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Iron Gold
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, and others
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten years after the events of Morning Star, Darrow and the Rising are battling the remaining Gold loyalist forces and are closer than ever to abolishing the color-coded caste system of Society for good. But new foes will emerge from the shadows to threaten the imperfect victory Darrow and his friends have earned. Pierce Brown expands the size and scope of his impressive Red Rising universe with new characters, enemies, and conflicts among the stars.
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Narration Ruined the amazing series
- By Geoffrey Davis on 03-24-18
- Iron Gold
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds, John Curless, Julian Elfer, Aedin Moloney
well written but boring
Reviewed: 03-22-25
Narration was bad as already mentioned. I can't help but wonder if the stories would have been better if they had been consecutive. it just doesn't make any sense to break them up the way that he did. No pizzazz in this book.
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House of Frank
- By: Kay Synclaire
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 11 hrs
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Powerless witch Saika is ready to enact her sister's final request: to plant her remains at the famed Ash Gardens. When Saika arrives at the always-stormy sanctuary, she is welcomed by its owner, an enormous, knit-cardiganed mythical beast named Frank, who offers her a role as one of the estate's caretakers. Overcome with grief, Saika accepts, desperate to put off her final farewell to her sister. But the work requires a witch with intrinsic power, and Saika's been disconnected from her magic since her sister's death two years prior.
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A little bittersweet
- By Nissa on 11-14-24
- House of Frank
- By: Kay Synclaire
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Beautifully written and voiced
Reviewed: 11-14-24
This is such a beautiful idea and original. very refreshing characters, magic rules and setting.
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The Wind Thief
- Vanished, Book 4
- By: B. B. Griffith
- Narrated by: Ryan McCarthy, Michael Crouch, Kirsten Leigh, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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A dark wind gathers on Chaco Navajo reservation, deep in the heart of New Mexico. Grant Romer, the Keeper of the secret bell, can feel it pulling at his soul. Caroline and Owen work as hard as they can to treat the Navajo, but the dark wind brings a desperation to their clinic that is beyond western medicine.
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Great Continuation of Series
- By Raynella Fontenot on 03-14-25
- The Wind Thief
- Vanished, Book 4
- By: B. B. Griffith
- Narrated by: Ryan McCarthy, Michael Crouch, Kirsten Leigh, Kyla Garcia, Paul Coffey
it's okay
Reviewed: 09-30-24
This definitely feels like a Navajo story written by a non-native person. I like the concept tho.
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Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
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Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he spends his life willingly, knowing that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children. But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and sprawling parks spread across the planet.
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HUMANS ARE ALWAY NEGOTIATING,
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-30-15
- Red Rising
- By: Pierce Brown
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
long narration pauses ruin the book
Reviewed: 09-23-24
at first I thought I didn't like the book, then I thought I didn't like the accent of the narrator, then I realized it's the long pauses between phrases. sometimes the pause is as much as 2 seconds between phrases that a person says. most of the time it's a full second or a second and a half but a lot of times it's a full 2 seconds in between. It's maddening because you can't speed up the narration to get rid of it because it's still the same ratio of sudden stopping silence to words. sometimes it was for me to understand context because the hard stops were so disorienting. It's very similar to how AI forms sentences or very similar to when somebody cuts and pastes audio.
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The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to Baghdad
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
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The Man in the Brown Suit is Agatha Christie at her best, as a young woman makes a dangerous decision to investigate a shocking “accidental” death she witnesses at a London tube station. In Agatha Christie’s classic crime adventure novel, They Came to Baghdad, a bright young adventure seeker in the Middle East finds more excitement than she bargained for when a wounded spy expires in her hotel room.
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Agatha Christie and Emilia Fox are Fantastic!
- By Jane Ross on 05-13-23
- The Man in the Brown Suit & They Came to Baghdad
- Two Bestselling Agatha Christie Novels in One Great Audiobook
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
I would love to hear more stories about Victoria Jones
Reviewed: 02-04-24
both stories for great but I absolutely adored they came from Baghdad. it's probably one of my new favorites by Agatha Christie.
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The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: The cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, and gray skies fall.
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Hours and hours of tired...
- By ROBIN on 07-28-16
- The Woman in Cabin 10
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
Lo was definitely the low in this book
Reviewed: 09-29-23
Book review of "The Woman in Cabin 10"
The book is well written which is what kept me reading, but the main character is just so dang annoying. I will preface this with saying that I'm tired of reading about skittish, reactive women. I understand that writers write what they know, but these characters are a constant reminder of how much it sucks to be a woman and I don't need a reminder. That being said, I really felt like I knew Lo, I kept getting exasperated when she made the wrong decision (which was often), and I felt a sense of responsibility for her, like she really was someone I care about, even if I don't really like her. I cannot overstate how impressed I am with Ruth's ability to make me care about an annoying character like she's my friend or my sister.
Mystery/Thriller is my favorite genre but this is my first Ruth Ware book and I will likely pick up a couple more. Ruth does a good job of setting the scene, and the pacing felt right. The twist was a good one, I had some theories, but none of them were very close.
