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Cake Eater
- By: Allyson Dahlin
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
- Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 16
The year is 3070, and Marie Antoinette has just arrived at the glittering, thrilling palace of Versailles to marry the shy, soft-spoken Louis-Auguste. But beneath the luxurious world lies a sinister underbelly and an uncompromising elite who want to keep Marie and Louis pawns in a deadly game. Will history repeat itself? Or will these doomed lovers outwit their enemies and escape their grisly fate?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A dreamy, eerie party in neon Versailles
- By Stephanie on 09-06-22
- Cake Eater
- By: Allyson Dahlin
- Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
A dreamy, eerie party in neon Versailles
Reviewed: 09-06-22
Dahlin dazzles with a cyberpunk, dystopian retelling of the decadent and terrifying story of Marie Antoinette, from her first entry into the Franc Kingdom when she marries the distant-and-nervous Prince Louis all the way to the beginnings of the Revolution.
The smooth YA first-person prose has a dreamy quality. The ideas butt up against some of the most urgent, violent political movements of our current times. Imagine the story of Marie Antoinette, purportedly the first real victim of a libelous mob, mixed with Instagram and hate forums!
Clueless and PR-focused Marie struggles to navigate the First and Third estates, the political conflicts of mega corporations, the duplicity of AI, the history doomed to repeat itself, and the strange world of the Wastelands, all while being hidden from the truth by firewalls and holograms.
The narrator does an excellent job of speaking the multiple languages laced in occasionally throughout the piece. Though I thought increasing the speed to 1.5x improved the experience for me, she pulls of quite a few fun characters while giving them distinct voices.
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Steelheart
- The Reckoners, Book 1
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38,049
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34,554
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34,589
Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.
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5 out of 5 stars
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He got the idea from a near traffic accident
- By Don Gilbert on 09-26-13
- Steelheart
- The Reckoners, Book 1
- By: Brandon Sanderson
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Heart-pounding Superhero Fun with a Twist
Reviewed: 01-13-17
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
It's an exciting, fast-moving, and action-packed novel, with plenty of charm.
What about MacLeod Andrews’s performance did you like?
MacLeod Andrews is great an bringing multiple kinds of characters to life.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Initially I found myself cringing at the protagonist and not quite liking him. Some of the "charming" parts of the novel were a bit more forced, but he was endeared toward the end, when I surprisingly had a strong emotional connection.
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