Kimberley Stafford
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The Werewolf of Whitechapel
- Miss Sharp's Monsters, Book 1
- By: Suzannah Rowntree
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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A killer stalks the grimy streets of Whitechapel — but Scotland Yard seems determined to turn a blind eye. With one look at her best friend's corpse, Liz Sharp already knows the truth: the killer is a werewolf. No one important will hold a werewolf accountable — after all, the monsters rule Europe. Certainly, no one will believe a werewolf victim like Liz: the very scars that make her determined to investigate Sal’s death also condemn her as the sort of female who’d sell her blood for easy money.
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A fine adventure!
- By Kris Rudin on 06-27-22
- The Werewolf of Whitechapel
- Miss Sharp's Monsters, Book 1
- By: Suzannah Rowntree
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
Fun Fantasy
Reviewed: 05-20-25
A fun and engaging gaslamp fantasy about the survivor of a werewolf attack who lives in an alternate historical world in which the royal families of Europe are various types of monsters. It’s a good time, and Marian Hussey’s narration is great. Looking forward to continuing the series in the future.
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Highland Wolves Collection
- By: Tilly Wallace
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 29 hrs and 9 mins
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Enter a magical version of the Regency era is this paranormal romance collection. Three men from the Highland Wolves, a regiment of wolf shifters, protect England and discover their perfect match.
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Wolves are not dogs.
- By Teresa on 08-16-24
- Highland Wolves Collection
- By: Tilly Wallace
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
Excellent
Reviewed: 02-27-25
Excellent series. Love Wallace’s gaslamp fantasy world in Georgian and Regency England, and these books add to the world nicely. Marian Hussey is a wonderful narrator who adds depth and layers to the stories she narrates. Loved the series. Onto book 4.
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Secrets of the Lost Ledgers
- The Glass Library, Book 5
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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With her sharpened magical senses, Sylvia recognizes invisible writing while cataloging an obscure book for the library. She’s shocked to discover the message, written many years earlier, pleaded for help. She’s even more shocked to discover the author of the message was married to a paper magician. Could there be a connection to Sylvia’s father? With a magical mystery on her hands, Sylvia engages the help of Gabe Glass, and together they follow the clues to the location of two hidden ledgers that implicate a very dangerous individual in an illegal bookmaking scheme.
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Great series.
- By B on 10-03-24
- Secrets of the Lost Ledgers
- The Glass Library, Book 5
- By: C.J. Archer
- Narrated by: Marian Hussey
Good
Reviewed: 12-10-24
Good installment in the Glass Library series, this time centered around horse racing as well as further investigation into Sylvia’s magic and her father’s identity. Interesting mystery, the ongoing story arcs all advance, and Marian Hussey continues her excellent run of narration. I look forward to the next book in a few months.
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Grave Importance
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr. Greta Helsing, London's de facto mummy specialist, it sounds like paradise. But when Greta is invited to spend four months there as the interim clinical director, it isn't long before she finds herself faced with a medical mystery that will take all her diagnostic skill to solve.
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Not quite as good as the first two books
- By Uriel Dana on 10-04-19
- Grave Importance
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
Great Fantasy
Reviewed: 07-17-23
Grave Importance is a great urban fantasy and third book in the Greta Van Helsing series. Books 1&2 should be read before this book. The story of Greta, Varney, Ruthven and company continues. Greta takes a lengthy temporary position at a hospital and spa for mummies. Varney yearns for his newly-betrothed while seeking to create an exceptional engagement ring for her. Ruthven and Grisaille travel to Italy together. It won’t stop raining in England. Suddenly, Ruthven falls very ill and things escalate from there.
Grave Importance is a lot of fun but also touching in the way relationships are formed and deepened. It is a rollicking good time. I listened to the audiobook. Suzannah Hampton does another great job. If you like fantasy/urban fantasy, I recommend this series very highly.
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Boyfriend
- A Moo U Hockey Romance
- By: Sarina Bowen, Heart Eyes Press
- Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Emma Wilder
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The dreamiest player on the Moo U hockey team hangs a flyer on the bulletin board, and I am spellbound: Rent a boyfriend for the holiday. For $25, I will be your Thanksgiving date. I will talk hockey with your dad. I will bring your mother flowers. I will be polite, and wear a nicely ironed shirt.... Now everyone knows it’s a bad idea to introduce your long-time crush to your messed-up family. But I really do need a date for Thanksgiving, even if I’m not willing to say why.
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Love is Worth the Risk
- By Book Bruin on 10-13-21
- Boyfriend
- A Moo U Hockey Romance
- By: Sarina Bowen, Heart Eyes Press
- Narrated by: Jason Clarke, Emma Wilder
Good College Romance
Reviewed: 06-22-23
Boyfriend is a very enjoyable college hockey romance with an interesting beginning to a fake relationship. Weston, star of the university hockey team, advertises his availability to be someone’s fake boyfriend at Thanksgiving, to ease the family pressure of being single at the holiday table. Abbi hires him and the fun starts there. There is the “we’re fine, this is fake” to “we can sleep together casually as friends for a little while” to “oh no, I think I feel something. What do I do?”. But it is done with humor and heart.
