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MacLeod Andrews
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Arielle DeLisle
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Steve Brezenoff
About this listen
It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and a boy and a girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning; Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and dungeon masters her own RPG. They should pick themselves up, continue on their way, and never talk to each other again.
But they don't.
This is a story of two people who do not belong in each other's lives, and who find each other at a time when they desperately need someone who doesn't belong in their lives. A story of those moments when we act like people we aren't in order to figure out who we are. A story of the roles we all play - at school, at home, with our friends, and without our friends - and the one person who might be able to show us who we are underneath it all.
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The Earth is under siege - and no one knows about it because the invaders erase those whom they consume. A handful of men and women stand on the border between the mundane and the magical. They have a special spark of soul - not quite enough to be naturally gifted in spellcraft but greater than the average person, a tiny flame that can ignite incredible potential. They possess the ability to fight back against the Vorid: the ability to become a Contractor.
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Where. Is. The. Sequel!!!!
- By Brina on 07-21-16
By: Andrew Ball
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Chasing Spring
- By: R.S. Grey
- Narrated by: Alia Tavakolian, Ricco Fajardo, Jeannie Tirado
- Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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I thought I'd left Blackwater, Texas, behind for good. I didn't belong in the small town, but my dad wouldn't listen. He dragged me back home in his beat-up truck and dropped a bomb along the way: Chase Matthews was moving in with us. He was the golden boy of my high school, my former best friend, and the last person I wanted sleeping across the hall. His presence was too great a reminder of the ghosts I was trying to forget.
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This book bummed me out.
- By Lauren Helms on 07-06-16
By: R.S. Grey
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Bleeding Violet
- By: Dia Reeves
- Narrated by: Suzy Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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With a head plagued by hallucinations, a medicine cabinet full of pills, and a closet stuffed with frilly, violet dresses, Hanna's tired of being the outcast, the weird girl, the freak. So she runs away to Portero, Texas, in search of a new home. But Portero is a stranger town than Hanna expects. She discovers secrets that would terrify any normal soul. Good thing for Hanna, she's far from normal. As this crazy girl meets an even crazier town, only two things are certain: Anything can happen, and no one is safe.
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Didn't like it. Sorry, not sorry
- By Cii'Em on 02-15-16
By: Dia Reeves
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Our Little Secret
- By: Roz Nay
- Narrated by: Erin Moon
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Angela is being held in a police interrogation room. Her ex's wife has gone missing, and Detective Novak is sure Angela knows something, despite her claim that she's not involved. At Novak's prodding, Angela tells a story going back 10 years, explaining how she met and fell in love with her high school friend HP. But as her past unfolds, she reveals a disconcerting love triangle and a dark, tangled web of betrayals. Is Angela a scorned ex-lover with criminal intent? Or a pawn in someone else's revenge scheme?
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Amazing
- By lisa on 12-31-19
By: Roz Nay
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Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel
- By: Disney Press, A. W. Jantha
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Shortly after moving to Salem, Massachusetts, Max Dennison finds himself in hot water when he accidentally releases a coven of witches from the afterlife. Max, his sister, and his new friends must find a way to stop the witches from carrying out their evil plan. Twenty-five years later, Max and Allison's 17-year-old daughter, Poppy, finds herself face-to-face with the Sanderson sisters in all their sinister glory. When Halloween celebrations don't quite go as planned, it's a race against time as Poppy and her friends fight to save her family and all of Salem from the witches' latest vile scheme.
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These characters deserved SO much more!
- By Edie on 08-29-18
By: Disney Press, and others
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Rebel Belle
- By: Rachel Hawkins
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Harper Price, peerless Southern belle, was born ready for a Homecoming tiara. But after a strange run-in at the dance imbues her with incredible abilities, Harper's destiny takes a turn for the seriously weird. She becomes a Paladin, one of an ancient line of guardians with agility, super strength and lethal fighting instincts.
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Love this!
- By BookishlyBedelia (bridget) on 04-28-16
By: Rachel Hawkins
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The Way You Make Me Feel
- By: Maurene Goo
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on his food truck, the KoBra, alongside her uptight classmate Rose Carver. Not the carefree summer Clara had imagined. But maybe Rose isn't so bad. Maybe the boy named Hamlet (yes, Hamlet) crushing on her is pretty cute. Maybe Clara actually feels invested in her dad's business. What if taking this summer seriously means Clara has to leave her old self behind?
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The summer I stopped being “chill”
- By dataman1945 on 07-11-24
By: Maurene Goo
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Sister Mine
- By: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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"We'd had to be cut free of our mother's womb. Abby and I were fused, you see. But here's the real kicker; Abby had the magic, I didn't." Now adults, Makeda and Abby still share their childhood home. The surgery to separate the two girls left Makeda with what feels like an even worse deformity: no mojo. The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father. Today, Makeda has decided it's high time to move out and make her own life.
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Narrator saves this story
- By Denis A. on 03-21-14
By: Nalo Hopkinson
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Anna Dressed in Blood
- By: Kendare Blake
- Narrated by: August Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now armed with his father's mysterious and deadly atheme, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage.
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Great story for YA readers but ...
- By B. Edwards on 11-12-14
By: Kendare Blake
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Bad Girls Don't Die
- Bad Girls Don't Die Series, Book 1
- By: Katie Alender
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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When Alexis's little sister Kasey becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks she is just being her usual weird self. Things get weirder, though, when their house starts changing. Doors open and close by themselves; water boils on the unlit stove; and an unplugged air conditioner blasts cold air.
