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The Archive of the Forgotten
- A Novel from Hell's Library, Book 2
- By: A. J. Hackwith
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 439
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 384
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Story4 out of 5 stars 385
The Library of the Unwritten in Hell was saved from total devastation, but hundreds of potential books were destroyed. Former librarian Claire and Brevity the muse feel the loss of those stories and are trying to adjust to their new roles within the Arcane Wing and Library, respectively. But when the remains of those books begin to leak a strange ink, Claire realizes that the Library has kept secrets from Hell - and from its own librarians.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible New Narrator
- By Kristen Gugel on 10-21-20
- The Archive of the Forgotten
- A Novel from Hell's Library, Book 2
- By: A. J. Hackwith
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
CHANGE OF NARRATOR REALLY THROUGH ME OFF!!!
Reviewed: 12-13-21
CHANGE OF NARRATOR REALLY THROUGH ME OFF LIKING THIS SEQUEL!!!!!!!!!!! THE STORY WAS HARD TO FOLLOW AT SOME POINTS AS WELL!!!!
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The Diviners
- By: Libba Bray
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,226
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,990
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,988
Something dark and evil has awakened.... Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful surprise.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-27-12
- The Diviners
- By: Libba Bray
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Great First Book In A Potentially Great Series!!!!
Reviewed: 01-17-20
Great First Book In A Potentially Great Series!!!! An Awesome Introduction To A FASCINATING Alternate World!!!!! Historically Taking Place During America's Golden Age, The 1920's And Early 1930's, but before The Great Depression!
Really Excited And Curious To Continue To Listen To This Great Series!
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Romanov
- By: Nadine Brandes
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 553
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Story4 out of 5 stars 490
Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after them, and he’s hunted Romanov before. Nastya’s only chances of saving herself and her family are either to release the spell and deal with the consequences, or to enlist help from Zash, a handsome soldier who doesn’t act like the average Bolshevik. Nastya has only dabbled in magic, but it doesn’t frighten her half as much as her growing attraction to Zash.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Meh...
- By Amy cornutt on 08-01-19
- Romanov
- By: Nadine Brandes
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
GOOD NARRATOR, EXCELLENT WRITING TERRIBLE STORY!!!
Reviewed: 09-26-19
Great Narration, However, Lacking In Any Real Substantive Plot Or Through Line.
So, All-In-All, As Stated In My Header; GOOD NARRATOR, EXCELLENT WRITING TERRIBLE STORY!!!
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A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series, Book 15
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,709
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,133
It’s Gamache’s first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter of his own, he finds himself developing a profound, and perhaps unwise, empathy for her distraught father.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not My Favorite
- By Sally on 09-10-19
- A Better Man: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
- Chief Inspector Gamache/Three Pines Series, Book 15
- By: Louise Penny
- Narrated by: Robert Bathurst
BACKGROUND GAMACHE STORY GREAT, PRIMARY STORY MEH
Reviewed: 09-01-19
BACKGROUND STORY ABOUT GAMACHE WAS EXCELLENT, THE PRIMARY STORY ABOUT THE CASE AND SEARCH FOR THE REAL CULPRIT WAS JUST.....MEH!!
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Rebel Born
- Secondborn, Book 3
- By: Amy A. Bartol
- Narrated by: Kate Reinders
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 784
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 713
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Story4 out of 5 stars 712
Roselle St. Sismode is many things: victim of a conspiracy, unwilling host of an ever-evolving mind algorithm, spy for a rebel army, and heir to the Fate of Swords. As a warrior, she’s also the anticipated main event at the Secondborn Trials. When the opening ceremonies erupt in chaos, Roselle is abducted by a sadistic agent with a diabolical plan: transform Roselle into a mind-controlled assassin to topple society. But a rogue scientist has implanted Roselle with a genius technology that is far more powerful. It renders her untouchable. Faster. Stronger. And maybe immortal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This Is A Totally Different Series!!
- By Nick G. on 08-20-19
- Rebel Born
- Secondborn, Book 3
- By: Amy A. Bartol
- Narrated by: Kate Reinders
This Is A Totally Different Series!!
Reviewed: 08-20-19
This Final Book In The Trilogy Was Extremely Disappointing!! This third book seems like a totally different series was ending not the same story at all as the fist two books. The first two books of the series were extremely exciting and at the very least had the cohesiveness of a shared story and plot! This third book is totally out-of-left-field.
First off, it is extremely extremely meta and a good 2/3rds. of the book has no action, whereas the first two were action sequence after action sequence. Secondly, it seems extremely rushed towards the end or to be a bit more specific, during the series' resolution of the ongoing narrative of basically GOOD vs. EVIL. The ending seemed to me at the very least, very rushed and hastily and shoddily thrown together by the author to meet a deadline and not a natural let alone satisfying ending to a TRILOGY SERIES. I feel a lot of the minutia and slow progression that dominates the entire middle of this book could have been better edited and cut down and left more TIME for the telling of the end of this book and final battle sequence!! in fact that now occurs to me after just finishing the book, that the entire beginning and middle seem to have been put together very carefully and thoughtfully whereas the ending as I said prior seems to be rushed to meet a deadline it is very obvious that not the same care and time was taken with the end of this book as it was with writing the beginning and middle of this book, again this is just my humble opinion. Finally, the ending was extremely lackluster and anti-climactic. We as the readers definitely deserved a better ending than that!!!!!!!!!!!
If you have listened to the first two books in the series and feel a need to hear the ending to this story, I still would not suggest getting it or using a credit on it!!
VERY VERY DISAPPOINTING!!!!!!!!!!!
