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BLACK In The Box (BLACK #5)
- By: Russell Blake
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance1.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 21
Artemis Black's world is coming apart in the days leading up to Christmas. His relationship is on the rocks, he's struggling to make ends meet, he's gone days without sleep, and when he's called in to investigate a brutal murder at a big box store in Long Beach, he's at the end of his rope. Racing the clock to clear a young woman's name before she's charged with homicide, Black gets more than he bargained for, and finds himself enmeshed in a web of deceit and betrayal that will require every ounce of his and Roxie's sleuthing prowess if they're to survive the night.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Virtual Voice and Literature.
- By Rioux Clan on 05-21-24
- BLACK In The Box (BLACK #5)
- By: Russell Blake
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Painful
Reviewed: 03-17-25
The story might have been better than I'm giving it credit for because the A.I. narration was painful. Just... DON'T!
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Limelight: Rush in the ’80s
- Rush Across the Decades, Book 2
- By: Martin Popoff
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 163
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story5 out of 5 stars 130
In the follow-up to Anthem: Rush in the '70s, Martin Popoff brings together canon analysis, cultural context, and extensive firsthand interviews to celebrate Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart at the peak of their persuasive power. Rush was one of the most celebrated hard rock acts of the '80s, and the second book of Popoff's staggeringly comprehensive three-part series takes listeners from Permanent Waves to Presto, while bringing new insight to Moving Pictures, their crowning glory.
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3 out of 5 stars
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If you like logistics of music, this is for you
- By Nathalie Steffens on 05-10-25
- Limelight: Rush in the ’80s
- Rush Across the Decades, Book 2
- By: Martin Popoff
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
Rehash
Reviewed: 01-20-24
This is an anthology of existing interviews combined to make a book with some odd occasional editorializing by the author. It's enjoyable enough but as a magazine publisher I have to say this book was lazily edited. We don't need 3-4 people retelling the same stories. Let one person tell the set up and then give us each person's unique take on the event rather that re-quoting each person re-setting up the setting. Feels like Groundhog Day. But note I listed to the first and now the second, so clearly I kept listening even with the first book having the same problems.
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Wildfire
- Street Rats of Aramoor, Book 5
- By: Michael Wisehart
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 925
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 845
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Story5 out of 5 stars 841
Not even given the chance to tell his tribe that he is being sent on a secret mission, Ayrion and Room Eleven find themselves being forced to sneak behind enemy lines. Unfortunately, as Ayrion’s luck usually holds, nothing goes according to plan. With this being Ayrion’s first time to lead a mission, he doesn’t want to fail, but the deeper into enemy territory they get, the more likely that outcome becomes.
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2 out of 5 stars
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2 silly jailbreaks, 0 Wildfire
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 08-21-23
- Wildfire
- Street Rats of Aramoor, Book 5
- By: Michael Wisehart
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Deja Vu
Reviewed: 07-19-22
Always love the books. I know this was a bit of a filler book for 90% of it but it was a nice little enjoyable adventure. I thought the last book lacked something going on for much of it. Is it just me or do the twin brothers in the story sound sooooo very familiar, like I've read about these guys before. Anyone else have a Deja Vu moment reading that part of the story from some other series?
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The Blood Debt
- Wolf of the North, Book 3
- By: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,636
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,400
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,385
A blade fit for a hero. An army for a tyrant. A reckoning long awaited, and a tale reaching its end. The riveting conclusion to the Wolf of the North trilogy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't buy it! Just don't!!
- By Ahmad on 02-04-18
- The Blood Debt
- Wolf of the North, Book 3
- By: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Thud.
Reviewed: 07-17-22
I've read hundreds of books good and bad No book has ever ended so stupidly and more disappointingly than this. It's like he got tired of writing about these characters and quit. There's easily another book to go in this series but I guess he got a different idea and wanted to quit so he went.... yadda, yadda, yadda, people died. I warned you! So awful!
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The Wolf of the North, Book 1
- By: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,586
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,173
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,143
A chance encounter with an ancient and mysterious object awakens a latent gift, and Wulfric's life changes course. Against a backdrop of war, tragedy, and an enemy whose hatred for him knows no bounds, Wulfric will be forged from a young boy into the Wolf of the North. This is his tale.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great opening to a series
- By Amazon Customer on 05-22-17
- The Wolf of the North, Book 1
- By: Duncan M. Hamilton
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
Grrrrr!
Reviewed: 07-17-22
The end of the third book is so unforgivably bad... so infuriatingly abrupt and stupid that I was compelled to come back here and implore you to never start. I think he must have had a deadline in a day so he finished off a huge building story like and characters in 20 minutes. I'm so baffled and confused and at the end that I'm angry his editor let his do this. It's a travesty and there are so many far better stories that won't leave you mad and frustrated at the end. I'm so disappointed I'll never read anything this guy ever writes again. If he has a soul he'll come back and cut off the last couple chapters and try again and e-publish Or try at all as he clearly didn't the first time around. . It's like.... imagine that you discover you a Jedi and then you die. It's that level of bad, Ugh.
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Reckless Magic
- By: Rachel Higginson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,809
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Story4 out of 5 stars 4,794
Sixteen-year-old Eden Matthews has been in and out of private schools for the last two years. She can't seem to stop herself from closing them down. Kingsley is her last chance to finish high school. Only Kingsley isn't like the other schools she's been to. The students are different. But, then again, so is she. After meeting Kiran Kendrick, the mysterious boy who seems to be the source of all her problems, she is suddenly in a world that feels more make-believe than reality.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The Main Character is an Absolute Idiot.
