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Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
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They were madly in love. The perfect couple. That was the story everyone in South River believed...until Gin Talcott and Adam Archer are found shot in their bed. Adam is dead at the scene. Gin is fighting for her life. Detectives Greta Jessup and Finn Pate are assigned to the case. Greta has a long history with Gin’s first husband, Eddie, and is determined to protect his 18-year-old twins. Piper discovered the bodies. Daniel is missing—and so is Adam’s gun.
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Surprised
- By marcie on 05-25-24
- Mad Love
- By: Wendy Walker
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan, Alexis Bledel, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Finn Wittrock, Damon Daunno, Elizabeth Evans
Annoying cast, upset the dog lol
Reviewed: 06-22-24
These "acting cast" performances are not my jam. I like a narrated audiobook. The overacting in this one (guy yelling and whining) upset my dog so much I had to bail on it.
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Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
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When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency, hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly Gibney is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just passed away. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny’s desperate voice makes it impossible to turn her down. Meanwhile, mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. But they are also harboring a shocking, unholy secret.
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Investigations in the time of Covid
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 09-05-23
- Holly
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Justine Lupe, Stephen King
Poor narration, stopped to read it on paper
Reviewed: 09-21-23
I love Holly Gibney, and loved every bit of this book. However, the audio book was a struggle for me to listen to because the narrator didn't seem to understand what she was reading. Also, she can't pronounce "library" (liberry) or "poem" (pome) and both of those words feature A LOT here as King takes some time to love poetry and writing poems in this novel. I'm not normally a thudding bore when it comes to cringing over pronunciation but in this case it really did bother me. Considering this was read by an actress who played Holly, she also seems to have zero understanding of Holly's inner life. She makes Holly into an average neurotypical girl and that is honestly just such a crime against the character. I hope this will be re-recorded by the guy who did all the other ones. If an actress, at least Cynthia Erivo really understood Holly and brought her to full life.
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Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 20 hrs
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Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
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Definitely needed the trigger warning, but..
- By Hillary on 02-01-16
- Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Way too graphic and repetitive
Reviewed: 07-05-23
If you want to hear about someone being raped with a machete over and over again this is the book for you. Great narrator but the author is so repetitively, explicitly, gruesomely detailed about women being raped and murdered that I became uncomfortable and stopped listening. I felt gross for even buying this book. I feel like the author basically wrote snuff porn in hopes of getting as rich off of it as her book's antagonist.
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Your Table Is Ready
- Tales of a New York City Maître D'
- By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
- Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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From the glamorous to the entitled, from royalty to the financially ruined, everyone who wanted to be seen—or just to gawk—at the hottest restaurants in New York City came to places Michael Cecchi-Azzolina helped run. His phone number was passed around among those who wanted to curry favor, during the decades when restaurants replaced clubs and theater as, well, theater in the most visible, vibrant city in the world. Besides dropping us back into a vanished time, Your Table Is Ready takes us places we’d never be able to get into on our own.
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Accurately crass and heart felt
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-23
- Your Table Is Ready
- Tales of a New York City Maître D'
- By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
- Narrated by: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
Pompous and annoying
Reviewed: 01-16-23
If you want to listen to someone brag about having sex with people in the most boring terms possible, this is for you. He has one word for it and he uses it a lot. Beyond pompous and well into insufferable.
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Dead Lions
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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London’s Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “"low horses", as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. But now the slow horses have a chance at redemption. An old Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts. The despicable, irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced Dickie Bow was murdered. As the agents dig into their fallen comrade’s circumstances, they uncover a shadowy tangle of ancient Cold War secrets.
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could be the best series you've never read
- By connie on 01-15-17
- Dead Lions
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Michael Healy
Awful narrator
Reviewed: 04-17-22
Narrator sounds perpetually bored and impatient, same tone people use to say "blah blah blah" and "yadda yadda yadda" - so glad this great series has Gerard Doyle narrating everything after the first two books, which both have awful audiobook narrators.
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The Old Woman with the Knife
- A Novel
- By: Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim - translator
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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At sixty-five, Hornclaw is beginning to slow down. She lives modestly in a small apartment, with only her aging dog, a rescue named Deadweight, to keep her company. There are expectations for people her age—that she'll retire and live out the rest of her days quietly. But Hornclaw is not like other people. She is an assassin. Double-crossers, corporate enemies, cheating spouses—for the past four decades, Hornclaw has killed them all with ruthless efficiency, and the less she's known about her targets, the better. But now, nearing the end of her career, she has just slipped up.