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Lady Helena Investigates: Book One of the Scott-De Quincy Mysteries
- By: Jane Steen
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 147
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story4 out of 5 stars 134
Sussex, 1881. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy's marriage to Sir Justin Whitcombe, three years before, gave new purpose to a life almost destroyed by the death of Lady Helena's first love. After all, shouldn't the preoccupations of a wife and hostess be sufficient to fulfill any aristocratic female's dreams? Such a shame their union wasn't blessed by children...but Lady Helena is content with her quiet country life until Sir Justin is found dead in the river overlooked by their grand baroque mansion.
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2 out of 5 stars
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False advertising
- By suzebo on 01-08-19
NOT A MYSTERY I TELL YOU, NOT A MYSTERY AT ALL!!!
Reviewed: 05-22-19
After listening to this"MYSTERY NOVEL" IN ITS ENTIRETY, I WAS EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED!!!!!!
after the main mystery being solved with three hours left in the book I knew that I had chosen it this really should be more of a book under the genre Romance! I do not want to give anything away just take my word for it I have over 400 books from audible 95% of the Mysteries!!!!!
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Forging Hephaestus
- Villains' Code Series, Book 1
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 26 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,941
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,091
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,077
Gifted with meta-human powers, Tori Rivas kept away from the limelight, preferring to work as a thief in the shadows. But when she's captured trying to rob a vault that belongs to a secret guild of villains, she's offered a hard choice: prove she has what it takes to join them or be eliminated. Apprenticed to one of the world's most powerful (and supposedly dead) villains, she is thrust into a strange world where the lines that divide superheroes and criminals are more complex than they seem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Nice Surprise with some Really Fun Characters
- By Small Mountain on 09-29-17
- Forging Hephaestus
- Villains' Code Series, Book 1
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
GREAT BOOK. CHOC-FULL OF EXCITEMENT!
Reviewed: 11-09-18
MAY SEEM LIKE A LONG AUDIOBOOK, HOWEVER EACH MINUTE IS FULL OF EXCITEMENT AND CAPTURES YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION!!!!!
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Two Dark Reigns
- Three Dark Crowns Series, Book 3
- By: Kendare Blake
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 733
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 733
Queen Katharine has waited her entire life to wear the crown. But now that she finally has it, the murmurs of dissent grow louder by the day. There’s also the alarming issue of whether or not her sisters are actually dead - or if they’re waiting in the wings to usurp the throne. Mirabella and Arsinoe are alive, but in hiding on the mainland and dealing with a nightmare of their own: being visited repeatedly by a specter they think might be the fabled Blue Queen. Though she says nothing, her rotting, bony finger pointing out to sea is clear enough: return to Fennbirn.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hurried ending
- By Stephanie Henline on 11-14-18
- Two Dark Reigns
- Three Dark Crowns Series, Book 3
- By: Kendare Blake
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
NOT A TRILOGY AFTER ALL!!!!!
Reviewed: 09-14-18
SPOILER ALERT!!!!!
Apparently, I was under the impression that this was a Trilogy Series however, as the third book approached it's not so conducive end, it was only then that I realized, that it's to be continued!!!!
Needless to say, I am quite happy with this revelation as I was a bit maudlin about the series ending. So, knowing that there is to be at least one more book in the Pseudo-Trilogy is quite exciting and fortunate for both myself, and almost certainly, for other true fans of this Great Series!!!!!
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Island of the Mad
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,205
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,101
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,101
With Mrs. Hudson gone from their lives and domestic chaos building, the last thing Mary Russell and her husband, Sherlock Holmes, need is to help an old friend with her mad and missing aunt. Lady Vivian Beaconsfield has spent most of her adult life in one asylum after another, since the loss of her brother and father in the Great War. And although her mental state seemed to be improving, she’s now disappeared after an outing from Bethlem Royal Hospital...better known as Bedlam.
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1 out of 5 stars
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As vapid as the time written about
- By Amazon Customer on 07-12-18
- Island of the Mad
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
Great Listen Narration Impeccable As Usual
Reviewed: 07-18-18
Excitement a bit under par via a view the rest of the series.
More of a laid back story with Holmes doing more of the less exciting leg work, while Russell is definitely the main protagonist in this edition.
The usual, small favor, turns into a European Jaunt to Italy during the Rule of Dictator and Facist leader Mussolini. Many things going on as usual, at the same time and as usual everything is dealt with by the end of the book and tied prettily although somewhat loosely with a bow on the top!
The usual minor and major celebrities that commonly pop up in the series are also sprinkled throughout the book for good measure!!!!
All in all a great listen and an easy one as well!!!!!
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Murder on Black Swan Lane
- By: Andrea Penrose
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,246
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,001
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,992
The Earl of Wrexford possesses a brilliant scientific mind, but boredom and pride lead him to reckless behavior. He does not suffer fools gladly. So when pompous, pious Reverend Josiah Holworthy publicly condemns him for debauchery, Wrexford unsheathes his rapier-sharp wit and strikes back. As their war of words escalates, London's most popular satirical cartoonist, A. J. Quill, skewers them both.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Tedious
- By Kathi on 10-02-17
- Murder on Black Swan Lane
- By: Andrea Penrose
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
One Banger Of A Mystery!
Reviewed: 03-28-18
Picture It: Regency England; A death of an Emotionally Complicated Husband followed years later by the murder of a prominent Celebrity Scientist.
Throw in the artists wife, a down on her luck, , artist in her own right. Since, being widowed, she it's basically living hand to mouth, and that is putting it very very mildly!! Barely able to support herself, she decides to take in two vagrant orphaned brothers, who have lived on the hard streets of Recency eraLondon.
Throw in a devilishly handsome, not to mention Wealthy, man with a TITLE and you get this great Late 1800's classic and surprisingly suspenseful by the edge of your seat mystery!!!!!
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