There are some serious topics, including family dysfunction and sexual harassment from a step-step sibling, so those with triggers should be aware.
I listened to the audiobook. Emma Wilder and Jason Clarke were great in their interpretation. They both do voices of the opposite sex rather well. I enjoyed Boyfriend and recommend it.
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A Lady in the Smoke
- A Victorian Mystery
- By: Karen Odden
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Following a humiliating fourth season in London, Lady Elizabeth Fraser is on her way back to her ancestral country estate when her train careens off the rails and bursts into flames. Though she is injured, she manages to drag herself and her unconscious mother out of the wreckage, and amid the chaos that ensues, a brilliant young railway surgeon saves her mother's life. Elizabeth feels an immediate connection with Paul Wilcox - though society would never deem a medical man eligible for the daughter of an earl.
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Great Story, Annoying Narration
- By Wren on 06-08-17
- A Lady in the Smoke
- A Victorian Mystery
- By: Karen Odden
- Narrated by: Mary Sarah
DNF Due to Narration
Reviewed: 06-15-23
DNF at 30%. I could not finish due to the audio narration. The voices of the different characters were strange and the pacing was weird. I hope to read the book at some point, as I did like the story so far.
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Dreadful Company
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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When Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, is unexpectedly called to Paris to present at a medical conference, she expects nothing more exciting than professional discourse on zombie reconstructive surgery and skin disease in bogeymen - and hopefully at least one uneventful night at the Opera. Unfortunately for Greta, Paris happens to be infested with a coven of vampires - and not the civilized kind. If she hopes to survive, Greta must navigate the darkest corners of the City of Lights, the maze of ancient catacombs and mine-tunnels underneath the streets.
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What happened with the narrator???
- By JK_ATL on 07-31-18
- Dreadful Company
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
Great Urban Fantasy
Reviewed: 06-13-23
Dreadful Company is a great follow-up to Strange Practice. I liked Dreadful Company better, actually. Vivian Shaw enlarges the world of this urban fantasy not only geographically and with the number of characters and types of supernatural beings, but also in the emotional lives and connections, especially Greta and Varney. There is a romance that I was hoping for, and a surprise later in the book. The story led to some Bad Book Decisions at 2 AM, which is the best endorsement I can give. The narration by Suzannah Hampton is excellent and adds a layer to the novel. I am greatly looking forward to the third book.
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A Brush with Shadows
- Lady Darby Mystery Series, Book 6
- By: Anna Lee Huber
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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July 1831. It's been 15 years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.
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Narrator is no better than a robot
- By Veaux on 06-16-18
- A Brush with Shadows
- Lady Darby Mystery Series, Book 6
- By: Anna Lee Huber
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
Good Mystery
Reviewed: 06-03-23
A Brush with Shadows is a good mystery, taking up when Kiera and Gage are on their honeymoon. They cut it short when Gage gets a missive from his maternal grandfather asking him to come to the family home, for his cousin and grandfather’s heir is missing. As Kiera and Sebastian investigate, we learn a lot about Sebastian’s childhood and his difficult family. The family history revealing itself is the more interesting part of the book, which is very atmospheric taking place on the moors. It wasn’t very hard to figure out who the culprit is. I listened to the audiobook, which was well done with a good narrator. Looking forward to the next book.
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Strange Practice
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
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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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Keep Google open while you read
- By Christine Ehren on 02-23-18
- Strange Practice
- By: Vivian Shaw
- Narrated by: Suzannah Hampton
Good Urban Fantasy
Reviewed: 05-24-23
A very good urban fantasy with a doctor whose clientele consists of the undead. The book starts with an attack on a vampire, Lord Varney, and the action keeps going from there. I enjoyed the world building in this supernatural London. The reasons for the undead needing Dr. Helsing’s services were interesting and creative. I liked the relationships between characters and the care they showed one another, living or undead.
I listened to the audiobook. The narrator did a good job. It was a fun book and I am looking forward to the next.
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Brooklynaire
- By: Sarina Bowen
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Virginia Rose, Joe Hempel
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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You'd think a billion dollars, a professional hockey team and a six-bedroom mansion on the Promenade would satisfy a guy. You'd be wrong. For seven years Rebecca has brightened my office with her wit and her smile. She manages both my hockey team and my sanity. I don't know when I started waking in the night, craving her. All I know is that one whiff of her perfume ruins my concentration. And her laugh makes me hard.
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What a let down.
- By ShaSha (Lover of Audiobooks!) on 04-14-18
- Brooklynaire
- By: Sarina Bowen
- Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Virginia Rose, Joe Hempel
Enjoyable
Reviewed: 05-12-23
Brooklynaire is a light, fun hockey/billionaire romance with a friends to lovers storyline. Rebecca and Nate are very likable. There are some funny moments and some really heartfelt ones. I listened to the audiobook. Zachary Webber, Virginia Rose and Joe Hempel (narrating scenes from the past) did very good jobs. I enjoyed Brooklynaire and am looking forward to the next in the series.
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