
If We Were Villains
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M. L. Rio
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Oliver Marks has just served 10 years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless. Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words.
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- By Ann on 03-05-23
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The Complete Poppy War Trilogy
- The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, The Burning God
- By: R. F. Kuang
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 66 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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This collection features the novels in her historical military fantasy trilogy—The Poppy War, The Dragon Republic, and The Burning God—a complete epic inspired by the bloody history of China’s twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic.
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Not a book for everyone but an excellent story
- By Anonymous User on 06-23-23
By: R. F. Kuang
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The Shadows Between Us
- By: Tricia Levenseller
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power: 1. Woo the Shadow King. 2. Marry him. 3. Kill him and take his kingdom for herself. No one knows the extent of the freshly crowned Shadow King’s power. Some say he can command the shadows that swirl around him to do his bidding. Others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. Regardless, Alessandra knows what she deserves, and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it. But Alessandra’s not the only one trying to kill the king.
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Excellent and Unique
- By English Teacher on 03-04-20
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All the Dangerous Things
- A Novel
- By: Stacy Willingham
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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One year ago, Isabelle Drake's life changed forever: her toddler son, Mason, was taken out of his crib in the middle of the night while she and her husband were asleep in the next room. With little evidence and few leads for the police to chase, the case quickly went cold. However, Isabelle cannot rest until Mason is returned to her—literally. Except for the occasional catnap or small blackout where she loses track of time, she hasn’t slept in a year. Isabelle's entire existence now revolves around finding him, but she knows she can’t go on this way forever.
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Wow
- By Rachel on 01-10-23
By: Stacy Willingham
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This Is How It Always Is
- A Novel
- By: Laurie Frankel
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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When Rosie and Penn and their four boys welcome the newest member of their family, no one is surprised it's another baby boy. At least their large, loving, chaotic family knows what to expect. But Claude is not like his brothers. One day he puts on a dress and refuses to take it off. He wants to bring a purse to kindergarten. He wants hair long enough to sit on. When he grows up, Claude says, he wants to be a girl.
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Story mirrors our life -- to a point -- spoilers
- By 1mom3kids on 11-14-17
By: Laurie Frankel
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Middlegame
- By: Seanan McGuire
- Narrated by: Amber Benson
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
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Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realize it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan.
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Couldn't Finish
- By Amy Ferrantino on 05-22-19
By: Seanan McGuire
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
- By: T. Kingfisher
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss, Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.
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Brilliantly creepy
- By Joella Berkner on 08-14-24
By: T. Kingfisher
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One Dark Window
- By: Rachel Gillig
- Narrated by: Lisa Cordileone
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom of Blunder—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing comes for free, especially magic. When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure Blunder from the dark magic infecting it.
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Unique magical world with an annoying HEERTH
- By April on 07-15-24
By: Rachel Gillig
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They Never Learn
- By: Layne Fargo
- Narrated by: Lameece Issaq, Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor. But she’s even better at getting away with murder. Every year, Dr. Clark searches for the worst man at Gorman University - professor, student, or otherwise - and plots his well-deserved demise. Thanks to her meticulous planning, she’s avoided drawing attention to herself…but as she’s preparing for her biggest kill yet, the school starts probing into the growing body count on campus.
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Well...that was something
- By Mark D on 10-16-20
By: Layne Fargo
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Things We Do in the Dark
- A Novel
- By: Jennifer Hillier
- Narrated by: Carla Vega
- Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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When Paris Peralta is arrested in her own bathroom—covered in blood, holding a straight razor, her celebrity husband dead in the bathtub behind her—she knows she'll be charged with murder. But as bad as this looks, it's not what worries her the most. With the unwanted media attention now surrounding her, it's only a matter of time before someone from her long hidden past recognizes her and destroys the new life she's worked so hard to build, along with any chance of a future.
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Nothing like her other books
- By Carrie on 07-22-22
By: Jennifer Hillier
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Empire of the Vampire
- Book One
- By: Jay Kristoff
- Narrated by: Damian Lynch
- Length: 27 hrs and 10 mins
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It has been twenty-seven long years since the last sunrise. For nearly three decades, vampires have waged war against humanity; building their eternal empire even as they tear down our own. Now, only a few tiny sparks of light endure in a sea of darkness.
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So good
- By donna on 09-16-21
By: Jay Kristoff
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Sometimes I Lie
- By: Alice Feeney
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
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Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can't move. She can't speak. She can't open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn't remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from 20 years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?
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Wow!!!
- By Zoey&Jaspers Mommy on 03-21-18
By: Alice Feeney
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The Mercies
- By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Narrated by: Jessie Buckley
- Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Twenty-year-old Maren Magnusdatter stands on the craggy coast, watching the sea break into a sudden and reckless storm. Forty fishermen, including her brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. With the menfolk wiped out, the women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later, a stranger arrives on their shore. Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. He brings with him his young Norwegian wife, Ursa.
