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Feral
- By: James DeMonaco, B. K. Evenson
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 346
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 315
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Story4 out of 5 stars 314
Allie Hilts was still in high school when a fire at a top-secret research facility released an air-borne pathogen that quickly spread to every male on the planet, killing most. Allie witnessed every man she ever knew be consumed by fearsome symptoms: scorching fevers and internal bleeding, madness and uncontrollable violence. The world crumbled around her. No man was spared, and the few survivors were irrevocably changed. They became disturbingly strong, aggressive, and ferocious. Feral.
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2 out of 5 stars
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ultimately it’s just not very good
- By Midwestbonsai on 10-11-17
- Feral
- By: James DeMonaco, B. K. Evenson
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter, Brittany Pressley, Erin Spencer, Jorjeana Marie, Hillary Huber
Would leave zero stars if possible.
Reviewed: 05-07-25
Where to start on this horrible book. The "zombies" in the book are created by a scientist adding a Y chromosome into men. This exists in nature already as Jacob's Syndrome, and it doesn't turn everyone into mindless killing machines. Most of the book takes place 3 years after the outbreak, but the women still have functional fuel and easily find supplies in their area. The camps they establish are a perfect communist society with no real infighting among the individuals. The protagonist somehow becomes a Rambo lite character even though she was just a high schooler when the outbreak happened. The entire book is just about how toxic all men/masculinity is. Avoid this at all costs.
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Victim F
- From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors
- By: Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn, Nicole Weisensee Egan
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, James Fouhey, Samantha Desz
- Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 495
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 451
In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned not to call the police or Denise would be killed, Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise, the police accused Aaron of her murder. His story, they told him, was just unbelievable. When Denise was released alive, the police turned their fire on her, dubbing her the “real-life ‘Gone Girl’” who had faked her own kidnapping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I am so saddened for you both!!
- By Anonymous. on 06-09-21
- Victim F
- From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors
- By: Denise Huskins, Aaron Quinn, Nicole Weisensee Egan
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, James Fouhey, Samantha Desz
Talk about self aggrandizing
Reviewed: 01-24-25
The authors are perfect. to hear them tell, they're absolutely amazing and everyone around them are lucky to be near them. Instead of hearing a balanced story about the events, it's highly skewed (to be expected, but not to this extent). One of the few books I couldn't finish.
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Blind Fear
- A Thriller (The Finn Thrillers, Book 3)
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 52
By day, AWOL Navy SEAL Finn is hiding out on Vieques, a tiny island paradise off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico, living in a spare room behind a seafood restaurant owned by a blind local. By night he scours the dark web, hunting for the rogue officer responsible for the crimes he is accused of committing.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An outstanding book!
- By JEFF WEST on 07-16-23
- Blind Fear
- A Thriller (The Finn Thrillers, Book 3)
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
I need to see webbs dd214
Reviewed: 06-30-24
after listening to this series, I'm only half joking when I say I need to see webbs dd214 to believe he's been in the navy. so much of this story is wrong that a new seaman would know it's laughable. read carr instead
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Blood on Their Hands
- Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
- By: Mandy Matney
- Narrated by: Mandy Matney
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 813
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 782
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Story4 out of 5 stars 782
Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local South Carolina journalist Mandy Matney had an instinct that something wasn’t right in the Lowcountry. The powerful Murdaugh dynasty had dominated rural South Carolina for generations. No one dared to cross them.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed and Very frustrating
- By Annie on 11-21-23
- Blood on Their Hands
- Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty
- By: Mandy Matney
- Narrated by: Mandy Matney
Avoid at all cost
Reviewed: 05-15-24
While the book claims to be about the murder case, it's actually about how awesome, beautiful, smart, and courageous the author is. This book is the author just patting herself on the back about how amazing she is, and oh yeah there was a murder case
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SBF
- How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy
- By: Brady Dale
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4 out of 5 stars 8
Accomplished crypto reporter Brady Dale presents an engrossing take on the spectacular and sudden implosion of FTX, Alameda Research, and their associated companies, as well as the criminal indictments of Sam Bankman-Fried and several of his associates. In the book, you'll go beyond the salacious details and tawdry gossip to grasp the real lessons to be learned from one of the most dramatic corporate failures in living memory.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible book. Wait for Michael Lewis's book
- By John Jackson on 05-25-23
- SBF
- How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy
- By: Brady Dale
- Narrated by: Ray Greenley
