Rebecca C.
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Meditation for Sagittarius
- By: Jessica Lanyadoo, Audible Sleep
- Narrated by: Jessica Lanyadoo
- Length: 33 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12
This meditation is designed to complement the sign of Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a mutable fire sign represented by the archer’s bow—forever seeking and yearning. Sagittarian energies are the parts within you that seek adventure, truth, and to have direct experience with the world. This meditation will help you to tap into the expanse of your own inner landscape by simply accessing your ability to receive the present moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fav
- By T on 04-13-25
- Meditation for Sagittarius
- By: Jessica Lanyadoo, Audible Sleep
- Narrated by: Jessica Lanyadoo
Not so great, actually.
Reviewed: 01-05-25
The narrator's voice is very soothing, but you get the impression that she is not really as calm as she's pretending to be. It's like when you've had a really crappy day and your kids ask you to read them a story and you do your best to just read their favorite story but the kid can hear your frustration coming through. It is very distracting. Also, this is a meditation for Sagittarius who are notorious for latching onto stuff and exploring. Less than five minutes into this meditation she mentions something VERY distracting and has the audacity to say "Now is not the time" to explore it.
I'm not in the headspace for sleeping or meditation now. Don't buy this.
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The Angels’ Share
- By: Ellen Crosby
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 206
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 186
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 184
Lucie Montgomery attends a Thanksgiving weekend party for friends and neighbors at Hawthorne Castle, an honest-to-goodness castle owned by the Avery family, the last great newspaper dynasty in America and owner of the Washington Tribune. During the party, Prescott Avery, the 95-year-old family patriarch offers to pay Lucie any price for a cache of 200-year-old Madeira that her great-great-uncle discovered hidden in the US Capitol in the 1920s. By the end of the party Lucie and her fiancé discover Prescott’s body lying in his wine cellar. Is one of the guests a murderer?
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4 out of 5 stars
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excellent research on wine making but...
- By Stretchr on 05-26-22
- The Angels’ Share
- By: Ellen Crosby
- Narrated by: Christine Marshall
Really interesting story
Reviewed: 01-26-21
So, this was a pretty good story and I liked it enough to not regret purchasing it, but it does have some issues.
Now, I'm from the South, so I know what people from Virginia sound like. I don't think the narrator of this book has ever met an actual Southerner. The whole Foghorn Leghorn accent is very insulting, honestly, and it took me right out of the story at a few points.
The writer also seemed to sort of hammer on the fact that the characters are very, very wealthy and well educated. Even the characters who were delivered as "low class" are just coincidentally experts on things that have nothing to do with their professions or hobbies.
Overall, the story takes some turns where you think things won't be resolved before bringing you back full circle. I'm not recommending this book to anyone who understands Southerners.
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Life Ever After
- By: Carla Grauls
- Narrated by: Raúl Castillo, Nana Mensah, Piper Goodeve
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 4,764
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,336
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,319
Tech City: Society is obsessed with relentless progress and the possibility of eternal life. A woman and a man meet in waiting room, anticipating a procedure that will incorporate the latest science and technology into their minds and bodies, heightening their awareness and increasing their productivity. Years pass, their relationship deepens and fades, and they grow increasingly uncertain where the AI stops and where they begin. A romantic drama exploring the potentiality of transhumanism, Life Ever After is a rich listening experience that is at once naturalistic and poetic.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Couldn't finish
- By Chad on 01-19-20
- Life Ever After
- By: Carla Grauls
- Narrated by: Raúl Castillo, Nana Mensah, Piper Goodeve
I can't stop listening
Reviewed: 09-09-20
I have listened to this five times in the last six months. It is terribly romantic and real and I still find things I've missed every listen. <3
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Home Is Where the Horror Is
- By: C.V. Hunt
- Narrated by: Rick Gregory
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 43
Evan Lansing manages to eke out a living as a photographer, capturing the beauty of severely marred and deformed people. He's content with his meager existence, but his longtime girlfriend, Naomi, is looking for more out of life - things that cost money - marriage and children. Evan's options are limited when he and Naomi resolve to split. He can stay with his brother and his brother's insufferable wife and daughter, or he can move into his deceased mother's remote cabin and renovate it. The solitude of the cabin is an enticing alternative for Evan to start anew. But disturbing things begin to happen once Evan moves in and it leaves him to question if staying with his brother wasn't the better option. And then there are the neighbors.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Had Promise But For Repulsive Protagonist
- By Natasha Zar on 08-18-17
- Home Is Where the Horror Is
- By: C.V. Hunt
- Narrated by: Rick Gregory
I forced myself to listen all the way thru
Reviewed: 07-26-20
So, I like horror and creep and gore, but this seemed more like torture porn. The thin circumstances leading the main character to the cabin in the woods, the tired trope of the backwoods incest, graphic sex scenes involving a minor, and then cannibalism! It's almost like the writer was using prompts from Cards Against Humanity to move the story along. I feel I'm being overly generous giving it two stars.