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The Mercies is a Strong and Moving Story, Not to be Missed
- By The Village Witch on 02-29-20
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The Courting of Bristol Keats
- A Novel
- By: Mary E. Pearson
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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After losing both their parents, Bristol Keats and her sisters struggle to stay afloat in their small, quiet town of Bowskeep. When Bristol begins to receive letters from an “aunt” she’s never heard of who promises she can help, she reluctantly agrees to meet—and discovers that everything she thought she knew about her family is a lie. Even her father might still be alive, not killed but kidnapped by terrifying creatures to a whole other realm—the one he is from.
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Not what I expected
- By CC on 11-22-24
By: Mary E. Pearson
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- philla hinder
- 03-15-22
This is the best book I have ever read!
The large as life main characters, all passionate students of the Bard lead the reader into and through a modern Shakespearean whodunnit. Held my attention throughout. Didn’t want it to end.
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- Alyssa Steckel
- 10-06-23
Absolutely an amazing story!
This story was amazing! It’s breath taking, attention grabbing and a must read book! Absolutely loved it!
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- Cassston
- 09-17-23
Interesting
I needed a break from fantasy and this was the perfect escape.
Its clear from the beginning the author comes from an acting background and it was exciting to get such an interesting peek into that world.
It's a colorful dive into the minds of those surviving trauma and how different people cope. I thought for a time our narrator was unreliable, telling us what he crafted into a story rather than the truth, but all is revealed in the end.
I only struggled with the love interests a bit. It was unclear throughout the story if the narrator had real feelings for anyone until the end. Maybe I've listened to too many true crime podcasts, but I asked myself several times if this was just the story he wanted told, in true actor fashion, or if it was finally the truth. That led to my questions of his reliability as a narrator and perhaps that was the author's intention.
I ended this book thinking I'll never really know what happened much like real life tragedy.
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- Christine
- 10-31-23
Great for theater major or Shakespearean lover
Not a fan. Listened on audible and I can’t really give the narrator more props. He was amazing and kept me going.
I’m not a fan of jumping around time periods in a book. This did that.
It was much longer and drawn out than what it needed to be. Edited it may be better.
It’s predictable even for someone who’s not in love with Shakespeare. At first all the ad lib, scripts, characters and Shakespearean dialogue peaked my interest but there is just so much it got old.
I suppose character development was ok… maybe some better than others… you definitely understood they were pretentious, self-absorbed theater students… and the fights… omg.
Not that pretty perfect ending if someone is hoping for that…
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- Jonh
- 04-21-23
Very good
I read this immediately after finishing the secret history and not gonna lie at first I hated this book but this is probably my favorite book right now and the ending had me weeping
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- Valeria Figueroa
- 03-14-24
Actually in shambles
This book is an experience. The plot once you get down to it is simple, but truly the journey is what makes this story.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I hopped into this - it is not what I usually read, but wanted to give it a chance, and I am so glad I did because I was hooked from the beginning. The author is clearly aware of his character’s imperfect morals, their unique situation as thespians in a weird cult-like school, and the snobby-ness of it all, so it comes accross as authentic in the strangest way possible. I felt every line, every decision the characters made, deep in my soul. The world building is absolutely incredible and the setting of the tone in this book is too. It tiptoes that line of being genuine while also dealing with characters literally reciting Shakespeare so beautifully.
I am trying to avoid spoilers, but let’s just say I was pleased with how subtle and natural the “will-they-won’t-they” situation was. I was on the edge of my seat thinking I was crazy for feeling a chemistry, so I would pause and rewind like “I couldn’t have heard that right…” but alas, I was correct, the chemistry once you see it you can’t unsee it, and I was pleasantly surprised. Which somehow it makes it all hurt so much more.
There, intentionally vague, but hopefully those who get it will get it.
I will say, some of that can be attributed to the performance of this audiobook. The emotion, punctuation, and delivery is exactly what was needed for this type of text which is saturated with Shakespeare performances. There is layers and depth to the narration, each voice very unique and never falling flat or feeling like a caricature, which can be difficult for some narrators when they try to speak for characters of the opposite sex.
Tragic, beautiful, and so worth the journey. Absolutely one of my favorite books I’ve read/listened to in the past year!!
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- Dylan
- 10-18-24
hard to get into and could have been shorter
I think the plot line and character development were slow and lacking. i put this book down for long periods of time without much desire to come back to it. there were scenes that were more exciting that made up for slower scenes but I feel like most of the actual plot happened in the last few chapters. this book felt a bit long and large portions felt unnecessary but in general it was a more unique read and I enjoyed some of the dramatics and ending
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- B. Bloy
- 02-18-25
Tragic and beautiful and oh so painfully real
This book ripped my heart out in a way undefinable by any word or language that has ever graced human ears.
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- Jen
- 12-25-23
The voice acting though!
The deep rumbling voice with his portrayal of Richard. *shudder*. Well written, well read. 10/10
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-20-20
Probably the best book I've read in a long time
I love this book. The plot is spectacular, the prose is beautiful, and the story is so heart-wrenching it made me cry. There is this constant mystery that the reader is trying to understand which isn't revealed until late in the story.
The only thing is... there are a couple things that are problematic. There is one scene where a character makes a cruel joke of an insult implying that being transgender is bad. There is also some stigma about eating disorders which is never addressed as if it is a real problem.
These are obviously not the best traits of a book but they are few and far between and, in my opinion, the book is so very worth it.
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