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Great for Halloween
- By The Owl on 10-03-18
By: Katie Alender
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My Life Next Door
- By: Huntley Fitzpatrick
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate
- Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
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The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not: loud, numerous, messy, affectionate. And every day from her balcony perch, 17-year-old Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them...until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs her terrace and changes everything. As the two fall fiercely in love, Jase's family makes Samantha one of their own. Then in an instant, the bottom drops out of her world and she is suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?
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A well written coming of age book
- By Ezinwanyi on 10-23-15
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- Sweet Pea
- 02-11-15
Laugh out Loud Funny!
If you could sum up Guy in Real Life in three words, what would they be?
Slice of Life
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This was a sweet book that popped up in my recommendations list on Audible. And well me being a nerd and all who finds any book, comic (manga), anime, show, or movie that has a plot with gaming and/ or hacking an automatic must listen/ read/ watch. Found this a download as soon as possible to listen to as soon as possible book. And I wasn't disappointed!
This is a YA book, with all the angst of any other YA book. BUT this one is SO much more! It has a level of realism, complexity, and grit you don't often see in the genre. It feels like someone just punched a whole in someone's life for you to read/ listen to. Which is kinda ironic considering the fantasy elements thrown in between chapters that have such an air of poetic story telling, they could have been their own separate book. (I did find this a very intriguing way of telling the story. Although it took some getting used to. Almost like LotR but with game elements thrown in. Making it so funny at times I couldn't breathe. Although if you have no gaming experience at all some terms and circumstances may make little to no sense.)
I also admit (I'm not sure if it's just me missing something) but I didn't completely quite get the issue with Lesh and his possible identity crisis. But all in all it really just made me think about the story all the more to chew it over and draw my own conclusions. That being said I adore Lesh and Svetlana (and Svvetlana, lol) I think the characters are very realistic and have very realistic problems. So it's easy to connect and to root for them.
It also has an open ending. Which I am not a fan of at all. But it's not horrible, and fits the flow of the story so ya... It is for sure a slice of life story if I've ever seen one.
Both voice narrators where fabulous. Andrews was absolutely amazing as always (he may have also been a driving factor in the speed which I bought, downloaded, and listened to this story). DeLisle was very nice to listen to as well.
Bought with a credit and definitely would recommend to anyone who enjoys realistic YA and doesn't mind a bit of game speak. Very happy with this one!
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- Emily
- 08-17-17
whaaaaattttt!?!?!
Interesting, not Elenore & Park but good. What the freak kind of ending was that tho!?!?!?
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- Stephanie
- 07-15-15
First Love.
What made the experience of listening to Guy in Real Life the most enjoyable?
I like the nerd culture elements and the relatability of the characters and their first love story.
What does MacLeod Andrews and Arielle DeLisle bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
I love when a book told from two perspectives use two different narrators. It brings another dimension to the story.
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This book was really cute and told a first love story in a really creative way. I loved it!
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- Marni
- 06-10-14
Clever story, creative characters, loads of fun
This book has more layers than a simple young adult novel, and both my teenage children and I enjoyed the humor, characters and plot. Lesh is a metal head who always wears black, and Svetlana is an eccentric, artistic, creative tabletop gamer. They forge a tentative friendship at school, sitting at the same lunch table in several delightfully awkward scenes. At home, Svetlana's parents continually force her to join them in activities she finds torturous, while Lesh's parents are mostly absent yet he's grounded for 2 weeks with basically no parental supervision, during which time he begins gaming online out of boredom.
There are several chapters which describe, very humorously, the storyline of Lesh's online fantasy game, and I found these to be expertly narrated by MacLeod Andrews, causing me to laugh out loud MANY times. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the gaming scenes as much had I read them in print! Anyone who has played or watched online RPGs will appreciate how perfectly Steve Brezenoff wrote the video game scenes, and even listeners with no gaming experience will be entertained by MacLeod Andrews' clever voicing of the fantasy characters. I felt Arielle DeLisle, with her sweet, clear, whimsical voice was a wonderful Svetlana, and MacLeod Andrews was able, as usual, to portray both Lesh's sulky teen boy voice and crazed, hormonal teen boy thoughts without missing a beat. Well done by both narrators.
Some sweetly romantic scenes plus a surprisingly clever twist at the end of the book gave it depth and raised some thought provoking questions about gender and role playing in real life. Genuine exploration of Lesh and Svetlana's journey towards making peace with their parents and their friends also kept this book from being a simple YA novel. I highly recommend it.
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- Blazah99
- 05-13-18
2 VAs for the Same Characters, Male and Female
Chapters alternate between the males and females protagonist's POVs in which they then voice the others voice when dialogue comes up. The VAs aren't bad its, why would you do produce the audio book that way when you have a VA already?!
That aside the story has the lead chars hardly interacting with one another, no dating, and hardly any romance. The gamer aspect of it is definitely part of the story but it doesn't progress, and doesn't have that satisfying payoff.
The characters themselves are written well enough but the events that tie the two leads together and are short and few. It results in the book having no passion between one another, and little effort is made by either char leads as they are more wrapped up in their own worlds.
Overall, its a bit of a simple story with not a lot of story depth, intended for an easy read for mid-highschoolers who are gamers. Its a one time read, listen, and forget/move on because it also continuously reminds you of its odd VA production.
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