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Prism Academy Omnibus, Books 1-5
- By: David Burke
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters, Maeve York
- Length: 74 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 350
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 311
Humanity stands at the brink of extinction. Earth has been bombarded by forces beyond our understanding. In the aftermath, monsters roam the Earth while humanity is forced into a few small safe zones, but not all is lost. When the shadows fell, so too did hope. Progentitor rays birthed a new breed of humans, known as supers. Now those few are all that stands between mankind and death upon the claws and fangs of monsters.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Gets unlistenable half way through
- By Patrick on 09-07-24
- Prism Academy Omnibus, Books 1-5
- By: David Burke
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters, Maeve York
Good story, lots of crunch, some handwaving, and sex
Reviewed: 11-12-24
Title pretty much sums it up. The author knew where he wanted this story to go, and isn't going to let inconvenient things like consequences, technical limitations, or common sense get in his way. It's like TOS Star Trek, if you ignore the handwavy technobabble, it's a good story.
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The Empress of Beasts
- The Wandering Inn, Book 13
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 28 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,886
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,729
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,728
Wildlife and monsters have been stirred from their homes by intruders, both in the continent of Chandrar and the Empire of Tiqr, led by Nsiia, the Empress of Beasts, and in Liscor's dungeon, where a certain skeleton continues to help both friend and foes in the only way he knows how. In Liscor, the election will result in a new group of leaders for the city. But is that for the better or worse?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Y’all don’t get it
- By James on 09-11-24
- The Empress of Beasts
- The Wandering Inn, Book 13
- By: pirateaba
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
too short
Reviewed: 09-13-24
I know it's 23hrs, but it goes by so quickly. Still a great story
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Wizard's Tower, Books 1-3
- A LitRPG Series Bundle
- By: Gregory Allanther
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Justin Thomas James, Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 38 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 228
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Story4 out of 5 stars 228
For more than 150 years I've served the Kingdom of Sena. Through four Kings and a Queen. Two wars and a rebellion. I've founded and taught at a magic school. I've fought against beast waves and dungeon breaks. But now? Now, the one close friend I had left has passed. So, I'm done with their politics and their economics. The short and busy lives of humans are more burden than benefit on the weary soul of this half-elf.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Waste of talent
- By Carl on 08-09-24
- Wizard's Tower, Books 1-3
- A LitRPG Series Bundle
- By: Gregory Allanther
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays, Justin Thomas James, Andrea Parsneau
Waste of talent
Reviewed: 08-09-24
The voice acting is about the only thing that saves this book. the actors are top notch, and perform masterfully, the author...didn't.
This story wanders from scene to scene like a drunken sailor during an earthquake.
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Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,748
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,306
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,300
Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Volcanic Lairs, Death Rays & Cats… Oh My! 😼
- By C. White on 09-19-23
- Starter Villain
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Hit So Far Out of The Park it Scored a Touchdown
Reviewed: 09-25-23
Scalzi + Wheaton has always equaled a must listen for me, This was everything I expected and more. Brilliant writing, realistic characters, hilarious dialogue, and absurd situations.
If you've never read a Scalzi book, read this one.
If you've read any of his other books, you don't need me to tell you that you should read this one, but I will give you one more reason why you should, since it came a a very welcome surprise to me. He's finally broken his habit of ending every piece of dialogue with "he said."
I know it seems like such a little thing to get worked up about, but it means the world to me. I can finally listen to his wonderfully witty dialogue without my brain getting sidetracked railing against the repetition.
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The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 27 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 108,138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 97,607
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97,626
This is a tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not sure why the reviews are so polar opposite.
- By Aaron Altman on 06-28-09
- The Name of the Wind
- Kingkiller Chronicle, Book 1
- By: Patrick Rothfuss
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
Best Fantasy Series of All Time
Reviewed: 09-19-22
I have lost count of the number of times I have read this book. and I STILL learn something new every time I read it. Every. Single. Time.
Most books I can only read once as the second reading bores me. Some I reread because a new book has come out and I want to make sure I remember things correctly. Some I reread because they are comforting. No other book consistently provides me with new information, new ideas, and new stories. Only this one.
