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Steal the Light
- Thieves, Volume 1
- By: Lexi Blake
- Narrated by: Kitty Bang
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Zoey and Daniel were childhood sweethearts until a violent car crash took his life and left her shattered. When Daniel returned from the grave as a vampire, his only interest in Zoey was in keeping her safely apart from the secrets of his dark world. He has vowed to protect her, but his heart seems as cold as the night he calls home. Five years later, a mysterious new client named Lucas Halfer offers Zoey a fortune to steal the Light of Alhorra. The search for the Light leads Zoey into the arms of an earthbound faery prince.
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Really wanted to like this story!
- By NightRunner on 04-04-20
- Steal the Light
- Thieves, Volume 1
- By: Lexi Blake
- Narrated by: Kitty Bang
Cheesy
Reviewed: 11-01-17
This is a knock-off of the Twilight series with cheesy sex scenes. I won't bother with any other books in the series.
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Accused
- Rosato & DiNunzio, Book 1
- By: Lisa Scottoline
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Bennie Rosato, Mary DiNunzio, Judy Carrier, and Anne Murphy are back with all cylinders firing in Accused. Mary Dinuzio has just been promoted to partner and is about to take on her most unusual case yet, brought to the firm by a thirteen-year-old genius with a penchant for beekeeping. Allegra Gardner's sister Fiona was murdered six years ago, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case: the accused, Lonnie Stall, was seen fleeing the scene; his blood was on Fiona and her blood was on him; most damningly, Lonnie Stall pleaded guilty.
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A "chick" legal thriller
- By Wayne on 09-25-15
- Accused
- Rosato & DiNunzio, Book 1
- By: Lisa Scottoline
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Irritating
Reviewed: 02-21-17
The story is so-so but what makes this book incredibly irritating is the performance. I don't, however, think this is the actress' fault. I think there's a director at the bottom of the problem. The voices used for the heroine's parents and the parents' friends are done at a volume not usually heard outside a Chuck-E-Cheese. I imagine this choice was made to convey that the characters are elderly. It makes listening to this book a minor form of torture.
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The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Dramatized)
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Ian Carmichael, Peter Jones, Martin Jarvis
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when Lord Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favourite chair. A straighforward death by natural causes? Perhaps... but why can no one remember seeing the general the day he died?
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Classic Cozy Mystery
- By jayneen duffy on 03-11-16
Classic Cozy Mystery
Reviewed: 03-11-16
Ms Sayers detective stories are in the cozy mystery camp, not violent and sex is alluded to, not described.
This one is a performance piece with Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter. It's entirely enjoyable and a relaxing listen. My only complaint is that Audible hasn't provided the entire Lord Peter series.
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The Paper Magician
- The Paper Magician, Book 1
- By: Charlie N. Holmberg
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Ceony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. And once she's bonded to paper, that will be her only magic... forever. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined.
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The narrator needs to relax
- By Ashley on 09-15-14
- The Paper Magician
- The Paper Magician, Book 1
- By: Charlie N. Holmberg
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
Cozy Story
Reviewed: 02-18-16
This is a nice story. We all know how it will end but it's a pleasant read.
The narrator is not good, but not irritatingly bad. Her English accent disappears for lengthy periods but it always comes back.
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- By: Jean Kerr
- Narrated by: Marni Webb
- Length: 2 hrs and 24 mins
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This collection of essays observes the perils of motherhood, wifehood, selfhood, and other assorted challenges. Since its publication in 1957, it has sold millions of copies and has been adapted into a Broadway play, a film, a TV series, and now an audiobook. Jean Kerr's parodies of the clichéd 1950s prescription for glamorous or maternal feminine behavior still resonate today as we enter the 21st century.
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Atrocious Quality
- By jayneen duffy on 11-17-15
- Please Don't Eat the Daisies
- By: Jean Kerr
- Narrated by: Marni Webb
Atrocious Quality
Reviewed: 11-17-15
I loved the content of the book and the performance is great but the quality of the recording is terrible! It reminds me of my first transistor radio circa 1963.
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The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plainold "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.
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Macgyver on Mars
- By Michael G Kurilla on 06-21-13
- The Martian
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: R. C. Bray
Excellent
Reviewed: 11-13-15
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
You don't even have to like science fiction to enjoy this book. Honestly, this is the best novel I've read in several years.
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The President's Shadow
- The Culper Ring Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
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A severed arm, found buried in the White House Rose Garden. A lethal message with terrible consequences for the Presidency. And a hidden secret in one family's past that will have repercussions for the entire nation. There are stories no one knows. Hidden stories. I find those stories for a living. To most, it looks like Beecher White has an ordinary job. A young staffer with the National Archives in Washington, DC, he's responsible for safekeeping the government's most important documents...and, sometimes, its most closely held secrets.
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Brad Meltzer and Scott Brick Do Excellent Work!
- By C. S. on 06-19-15
- The President's Shadow
- The Culper Ring Series
- By: Brad Meltzer
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Cheesy
Reviewed: 11-12-15
I hadn't read any of Mr. Meltzer's' works but I heard him interviewed on Aisha Tyler's podcast and it piqued my interest. I won't be reading any others. This book seemed like the Silhouette Romance version of a spy/suspense novel, extremely adolescent and cheesy.
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Flesh and Blood
- A Scarpetta Novel, Book 22
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
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It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday, and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with Benton Wesley, her FBI profiler husband, when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so shiny they could be newly minted? Her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with uncanny precision as he unloaded groceries from his car.
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Series badly needs to change focus
- By GH on 11-25-14
- Flesh and Blood
- A Scarpetta Novel, Book 22
- By: Patricia Cornwell
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
Last Scarpetta book I'll buy
Reviewed: 01-30-15
The scarpetta books don't stand alone, cliff hanger endings are meant to drag you from one to the next. I always resent cliff hangers, I think I paid for a story not an episode when I bought the book.
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