength, speed, agility, durability and combat instinct. Not all boons are infinitely wondrous. This tech has to understand what Josh needs for it to evolve, and time is of the essence.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I'm two hours in and I'm suffering
- By Jason on 05-17-24
- Monsters Mayhem and Misfits
- By: Marcus Sloss, Jack Spry
- Narrated by: Jessica Threet
Just ok
Reviewed: 05-27-25
Finished the book, but just a typical teenager's harem fantasy. Ample chested, stunning women who are happy seeing their man with other ample chested, stunning women. Liked the readers anyway.
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System Warrior Omnibus: Books 1-3
- A LitRPG Progression Fantasy
- By: Shane Hammond
- Narrated by: Christopher Harbour, Mandy McCullough
- Length: 36 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
My life took a turn I never expected on the day the world ended. Suddenly forced to fight in a bloody arena by a faceless System, I find the only way to survive is to win. I’m told that ten victories in the arena will give me my freedom, but if I’m going to get there, I’ll need a crack team of hardened allies to fight with me. What I got instead was a bratty college girl with a jealousy streak, a momma’s boy roommate who now inhabits the body of a piglet, and a devastatingly gorgeous teacher whose sword is as sharp as her tongue.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Weak harem story
- By Brian Sells on 05-27-25
- System Warrior Omnibus: Books 1-3
- A LitRPG Progression Fantasy
- By: Shane Hammond
- Narrated by: Christopher Harbour, Mandy McCullough
Weak harem story
Reviewed: 05-27-25
Couldn't finish, just a teenage boy's fantasy. Pretty bad dialog during the spicy spots. Liked the readers, they just didn't have much to work with.
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NecroTek
- The Necrotek Series, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 489
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 456
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 456
Neither cosmic philosopher Lars Soren, hotshot pilot Bianca Petrescu, nor the high priestess Jessica McHugh—Lady Death herself—can say quite where in the galaxy they are. But after an experiment gone horribly wrong, one thing is clear: Asphodel Station isn’t in orbit around Jupiter any longer. Worse, the monsters that live out here—ancient eldritch beings thought only to exist in stories and nightmares—have now been alerted to Earth’s existence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Dog water
- By Michael Nelson on 08-29-24
- NecroTek
- The Necrotek Series, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Not my kind of J. Maberry story.
Reviewed: 03-14-25
This story just didn't do it for me. It started as an interesting sci-fi adventure with the characters lost in a galaxy truly far, far away. Ray Porter is excellent as always. The story becomes a mech tale with characters I didn't care about because they could die over and over again. Their battles become boring since you know it don't really mater. The last couple hours even became monotonous and a little annoying. I feel bad being negative to Mr. Maberry but any of his fans that have tastes similar to mine probably won't enjoy.
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Synthesis
- By: F.G. Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Harbour, Erin Bateman
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 62
In 2036, an eccentric billionaire funded humanity’s first trip to Mars as an ego project. That expedition made the most significant discovery in human history: proof of extraterrestrial life. The ancient alien outpost they found catapulted humanity’s knowledge of faster-than-light travel, genetic engineering, and planetary colonization forward by centuries. Almost a century later, humanity has shown that despite their use of advanced technology, some things haven’t changed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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a blend of scifi and fantasy
- By BiduscasMate on 04-08-24
- Synthesis
- By: F.G. Smith
- Narrated by: Christopher Harbour, Erin Bateman
Formulaic harem story
Reviewed: 03-11-25
Started out as in interesting sci-fi action, adventure tale then turned into an overly predictable standard harem story. A beautiful woman that loves to see her man with other women. The first love scene was like the author was still in high school and had just watched his first porn vid. Almost quit it there. Never quit a book in the middle of a sex scene. Starting to believe that the hotter the women is on the cover art, the weaker the story will be.
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Blindsighted
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,567
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,884
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,867
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation - a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Start here first...
- By Becka1310 on 02-01-18
- Blindsighted
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Couldn't finish it.
Reviewed: 01-28-25
No likeable characters. The main male in the story is a full of himself jerk who cheated on his wife. None of that maters though because he's good looking. The MC divorced him but is still stupid about him. The nice guy that keeps trying to date her is of no interest. Maybe this is purely a female fantasy story. Can't understand almost 4 1/2 stars by over 7,000 readers. I sometimes wonder if only the people that like certain books bother to write a review.
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Alien: The Cold Forge
- The Alien Series
- By: Alex White
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,373
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,994
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,984
With the failure of Hadley's Hope, Weyland-Yutani has suffered a devastating setback - the loss of the Aliens they aggressively sought to exploit. Yet there's a reason the Company has risen to the top of the food chain. True to form, they have a redundancy already in place: the facility known as "The Cold Forge". Remote station RB-232 has become their greatest asset in weaponizing the Xenomorphs. However, when Dorian Sudler is sent to RB-232 to assess their progress, he discovers that there's a spy aboard - someone who doesn't necessarily act in the company's best interests.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Why was this book called alien ?
- By Kindle Customer on 09-01-18
- Alien: The Cold Forge
- The Alien Series
- By: Alex White
- Narrated by: Michael Braun
Not even for diehard ALIEN fans.
Reviewed: 03-07-20
Nothing gets a person to writing a review like a bad book. I only forced myself to finish because it was an ALIEN story. The ALIEN story was a decent idea but was just a background for some terribly written characters that you didn't care to hear about. The main character is so overdone as the most uber a-hole that ever existed. It doesn't take long listening to the outrageous examples of how big a jerk this guy is in every way for you to just get sick of hearing about him. None of it is believable. Really, none of the characters are likeable and you end up not wanting to hear about any of them. Even if you are a diehard ALIEN fan I'd still say no.
Nothing against Michael Braun's reading. Nobody could read something this lame and make it worth listening to.
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Invisible
- By: James Patterson, David Ellis
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Kevin Collins
- Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,535
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,614
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,602
Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire. Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Totally WARPED Antagonist! Loved It...
- By shelley on 09-12-17
- Invisible
- By: James Patterson, David Ellis
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Kevin Collins
Wow did that get bad!
Reviewed: 07-21-19
The book is a decent mystery/thriller for the first 3/4 of the way then the authors must of let one's 13 year old niece finish. The last hour or two was very hard to get through. The mostly intelligent, adult writing that gets you that far is replaced by the main character leading with juvenile thoughts and actions, and a heavy helping of smarmy story lines. The intelligent, well trained, and experienced characters of the book are always out done by the thoughtless and childish actions of the main character. If you can make it to the end the sappiness there will make you groan and wonder why you went ahead and finished.
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