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Tears of Liscor
- The Wandering Inn, Book 9
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 45 hrs and 21 mins
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The rains have halted, and all that’s left is mud. Mud...and the tracks of the Goblin Lord’s army. They have finally come to Liscor, pursued by Tyrion Veltras and his forces. In their path lies The Wandering Inn. Erin Solstice will have to find a way to survive the coming conflict, and save her friends. The question is: at what cost?
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The Wandering Inn always delivers!
- By Chris on 04-25-23
- Tears of Liscor
- The Wandering Inn, Book 9
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
Very Sad
Reviewed: 09-29-23
**Spoiler***
Long term characters don’t make it. Very Sad. This is in many ways a culmination.
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The Cartography of Sudden Death
- A Tor.Com Original
- By: Charlie Jane Anders
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
- Length: 45 mins
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Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex....
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Excellent story should be a novel
- By fightingblindly on 04-20-23
- The Cartography of Sudden Death
- A Tor.Com Original
- By: Charlie Jane Anders
- Narrated by: Imani Jade Powers
Excellent story should be a novel
Reviewed: 04-20-23
Incredible book. Narrator is great. Story is novel and interesting. Should be a novel instead of just a story.
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Blood of Liscor
- The Wandering Inn, Book 8
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 43 hrs
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Of course, if there were only one thing under Liscor, there would be far less to fear. However, the dungeon continues to be a threat. At the same time, Goblins continue to roam northern Izril, but not all of them are as hostile to people as Tremborag or the Goblin Lord. Will the Unseen Emperor of Riverfarm make that distinction, however? A reckoning is coming as old faces and new reemerge. And all the while, The Wandering Inn is still serving food and respite and even plays to adventurers and Antinium alike. But something is coming from the dungeons. And it—they—are hungry.
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wonderful Series
- By Gramma on 11-25-22
- Blood of Liscor
- The Wandering Inn, Book 8
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
best book since book 5
Reviewed: 02-21-23
The last two books before this were good but the worst in the series. This one was awesome. It involved so many of the characters that have been introduced since the beginning and was just great. We also got to see a LOT of dungeon action.
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The Stone of Farewell
- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2
- By: Tad Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
- Length: 32 hrs and 29 mins
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It is a time of darkness, dread, and ultimate testing for the realm of Osten Ard, for the wild magic and terrifying minions of the undead Sithi ruler, Ineluki the Storm King, are spreading their seemingly undefeatable evil across the kingdom. With the very land blighted by the power of Ineluki's wrath, the tattered remnants of a once-proud human army flee in search of a last sanctuary and rallying point—the Stone of Farewell, a place shrouded in mystery and ancient sorrow.
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Better than the first...
- By BigfootJedi on 01-13-20
- The Stone of Farewell
- Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Book 2
- By: Tad Williams
- Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
Great Story More action Some revelation
Reviewed: 12-07-22
This is a great story. There is more action and less lead up than the first. A lot of things are slowly being revealed. It feels like Simon is beginning to mature and we learn more about Josua and his background.
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Radioman
- By: Joe Derrick
- Narrated by: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, David Morrissey, Cathy Tyson, and others
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When a series of gruesome murders leaves a community in despair, a former local DJ decides to start a podcast and do something about it. But as his following grows, long-buried secrets from the past resurface revealing not everyone is who they truly seem....
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Gripping & well-acted!
- By Kelly on 05-19-22
- Radioman
- By: Joe Derrick
- Narrated by: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, David Morrissey, Cathy Tyson, full cast
Excellent Jobs by the Actors, twists and turns without hackiness
Reviewed: 10-19-22
Love this! One really gets a feel for the location and the local characters. Many twists and turns without it feeling hacky. Just looking through the cast you understamd that the level of acting is remarkable. This should be mini-series on Netflix or something. I’d love the same cast!
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A Master of Djinn
- A Novel
- By: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
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Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case.
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A huge let-down, 2.5 stars
- By Iben Krutt on 07-12-21
- A Master of Djinn
- A Novel
- By: P. Djèlí Clark
- Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Takes you away! Lovely attention to detail!
