Stephen Jacob
- 14
- reviews
- 10
- helpful votes
- 68
- ratings
-
Hard Knocks
- SC Marva Collins, Book 3
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 391
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 346
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 346
The Marva Collins runs into unexpected problems a long way from port. Faced with some hard decisions and uncertain about the choices, Ishmael has to roll the dice with inadequate information.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Weaker than the previous installments in this seri
- By Douglas Sundseth on 05-23-24
- Hard Knocks
- SC Marva Collins, Book 3
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Ishmael is back solving problems!
Reviewed: 05-09-24
I loved this book. Ishmael is back, with his friends/crewmates, having to solve problems creatively. This might be the most like the Ishmael we know and love from the Share books.
I'd also like to note that the narrations from Jeffrey Kafer on this trilogy is really good. when Kafer first started narrating Nathan's books, I feel like his tone was all wrong -- too much of a mil sci-fi voice, for quiet, calm books -- but at he's done more of Nathan's books he's really grown into voicing them appropriately. Kudos!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 26,626
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 24,722
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24,633
Paint your toes. Pick up the wrong coffee and bagel order. Drive from Brooklyn to Jersey in traffic so slow you want to tear your hair out. It’s amazing all the useless things I can accomplish while on hold for three hours with customer service. Three hours when I should be getting the Date-in-a-Box website ready to launch at the big business expo in a few days. Except my shiny new website is glitching, and my inner rage-monster is ready to scorch some earth...when he finally picks up. Not the robot voice I expected but a real live human named Kal.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Greatest Audible Preformance
- By Apple momma on 10-24-20
- Call Me Maybe
- By: Cara Bastone
- Narrated by: Luci Christian, Neil Hellegers
Delightfully sweet, charming romance
Reviewed: 02-16-24
I really liked that this didn't really follow the standard formula/tropes, or at least did so with a lighter touch. A charming story you can get invested in, with compelling characters, and a plot more typical for a romcom than a romance. A couple of things that were bugging me got satisfactorily resolved/explained later in the story. No notes.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Fault in Our Stars
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd, John Green, Laura Grafton
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 630
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 527
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 526
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Probably in the top 5 books you will ever read.
- By Mel on 02-10-24
- The Fault in Our Stars
- By: John Green
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd, John Green, Laura Grafton
So engaging you might not notice it's Literature
Reviewed: 02-05-24
John Green pulls off the coup of giving us important literature in a story so delightfully engaging that the fact that we are reading something capital I important in no way subtracts from how thoroughly we are taken in and pulled along by the breathtaking thrill of the plot and characters.
I loved this book. It made me laugh, it made me grin, it warmed my heart, it made me cry, and it kept me from sleep.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
A Stitch in Time
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- By: Andrew J. Robinson
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Robinson
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 604
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 533
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 533
For nearly a decade Garak has longed for just one thing—to go home. Exiled on a space station, surrounded by aliens who loathe and distrust him, going back to Cardassia has been Garak's one dream. Now, finally, he is home. But home is a world whose landscape is filled with death and destruction. Desperation and dust are constant companions and luxury is a glass of clean water and a warm place to sleep.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Wow
- By Jesse on 08-01-23
- A Stitch in Time
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- By: Andrew J. Robinson
- Narrated by: Andrew J. Robinson
What a great back story!
Reviewed: 08-30-23
What's not to love about a book about Garak, written by Garak, read by Garak?! Not only is Andrew Robinson an actor who can bring a subtle and multifaceted character to life such that everybody loves him but he can narrate wonderfully (not a huge surprise) AND write an outstanding novel; a very different skill set. It was a delight to find out more about one of my very favorite DS9 characters (probably my overall favorite), and in such an engaging manner. Huge kudos!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,035
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 916
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 914
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: To escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four.
-
4 out of 5 stars
-
Awesome with a few hitches.
