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Beautifully Unexpected
- By: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 256
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 236
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Story5 out of 5 stars 235
Magnus Carlsen is determined to grow old disgracefully. At 52, he doesn’t believe in keeping anything. Men, sofas, books—everything gets jettisoned, eventually. He’s divided his life into happy compartments. A successful trial lawyer, he spends his days lecturing jurors, exasperating judges, and striding arrogantly around courtrooms. He fills his nights with a parade of handsome young men who want to make him happy. Why date someone his own age to discuss back pain, retirement planning, and corns when he can date men who don’t care to discuss anything at all?
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5 out of 5 stars
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what a lovely tale.
- By Trarv211 on 07-18-22
- Beautifully Unexpected
- By: Lily Morton
- Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Witty and Beautiful
Reviewed: 08-02-22
This book is witty, snarky and beautiful. The humor is so amazingly intelligent and adult and far from the juvenile low brow humor of so many books today. It is a breath of fresh air and the performance by Joel Leslie matches the book perfectly. I so love this.
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Tide of Tricks
- Shadows of London Series, Book 2
- By: Ariana Nash
- Narrated by: Cornell Collins
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 124
Reeling from recent revelations and forced to lie for Kempthorne, the unthinkable happens: Dom fails the latent competency test. One more strike and he'll be deemed unstable, have his registration stripped, and the life he's come to love at Kempthorne & Co will be over.
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5 out of 5 stars
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CHAPTER 21
- By Nalubega Asuman Shamilah on 06-11-24
- Tide of Tricks
- Shadows of London Series, Book 2
- By: Ariana Nash
- Narrated by: Cornell Collins
Latents=Mutants?
Reviewed: 06-19-22
Let me start with how much I enjoyed this book, both reading it and listening to it. It was attention grabbing and the story just kept building in a way that made me realize the whole series would be a keeper. Dom is one of those characters that makes you want only good things for him even though you know he's gonna have to bleed for it. He's a story of redemption, a guy from the wrong side of the tracks who did bad things in his past but is trying to make up for it. He has the classic Black Widow line of "red in his ledger" that he's trying to eradicate.
Dom's boss Kempthorne is cool and enigmatic, a bit of an asshole and the guy every reader wants to know more about. You just know there are so many secrets this guy has that he has to be Dom's love interest. Or is he? Because Dom seems to be attracted to the boy next door cowboy American Kage, not Kempthorne. Hmmmn...
The possible romance triangle is only one layer to this story. The others are about latents and artifacts and things Kempthorne is hiding and Dom's past and...
It's all very twisted and delicious and reminds me a bit of the X-Men. After all latents are mutants really. And Dom is like a British version of Gambit, a guy with charged playing cards who came from a New Orleans thieves gang. Dom came from an East End criminal gang and there's his trick, a pack of cards. Now, whether Kempthorne or Kage turns out to be Dom's Rogue, I'm sure that will come out in subsequent books.
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