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Ex-Superheroes
- By: A.J. Markam
- Narrated by: Tad Branson
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,882
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,722
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,720
It’s the end of the 21st century, and Hunter McNeil is your average, ordinary, ex-Army Ranger with superpowers. He’s serving time unjustly in a Supermax for supervillains when a botched prison break puts him in the crosshairs of an Army general who runs the Super-Powered Combatants Corp. Turns out a coordinated strike has put supervillains in charge of every major city in the world, and Hunter is the only hope at restoring order. And so Hunter sets out to do what he does best: kill supervillains. Save the world. And build a harem of smokin’ hot, super-powered women to help him.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Half Literary Porn
- By ReWrite from Shadow on 01-18-21
- Ex-Superheroes
- By: A.J. Markam
- Narrated by: Tad Branson
Incel Gary Stu fantasy porn
Reviewed: 06-23-21
I am glad this was included in my membership, cause I'd have hated to waste a credit on it.
I don't mind erotica or harem stories, but this book is just garbage.
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The Game
- The Game Is Life, Book 1
- By: Terry Schott
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,341
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,151
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,146
What if life as we know it was just a game? What if instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death - multiple times? What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever?
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2 out of 5 stars
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A good concept mired by lazy writing.
- By Khada on 01-03-17
- The Game
- The Game Is Life, Book 1
- By: Terry Schott
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
Stranger In A Strange Game
Reviewed: 06-19-21
Strongly reminds me of Stranger In A Strange Land in all the right and wrong ways.
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The Lost Soul of the City
- Nameless: Season Two, Book 1
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,339
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,174
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,170
In a forgotten Cold War bunker, a cold-blooded arms dealer counts his cash and watches from a distance as cities collapse into violence. Pledged to stop him is a man without a past, guided by a teenage boy through the tunnels under the corrupted port city. With each stealthy move toward their target, the path ahead grows ever darker.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating take on punishment
- By Troy Stafford on 06-12-21
- The Lost Soul of the City
- Nameless: Season Two, Book 1
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
Ringing hollow.
Reviewed: 06-17-21
I used to love Dean's books. In the 90s he was a master of creating paranormal suspense from purely natural means. In the 00s he started to tinge more books with supernatural elements, but the thrills still came from his ability to write believable people and breathtakingly real psychosis. This story falls well flat of that.
This story feels so ungrounded in reality that I can't connect with it. I didn't have that problem with Season 1, so I'm assuming it's a problem with this particular episode. It felt like I had no understanding of the villan, he was generic and bland. I think the author was trying so hard not to offend anyone's politics that he couldn't write a believable politician villan.
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Age of Heroes
- The Pantheon Saga, Book 1
- By: C.C. Ekeke
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne, Adenrele Ojo, Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 574
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 571
Every hero has a beginning. So does every villain. Titan, the world’s greatest superhero, has been murdered by his longtime archenemy Lord Borealis. And from the ashes rises a new generation. Gifted with powers on the night of Titan’s death, 15-year-old Hugo awakes to the strange world of superheroes. A world he isn’t prepared for. But with godlike powers and a history of tragedy, will Hugo become a guardian of justice...or agent of chaos?
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 connected stories but should have focused on 1.
- By Amazon Customer on 01-25-21
- Age of Heroes
- The Pantheon Saga, Book 1
- By: C.C. Ekeke
- Narrated by: Roger Wayne, Adenrele Ojo, Kaleo Griffith
where is this going?
Reviewed: 05-29-21
lovely setup for a superhero story. I love the various arcs and how they (may) interact. This is a coming of age story, a mid-life crisis story, a mystery story, a journalistic thriller, and an origin story, all wrapped up in a superhero story. I hope the payoffs are worth the buildup.
Audio Note: The woman who narrates the Journalist's story is incapable of doing an Irish accent, which is an important character quirk of one of that story's minor characters. instead of Irish, it comes out as some wierd blend of Jamacan and South Georgian/Alabaman African American. it's wierd and threw me off for a bit until I got used to it.
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Fablehaven, Book 1
- By: Brandon Mull
- Narrated by: E. B. Stevens
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,888
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,132
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,151
For centuries, mystical creatures of all description were gathered to a hidden refuge called Fablehaven to prevent their extinction. The sanctuary survives today as one of the last strongholds of true magic in a cynical world. Enchanting? Absolutely. Exciting? You bet. Safe? Well, actually, quite the opposite... Kendra and her brother Seth have no idea their grandfather is the current caretaker of Fablehaven.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fablehaven deserves a better narrator!
- By Meg Barry on 07-31-14
- Fablehaven, Book 1
- By: Brandon Mull
- Narrated by: E. B. Stevens
Narrator sounds like he's reading to infants
Reviewed: 08-05-20
Guy sounds like he's reading a bedtime story to a toddler. This clashes with the vocabulary level of the story and its subject matter.
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