Allison Davis
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Heartwood
- By: Amity Gaige
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Alma Cuervo, Rebecca Lowman, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
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In the heart of the Maine woods, an experienced Appalachian Trail hiker goes missing. She is forty-two-year-old Valerie Gillis, who has vanished 200 miles from her final destination. Alone in the wilderness, Valerie pours her thoughts into fractured, poetic letters to her mother as she battles the elements and struggles to keep hoping. At the heart of the investigation is Beverly, the determined Maine State Game Warden tasked with finding Valerie, who leads the search on the ground.
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The suspense
- By Amy B. McVey on 04-11-25
- Heartwood
- By: Amity Gaige
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Alma Cuervo, Rebecca Lowman, Ali Andre Ali, Cary Hite, Helen Laser
unexpectedly moving
Reviewed: 05-25-25
I loved all the different perspectives and themes - and poetry! - in what could have just a wilderness story.
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Annie Dunne
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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It is 1959 in Wicklow, Ireland, and Annie and her cousin Sarah are living and working together to keep Sarah’s small farm running. Suddenly, Annie’s young niece and nephew are left in their care. Unprepared for the chaos that two children inevitably bring, but nervously excited nonetheless, Annie finds the interruption of her normal life and her last chance at happiness complicated further by the attention being paid to Sarah by a local man with his eye on the farm.
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Splendid
- By Shady on 06-21-23
- Annie Dunne
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
beautiful writing, beautifully read.
Reviewed: 04-29-25
I loved the poetry, the simplicity, the self-awareness and heart of this imperfect woman. And the narration was perfect.
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Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
- Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
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In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark about her encounter with Milkman. But when first brother-in-law sniffs out her struggle and rumours start to swell, middle sister becomes "interesting" - the last thing she ever wanted to be. To be interesting is to be noticed, and to be noticed is dangerous. Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It is a story of inaction with enormous consequences.
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Like the writing, not the audio issues
- By Criticalthinker on 12-31-18
- Milkman
- By: Anna Burns
- Narrated by: Bríd Brennan
what a wonderful narrator!
Reviewed: 10-17-24
what a wonderful narrator! she really brought the characters to life, in all their complications.
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The Hunter
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
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It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.
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The timing and sequences. Slow pace but excellent conclusion.
- By Phyllis Silber on 03-23-24
- The Hunter
- A Novel
- By: Tana French
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
beautiful slowburn
Reviewed: 04-17-24
vivid characters, evocative setting, and a terrific narrator all drew me in right from the start. I have not yet read the prequel (the searcher) but that did not impede how thoroughly engrossing this book was.
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Dutch Threat
- By: Josh Pachter
- Narrated by: Casey Finnigan
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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All work and no play make Jack a dull boy. But when one of his professors offers to send American grad student Jack Farmer to Europe to do historical research in Amsterdam’s Begijnhof—a peaceful closed community in the heart of the bustling Dutch capital—Jack looks forward to a summer of mostly play and not much work. Then he meets Jet Schilders, an attractive young nurse who takes care of the elderly woman next door, and realizes that his summer in The Netherlands might just turn out to be even more fun than he'd hoped.
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Held my interest and had lots of twists and turns.
- By Susan Finnigan on 03-22-24
- Dutch Threat
- By: Josh Pachter
- Narrated by: Casey Finnigan
great debut novel!
Reviewed: 02-16-24
pro:
excellent at describing the setting, especially from the perspective of an outsider in Amsterdam.
the relationship at the center of the story is sweetly believable
con:
I hope that both the narrator and the editing of the narration improve as the series continues
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Old God's Time
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with. His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom’s family, his wife June, and their two children?
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Boring and self conscious
- By Leah on 06-25-23
- Old God's Time
- By: Sebastian Barry
- Narrated by: Stephen Hogan
so moving!
Reviewed: 08-14-23
this book touched me on so many levels. a beautiful meditation on love, grief, trauma, and aging.
if I could give the narration 10 stars, I would.
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Steadying the Ark
- By: Rebecca K. Jones
- Narrated by: Jen Jayden
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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While Assistant District Attorney Mack Wilson's days are devoted to arguing sex crime cases in the courtroom, her evenings are troubled by a series of disturbing incidents in her neighborhood. As the media madness swirls around her trial, evidence that an unknown stalker is watching her just a little too closely begins to mount. Mack finds herself seeking help from the one person she never thought she would-ex-girlfriend Anna Lapin.
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Nope
- By Steph M on 12-31-22
- Steadying the Ark
- By: Rebecca K. Jones
- Narrated by: Jen Jayden
meh
Reviewed: 05-16-23
Overwritten, predictable, at least one subplot line was dropped. The narration was frustratingly slow
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Misconception
- A Novella
- By: Liv Constantine
- Narrated by: Adrienne Patino Dunn, Amanda Dolan
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
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Iris Thomas thought she’d never have to see Sasha Everett again after Sasha seduced her husband and broke up their marriage in a devastating betrayal. But as luck would have it, when Iris’ stepdaughter, Molly, and Sasha’s daughter, Bailey, wind up in the same second-grade class at an elite private school in Los Angeles, they form an instant bond and force the two women back into each other’s lives. Iris wants to put the past behind her and support Molly, but as time goes on, she suspects that Sasha may be guilty of something even worse than adultery....
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I think it's was the Tom Ford T and Audi
- By Mercedes on 05-15-22
- Misconception
- A Novella
- By: Liv Constantine
- Narrated by: Adrienne Patino Dunn, Amanda Dolan
Just bad.
Reviewed: 03-23-23
I've watched Hallmark movies that were less predictable. Audible originals are usually better than this.
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The Great Believers
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
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In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico's little sister.
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A story for all time
- By Carla jo Thompson on 08-06-18
- The Great Believers
- By: Rebecca Makkai
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
wow.
Reviewed: 03-22-23
brilliant writing and beautifully drawn characters made all the more vivid by the excellent narration.
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Dead West
- The Nils Shapiro Series, Book 4
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer’s grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fiancée’s tragic death. However, that easy job becomes much more complicated once Nils arrives in Los Angeles, a disorienting place where the sunshine hides dark secrets. Nils quickly suspects that Ebben Mayer’s fiancée was murdered and that Ebben himself may have been the target.
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Not good - Narration is awful
- By Matt on 08-05-20
- Dead West
- The Nils Shapiro Series, Book 4
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
why change narrators?
Reviewed: 02-16-23
the narrator for books 1-3 was perfect. it was Midwest understatement, personified. just the slightest change in intonation reflected the different characters. any sarcasm or irony came through in the words and the timing. pinchot, however, felt the need to indicate sarcasm and cynicism, with no effort to provide continuity in characters. the female characters somehow all sounded like bad imitations of trump, of all people. and don't get me started on his attempt to "sound black" - that was even worse than the dreadful caricature of a jewish accent. it pretty much ruined the book for me.
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