Reviewed: 07-24-21
First and foremost the narrator is excellent. She’s brilliant with her pronuniciatiom and differentiating characters male, female, magical and mundane. We return with the full novel sequel to the novella “A Dead Djinn in Cairo”. Just like the previous book it starts with the protagonist Fatma el-Sha'arawi, who is a special investigator with the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities wearing a dapper English suit peacocking like Hercule Poitou, investigating a murder in what we would have called Colonial Egypt. That is if it wasn’t due to the opening of a rift letting Djinn, Ifrits, Angels and other creatures from the pages of legend and scripture into the world where they were harnessed by Egypt allowing the Khedive to avoid the shackles of colonialism (don’t worry this is basically explained in the first 2 pages of the prequel). I was also impressed by the diversity in the book. It references and has characters of varying backgrounds from Coptic Christians, Sufis, Nubians, Abyssinians (Ethiopians), Mameluke Turks, and Ottoman Turks, Brits. The author did their damn research and seems to know about Egyptian and Sudanese culture from this period that parallels our real world down to foods, teas, religious philosophy, and clothing. Anyway the murder is of a wealthy British occultist and his ridiculously cultural insensitive brotherhood (think people that pick and choose randomly from cultures with no account for the living breathing folks that still live that culture and use terms for people such as as “mystical” and “exotic”)by a man claiming to be the disappeared now returned Sudanese mystic that tore the hole open in the veil allowing Djinn and magical creatures into the world. Fatma is trying to find this person and bring them to justice navigating the backstreets of Cairo encountering all kinds of magical people and creatures while occasionally swilling booze with black American expatriates fleeing Jim Crowe and playing jazz in local haunts, Copts, Ethiopians, Nubians, and Neo-Pagans returned to the Old Gods of Egypt.
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The Haunting of Tram Car 015
- By: P. Djeli Clark
- Narrated by: Julian Thomas
- Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
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Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.
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Great story, bad vocals
- By Michael Fulton on 03-06-20
- The Haunting of Tram Car 015
- By: P. Djeli Clark
- Narrated by: Julian Thomas
Decent story bad narrator. Other books in better
Reviewed: 06-18-21
It took me days to listen to this because the narrator was so bad. Even his pronunciation of English words was terrible (subtle is pronounced “suttle”). The Egyptian characters all sound the same. He reads like a jr. high kid reading out loud during English class. PLEASE READ THE OTHER BOOKS WITH AN AWEOME NARRATOR. Go list to “A Dead Djinn in Cairo” (a novella happens before this) and “Master of Djinn” (a full novel that happens after this).
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The Dwarves
- By: Markus Heitz, Sally Ann Spencer
- Narrated by: Matthew Wolf
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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For countless millennia, the dwarves of the have defended the stone gateway into Girdlegard. Many and varied foes have hurled themselves against the portal and died attempting to breach it. No man or beast has ever succeeded. Until now...Abandoned as a child, Tungdil the blacksmith labors contentedly in the land of Ionandar, the only dwarf in a kingdom of men. Although he does not want for friends, Tungdil is very much aware that he is alone - indeed, he has not so much as set eyes on another dwarf. But all that is about to change.
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Welcom to Girdlegard
- By Rhonda L. B. on 04-28-13
- The Dwarves
- By: Markus Heitz, Sally Ann Spencer
- Narrated by: Matthew Wolf
Great Book
Reviewed: 08-06-20
Traditional but not Traditional the writing was fun and rousing but I continued to get confused between the characters that are twins who had a similar name. The action was fast-paced and fun but could get a little confusing. This is meat and potatoes fantasy action. There are no barbarian warriors or pretty princesses. There are just the stalwart and proudly ugly dwarves.
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The Rage of Dragons
- By: Evan Winter
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
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The Omehi people have been fighting an unwinnable fight for almost 200 years. The lucky ones are born gifted. One in every 2,000 women has the power to call down dragons. One in every 100 men is able to magically transform himself into a bigger, stronger, faster killing machine. Everyone else is fodder, destined to fight and die in the endless war. Young, giftless Tau knows all this, but he has a plan of escape. He's going to get himself injured, get out early, and settle down to marriage, children, and land. Only, he doesn't get the chance. Those closest to him are murdered....
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It's... almost really good.
- By Chris on 01-25-20
- The Rage of Dragons
- By: Evan Winter
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
Great First book, heck great book
Reviewed: 05-07-20
This is an excellent first book. The narration is excellent and is pregnant with emotion yet startling in its control. The livid emotions of the primary character burn up the story. I’ve never felt a character’s determination, anger, and love more in any book I’ve read or listened too. The book is about an unjust society where nobles wield enormous power over lesser members of society. It’s about the indignity this causes. The titular character loses people dear to him because of this. This seems so ho him describing it here but the author burns up the page describing this. The world is obviously heavily influenced by African themes. This is a fantasy but it is not our world. It is richly drawn to painstakingly give you knowledge of the military, class, and political divisions and situation of the day although the primary character is no politician or subtle man. It’s an excellent book that describes the magic by these individuals to summon dragons, to enter what seems to be another dimension, an assail their enemies. In other words, great world building. The book is a story of refugees fleeing and colonizing a distant land only to become oppressors. However within their own society there are corrupt elites. In the young primary character we see a person wronged by those elites in the Soviet of which he is a part. I have no idea why particularly in the US reviews people don’t like this book. It very much seems to be because it departs from the tired “this is a society base on Medieval Europe” trope. Don’t listen to them and give this a try.
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