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Love and Decay: Volume 1, Episodes 1-6
- By: Rachel Higginson
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Zombies - as if that wasn’t enough to ruin any girl’s dream of a happily-ever-after. A vaccination gone oh so wrong and a huge portion of the world’s population was turned into zombies. Reagan Willow is forced out of her home when her parents become casualties of the horrid Zombie Apocalypse. With the help of her best friend, Haley, they’ve become experts on surviving the dangers of a world thrust into chaos and decay.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good listen!
- By Mama Cupcake on 03-19-25
- Love and Decay: Volume 1, Episodes 1-6
- By: Rachel Higginson
- Narrated by: Laura Jennings
Finally on audible!
Reviewed: 05-28-23
I first read this series as it was coming out in cereals on Kindle. I loved it then, and was ecstatic to see it as an audiobook. The characters are rich, complex, and nuanced. And the world is interesting and complex. The romance is a slow burn, but totally worth the wait!
I can’t wait for the rest of the series to be on audible!
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Shades of Gray
- A KGI Novel
- By: Maya Banks
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 879
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 796
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 795
P. J. and Cole were sharpshooting rivals on the same KGI team and enjoyed a spirited, uncomplicated camaraderie. Until the night they gave in to their desires and suddenly took their relationship one step further. In the aftermath of their one-night stand, they're called out on a mission that goes terribly wrong, and P. J. walks away from KGI, resolved not to drag her teammates into the murky shadows she’s poised to delve into.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed by the change of narrator.
- By Alisa on 12-31-12
- Shades of Gray
- A KGI Novel
- By: Maya Banks
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
Great book, terrible narration!
Reviewed: 03-01-18
I love maya banks, she is a great author and I own several of her series. KGI is a great addition, hot determined, sexy, possessive , military men make for a great series. Shades of grey is a great addition to the series, with the gut wrenching plot twists that mark KGI Banks isn’t holding back the puches. This book isn’t for the faint of heart or for anyone who may have experienced sexual assault. I really love the way Banks shows how close a military team is, they are a true family, sometimes the only people the others have to turn to in a crisis and they’ll do or die for each other.
My one problem with this book is the narrator. It appears after book five the audio contract switched from recorded books to penguin audio, and the spectacular narration of Harry Berkeley was replaced with the oh so frustrating Adam Paul. Paul general narration voice is actually pretty nice to listen, but in some ways that makes the awe fullness of character voices worse, because I know he could do them nicely. Instead all of the males, strong, built military men, sound nasally and some nearly shrill, the women either sound masculine or nails on chalkboard shrill, and all the keys have a nice hick twang on top of the nasal tone. I nearly cried when Rio, my beautiful Spanish Rio, came on scene sounding like a high pitched southern hick. I kept gritting my teeth hoping it would get better, but it never did, and the longer I listened the more I had to grit my teeth. Finally I had to give up with 3.5 hours remaining and buy the kindle version. Maybe it wouldn’t have been so bad if hadnt had Berkeley’s awesome narration for the first five books, I don’t know. I know that with penguin in charge now there’s likely some contractual reason they can’t have Berkeley do the books but I know penguin has good narrators. I pray that they will have someone better redo these books. Because until they do I won’t be listening past book five.
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Never Surrender
- The Empire's Corps, Book 10
- By: Christopher G. Nuttall
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 949
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 877
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 876
The war isn't going well. Wolfbane's forces are pressing the Commonwealth on multiple fronts, the Commonwealth's fragile political balance is on the verge of shattering, and there's a high-placed spy somewhere within the Commonwealth elite. For Colonel Edward Stalker and his men, the stakes have never been so high. Defeat will mean the end of everything they have fought and died for since their exile from Earth.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Captivating story
- By Jean on 02-15-16
- Never Surrender
- The Empire's Corps, Book 10
- By: Christopher G. Nuttall
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Another great novel from Nuttall
Reviewed: 09-30-17
I absolutely love this entire series, and Never Surrender was a great addition to the Empire Corps. Nuttall returns to the worlds of the fallen empire as the Commonwealth and Wolfbane continue to rage war against each other. in this book he examines interesting concepts of how two nations at war must treat each other and legal and illegal combatants and spies. As always I enjoyed how he turned what might have been simply a pure military sci-fi book into a great opportunity to examine issues of political and social nature both relating to pure civilian life and to the military.
Never surrender begins shortly after the end of Retreat Hell. The forces of the CEF captured at the end of book 8 are now taken captive as POWs. If you’ve been reading the series you recognize the planet Meridian on which they’re being held from book7 Reality Check. For me personally I enjoyed the tie in with that book because while I found the examination of the education system of the empire interesting I hadn’t been entirely sure what the point of having that book in the middle of the series actually was. Particularly between such important books as the battle for Lakshmbai and the battle of Thule. So bringing back characters such as Gary Kylie Darren Austin and involving them in the rescue brought a much greater importance to book 7.
Jeffrey Kafer did the narration once again for this audiobook and as always I am very pleased with his narration. He has a very good voice and does very nice distinct characters in particular I think his voice carries very well for the military personnel. My only complaint with the narration is something I’ve noticed with a few of the other books in the series as well as this one, I don’t know if this is Kay first fault or the studios but on a few occasions when a voice should be one person he narrates it as a different person. It’s only a few times but I did notice it.
My only problem with this book and the reason it lost the star on story was some continuity errors. In fact if I could lose only half a point I would’ve grabbed the 4.5 stars in story but audible won’t let me do that. Most of these continuity errors were between this book and previous books and not within this book itself and there were only a few. The biggest one was between this book and Reality Check, In the epilogue of Reality Check Gary makes a comment that he has been in the spaceport for five years and everything has been quiet before the Wolfbane ship shows up however in the beginning of Never Surrender the comment has been made that Wolfbane has been on Meridian for five years these two statements are clearly contradictory, also in contradiction with Reality Check Gary says that the spaceport actually had some fairly nice equipment that was put in storage that he then pulled out and had fun trying to hook together however in Never Surrender he says the equipment is old and outdated. In Retreat Hell it’s stated that 5000 soldiers are deployed by the CEF to Thule, later many statements are made that more than 2/3 of those soldiers are unable to be pulled off Thule before Mandy has to pull back. That leaves at least 3000 soldiers on the ground probably closer to 3500. Assuming most of those surrender that’s several thousand soldiers that should’ve been put in POW camps on Meridian however in Never Surrender Colonel Stalker says a few hundred POWs were taken. The last continuity error just gets kind of confused. In Reality Check Kylie begins studying as a nurse, however in never surrender she first has a mental breakdown claiming to have no skills and no training in anything \isnt able to do anything and doesn’t know what she wants to do with her life. However later in the book Jasmine claims to have talked to her about about wanting to do nursing and how Kylie was studying nursing. These three things clearly contradict each other and make no sense. As I said these aren’t super major continuity errors but they are things I definitely noticed and bugged me.
I would recommend these books to anybody interested in military sci-fi but also to readers who like books which examine socio political and economic issues and are willing to branch out and read books that involve military clashes as well. I believe these books are most definitely worth a credit even worth paying cash price too.
My last comment is for audible itself I also have the Kindle edition of several of these books I have noticed that the author writes several afterwards which makes comments particularly relating to a lot of the issues he is discussing in the chapter pre-blurbs. These are often very interesting however Audible does not record these for the audiobook listeners so unless you have the paperback or Kindle editions we are gypped out of getting these. audible I would like to have these added to all the books please thank you!
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