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Orlando People
- By: Alexander C. Kane
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,304
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,049
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,044
Gretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She’s a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds. Unfortunately, she turned out to be the weakest of the bunch. Now, Gretch’s life is being turned upside down. She witnesses a murder and discovers a wide-ranging conspiracy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super(natural) fun!
- By Jules H on 12-12-19
- Orlando People
- By: Alexander C. Kane
- Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Book was great but please no more singing.
Reviewed: 03-14-20
The main characters says she can't sing and she is right. Every now and then she bursts into song and it ruins the narration.
Main character is funny. The basic premise is that a group of people born at a certain time in Orlando have telekinetic powers. No one knows why this has happened. The talented chosen have suffered the intrusive interest of both the medical community and the federal government. As they reach adulthood they struggle to maintain a normalcy that is not quite normal. The plot is driven by a murder using telekinetic power Fun light read
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Strange Practice
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,818
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,374
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,352
Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family's highly specialized and highly peculiar medical practice. She treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, arthritis in barrow-wights, and entropy in mummies. It's a quiet, supernatural-adjacent life until a sect of murderous monks emerges, killing human and undead Londoners alike. As terror takes hold of the city, Greta must use her unusual skills to stop the cult if she hopes to save her practice - and her life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Keep Google open while you read
- By Christine Ehren on 02-23-18
- Strange Practice
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
lead character is dull
Reviewed: 09-12-18
She is drowning in guilt and self incrimination. this slows down the story. enough angst
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Death of Mrs. Westaway
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9,905
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,128
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,079
On a day that begins like any other, Hal receives a mysterious letter bequeathing her a substantial inheritance. She realizes very quickly that the letter was sent to the wrong person - but also that the cold-reading skills she's honed as a tarot card reader might help her claim the money. Soon, Hal finds herself at the funeral of the deceased...where it dawns on her that there is something very, very wrong about this strange situation and the inheritance at the center of it. Full of spellbinding menace and told in Ruth Ware's signature suspenseful style, an addictive thriller.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Death of Mrs. Westaway
- By Debbie De on 06-03-18
- Death of Mrs. Westaway
- By: Ruth Ware
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
I hate not finishing a book but ............
Reviewed: 07-25-18
The story and characters are interesting but this is so slow moving. It takes the author 4 chapters of endless details for something to happen. I hate not finishing a book but I am counting the chapters till the end.
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Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- By: Jennifer Wright
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,754
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8,042
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,009
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days later, and soon 34 more villagers joined her. Then more. In a month more than 400 people had been stricken by the mysterious dancing plague. In late-19th-century England an eccentric gentleman founded the No Nose Club in his gracious townhome - a social club for those who had lost their noses, and other body parts, to the plague of syphilis for which there was then no cure.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Didn't know syphilis could be so fascinating.
- By Kindle Customer on 02-09-17
- Get Well Soon
- History's Worst Plagues and the Heroes Who Fought Them
- By: Jennifer Wright
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
One of my favorite books of the year.
Reviewed: 01-04-18
Would you listen to Get Well Soon again? Why?
I have listened to parts, book marked them and my friends listen to them. She is funny- the perfect combination of sarcasm and compassion. If I ever have to get bad news I want her to deliver it.
What did you like best about this story?
She has all these interesting anecdotes. It's a cliche but she makes the past come alive. I didn't think I would learn anything new but I did
What about Gabra Zackman’s performance did you like?
Perfect narrator for this book
Any additional comments?
Listen to it. I might even buy the book itself.
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Immortal Unchained
- An Argeneau Novel
- By: Lynsay Sands
- Narrated by: Julian Durant
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 782
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 715
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 713
Ever since Domitian Argenis recognized Sarita as his life mate, he's been waiting for the perfect moment to claim her. Those fantasies did not include him being chained to a table in a secret lab or both of them being held hostage by a mad scientist. Somehow, they have to escape. Sarita has seen some crazy things as a cop, but nothing to rival Domitian. A vampire? Seriously? But his healing ability, his incredible powers, and their mind-blowing physical connection - none of it should be possible, yet her body knows differently.
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2 out of 5 stars
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What did loyal fans do to deserve this narrator?!?
- By Twosocks on 03-29-17
- Immortal Unchained
- An Argeneau Novel
- By: Lynsay Sands
- Narrated by: Julian Durant
Narrator sucked.
Reviewed: 04-27-17
He did some of the accents so badly that it was distracting. The storyline was not one of her best.
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The Diviners
- By: Libba Bray
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 18 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,219
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,983
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,981
Something dark and evil has awakened.... Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City - and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries her uncle will discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A delightful surprise.
- By Amazon Customer on 09-27-12
- The Diviners
- By: Libba Bray
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Perhaps good for YA
Reviewed: 04-07-16
What would have made The Diviners better?
The story line dragged on. It could have been tighter. There was nothing scary. The "evil" was a conglomeration of horror stereotypes. The main character was annoying and very adolescent. Again it may be better for teenage audiences.
Would you ever listen to anything by Libba Bray again?
No
Any additional comments?
Don't ever let this narrator sing again
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A Desperate Fortune
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,262
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,047
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,050
For nearly 300 years, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher.... Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing - for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Suggestion to listen with volume low & treble off
- By KristenLashley on 08-14-15
- A Desperate Fortune
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren
tedious mind numbing details/slow plot
Reviewed: 04-24-15
What disappointed you about A Desperate Fortune?
slow plot /too much description/main character's end
less musings are boring
Would you listen to another book narrated by Katherine Kellgren?
never
Any additional comments?
this was heavily promoted on audible. i won't trust their recommendations again
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Tall, Dark & Hungry
- Argeneau Vampires
- By: Lynsay Sands
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Cummings
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,381
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,093
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,086
It bit: New York hotels cost an arm and a leg, and Terri had flown from England to help plan her cousin's wedding. The new in-laws offered lodging. But they were a weird bunch. There was the sometimes chipper, sometimes brooding Lucern, and the wacky stage-actor, Vincent. (She couldn't imagine Broadway casting a hungrier singing-and-dancing Dracula.) And then there was Bastien. Just looking into his eyes, Terri had to admit she was falling for him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another great series!!
- By Shay on 01-12-10
- Tall, Dark & Hungry
- Argeneau Vampires
- By: Lynsay Sands
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Cummings
This book sucks and not in a good vampire way
Reviewed: 03-15-14
Would you try another book from Lynsay Sands and/or Jeffrey Cummings?
It needs a different narrator. The voice of the lead female character was annoying and distracting. The story was boring. Strictly romance. No mystery. Best man and maid of honor romance. No real plot. Just two people running around before a wedding. I like this author This book is a big disappointment.
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