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Something in the Walls
- A Novel
- By: Daisy Pearce
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 320
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 310
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Story4 out of 5 stars 310
Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead, she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and anxiously contemplating her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. That is, until she meets journalist Sam Hunter at the grief group one day. And he has a proposition for her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mina was a very interesting, witty character.
- By Rena Torres on 04-28-25
- Something in the Walls
- A Novel
- By: Daisy Pearce
- Narrated by: Ana Clements
Excellent
Reviewed: 06-13-25
Unique story with a great ending and plenty of twists along the way. The narration was perfect. Top notch all around. This one will stick with me.
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Stranger in the Woods
- By: Anni Taylor
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,520
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21,070
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 20,992
Photographer Isla Wilson is thrilled she's landed her dream job, but the clients who hired her are getting stranger by the day. It sounded so perfect—a month's assignment at the lush Scottish Highlands property of architect Alban McGregor, and his wife, Jessica. But in the woods, there's a playhouse with a chilling history. Two years ago, the McGregors' daughter Elodie was abducted and then died in that playhouse. The townspeople insist her abductor had to be a stranger in their town. Alban refuses to knock the playhouse down, even keeping a picture of it on his wall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good book!
- By Tammy garrett on 09-13-22
- Stranger in the Woods
- By: Anni Taylor
- Narrated by: Harriet Gordon-Anderson
A Top Notch Narration of a Gripping Mystery
Reviewed: 06-01-25
Didn’t know what to expect with this one but glad I went in blind. The story is intriguing and surprising. The narrator, bouncing between at least two extremely different accents, nailed every line and brogue. Well done all around. Will be looking for more works from both author and narrator.
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Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 581
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 514
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Story4 out of 5 stars 511
As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit into her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut who has explained to her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Intriguing but disturbing
- By C. Parham on 01-01-21
- Earthlings
- A Novel
- By: Sayaka Murata
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
Smut. Undiluted smut.
Reviewed: 02-17-25
This should not be a thing. Disgusting p*do garbage. Everyone involved in this production should be ashamed of themselves. I need a shower.
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Fever House
- A Novel
- By: Keith Rosson
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 231
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 214
When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon, to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the last thing he expects to find stashed in the client’s refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces uncontrollable madness: Anyone in its proximity is overcome with a boundless compulsion for violence. Within hours, catastrophic forces are set into motion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Finished it - barely
- By Margaret Goldstein on 11-02-23
- Fever House
- A Novel
- By: Keith Rosson
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
A great story marred by a not so good narrator.
Reviewed: 01-19-25
Another amazing story I wish I’d read instead of listened to.
Narrator takes the emoting way too far to the point of being kind of silly. Hard to describe, but it’s like she’s on the cusp of fake crying 90% of the time.
Too dramatic and sorrowful for what is ultimately an action packed horror thriller.
Her voice made me sad.
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A Winter Haunting
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,000
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,745
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,742
A once-respected college professor and novelist, Dale Stewart has sabotaged his career and his marriage - and now darkness is closing in on him. In the last hours of Halloween, he has returned to the dying town of Elm Haven, his boyhood home, where he hopes to find peace in isolation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exceptionally Well Done
- By Jan on 01-05-16
- A Winter Haunting
- By: Dan Simmons
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Dan Simmons should not be around children
Reviewed: 01-03-25
The book is not good by any measure but it became unlistenable in chapter six when he refers to a 4th grader as “delectable” and a “s*x bomb”? This is unacceptable and disturbing. Dan needs help. I feel gross having listened to that.
