Halo
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Bitter
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not my favorite
- By Halo on 06-17-24
- Bitter
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Not my favorite
Reviewed: 06-17-24
I am a die-hard fan of Emezi’s other books but this one fell flat for me.
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Pet
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Christopher Myers
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 541
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 472
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 471
There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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BLACKITY BLACK ASS BRILLIANCE
- By Jameelah Jones on 11-09-19
- Pet
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Christopher Myers
I sobbed like a baby
Reviewed: 06-13-24
Three times I sobbed like a baby. Once near the beginning, and twice at the end. I am a full-grown adult. That is how powerful this book is.
May we all have angels in our lives, brave enough to see,
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Freshwater
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 727
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 643
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Story4 out of 5 stars 640
An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self. It centers around a young Nigerian woman, Ada, who develops separate selves within her as a result of being born "with one foot on the other side". Unsettling, heart-wrenching, dark, and powerful, Freshwater is a sharp evocation of a rare way of experiencing the world, one that illuminates how we all construct our identities. Ada begins her life in the south of Nigeria as a troubled baby and a source of deep concern to her family.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just ok.
- By Alexa on 07-02-18
- Freshwater
- By: Akwaeke Emezi
- Narrated by: Akwaeke Emezi
Nothing short of awe-inspiring
Reviewed: 06-10-24
This book shook me to my core. I didn’t think that any living person on this earth could be this honest, which makes sense, because Akwaeke is a dead thing. 10/10
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Beacon 23
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 406
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Story4 out of 5 stars 353
For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. It is a lonely job and a thankless one for the most part. Until something goes wrong. Until a ship is in distress. In the twenty-third century, this job has moved into outer space. A network of beacons allows ships to travel across the Milky Way at many times the speed of light. These beacons are built to be robust. They never break down. They never fail. At least, they aren’t supposed to.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent listen
- By Rachel M. Reed on 02-06-23
- Beacon 23
- By: Hugh Howey
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Gut-wrenching; beautiful; perfection
Reviewed: 05-04-24
One of the best books I have ever read. Hugh Howey understands the true nature of humanity. This portrait of a man in isolation working through his PTSD to find a version of peace that he can live with is as much a global story as it is a personal one. I’m in awe of Howey’s writing. I treasure it.
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A Court of Mist and Fury
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 23 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 54,657
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 49,401
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Story5 out of 5 stars 49,363
Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. Though she’s now been granted the powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is haunted by her time Under the Mountain and the terrible deeds she performed to save the lives of Tamlin and his people. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre’s hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Shippers will either Love it or Hate it
- By Natalie C on 05-05-16
- A Court of Mist and Fury
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
What a steaming pile of misogynistic trash
Reviewed: 02-16-24
Spoiler alert: in this world, women get bonded to male partners for life whether they want to or not. Also, the man who date drugs you will also force you to visit him once a month and then train you to spy on your ex-boyfriend for him. What a piece of shit book. Burn it.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,392
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65,193
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65,133
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- By The Story Adict on 09-13-17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
Worst book I have ever read.
Reviewed: 02-06-24
What a domestic violence / love addiction glorifying pile of trash. Toxic af. Do not read this if you have even a scrap of self-esteem.
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Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 195
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 194
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community.
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5 out of 5 stars
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As Good as It Gets
- By Nico on 09-14-21
- Care Work
- Dreaming Disability Justice
- By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Poorly written; outdated ideas; alienating content
Reviewed: 12-28-23
I have several issues with this book, but I won’t lower my rating further because I respect the hustle of the author.
To start; I am a disabled queer and trans person who has been both femme and butch/masc in my life, and currently hovers somewhere in between. From my point of view, I found the author’s interpretation of Butch and masc folks to be wholly uncharitable, and the description of femme v butch/masc dynamics to be incredibly reductive. Additionally, the prose is generally weak, and often cloying.
More importantly, though, I thought this would be a book about disability justice, as stated in the subtitle. Instead, it was just the author’s incredibly self-absorbed journey through applying a disability justice framework to niche experiences in her own life. I believe that Disability Justice is a framework that can and should be applied expansively, not just self-reflexively to a tiny nexus of queer/activist community in Oakland/Seattle/Toronto. (Yes, I know that the personal is political.)
This book is essentially a movement meta-commentary, about dynamics within activist communities along various axes of oppression. I don’t think it does DJ any favors.
I look forward to moving onto reading more engaging, thoughtful and expansive content from DJ’s actual founders, who write a lot more cogently on this topic.
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The Spear Cuts Through Water
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 351
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 325
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Story4 out of 5 stars 325
The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unlistenable
- By Justin West on 08-01-24
- The Spear Cuts Through Water
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Joel de la Fuente
The Greatest Book Ever Written
Reviewed: 10-22-22
Simply, and fantastically, the Greatest Book Ever Written. 10/10. I can’t wait to listen to it again.
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The Vanished Birds
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 189
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Story4 out of 5 stars 190
A ship captain, unfettered from time. A mute child, burdened with unimaginable power. A millennia-old woman, haunted by lifetimes of mistakes. In this captivating debut of connection across space and time, these outsiders will find in each other the things they lack: a place of love and belonging. A safe haven. A new beginning. But the past hungers for them, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Character driven, tech minimum space opera
- By David on 02-08-20
- The Vanished Birds
- A Novel
- By: Simon Jimenez
- Narrated by: Shayna Small
One of the best books I have ever read
Reviewed: 06-08-22
Not only is the narrator absolutely superb, this is so clearly one of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. Jimenez is a genius. Can’t wait for the next one!!
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The Unseen World
- A Novel
- By: Liz Moore
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
- Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,916
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,613
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,618
Ada Sibelius is raised by David, a single father and head of a computer science lab in Boston. Homeschooled, she accompanies her loving father - brilliant, eccentric, socially inept - to work every day. By 12 she is a painfully shy prodigy. At the same time that the lab begins to gain acclaim, David's mind begins to falter, and his mysterious past comes into question. When her father moves into a nursing home, Ada is taken in by one of David's colleagues. She embarks on a mission to uncover her father's secrets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Appreciated but Not Enjoyed
- By Margot T. on 01-21-17
- The Unseen World
- A Novel
- By: Liz Moore
- Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
The most beautiful book I have ever read
Reviewed: 11-02-19
The most beautiful, heartbreaking book I have ever read. Beautifully performed by Lisa Flanagan. Cannot recommend highly enough.
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