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- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
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Down these dark streets…
Most folks see Puyallup as the worst Seattle’s got to offer; a tangled mess of metahumanity and greet, poverty and ghettoes, vice and corruption, where the crime is more organized than the government. They call it a Barrens, an armpit, a cesspool.
Jimmy Kincaid, though, calls it home. Walking the line between shadows and the desperate light, semi-legit like only a Puyallup brat and former cop can be, he insists Puyallup has a heart and a soul, that it’s a place of life, magic, and starving hope. A former combat mage, now as burnt out as his neighborhood, he does what he can to police the worst excesses of the crime-riddled city he loves.
In the darkness of the Seattle Sprawl, what’s one more murder? To Kincaid, it’s everything. He’s got a dead mentor, a hermetic group in need, and a mysterious file that might have been worth killing for. To unlock the data and get a little justice, he’ll face the worst the Sprawl has to offer, wading through blood, darkness, and a murderous web of lies.
It’s a good thing he’s got friends - in high and low places...
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When he was 19, James Stark was considered to be one of the greatest natural magicians, a reputation that got him demon-snatched and sent downtown - to Hell - where he survived as a gladiator, a sideshow freak entertaining Satan's fallen angels. That was 11 years ago. Now, the hitman who goes only by Stark has escaped and is back in L.A. Armed with a fortune-telling coin, a black bone knife, and an infernal key, Stark is determined to destroy the magic circle.
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jack bauer + spawn = sandman slim
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In the more shadowy corners of the world, frequented by angels and demons and everything in between, Laytham Ballard is a legend. It's said he raised the dead at the age of 10, stole the Philosopher's Stone in Vegas back in 1999, and survived the bloodsucking kiss of the Mosquito Queen. Wise in the hidden ways of the night, he's also a cynical bastard who stopped thinking of himself as the good guy a long time ago.
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Scranton, the strangest city on earth has an uneasy “live and let unlive” relationship with the supernatural. But when a vamp puts the bite on an unwilling victim, or some witch casts the wrong kind of spell, that’s when they call me. “My name’s Markowski, a Detective Sergeant on the Scranton PD’s Supernatural Crimes Investigation Unit. I carry a badge. Also, a crucifix, some wooden stakes, a big vial of holy water, and a 9mm Beretta loaded with silver bullets.”
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Predictable and Flat
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Carter's a homicide cop in Titanshade, an oil boomtown where 8-tracks are state of the art, disco rules the radio, and all the best sorcerers wear designer labels. It's also a metropolis teetering on the edge of disaster. As its oil reserves run dry, the city's future hangs on a possible investment from the reclusive amphibians known as Squibs. But now negotiations have been derailed by the horrific murder of a Squib diplomat. The pressure's never been higher to make a quick arrest, even as Carter's investigation leads him into conflict with the city's elite.
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Brilliant and intense, this fantasy crime thriller
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It’s the end of the 21st century, and Hunter McNeil is your average, ordinary, ex-Army Ranger with superpowers. He’s serving time unjustly in a Supermax for supervillains when a botched prison break puts him in the crosshairs of an Army general who runs the Super-Powered Combatants Corp. Turns out a coordinated strike has put supervillains in charge of every major city in the world, and Hunter is the only hope at restoring order. And so Hunter sets out to do what he does best: kill supervillains. Save the world. And build a harem of smokin’ hot, super-powered women to help him.
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Half Literary Porn
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The Nate Temple Series: Books 0-3
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My name is Nate Temple, and I’m secretly a wizard. I ride a foul-mouthed unicorn, I drink with Achilles, and I’m pals with the Four Horsemen. I’ve even cow-tipped the Minotaur. I understand the theory of following the rules...I’m just not very good at the application. Because rules were meant to be broken, and St. Louis has a bit of a supernatural infestation these days. Someone should probably be keeping an eye on these things -and probably an eye on me, too. Before I blow up another building...or three.
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Basically Batman with lizard brain
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Spells, Salt, & Steel, Season Two
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Monster hunter and mechanic Mark Wojcik has his hands full protecting innocent monsters from horrible people and innocent people from horrible monsters. His corner of rural Pennsylvania used to be relatively quiet—except for the ghosts, trolls, gnomes, and snallygasters. Then the Mob wars between the vampires and werewolves spilled over from the big city, along with supernatural bounty hunters, necromancer narcos, a monster trafficking ring, paranormal bookies, warring secret government agencies, and wicked witches.