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SLAY (The Man in Gray Book 1)
- The Slay Series, Book 1
- By: Scott Sigler, Rob Otto
- Narrated by: Scott Sigler
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 90
For millennia, a secret society known as the Bastion has protected mankind from the horrors of the Underskin—malevolent forces lurking unseen in civilization's shadows. Monsters, demons, spirits, lawyers, and Fortune-500 CEOs, the Underskin's fiends pray upon the weak. When these creatures spill blood, it falls upon the rixators—the Bastion's elite warriors—to cut them down. Armed with ancient relics and modern weaponry, altruistic rixators hold the line against chaos. But a rixator's sworn oath of poverty grinds against Lincoln's life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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John Wick meets Harry Potter
- By William Zapata on 06-19-24
- SLAY (The Man in Gray Book 1)
- The Slay Series, Book 1
- By: Scott Sigler, Rob Otto
- Narrated by: Scott Sigler
My Man Did It Again
Reviewed: 06-21-24
Best modern sci-fi audiobook productions, hands down. Narrating his own epics is just icing on the cow pie. Never not been blown away by a Sigler. Slay is some of his finest work out of a decades-long maelstrom of sci-fi/horror/crime/drama madness. Not really sure what that means but regardless you won’t be disappointed. First of five books… Buckle up.
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From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 3)
- An Audible Original
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 101
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Story5 out of 5 stars 101
Few humans in the history of civilisation have had a third series of their podcast commissioned. Fewer still have produced one that’s actually any good. Partridge Gordon Alan, or Alan Gordon Partridge to write his name the correct way round, is one of them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Getting better and better
- By LDC on 09-19-23
- From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 3)
- An Audible Original
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
Perfection
Reviewed: 03-15-24
Literally absolutely nothing to dislike and everything to like. Alan if you’re listening, I love you. In a strictly platonic way as men on the golf course might love each other after a particularly good chip onto the green.
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Black River Orchard
- A Novel
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Brittany Pressley, Sean Patrick Hopkins, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 563
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 514
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 514
It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black. Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But then your appetite for the apples and their peculiar gifts will keep growing—and become darker.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Points for originality but…
- By kisa on 11-09-23
- Black River Orchard
- A Novel
- By: Chuck Wendig
- Narrated by: Xe Sands, Brittany Pressley, Sean Patrick Hopkins, Cindy Kay, Kalani Queypo, Gabra Zackman, Victor Colomé
Annoying narration of a quite poorly written book
Reviewed: 01-09-24
Chuck is just not a good writer, no matter the topic. A subpar premise turned into an obnoxious audio experience by hammy acting and excessively dramatic voices. In trying to create realistic modern teen-speak Chuck has managed to created laughably bad c-movie dialogue which drags on for about 20 hours too long with characters that are all easier to dislike than like. Give it up Chuck you’re 0/2 in my book. I’d guess the man uses a hammer to write instead of a typewriter.
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From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 1)
- An Audible Original
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 667
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 591
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Story5 out of 5 stars 590
Broadcaster, writer, philanthroper and one of the first public figures to suggest high-visibility clothing for people manning temporary car parks, the public Alan Partridge is a cherished institution. But what of the unseen Alan? For the first time, this famously private man welcomes us into his home and audibly deshrouds himself for a fascinating series of podcasts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Simply genius
- By O. S. on 09-04-20
- From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 1)
- An Audible Original
- By: Alan Partridge
- Narrated by: Alan Partridge
Pure gold from subhuman scum
Reviewed: 08-03-22
If you know Alan partridge this Is some of his finest work. absolute bullocks. If you don’t know Alan then go back a few decades and catch up or just read this book either way you’ll enjoy it unless you’re a prude.
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Ghostbusters
- The Original Movie Novelizations Omnibus
- By: Richard Mueller, Ed Naha
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,063
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056
For the first time in a beautiful new edition, this omnibus will collect together the original official novelizations of both Ghostbusters 1 and 2.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I personally loved it.
- By brian stevens on 08-19-20
- Ghostbusters
- The Original Movie Novelizations Omnibus
- By: Richard Mueller, Ed Naha
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Makes You Appreciate How Good The Movies Were
Reviewed: 07-27-22
The novels enhanced the story considerably. I didn’t realize just how both funny and spooky the original stories were thanks to not only Ramis’ writing but also the entire cast’s execution.
Both books are near to perfect as it gets while staying true to the originals while the narration is spot on and adds significant to the experience.
Top notch you will not regret.
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