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Hold Tight
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,924
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,668
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,650
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their 16-year-old son, Adam, has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate, Spencer Hill they can't help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son: "Just stay quiet and all safe."
Meanwhile, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death...and he wasn't alone.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Will hold your interest till the end
- By Ed on 05-09-08
- Hold Tight
- By: Harlan Coben
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Not his best
Reviewed: 01-07-21
The story line is very hard to follow. I think the narrator, who is normally one that I enjoy listening to, could have done a much better job of separating characters and sub-parts of the plot.
The end result is that you spend all your time trying to follow who’s talking. Too bad because the author probably could have pulled it off if not for that.
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The Summer House
- The Classic Blockbuster from the Author of Lion & Lamb
- By: James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,674
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,403
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,337
Once a luxurious Southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers - known as the Night Ninjas - recently returned from Afghanistan. To ensure that justice is done, the Army sends Major Jeremiah Cook, a veteran and former NYPD cop, to investigate. But the major and his elite team arrive in sweltering Georgia with no idea their grim jobs will be made exponentially more challenging by local law enforcement....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not as good as expected by hype.
- By Anonymous User on 06-16-20
- The Summer House
- The Classic Blockbuster from the Author of Lion & Lamb
- By: James Patterson, Brendan DuBois
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
Perfectly paced, sufficiently interesting and very well performed.
Reviewed: 01-01-21
This unusual story would make a great movie. All the necessary elements. Intrigue, loyalty, fear, determination, and fierce justice.
I highly recommend the read!
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Devoted
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,757
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,197
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,176
Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. And he’s not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Descendants of WATCHERS...
- By shelley on 04-01-20
- Devoted
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
This story will not disappoint you
Reviewed: 10-26-20
If you are a Dean Koontz fan, you will not be disappointed with this story. The narration is superb. And while somewhat predictable, the story is still enjoyable. I didn’t want it to end. More please!
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A Murder of Shadows
- Shadows of Montshire, Book 1
- By: John Conroe
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 958
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 957
Savid DelaCrotia is the third born son of one of the Kingdom of Montshire’s oldest and most respected High families. Cast aside by his father at an early age, it’s up to him to make his own way and create his own honor. With just his horse, his weapons, the clothes on his back and in his pack, and the education that his family provided, he’ll have to go it alone. Luckily, he already has a pretty good idea of what he’s good at - fighting, and woodcraft - not to mention finding hidden and lost items.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly mediocre
- By D and B on 05-06-20
- A Murder of Shadows
- Shadows of Montshire, Book 1
- By: John Conroe
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Terrible ending
Reviewed: 10-21-20
I can’t stand stories that quit like this one did. This book wasn’t good enough to make me anxiously wait for the next in the series. All it did was make me mad.
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Tiamat's Wrath
- The Expanse, Book 8
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 21,395
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,373
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Story5 out of 5 stars 19,302
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper. In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the imaginable. But the price of that knowledge may be higher than she can pay.
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4 out of 5 stars
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unfortunate bug in chapter 39
- By A. Treiber on 03-28-19
- Tiamat's Wrath
- The Expanse, Book 8
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Can’t wait for the finale
Reviewed: 09-29-20
This included some surprising twists and some predictable ones. It felt somewhat rushed at the end which happens with a lot of stories for some reason. The time gaps were a bit hard to digest. I think those time periods could have been explored better and yet I guess a writer only has so many words. The final book is due out next year according to reports. I look forward to it With expectation and regret. It’s hard to say good bye.
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Persepolis Rising
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20,216
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18,055
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 17,988
The seventh novel in James S. A. Corey's New York Times best-selling Expanse series - now a major television series.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beginning of a new story
- By Michael G Kurilla on 12-17-17
- Persepolis Rising
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
One of the best in this series
Reviewed: 08-24-20
This story had so much going on it was a little hard to follow. But after re-listening to several sections things dropped into place. Very suspenseful.
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Babylon's Ashes
- The Expanse, Book 6
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 19 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22,156
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19,848
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 19,771
A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood. The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets. The colony ships heading for the thousand new worlds on the far side of the alien ring gates are easy prey, and no single navy remains strong enough to protect them. James Holden and his crew know the strengths and weaknesses of this new force better than anyone.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Gees what happened?
- By Robert on 12-21-16
- Babylon's Ashes
- The Expanse, Book 6
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
Wasn’t my favorite in this series.
Reviewed: 07-12-20
Not much to say about this one. Even the epilogue kind of felt like the author was just filling in time.
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Hell Divers
- Hell Divers Series, Book 1
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38,585
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35,273
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35,182
More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to Earth long ago. The only thing keeping the two surviving lifeboats in the sky are Hell Divers - men and women who risk their lives by skydiving to the surface to scavenge for parts the ships desperately need.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A little cliche action hero-y but damn good story anyway
- By Jillian Noone on 09-04-19
- Hell Divers
- Hell Divers Series, Book 1
- By: Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Gripping story that never lets up.
Reviewed: 06-24-20
The story line is really out there and fir the first several chapters I felt like I’d bern dropped into the middle of the book. But once I got past my confusion, man what a ride.
The narrator is very good but he reads everything with such intensity that it wears you out.
Not crazy about the ending however overall I’m glad for the read.
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Cibola Burn
- The Expanse, Book 4
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 23,796
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 23,698
The fourth book in the NYT best-selling Expanse series, Cibola Burn sees the crew of the Rocinante on a new frontier, as the rush to colonize the new planets threatens to outrun law and order and give way to war and chaos. Enter a new frontier. "An empty apartment, a missing family, that's creepy. But this is like finding a military base with no one on it. Fighters and tanks idling on the runway with no drivers. This is bad juju. Something wrong happened here. What you should do is tell everyone to leave".
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4 out of 5 stars
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Book has been renarrated by Jefferson Mays-Thanks!
- By fandel69 on 03-16-17
- Cibola Burn
- The Expanse, Book 4
- By: James S. A. Corey
- Narrated by: Jefferson Mays
A great sequel to a great story line
Reviewed: 05-06-20
I enjoy this series very much and am always disappointed when the story gets closer to the ending. The only negative is that the pace of the book is constant until the last hour and then it’s like tumbling off a mountain racing to the end. I would prefer that the author would take more time winding the story down. It would be more rewarding to those of us that hung in there for 20+ hours if listening
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The Mountain and the Sea
- By: Kwame Dawes
- Narrated by: Paula-Anne Jones
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,738
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,813
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,788
Esther, a painter living in Jamaica and recovering from the death of her husband, comes across a man on a mountain road with no memory of his past. As a hurricane rushes towards the island, she shelters the handsome stranger, names him “Monty”, and tries to uncover the mystery of his missing memory. She soon finds herself falling in love with a man she barely knows, and who doesn’t even know himself. The Mountain and the Sea is a romantic tale about letting go of the past and embracing the present.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pornography
- By Randall on 04-04-20
- The Mountain and the Sea
- By: Kwame Dawes
- Narrated by: Paula-Anne Jones
The Narration made the story come alive
Reviewed: 04-22-20
Who needs a great author when you have a great narrator. The story was not my cup of tea but was well written. The narrator certainly made it come alive.
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