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Repetitive Introductions and Lots of Pizza
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Marla Mason is the chief sorcerer of Felport, a woman who's tangled with gods and monsters and come out on top (if a bit damaged in the process). Bone Shop tells the story of Marla's evolution from runaway to sorcerer's apprentice to mercenary magician and beyond. Fans of the urban fantasy series from Bantam Spectra that began with Blood Engines will find surprising secrets revealed about Marla's past, and new listeners can get to know the character from the very beginning.
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LIKE LIVING IN A FRAT HOUSE
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Mysterious billionaire Cameron Crayton is a household name from televised spectacles in which prison inmates fight to the death, but his old shows pale in comparison to his new event, The Crucible, a gladiatorial tournament anyone can enter. The winner is promised unimaginable wealth and glory...if they’re able to survive a series of globally broadcast fight-to-the-death matches with medieval weaponry against the world’s most fearsome fighters.
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Proxima Legends, Vol 1
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After the death of his best friend, Ryuk logs into the online fantasy world of Tritania in hopes of seeing her again. Joined by a cantankerous goblin, a famous Swedish gamer, and a dragon, his guild sets out on an epic quest to find Tamana. Despite pressures from the real world and a mysterious faction known as the Shinigami, Ryuk uncovers a mind-blowing secret....
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Can't Stand The FICKING Swearing
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In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs - now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire of the Highfire Eyrie - now he goes by Vern.
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Fun
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Stranded and alone in Denver, Colorado, Finn and his partner Penny (a foot and a half long Faerie Dragon) search for friends and allies in this strange new land. But something about this place isn’t right. Magic has gone underground, and has anyone seen John Wayne? Lucky for Finn he’s a Dwarf, and underground is where he does his best work. Join Finn, Penny, and their new friends on an adventure that spans the globe and holds the fate of an entire planet in its twists and turns. And just maybe a tall Dwarf and a small dragon can find their place in the universe.
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Awesome!
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- Anonymous User
- 10-02-21
Well written and well read
A friend suggested Shadowrun to me because I like Sci-fi and fantasy. Going into this book that's all I knew about the Shadowrun universe, that it was a mix of the two. I was not at all disappointed. The book blends the two genres together pretty seamlessly. The story is interesting and action packed with a neo-noir flavor that reminded me of Blade Runner with magic. Where this book really shines though is the performance of Robert James. He does an exquisite job handling the material. He gives the main character the same neo-noir pacing and cadence that the style of the writing calls for. His character voices are different and distinct from one another and he reads the dialogue with the same intensity that I would imagine the writer intended. I would say the narration was a 10 out of 10.
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- Robert H.
- 07-28-21
one of my favorites
I was blown away twice by this story. first time was when I read it. second time by the awesome performance by Mr. James. I look forward to hearing the rest of the Kincaid stories read by him.
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- Brandon
- 09-25-22
Great Narration and introduction to this character
my first introduction to this character. It kept me gripped and the narrator was on point. He really helped with the immersion. Tren Sparks is okay, but he doesn't hold a candle to Mr. James
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- Eric Livesay
- 07-09-22
Jimmy Kinkaid baby! Woo hoo!
I love Jimmy Kinkaid. He's my favorite character. And the audible narrator has him nailed to the T!
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- S L
- 08-01-21
Chef's kiss
Cyberpunk-fantasy-neonoir at its finest. Shadowrun, at its finest. The story is pire hardboiled, and the narration and sound design is excellent. I cant wait for more like it.
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- CartoonRaccoon
- 06-17-23
Well made all around
The narrator really put a lot into his performance. The writer understands the world and magic well.
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- SP
- 01-10-23
Not Impressed
While the book was somewhat entertaining, it was extremely depressing and disturbing. There was nothing fun or funny about it, not even the dialog. There was a lot not really explained in a fashion that made sense, like why a vampire drinking your blood caused you to lose your powers or why the main character got the implants and whatnot. There is a lot of talk of drug use and some alluding to sex trafficking. The sound effects were annoying but cool because it gave it a good feel but also made it hard to make out words. I actually liked the narrator which I appreciate his reading and making characters sound different so you cam distinguish between them. I don't think I can continue the series though, way too serious and depressing for me but if you're into the darker side of things give it a listen, if you're looking for fun, funny, and light don't do it.