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best geriatric assassin EVER!
- By Barbara S on 04-10-22
- The Old Woman with the Knife
- A Novel
- By: Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim - translator
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
South Korean culture beyond Kpop
Reviewed: 04-09-22
Great story, though American readers may occasionally find the protagonist hard to relate to culturally. Approach the book with the same latitude you'd have for a 19th century novel in terms of feminism and whatnot and you'll enjoy it more. I liked it, but I was aware of Korean cultural standards for how women and older women in particular are meant to act. It actually makes sense that this battle hardened assassin would be incredibly reluctant to get a manicure, or allow someone to see her in a state of undress. For all her subversiveness she's still very much relatable in that context. For all of its breathtaking modernity and technological advancement, its cultural power and production - South Korea remains for now a place where women exercise power in carefully coded and compartmented ways.
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Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
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Slough House is a dumping ground for British intelligence agents who've screwed up cases in any number of ways - by leaving a secret file on a train or blowing a surveillance. River Cartwright, one such "slow horse", is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself.
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Fun premise, Slow start, excellent entertaiinment.
- By Dustmouse5 on 07-07-17
- Slow Horses
- Slough House, Book 1
- By: Mick Herron
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
Great book, narrator is soporific
Reviewed: 04-09-22
Complaints that the book is hard to follow really comes down to the fact that the narrator generally sounds mesmeric. One, two, your eyelids are getting heavy now, three, four, you've lost the plot and have to rewind. I plan to listen to the other books but might give them a miss in favor of print just because I don't need to be made so sleepy while commuting or doing housework.
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Doing Time Like a Spy
- How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
- By: John Kiriakou
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
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On February 28, 2013, after pleading guilty to violating the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, John Kiriakou began serving a 30 month prison sentence. His crime: blowing the whistle on the CIA's use of torture on al Qaeda prisoners. Doing Time Like a Spy is Kiriakou's memoir of his 23 months in prison. Using 20 life skills he learned in CIA operational training, he was able to keep himself safe and at the top of the prison social heap. It is at once a searing journal of daily prison life and an alternately funny and heartbreaking commentary on the federal prison system.
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keep up the good work.
- By Nathan D. Crumpler on 12-26-19
- Doing Time Like a Spy
- How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison
- By: John Kiriakou
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
Smug, arrogant sounding narrator
Reviewed: 03-06-22
I didn't make it more than 15 minutes in, I could not tolerate the narrator's smug, arrogant tone. Might get it in print.
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American Predator
- The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
- By: Maureen Callahan
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-known; they echo in the news and in public consciousness. But most people have never heard of Israel Keyes, one of the most ambitious and terrifying serial killers in modern history American Predator is the ambitious culmination of years of interviews with key figures in law enforcement and in Keyes's life, and research uncovered from classified FBI files. Callahan takes us on a journey into the chilling, nightmarish mind of a relentless killer, and to the limitations of traditional law enforcement.
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Why you shouldn’t listen to Reviews
- By jofi00 on 10-23-19
- American Predator
- The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century
- By: Maureen Callahan
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
I swear this is narrated by Alexa
Reviewed: 03-07-21
I don't think I'm going to make it more than 10 minutes into this, the narrator is so robotic that I'm almost entirely convinced it's machine narration, like Google Maps directions or Alexa. It's jarring.
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Tinaca Jones
- By: Matt Boren
- Narrated by: Retta, Matt Boren, Stephanie Lemelin
- Length: 2 hrs and 2 mins
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What’s in a name? A lot. The name Tinaca, for example, has been passed down in the Jones family for generations of women. In fact, the Joneses name a Tinaca every other generation, to let the name breathe a little. To let each Tinaca shine. And shine is exactly what Tinaca Jones intends to do.
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OMG MAKE IT STOP
- By Dee Dee on 01-03-20
- Tinaca Jones
- By: Matt Boren
- Narrated by: Retta, Matt Boren, Stephanie Lemelin
ugh
Reviewed: 01-25-20
Unable to finish. narration was read poorly; not all great comedians make great narrators. This was a painfully bad audiobook, though you can tell the book itself is probably great.
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