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Children of Blood and Bone
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
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Beautifully Written
- By Samantha on 03-09-18
- Children of Blood and Bone
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Excellent World Building
Reviewed: 02-27-25
If you like Nnedi Okorafor and Octavia Butler, you will love this series. Tomi Adeyemi is now one of my favorite authors.
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So Let Them Burn
- By: Kamilah Cole
- Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Kamali Minter
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Faron Vincent can channel the power of the gods. Five years ago, she used her divine magic to liberate her island from its enemies, the dragon-riding Langley Empire. But now, at seventeen, Faron is all powered up with no wars to fight. She’s a legend to her people and a nuisance to her neighbors. When she’s forced to attend an international peace summit, Faron expects that she will perform tricks like a trained pet and then go home. She doesn’t expect her older sister, Elara, forming an unprecedented bond with an enemy dragon.
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The Ending Could’ve Been Solved With Open Communication
- By Noel on 01-20-24
- So Let Them Burn
- By: Kamilah Cole
- Narrated by: Keylor Leigh, Kamali Minter
Why are people mad?
Reviewed: 02-24-25
The basis of the book is sending dragons from a different plane back to their realm by way of emotional and relatable narrations from two sisters while including subjects like colonialism, racism, and sexism.
Reasons I liked it:
1. Excellent world building
2. Caused self-reflection
3. Kept my distractible brain engaged
4. Story was deep with many layers
5. People mad about the lack of dragons need to re-read the book
6. Great narration with distinguishable voices for each character
7. Maintained universal laws (physics) and all deviations were explained/accounted for
8. Started in what felt like the middle of the story which accelerated the action to earlier in the text, not relying on half the book being background info
9. My pattern recognition wasn’t able to solve the mystery/there was an unexpected ending
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The Gilded Ones
- Deathless, Book 1
- By: Namina Forna
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs. But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.
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Loved It!!!
- By MICHAEL G. on 02-11-21
- The Gilded Ones
- Deathless, Book 1
- By: Namina Forna
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
Accent Discontinuities
Reviewed: 02-21-25
The accents don’t stay the same and the narrator is like nails on a chalkboard. Good story.
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Children of Anguish and Anarchy
- Legacy of Orisha, Book 3
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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When Zélie seized the royal palace that fateful night, she thought her battles had come to an end. The monarchy had finally fallen. The maji had risen again. Zélie never expected to find herself locked in a cage and trapped on a foreign ship. Now warriors with iron skulls traffic her and her people across the seas, far from their homeland. Then everything changes when Zélie meets King Baldyr, her true captor, the ruler of the Skulls, and the man who has ravaged entire civilizations to find her.
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A lot of thoughts…
- By Meghan Jean on 06-29-24
- Children of Anguish and Anarchy
- Legacy of Orisha, Book 3
- By: Tomi Adeyemi
- Narrated by: Cynthia Erivo
Audiobook Format Discrepancies
Reviewed: 02-20-25
Clearly this was a different publishing company and voice actor. She pronounced words so differently that it took me until Chapter 34 to realize she was calling the noble magi with streaks “Titans.”
There’s no chapter titles with who is speaking like the other two books.
The lack of continuity in the audiobook publishing process really ticks me off.
The story, as always, has my heart hooked.
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New Nigeria County
- By: Clare Brown
- Narrated by: Clare Brown, full cast, Ayanna Dookie, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
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New Nigeria is a good, clean, all-American town. The husbands are smiling and handsome, the wives are strong, rich, and powerful, and Nat Turner High is the best public school in the state. Yet, the citizens of this idyllic community find themselves in a rapidly changing country and, to be perfectly honest, some of them are a teeny bit uncomfortable with it all.
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Flipping the script on SOOO many levels
- By Amazon Customer on 07-02-24
Incredible Must-Read
Reviewed: 02-08-25
Every single white person in America needs to listen to this. There’s something about laughing while facing your own racism that makes it easier to process.
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Terra Nova Chronicles: Publisher's Pack
- Terra Nova Chronicles, Book 1-2
- By: Richard Fox, Josh Hayes
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Chief Katherine “Kit” Carson, of the elite Pathfinder Corps, joins the mission as a last-minute replacement, hoping to put a spotty past behind her and build a new life on a brave new world. The expedition arrives on Terra Nova, expecting to join the first wave of colonists, instead they find abandoned cities and are soon faced with a new, terrifying enemy humanity has never encountered before. This publisher pack includes Terra Nova and Bloodlines.
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Ugh. Characters lack some originality.
- By Nathanael on 09-08-19
- Terra Nova Chronicles: Publisher's Pack
- Terra Nova Chronicles, Book 1-2
- By: Richard Fox, Josh Hayes
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Narrator dragged on a lackluster story
Reviewed: 03-16-23
I wanted to love this. It’s a niche genre I read and listen to a lot of, so the ease of finding a good series is always awesome. Unfortunately, the characters lack depth beyond the narrator’s poor accents. These accents ended up feeling like needles piercing my eardrum periodically. Every time the narrator voiced a youth or excited adult, a shiver spiked down my back. The story itself is predictable but because I find comfort in the genre, it gained an extra star for storyline. The listeners/readers are placed in a familiar setting with a heavy Roddenberry influence. I’m going to give this author another shot with another narrator.
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