Deb Mitchell
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Presumed Guilty
- By: Scott Turow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 20 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 468
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 431
Rusty is a retired judge attempting a third act in life with a loving soon-to-be wife, Bea, with whom he shares both a restful home on an idyllic lake in the rural Midwest and a plaintive hope that this marriage will be his best, and his last. But the peace that’s taken Rusty so long to find evaporates when Bea’s young adult son, Aaron, living under their supervision while on probation for drug possession, disappears. If Aaron doesn’t return soon, he will be sent back to jail.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Too much politics
- By lovetoread on 02-02-25
- Presumed Guilty
- By: Scott Turow
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
A Decent Read
Reviewed: 03-29-25
Too long and the narrator dude is all wrong for the character, but it was a pretty good courtroom drama.
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Beautiful Ugly
- A Novel
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,149
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,073
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,073
Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is open, her phone is still there. . . but his wife has disappeared. A year later, Grady is still overcome with grief and desperate to know what happened to Abby. He can’t sleep, and he can’t write, so he travels to a tiny Scottish island to try to get his life back on track. Then he sees the impossible.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Yawn
- By Amazon Customer on 01-19-25
- Beautiful Ugly
- A Novel
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage, Tuppence Middleton
Laughably awful - even the very capable readers couldn’t save it.
Reviewed: 01-19-25
I think the author wrote this book as a dare: What’s the worst drivel you can produce that people will read and claim is surprisingly fabulous? It’s The Emperor’s New Clothes of books. No effort at continuity or editing; in fact, I suspect this is a first draft she never looked back at. Don’t waste your time.
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Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,889
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,665
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,664
They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Surprised
- By marcie on 05-25-24
- Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Finn Wittrock, Damon Daunno, Elizabeth Evans
Don’t waste your time.
Reviewed: 08-11-24
Story was boring; performances were lackluster. I’ll never understand why people love Julia Whelan so much.
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Table for Two
- Fictions
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
- Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,448
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302
Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I wish I could give six stars on all fronts
- By Rocklin D. Alling on 04-13-24
- Table for Two
- Fictions
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, J. Smith-Cameron
I adore Amor Towles!!
Reviewed: 04-20-24
I know a lot of people think Eduardo Ballerini is the GOAT, and I have often enjoyed him myself, but I didn’t here. The stories were lovely, and I especially enjoyed spending more time with Eve, but Ballerini often gave it a tone I didn’t understand. On straight narration, he’s usually very good. But he can’t do a believable accent to save his life, and at times he gets going so fast in that clipped, pretentious style, that I was distracted from the stories themselves. I adore Towles’s writing style, and I DID enjoy the stories, but I’m sure I would’ve enjoyed them more with a more subtle reader or by reading them to myself.
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Fourteen Days
- A Collaborative Novel
- By: The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 120
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4 out of 5 stars 116
Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and John Grisham to Tommy Orange and Celeste Ng.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unique and engaging - this one will stick with me.
- By Kelly on 03-14-24
- Fourteen Days
- A Collaborative Novel
- By: The Authors Guild, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Preston
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
Overwritten. Overread. Overwrought.
Reviewed: 03-04-24
I love the concept and the premise, but it was brutal to get through. I would’ve given up about halfway through, but I had to finish for a book club. (I’m actually the one who chose it!) The reader was fine on straight narration, but the voices and accents were painful. The stories tried SO HARD. I’m actually on their team when it comes to racism, misogyny, etc, but it got unbearably sanctimonious and preachy (Day 11 almost broke me). People don’t talk like that, and it was tedious to listen to. I’m exhausted … and not in a good way!
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Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,027
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,544
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,544
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth—all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Before Purchasing
- By JLDLOfficial on 08-13-22
- Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- By: Hernan Diaz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jonathan Davis, Mozhan Marnò, Orlagh Cassidy
Zzzzzzz
Reviewed: 09-10-23
The emperor isn’t wearing any clothes. There was not one moment I wasn’t bored listening to this.
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The Housemaid
- By: Sarah A. Denzil
- Narrated by: Sophie Rundle
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19,217
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17,590
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,526
It seems like the perfect job. Great wages, accommodation provided and all located within the walls of Highwood Hall, a stunning stately home owned by the Howard family. Not many little girls dream of becoming a maid, but this is an opportunity for me to get back on my feet. And for me to revisit my past....
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5 out of 5 stars
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FANTASTIC@@@!
- By Kelly on 12-23-21
- The Housemaid
- By: Sarah A. Denzil
- Narrated by: Sophie Rundle
Absolutely awful!!!
Reviewed: 05-27-23
Poor Sophie Rundle! She did a great job of reading, but even she couldn’t make this worth listening to. Overly long and laughable. It was free but still not worth it.
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Proof of Life
- A J. P. Beaumont Novel
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 641
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 572
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 571
Before he retired, J. P. Beaumont had looked forward to having his days all to himself. But too much free time doesn't suit a man used to brushing close to danger. When his longtime nemesis, retired Seattle crime reporter Maxwell Cole, dies in what's officially deemed to be an accidental fire, Beau is astonished to be dragged into the investigation at the request of none other than the deceased victim himself. In the process Beau learns that just because a long-ago case was solved doesn't mean it's over.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Please bring the other narrator back!
- By Laurel Lynn on 09-10-17
- Proof of Life
- A J. P. Beaumont Novel
- By: J. A. Jance
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
Believe the reviews!!
Reviewed: 05-14-23
Not Jance’s best, but it might’ve been tolerable with a decent reader. I think they found Harry Caray’s drunk brother sleeping under a bridge and asked him to read this. Awful doesn’t begin to describe it. It’s shocking and insulting that this clown didn’t even take the time to Google how to pronounce “Nguyen,” the most common Vietnamese last name in the planet. I could go on, but believe everyone who says it’s hideous.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 17 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45,880
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41,513
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 41,342
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Reprieve Amidst Ugly News, Relentless Negativity
- By Cathy Lindhorst on 08-27-17
- A Gentleman in Moscow
- A Novel
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
Perfection!
Reviewed: 04-27-23
I love everything about this book and performance. As soon as I finished, I started it again. Beautiful!
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I Have Some Questions for You
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, JD Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,699
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,460
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,459
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia’s death and the conviction of the school’s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers—needs—to let sleeping dogs lie.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Really?
- By cydney numnum on 03-16-23
- I Have Some Questions for You
- A Novel
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, JD Jackson
Kinda Disappointing
Reviewed: 03-30-23
I loved The Great Believers and was so excited to read this, but it let me down. The story is too long and convoluted, but the main problem is the reader, Julia Whalen. She is completely tone deaf as to what she’s reading. Like, did she even read the book before she READ the book? Does she know what’s happening in the story? She has zero nuance, and her artless voices and accents are painful to listen to. It’s literally impossible to get past her mystifyingly snooty, condescending tone and simply enjoy the book. I will never listen to anything read by her again.
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