Robert Davis
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Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia
- Zoey Ashe, Book 3
- By: Jason Pargin
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 531
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 485
Zoey Ashe wakes up every day feeling like she’s trying to steer a battleship while tied to the propeller. The twenty-three-year-old heiress to a criminal empire is navigating a futuristic world of high-tech liars and cutthroats, forced to learn the rules of a devious game she never asked to play. Now she’s facing a crisis that is both bigger and stranger than all that came before: The gleaming new city of Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival, which every year precedes the equally massive annual drunken riot.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I really hope there’s an next installment 
- By DangerMouse on 03-10-24
- Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia
- Zoey Ashe, Book 3
- By: Jason Pargin
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
It’s a Jason Pargin Book
Reviewed: 11-24-23
It’s always great and always leaves your questioning your own beliefs. This book is 10/10 in everything you love about Pargin novels.
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Trick of the Night
- Detective Matt Ballard, Book 5
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 566
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 536
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 535
Photography student Toby Unsworth has found the location for the perfect night-time shoot. A cobbled street in the old part of Fenfleet. Later, when he looks at the images on his laptop, he thinks he sees a woman's face in the window of an old, disused building. He asks his housemate Alex to come and take a look . . . Two days later, Toby and Alex are dead. Carbon monoxide poisoning. An unfortunate accident. But Alex's mother doesn't believe it. She hires Matt and Liz to find out the truth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Another disappointment
- By Film fan on 11-14-22
- Trick of the Night
- Detective Matt Ballard, Book 5
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
You know what you’re getting
Reviewed: 09-19-23
If you like Joy Ellis’ writing you’ll like this book!
A classic with twists, turns and a satisfying ending.
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Playground
- By: Aron Beauregard
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,243
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,126
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,126
Three low-income families have been given a handsome retainer to join Geraldine Borden for a day at her cliffside estate. All the parents must do to collect the rest of their money is allow their children to test out the revolutionary playground equipment Geraldine has been working on for decades. But there’s a reason the structures in the bowels of her gothic castle have taken so long to develop—they were never meant to see the light of day.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not for the weak-stomached.
- By Dan Bugbee on 01-26-23
- Playground
- By: Aron Beauregard
- Narrated by: Lila Kerry
Okay I guess?
Reviewed: 08-09-23
Firstly, the audio portion of the book is phenomenal. Lila does a great job of bringing you into the story, giving the characters their own voice both in accent and tone.
The story itself is engrossing for the most party, but Christ almighty there is so much alliteration in Aron’s use of adjectives that it is distracting. It pulled me right out of the action to think “did we really need 3 adjectives all beginning with the letter G?”
Also, the sex kinda detracts from the plot in my opinion.
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Dead West
- The Nils Shapiro Series, Book 4
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,400
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 3,196
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,185
Nils Shapiro accepts what appears to be an easy, lucrative job: find out if Beverly Mayer’s grandson is foolishly throwing away his trust fund in Hollywood, especially now, in the wake of his fiancée’s tragic death. However, that easy job becomes much more complicated once Nils arrives in Los Angeles, a disorienting place where the sunshine hides dark secrets. Nils quickly suspects that Ebben Mayer’s fiancée was murdered and that Ebben himself may have been the target.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not good - Narration is awful
- By Matt on 08-05-20
- Dead West
- The Nils Shapiro Series, Book 4
- By: Matt Goldman
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
Classic Shapiro, Steep Decline in Narration
Reviewed: 03-20-23
Pros:
Another good mystery, bonus twist at the end, good dialogue
Cons:
Don’t like the change in how Jameson behaves for much of the story even if the reasoning is understandable
The narrator change threw me off but I wrote it off to being change. As the story went on, I only grew to dislike the new voice actor more. Voices (other than Shapiro) we’re all terrible in their own way.
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FantasticLand
- A Novel
- By: Mike Bockoven
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,571
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,293
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,249
Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absurd...But awesome
- By T.J. on 11-12-17
- FantasticLand
- A Novel
- By: Mike Bockoven
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe, Luke Daniels
Actually chilling
Reviewed: 02-07-23
This is a well written and wonderfully acted modern rendition of Lord of the Flies. I came from the horror/comedy genre and this was a great change of pace.
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Wolf Hunt Trilogy
- By: Jeff Strand
- Narrated by: Scott Thomas
- Length: 20 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 113
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 113
All three of the hilariously bloody and action-packed werewolf novels in one collection!
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5 out of 5 stars
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Three times the fun, a triple Strand Treat!
- By Jamie La Chance on 03-24-21
- Wolf Hunt Trilogy
- By: Jeff Strand
- Narrated by: Scott Thomas
Great book(s)
Reviewed: 02-02-23
Eugene is one my favorite character in literature. Also, the voice acting is spot on throughout the 3 books.
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Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
- By: David Wong, Jason Pargin
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,860
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,649
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,643
In the futuristic city of Tabula Ra$a, Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit. After inheriting a criminal empire, the 23-year-old finds herself under threat from all sides as a rogue's gallery of larger-than-life enemies think they smell weakness. On the eve of the world's most ridiculous Halloween celebration, a steamer trunk-sized box arrives at Zoey's door, and she is shocked to find that it contains a disemboweled corpse. She's even more shocked when that corpse, controlled by an unknown party, rises and goes on a rampage through the house.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved the story but....
- By Brianna Stahl on 11-15-20
- Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
- By: David Wong, Jason Pargin
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
Great book and great performance
Reviewed: 12-01-22
This is one of the few books I’ve listened to where the narrator added to the experience. Each character had their own unique voice that did justice to the unique personalities created by Jason Pargin.
Fantastic through and through.
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