Terrible book. Wait for Michael Lewis's book
Reviewed: 05-25-23
Most of the book isn't about FTX. It's spent explaining what crypto and investing is in such basic terms that it's insulting. What's even worse is the author defends SBF so much
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Vostok
- By: Steve Alten
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,085
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 989
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 986
East Antarctica: the coldest, most desolate location on earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a 6,000 square mile liquid lake, over 1,000 feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life-forms long believed extinct - and an object of immense power responsible for the evolution of modern man.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Id have to say I was greatly disappointed
- By Stevie Havoc on 01-26-17
- Vostok
- By: Steve Alten
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
would give it zero stars if possiblr
Reviewed: 07-14-22
the book is terrible. the author got preachy and weird. seemed to forget that people who read this liked Meg and Loch not some new age mutliverse story
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Ranger Games
- A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
- By: Ben Blum
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 159
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 145
Alex Blum was a good kid, a popular high school hockey star from a tight-knit Colorado family. He had one goal in life: endure a brutally difficult selection program, become a US Army Ranger, and fight terrorists for his country. In the first hours of his final leave before deployment to Iraq, Alex was supposed to fly home to see his family and beloved girlfriend. Instead, he got into his car with two fellow soldiers and two strangers, drove to a local bank in Tacoma, and committed armed robbery....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time with this book!
- By Anesthetic Solutions on 09-23-17
- Ranger Games
- A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime
- By: Ben Blum
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
avoid this book
Reviewed: 06-11-22
this book is clearly written by someone who knows nothing about the military. that's usually not a bad thing, but the author is clearly biased to believe his cousin despite how ridiculous the story is. the author also tries to quote military theorists to paint his cousins crimes as understandable. but he completely misses the whole theory clausewitz and tzu mean
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Steel Fear
- A Thriller
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 635
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 558
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 558
The moment Navy SEAL sniper Finn sets foot on the USS Abraham Lincolnto hitch a ride home from the Persian Gulf, it’s clear something is deeply wrong. Leadership is weak. Morale is low. And when crew members start disappearing one by one, what at first seems like a random string of suicides soon reveals something far more sinister: There’s a serial killer on board. Suspicion falls on Finn, the newcomer to the ship. After all, he’s being sent home in disgrace, recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, but....
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-21
- Steel Fear
- A Thriller
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
wonder of webbs name is being used
Reviewed: 03-21-22
as a sailor, nothing in this book is correct. if webb actually contributed to the plot, he must have forgotten everything he saw in the navy. might be good if you know nothing of the navy
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Bullet Train
- A Novel
- By: Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa - translator
- Narrated by: Pun Bandhu
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 822
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 734
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 733
Nanao, nicknamed Ladybug - the self-proclaimed “unluckiest assassin in the world” - boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: Grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase - and they are not the only dangerous passengers onboard. Satoshi, “the Prince”, with the looks of an innocent schoolboy and the mind of a viciously cunning psychopath, is also in the mix and has history with some of the others.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The bleh outweighs the meh.
- By T James on 08-31-21
- Bullet Train
- A Novel
- By: Kotaro Isaka, Sam Malissa - translator
- Narrated by: Pun Bandhu
so annoying
Reviewed: 01-02-22
the characters in the story were extremely annoying. between the one obsessed with trains or nothing but bad luck, the story quickly falls to the wayside
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Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials
- The Real War of the Worlds
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 61
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 53
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Story4 out of 5 stars 53
Revealing his extensive research and the verifiable evidence he’s discovered, Frank Joseph presents a comprehensive military history of armed confrontations between humans and extraterrestrials in the 20th and 21st centuries. He explains how, with the development of atomic bombs and ballistic missiles, the frequency of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs increased dramatically. He documents incidents both famous and little known.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Quote-unquote
- By Mike & Tammy V on 06-18-19
- Military Encounters with Extraterrestrials
- The Real War of the Worlds
- By: Frank Joseph
- Narrated by: Andy Rick
Easily one of the worst "research" book ever done
Reviewed: 11-02-21
if not for the horrible narration job, it would be so bad that it could pass as a comedy. The research seems to be from YouTube comments and fake documents. the first chapters talk about the Tulli Papyrus which should've let me know I was in for a rough ride
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