- By Levi Fay on 10-01-21
- Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Delightfully genre-bending story
Reviewed: 09-25-22
This story kept surprising me with twists I did not expect. Not least of which is the implacable nature of its genre. The lead character is a young trans woman, and at its core it is a story of love, acceptance, and found/chosen family. I won't spoil the story by saying more, but this is an enchanting story well worth your time and attention.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,252
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 10,946
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,929
When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food-delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old acquaintance, Tom, who works at what he calls “an animal rights organization”. Tom’s team needs a last-minute grunt to handle things on their next field visit. Jamie, eager to do anything, immediately signs on. What Tom doesn't tell Jamie is that the animals his team cares for are not here on Earth. Not our Earth, at at least. In an alternate dimension, dinosaur-like creatures named Kaiju roam a warm and human-free world.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I'm listening with a permanent smile on my face
- By Lucy A. Pithecus on 03-15-22
- The Kaiju Preservation Society
- By: John Scalzi
- Narrated by: Wil Wheaton
Delightful, fun book with delightful, funnarration
Reviewed: 07-25-22
Scalzi's books are always good, and always entertaining, but KPS is simply delightful fun. Wheaton's narration on this is a joy to listen to. Perfect.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Hunters Unlucky
- By: Abigail Hilton
- Narrated by: Rish Outfield
- Length: 24 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 393
-
Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 362
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 361
Storm is born into a world of secrets - an island no one visits, names no one will say, and deaths that no one will talk about. The answers are locked in his species' troubled past, guarded by the fierce creasia cats. But when Storm's friends are threatened, he decides that he must act, pitting himself against the creasia to show that they can be resisted and outwitted. To prove his point, he must stay one step ahead of clever hunters, who have more to lose than Storm imagines.
-
2 out of 5 stars
-
McCafferyish
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 11-15-17
- Hunters Unlucky
- By: Abigail Hilton
- Narrated by: Rish Outfield
My 9-year-old says this is his favorite book ever!
Reviewed: 02-04-22
Hunters Unlucky is such a great story, and quite unique. I loved it, and am listening through it for a second time. My 13yo saw the paperback -- a 692 page brick -- on my bookshelf and asked about it. They read it, and loved it. Then my 9yo read it. It is *not* large text, and it is almost seven hundred pages. He *devoured* it in 3 days. I was stunned. He's a good reader, but not usually *quite* that voracious.
This book is absolutely excellent for adults and kids alike (advanced 9yos, middle graders and up).
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8,374
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,489
-
Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7,470
For five grand a month and a million-dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn't care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year. But they didn't tell him about the pixies.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
I LOVED this book!
- By Kristin Butner on 04-24-21
- The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
Another wonderful character driven story
Reviewed: 08-29-21
Another wonderful character driven story from Nathan Lowell. I read it first on Kindle and engorged it so much that I bought the audiobook and listened to it. Not only is Lowell's story fantastic but the narration is excellent. Top notch.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Mount Fitz Roy
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 29 hrs and 26 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,505
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,109
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 4,099
The sequel to the number one Audible Best Seller Earthcore, Mount Fitz Roy continues the tale of Patrick O’Doyle and Bertha Lybrand, who were part of the horror show that occurred far below the mountains of Utah. They learn that the "mother of all motherlodes” discovered there was not unique, that there is another deposit similar to it three miles beneath the towering peak of Cerro Chaltén on the disputed border between Chile and Argentina. O'Doyle, a middle-aged former member of a disgraced black-ops unit, gets his aging team back together to go after this fortune.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Incredible
- By David on 12-03-20
- Mount Fitz Roy
- By: Scott Sigler
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Earthcore was great. Mt. Fitzroy is Earthcore++!
Reviewed: 12-25-20
This book is a sequel to Earthcore (https://www.audible.com/pd/Earthcore-Audiobook/B072LVMNZ3). Earthcore was a wild ride of an action thriller, and Mount Fitz Roy is a fantastic sequel. Scott Sigler's book is excellent, and the audiobook is wonderfully read by Ray Porter.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Home Run
- Smuggler's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 3
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars 931
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars 798
-
Story5 out of 5 stars 798
In this final volume of the Smuggler's Tales, Natalya and Zoya wind up on a mission of mercy back into Toe-Hold space to find out why one of Usoko Mining company's smelters has gone dark. They find an expanding cloud of debris, a crippled ship, and a fleet of mining barges that can't leave the system.
-
5 out of 5 stars
-
Another wonderful Lowell story!
- By Stephen Jacob on 04-04-20
- Home Run
- Smuggler's Tales from the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, Book 3
- By: Nathan Lowell
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Another wonderful Lowell story!
Reviewed: 04-04-20
I loved this and the two books preceding it. I feel in love with Nathan Lowell's Trader's Tales (first book in the series: Quarter Share), and am always enthusiastic for more from him in this universe. The pair off main characters in this trilogy demonstrate how Lowell can keep creating wonderfully competent characters who really feel like your close friends by the end of the story. Bravo!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
4 people found this helpful