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- Joshua Jenkins
- 09-27-21
I can't take this narration seriously
Overall the story is a pretty good romp through the sprawl, but the narration is so goofy that I have to stop every few chapters. I strongly suggest buying the actual book, and keeping an eye out for when they recast the audiobook.
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- RD
- 09-09-23
Oh God it's so bad
Where do I begin... The story is basically a thousand cliches rolled up into one. The whole thing was completely childish and kind of made me embarrassed to be an adult who is a fan of Shadowrun. At every point in the book I was only listening to complete the book, not because I cared what happened. I would rank this book as the very worst Shadowrun story I have read or listened to (I've read perhaps 25 books). This is coupled with the worst narration ever.
PLOT: The plot is very slow and when it's picking up you can't really tell. I only knew the book was (finally) coming to a close (having never much heated up) because the audible player told me how much time was left. The author had some kind Satanic black magic larper background that shone through in every sentence, and there was a lot of boring technical stuff relating to the practice of magick that took away from the epic fantasy/action elements that I crave.
The main character is supremely overpowered. He is basically an elf who was once really strong magically, but had his magic power partially-stolen by a vampire. Yet in spite of this he managed with his own magick to create a helper spirit, who is a naked little girl who runs around his house cleaning up after him, but also has pretty much the power of a demigod. In spite of losing most of his power he's still a magickal powerhouse roughly on par with Dunkelzahn, defeating the greatest of wizards with ease, one way or another. He also is a former lone star employee and is still well-connected there to get help when he wants it. He has cyber-enhancements, a smartlink, etc. He spits in the face of both the Yakuza and the Italian mob all he wants, telling them to their faces to go **** themselves because they are in the city he grew up in and that makes him the boss somehow. He's a good samaritan who the whole city knows and looks up to because he is basically superman, cleaning up all the injustice in the city because he's just a great guy with enormous beefs to settle. BTL gang got some kid hooked? Time to wipe out an entire crew, no big deal.
The character is also part of some hermetic order of mages, but at the very same time he is contradictorily part of a shamanic tradition. His totem is Dog, but the character of Dog is basically a squeaky-voiced Italian gangster that sometimes turns into an angry monster, is full of rage and doesn't really want to help for some reason. I felt that the character of Dog was vastly different from that portrayed in other books.
Again, this character was himself just short of a God in terms of power, and the whole story was spent with him pretty much staying 100% above every bit of conflict that came his way. At the end there is the most minor of twists, but the character involved was such an ancillary character and the twist made so little difference to the story (and also was not in any way alluded to or led up to by the story) that it might as well not even have been inserted.
DIALOGUE: The absolute worst. Every once in a while the story pops into my head and I remember some embarrassingly-bad line of cliche dialog from the book, but as I write this I can't remember any examples. I will update this review when I remember some, but just know that the dialogue is bad.
NARRATION: This one really takes the cake. The narrator went for this kind of exciting, hard-boiled narration, but the story was not that interesting and the narrator would put a hard emphasis on phrases that were not meant to be emphasized, or on individual words that were not meant to be emphasized. Sometimes words were mispronounced or spoken in a way that made it seem like they were being read by AI rather than a human, though I don't know that any AI was involved. Certain characters' voices (various spirits, etc.) had sound effects with an echo that didn't really make sense and was honestly a bit jarring. I've never heard this in an audiobook, though there was a lot about how this book was presented that was unusual and "new", and I felt like it was a fail. In the way the cheap CGI leads to a crappy movie, this was a crappy book.
All in all I thought this audiobook was terrible even though I got it for free, and I was very glad when it was over and I could put it behind me. I only signed up to Audible to get Shadowrun books, but now I'm wondering if I should get something else because this latest book left a sour taste in my mouth. I wanted to give this 2 stars but I'm hard-pressed to say what, if anything, I actually enjoyed about it. If you're craving a good Shadowrun audiobook then I highly recommend Fire and Frost, also here on Audible, which was a great experience. The Legends of Power series is also not bad.
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- Ash Carlton
- 07-27-23
The audible equivalent of watching paint dry.
We get it! The character has gene augmentation and cyberware. There's no need to tell of every few minutes.
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