Raymond A. Finch III
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Hunger
- Unbound, Book 3
- By: Nicoli Gonnella
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 28 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Felix has survived the tribulations of the Void and returned to the Continent. Civilization, at long last. Yet the city of Haarwatch has a terrible new issue. The Inquisition has arrived to stamp out sorcery and unnatural monstrosities...and Felix still has the Primordial Maw riding shotgun in his soul. Now, he must find his friends and a way to remove a section of his very essence before everything comes crashing down. All the while, sinister plots in Haarwatch's center promise dire, bloody consequences for anyone who catches the Inquisition’s eye.
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Great story, but.....
- By Charles H. on 01-09-24
- Hunger
- Unbound, Book 3
- By: Nicoli Gonnella
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
good but not exceptional
Reviewed: 04-08-23
The narrator is great.
The story is okay
The characters are good, except the villains. The villains are very predictable.
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Kill the Dead
- Sandman Slim, Book 2
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, crawled out of Hell, took bloody revenge for his girlfriend’s murder, and saved the world along the way. After that, what do you do for an encore? You take a lousy job tracking down monsters for money. It’s a depressing gig, but it pays for your beer and cigarettes. But in L.A., things can always get worse. Like when Lucifer comes to town to supervise his movie biography and drafts Stark as his bodyguard.
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EVERYBODY IN CALIFORNIA IS A BUDDHIST FOR ABOUT 15
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 12-20-14
- Kill the Dead
- Sandman Slim, Book 2
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
The pinnacle of edgelord entertainment.
Reviewed: 08-17-22
The lead character is a stereotypical try-hard edgelord, and everything else in the story just supports that. I listened to the entire first book hoping for some kind of character growth, or something interesting, but there's still nothing there but grim, juvenile edginess for its own sake. I didn't manage to get through this one.
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The Shearing: DarkEnergy
- Steel City Series, Book 1
- By: N. J. Colesar
- Narrated by: Eric Carlino
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
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Liz McAllister is looking forward to a much-needed spring break. But when she travels home to Clearfield, Pennsylvania, she discovers that something strange is happening around her sleepy little hometown. The peace is abruptly shattered as earthquakes split the ground and falling satellites burn across the sky. Hordes of vicious monsters materialize across the world and the Earth is engulfed in chaos. Cut off from the outside world, Liz teams up with Mike and their small group of friends.
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meh
- By kevin on 07-16-20
- The Shearing: DarkEnergy
- Steel City Series, Book 1
- By: N. J. Colesar
- Narrated by: Eric Carlino
Who's the target audience?
Reviewed: 08-17-22
I don't know who this book was written for. The plot and characters are simplistic enough for young kids, think He-man or Thundercats complexity. Then death and dismemberment is everywhere. The magical stuff here seems drawn from tabletop and computer RPGs. The dialog is awkward and unnatural throughout, and none of the characters act like people. The world goes into chaos and the lead characters experience magical events, even gaining magic powers. Through all of that no one freaks out. The response from everyone is calm, but passing, interest. It's like none of it is a big deal. It's a jumbled mess.
I couldn't finish this thing it's just bad.
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Sandman Slim
- Sandman Slim, Book 1
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown - to Hell - where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan's fallen angels. That was 11 years ago. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle.
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jack bauer + spawn = sandman slim
- By Mike Naka on 11-03-12
- Sandman Slim
- Sandman Slim, Book 1
- By: Richard Kadrey
- Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
The narrator was good...
Reviewed: 07-21-22
The narrator did an excellent job with what he had.
That's the best I can say for the book.
The characters were all flat and generally uninteresting.
The main character seemed like he was based on an angsty adolescent boy's idea of what a supernatural badass should be. He was a gladiator/assassin in Hell, and he's basically unkillable. In each situation presented he cycles through a few activities, he makes a juvenile sounding threat, he makes a flippant remark to the effect of "I don't have to play by your rules!", or he's trying to kill someone. His general attitude constantly brought to mind an obnoxious teenager.
There were a few times in the book when I thought something was meant to be a joke. Maybe for someone with a drastically different sense of humor and a different idea of what makes a character interesting this could be a decent book. For me it was tiresome.
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All Gifts, Bestowed
- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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The next big thing in artificial intelligence is here. Codenamed Cronus, the machine is capable of having its own thoughts and ideas - an absolute dream come true, until it wasn’t. When Cronus responds with the word “No” to a specific task it is assigned, Anagnorisis Technologies brings in Gilles Guattari to investigate. His combined background in psychiatry, psychology, and AI research makes him their best hope in evaluating Cronus, and determining if the machine is only malfunctioning or if it has become something more.
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Two Books in One, But Neither Realized
- By Melinda Mae on 06-27-19
- All Gifts, Bestowed
- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
This could have been written by an AI.
Reviewed: 12-14-21
Throughout this entire book there may be five or six times when a character speaks in a natural, casual way. Most of the dialog comes across as formal or simply unnatural. There are robots in this book, but even the human characters come across as robotic.
The story is, at turns, tedious and baffling.
The first half of this book is made up of tedious, mundane conversations between an engineer and his wife, and then even more tedious conversations between this engineer and his coworkers.
The second half of the book involves this engineer being called back to evaluate the AI again years later. This time he's robbed in his own home before he can leave. Then he is pursued by unknown assailants while he flees with the woman who robbed him. There's an odd divergence into the hobo lifestyle as the two are on the run.
Then the book ends in a rather blunt and unsatisfying manner. None of the odd occurrences are explained in a satisfactory way. So the latter half of the book seems like a random assortment of events, without purpose.
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The Awakening
- The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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When Breen Kelly was a girl, her father would tell her stories of magical places. Now she’s an anxious 20-something mired in student debt and working a job she hates. But one day she stumbles upon a shocking discovery: Her mother has been hiding an investment account in her name. It has been funded by her long-lost father - and it’s worth nearly four million dollars.
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Ditch the Witch Stories. Nothing intriguing here.
- By GMa on 11-25-20
- The Awakening
- The Dragon Heart Legacy, Book 1
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Barrie Kreinik
A good start.
Reviewed: 12-18-20
The narration was excellent.
The story was good, but ended where I felt the last act was going to begin. Things built up, but there was not really a climax. I'd prefer if it ended better, but I'm still tempted to look into the next one.
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