But, also it felt very contrived. An entire boat of press and wealthy people not having internet for a week is lazy, especially since no-one really cared that the network was down that long. Also, Ruth glossed over how nobody noticed that a primary character was missing for several days. She adds a bit at the end that one person was a little worried, but that just doesn't satisfy.
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The Bullet That Missed
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 3
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman, Steph McGovern
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.
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When the second book came out I was worried
- By Foralark on 09-20-22
- The Bullet That Missed
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 3
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman, Steph McGovern
still of the characters but not the narration
Reviewed: 09-29-23
I agree with all the people who don't like The whispering. I don't care who narrates it just don't whisper.
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The Last Devil to Die
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 4
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Shocking news reaches them—an old friend has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing. The gang's search leads them into the antiques business, where the tricks of the trade are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust.
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Great story which needs the original narrator
- By Jane on 09-22-23
- The Last Devil to Die
- A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 4
- By: Richard Osman
- Narrated by: Fiona Shaw
I was hoping for less whispering
Reviewed: 09-29-23
I absolutely love this series, it is so well written and it really captures my attention. The characters are fantastic and believable even though when you really think about it they really shouldn't be. The narration though, oh man, I really cannot stand that whispering. I feel like the narrator must be using a fake voice, but I bet she has a fantastic voice. There were several parts where if two people were talking to each other she would get the voices mixed up, and she doesn't overdo the accents, but it's noticeable. That made it hard to follow in a couple places.
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A Murder of Crows
- Nell Ward, Book 1
- By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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In the sleepy village of Cookingdean, Dr Nell Ward is busy working in the grounds of a local manor house. Whilst inspecting an old tunnel, she did not expect to overhear a murder. As the only person with any clues as to what happened, Nell soon finds herself in the middle of the investigation. Desperate to clear her name Nell, along with her colleague Adam, set out solving the murder using their skills as ecologists to uncover details no one else would notice. But it soon becomes clear that playing Agatha Christie is much harder than it might, at first appear.
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Fun overall
- By Kim Kelly on 01-29-23
- A Murder of Crows
- Nell Ward, Book 1
- By: Sarah Yarwood-Lovett
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Only an hour in and it's already ridiculous.
Reviewed: 09-29-23
I cannot stop rolling my eyes. I'm about an hour in and I decided to stop to read some reviews to see if it gets any better. Which I should have done in the first place, but I listened to the sample and the narration was so good and the description was so good. This is just beyond unbelievable though. 15 minutes into the book the perfect most handsome detective meets what essentially boils down to the Tomb Raider, but she is already in love with some gorgeous Indian who's a freaking genius. The Tomb Raider main character is a gorgeous athletic doctor who happens to also be a "lady", as in, landed nobility. It's like the author tried to pack in as many cool references as she could possibly pack in. She overdoes it with the ecology references to give the book an air of intelligence, but then uses a racing bike and knee drags on country roads to avoid traffic? Also, the dog fighting ring reference was just silly. I don't even know if there is a story under all these cringy references. It's like a someone saw Tomb Raider and the Responder and thought I'm going to write a mashup book. It reads more like a character sheet from dungeons & dragons where it's really important to have all of your characters information known up front. It's quite jarring. Where is the mystery in that? I prefer to let the character's dialogue and behavior tell me who they are. I'm not a big fan of the author telling me what to think of a character as soon as they're introduced. This would work in campy detective noir novels because that's what you're going in for, but a cozy mystery should have a comfy aspect to it. This is not cozy, and I would be surprised if it's a mystery.
Considering in the first hour everything you need to know about the book is pretty evident, the pacing of this book must be a nightmare. The real mystery here is what could you possibly spend the the rest of the book on? I'm going to leave it for a while.
I would not recommend this to people who enjoy Agatha Christie and Thursday Murder Club because it lacks any nuance.
The narrator was actually fantastic though.
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Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down. Meanwhile, mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But they are also harboring a shocking, unholy secret.
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Investigations in the time of Covid
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-05-23
- Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
I am a leftist and this is not the same Holly.
Reviewed: 09-21-23
The book is a little disappointing. I align politically with it, so that's not my disappointment. I had pre-ordered the book because Holly Gibney has been my favorite literary character for a while, so a book entirely about her (with her name on the cover even!) I was so excited. I liked the book, but the main character doesn't feel the same. I like this character too, but I craved the Holly I was originally introduced to. At first I thought I was unhappy with the narrator but I read the paperback of Finders Keepers and the Outsider so I'm not especially attached to a particular narrator. Instead I think my disappointment is that Holly is so suddenly doing much better with her mental health and I didn't get to join her on her journey. She was a very different person in this last book.
I really wanted to sit and watch the Judge show with her, and eat the mini snickers during the commercials. I loved sharing the feeling of needing a cigarette but reaching into my imaginary pocket to pop out nicotine gum. I've never smoked a day in my life, but I could still relate. I'm happy for Holly, because even if she's smoking again her mental health seems to have changed for the net positive, but I really regret not getting to share the memories of her growth. I'm not entitled to anything, so I'm not mad, but this is a fictitious character, so I'm not guilty about my feelings either.
I like the book, but now it's just entertainment again instead of the happy reunion with a beloved friend. I know it’s a lot to expect, but the first books with her in them set that standard.
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