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The Ragged Edge of Night
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys, Olivia Hawker
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,030
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,575
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,568
Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage - in name only - to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too - atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Ragged Edge of Night must be made into a movie
- By M. King on 10-04-18
- The Ragged Edge of Night
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys, Olivia Hawker
Engrossing
Reviewed: 06-30-20
Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys historical fiction. Engrossing, and enlightening on a global and, more importantly, on a personal level as we see the characters’ daily lives.
As mentioned, the narrator was generally quite good, but his use of apparently Irish accents for some characters, rather than German, was so strange that it was actually a bit confusing!
In spite if this, i would highly recommend!
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The Scent Keeper
- A Novel
- By: Erica Bauermeister
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,052
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,163
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,152
Emmeline lives on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won’t explain are the mysterious scents stored in glass bottles that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world—a place of love, betrayal, ambition, and revenge. To understand her past, Emmeline must unlock the clues to her identity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful. Had to write.
- By Gretel on 02-06-20
- The Scent Keeper
- A Novel
- By: Erica Bauermeister
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Daughter recommended!
Reviewed: 06-06-20
My daughter listened to this and highly recommended it. So glad I got it, too- what a great story and performance. Narrator’s voice was perfect and I couldn’t believe how the time went by!
Definitely worth a credit!!
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Strangers in Budapest
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Keener
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story3 out of 5 stars 18
Budapest is a city of secrets, a place where everything is opaque and nothing is as it seems. It is to this enigmatic city that a young American couple, Annie and Will, move with their infant son, shortly after the fall of the Communist regime. Annie hopes to escape the ghosts from her past; Will wants to take his chance as an entrepreneur in Hungary's newly developing economy. But only a few months after moving there, they receive a secretive request from friends in the US to check up on an elderly stranger who also has recently arrived in Budapest.
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2 out of 5 stars
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- By Anonymous User on 12-21-17
- Strangers in Budapest
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Keener
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
Ok. Story but unfortunate choice of narrator
Reviewed: 01-24-18
Would you try another book from Jessica Keener and/or Amy Landon?
I would give the author another try.. I think the story itself had an interesting premise,but stopped listening because of t h e really distracting cadence of the reader.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Never got to the end.
Would you be willing to try another one of Amy Landon’s performances?
No
Was Strangers in Budapest worth the listening time?
Might have been with a different reader.
Any additional comments?
I wanted to like this book, but couldn't finish it.
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