Peter Hoffman
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Bound for Ruin
- By: Jaleigh Johnson
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Tessalynde is an ambitious young rogue who dreams of leading Faerûn’s foremost adventuring party. While the crew she’s gathered isn’t the stuff of legend yet, she’s confident her guidance can get them there.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The elegance of imagination
- By Scott Scheytt on 03-28-24
Corny and pandering
Reviewed: 05-16-24
I'm glad they're making new Forgotten Realms novels, but...
This feels like a book meant to list off all the tropes of a D&D session. Not a book meant to stand on its own. The dialogue is corny. There's very little narration of the characters' thoughts. Very little description of settings and characters to help immerse the reader. The story is fine, a little uninteresting. The cover art is cringey with the politically correct diverse adventuring party, including fat rogue (lol), looking like its a university ad.
It feels like a book written in a boardroom. The D&D people should go back to licensing fantasy that's good on its own like they did in the 90s. This just feels pandering.
I agree with the other reviewer who wrote that it feels like an anime for children.
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American Injustice
- Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
- By: David S. Rudolf
- Narrated by: David S. Rudolf, Sean Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 39
In the past thirty years alone, more than 2,800 innocent American prisoners—their combined sentences surpassing 25,000 years—have been exonerated and freed after being condemned for crimes they did not commit. Terrifyingly, this number represents only a fraction of the actual number of persons wrongfully accused and convicted over the same period.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind boggling
- By lc on 03-11-22
- American Injustice
- Inside Stories from the Underbelly of the Criminal Justice System
- By: David S. Rudolf
- Narrated by: David S. Rudolf, Sean Pratt
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Reviewed: 10-02-22
Good true crime stories about state abuse with light legal discussion. Just the right amount of smugness for a venerable criminal defense lawyer.
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Shaman
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
- Length: 15 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 554
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 506
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 507
There is Thorn, a shaman himself. He lives to pass down his wisdom and his stories - to teach those who would follow in his footsteps. There is Heather, the healer who, in many ways, holds the clan together. There is Elga, an outsider and the bringer of change. And then there is Loon, the next shaman, who is determined to find his own path. But in a world so treacherous, that journey is never simple - and where it may lead is never certain.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A strange and similar world
- By Dan Harlow on 11-17-13
- Shaman
- By: Kim Stanley Robinson
- Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
A+ Escapism
Reviewed: 08-08-22
A captivating, poignant, and persuasive imagination of prehistoric life. Bask in your immersion into an alien society. Yet reflect on the parts of human nature that are timeless.This book is 70% setting, 30% plot.
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