- By Elizabeth on 03-04-20
- Reckless Magic
- By: Rachel Higginson
- Narrated by: Bailey Carr
Um...
Reviewed: 10-14-20
That was... bad. Angsty, wimpy “heroine” is a bad role model for young women. My wife and I listened together on a road trip and eventually skipped for the end, which was unnecessary. Could not imagine enduring multiple more books of this lameness.
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The Evening and the Morning
- Kingsbridge, Book 4
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 24 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,363
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 11,057
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,976
It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. England is facing attacks from the Welsh in the west and the Vikings in the east. Those in power bend justice according to their will, regardless of ordinary people and often in conflict with the king. Without a clear rule of law, chaos reigns. In these turbulent times, three characters find their lives intertwined.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I was really waiting for this book!
- By Firebolt on 09-20-20
- The Evening and the Morning
- Kingsbridge, Book 4
- By: Ken Follett
- Narrated by: John Lee
Can we have like one good thing before the end?
Reviewed: 09-24-20
SPOILER...
Love Ken's books and he writes the most wicked villains but maybe he went a bit far this time? 23.5 of a 24.4 hour book is a constant stream of the "good guys" getting beaten, raped, murdered, kicked down, raped again, stolen from, ripped apart, raped a third time, lied to, ignored, ruined and heartbroken. And the big comeuppance for the central bad guy is him getting hobbled by natural causes. This is fiction, man! You CAN give the bad guys their due rewards. You don't have to make it like real life where they never really pay the just price for their deeds. If I wanted to see the horrendous, duplicitous, hypocritical villain keep winning without ever getting killed off, I can just watch Mitch McMcConnell. I gave you 24 hours. Give me delicious fictional JUSTICE! This ended on a whimper. So the good guys simply outlast the evil guys? LAME! Maybe it's how life really is, but this isn't real life. Boo!
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The Majestic 311
- By: Keith C. Blackmore
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,177
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,173
In the spring of 1903, the 311, known to locals as “The Majestic”, carried more than 100 passengers on board toward a tunnel mouth that would allow the 13-car locomotive to pass safely through the underbelly of the Canadian Rockies. The tunnel swallowed the 311 whole, and the train - and everyone on it - were never seen again.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wild Ride!
- By Cheree Ingram on 07-31-20
- The Majestic 311
- By: Keith C. Blackmore
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Um...
Reviewed: 08-25-20
Maybe if the end had made some sense or left a lesson to be learned or something. I pondered it a while and tired to decipher what it is was supposed to glean from the moral of the story but I got nothing? It was all set up for a big "a ha' or even a "ta da", but we got a "huh?" I could be thick today but if Keith had revelation in mind, I think he needed to be a little less esoteric with it's delivery. Reminds me of Steven King. Such great starts to books and doesn't seem to think in advance how it's going to end. Just give is a stupid worm monster or something. I'd like to see a contest to submit a new last chapter, as it was truly a stand alone resolution. After all of that I can only suggest to skip this one unless you like a nutso ride with no logical end. Bummed.
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The Protocol
- James Acton Thrillers, Book 1
- By: J. Robert Kennedy
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 507
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 461
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 459
The final skull has been found. Now, all hell's breaking loose. For 2,000 years, the Triarii have protected us, influencing history from the Crusades to the discovery of America. Descending from the Roman Empire, they pervade every level of society and are now in a race with our own government to retrieve an ancient artifact thought to have been lost forever.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Promising New Series
- By Kerr on 03-19-20
- The Protocol
- James Acton Thrillers, Book 1
- By: J. Robert Kennedy
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
Guilty Pleasure
Reviewed: 03-14-20
It's not high art, but it's fun and mixes genres I love and eat up. I finish it in 2 days. And get this... there are 26 books in this series. Get crackin', Bray!
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The Sword of Light: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Aaron Hodges
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,703
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 1,588
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,586
For 500 years, the Gods have united the Three Nations in harmony. Now, that balance has been shattered, and chaos threatens. A town burns, and flames light the night sky. Hunted and alone, 17-year-old Eric flees through the wreckage. The mob grows closer, baying for the blood of their tormentor. Guilt weighs on his soul, but he cannot stop, cannot turn back. If he stops, they die. For two years, he has carried this curse, bringing death and destruction wherever he goes. But now, there is another searching for him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A cutting trilogy
- By LITRPG Audiobook Reviews on 02-13-18
- The Sword of Light: The Complete Trilogy
- By: Aaron Hodges
- Narrated by: David Stifel
Is it over yet?
Reviewed: 06-28-18
It's not so much Y.A. as it is just lame. The characters are just bad and not smart. They keep causing their own peril. The writing is so unsophisticated which makes the occasional big word stand out even more for being inappropriate in context. Finally, it's all made the worse by narrator that was a terrible choice for a Fantasy novel. Maybe a Louis L'Amour book or some back old pulp fiction, but this guy's delivery is so far from "fantasy". If a goddess sounds like a grumpy cartoonish gold prospector, something is very very wrong. I'm not a huge critic of moderate fantasy. If it keeps me diverted from the boredom od my task, it's fine. I'd prefer a lifetime off Brandon Sanderson, but I know we can't have that. But this silly dumbness is not worth the credit, even for 30 hours. I wonder is a great narrator could have given it a higher level of credibility, but it's not even on good narrator. At least not for this kind of book. Bummer.
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