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Junkyard Cats
- Shining Smith, Book 1
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 22,395
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 20,078
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Story4 out of 5 stars 20,030
After the Final War, after the appearance of the Bug aliens and their enforced peace, Shining Smith is still alive, still doing business from the old scrapyard bequeathed to her by her father. But Shining is now something more than human. And the scrapyard is no longer just a scrapyard, but a place full of secrets. This life she has built, while empty, is predictable and safe. Until the only friend left from her previous life shows up, dead, in the back of a scrapped Tesla warplane. Clutched in her cold fingers is a note to Shining - warning her of a coming attack.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Would be a great story, if most of it wasn't missi
- By Amazon Customer on 01-11-20
- Junkyard Cats
- Shining Smith, Book 1
- By: Faith Hunter
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
I guess what I'm saying is - I want more!
Reviewed: 02-03-20
I really liked this story overall and felt like the characters were pretty well fleshed out in the short run time. It could have been better if it were longer, though. It feels very much like jumping into a story line in the middle of a series! Like, I would see this particular story as one of those free short stories from a series that goes on over several books. I would definitely read the rest of the books, though!
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Before She Was Found
- By: Heather Gudenkauf
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,932
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,479
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,457
For 12-year-old Cora Landry and her friends Violet and Jordyn, it was supposed to be an ordinary sleepover - movies and Ouija and talking about boys. But when they decide to sneak out to go to the abandoned rail yard on the outskirts of town, little do they know that their innocent games will have dangerous consequences. Later that night, Cora Landry is discovered on the tracks, bloody and clinging to life, her friends nowhere to be found. Soon, their small rural town is thrust into a maelstrom. Who would want to hurt a young girl like Cora - and why?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Bad Bad Ending
- By Sue on 05-12-19
- Before She Was Found
- By: Heather Gudenkauf
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
Fascinating
Reviewed: 02-01-20
Creepy and fascinating. It's like this writer reached into the mind of a real adolescent to write this story. The feel of it is so plausible and I think that's what makes it so chilling. Will definitely listen again.
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Feral
- By: Brian Knight
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3
Shannon Pitcher was trying to forget the brutal murder of her ex-husband and the loss of her only daughter, when fate brought her to a lost, scared little girl named Charity at the gate of an abandoned and haunted place called Feral Park. Now she must save Charity from the same Bogey Man who killed her own daughter, and from the wild children of Feral Park. Gordon Chambers has searched for six years for his daughter. Even when his estranged wife is found slaughtered and his daughter, Charity, disappears, hope remains in the form of strange dreams....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Creepy fantastic!
- By Rebecca C. on 01-30-20
- Feral
- By: Brian Knight
- Narrated by: Mike Vendetti
Creepy fantastic!
Reviewed: 01-30-20
This will definitely give you nightmares you want to share. Will listen again! Wonderfully narrated, expertly written.
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Lock and Key: The Gadwall Incident
- By: Ridley Pearson
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 1 hr and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 448
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 385
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 387
In The Gadwall Incident, listeners get a glimpse into James' life a mere 24 hours before the tipping point - before life as he knows it changes irrevocably and his childhood slips into the shadows. Listeners will come to know the dangers that surround the Moriartys before James and Moria are sent off to the hallowed halls of Baskerville Academy, where they first meet the insufferable, inexhaustible Sherlock Holmes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Got me interested
- By Todd (Toad) Vogel on 09-02-16
- Lock and Key: The Gadwall Incident
- By: Ridley Pearson
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
I wanted more!
Reviewed: 01-04-20
Simply fantastic to be drawn in this way. Love it. Definitely looking forward to more from this author.
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Hayduke Lives!
- By: Edward Abbey
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 240
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4 out of 5 stars 213
George Washington Hayduke III was last seen clinging to a rock face in the wilds of Utah as an armed posse hunted him down for his eco-radicalist crimes. Now he is back with a fiery need for vengeance. In this sequel to the enormously popular and entertaining The Monkey Wrench Gang, Hayduke teams up with his old pals Doc Sarvis, Seldom Seen Smith, and Bonnie Abbzug in a battle against the world's biggest earth-moving machine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I like it better than Monkey Wrench Gang.
- By Matthew W. Monk on 04-16-22
- Hayduke Lives!
- By: Edward Abbey
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
Meh
Reviewed: 09-07-19
I'm generally a fan of Abbey's work and the story line seems like a good one, but the narrator's performance definitely took me out of the story here. His tone seemed more sarcastic (or just negative, maybe) than I would have liked. His pace is also varied poorly, dragging in some places where I felt things would have moved faster and rushed in some places that I felt would have gone more slowly. It gave the whole book a very awkward feeling for me. After a couple of chapters, I seriously considered asking for a refund on this title. If you can find it voiced by someone else, I'd recommend that.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- By: Michelle McNamara
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn - introduction, Patton Oswalt - afterword
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 32,656
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29,091
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 28,979
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A haunting masterpiece
- By Kat - Audible on 03-02-18
- I'll Be Gone in the Dark
- One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
- By: Michelle McNamara
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman, Gillian Flynn - introduction, Patton Oswalt - afterword
LOVE, DEVOTION, OBSESSION
Reviewed: 05-02-18
Possibly the best true crime novel I have ever experienced! Could not tear myself away
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