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The 5th Gender

By: G. L. Carriger, Gail Carriger
Narrated by: Michael Lesley
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Publisher's summary

A species that has no word for murder, has a murderer aboard their spaceship.

Alien

Tristol lives in exile. But he’s built a life for himself aboard a human space station. He’s even begun to understand the complex nuances of human courting rituals.

Detective Hastion is finally flirting back!

Murder

Except that Tristol’s beloved space station is unexpectedly contacted by the galoi - a xenophobic species with five genders, purple skin, and serious attitude. They need the help of a human detective because there’s a murderer aboard their spaceship. Murder is so rare, the galoi don’t even have a word for it.

Tristol knows this because he is galoi.

Romance

Which means that he and Detective Hastion are on the case...together.

Delicate sensibilities?

Contains men who love other men in graphic detail, regardless of gender, biology, or skin color...and lots of emotively sexy tentacle hair.

New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger (writing as G.L. Carriger) brings you a light-hearted romantic cozy mystery featuring an adorable lavender alien and his human crush.

©2019 Gail Carriger LLC (P)2019 Gail Carriger LLC
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
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A funny and beautiful story. Well written and well narrated. Hope the next one will come out soon. I loved it !!!

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Good story, exceptionally produced.

A fun sci-fi mystery romance. Yep all that and noodles too. Michael Lesley is a great narrarator. The story had both poignant and laugh out loud moments. Standout for me the fact that production addressed the problem of distinguishing between dialogue and interior thoughts that pops up in audiobooks

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please give us more

and let me specify. i want more of tris and trey. their work and lives.

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I want more!

I loved every minute of this phenomenal story and hope the author continues giving us tales from this universe. It managed to make me laugh as well as break my heart.

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*Blows a kiss into the sky* for Tristol

I finished this all in one go. Tristol is such a great character, it’s a treat every time he opens his mouth. The descriptions of how he interprets the world around him is fascinating, and I really liked the inclusion of his native language bleeding over to his ‘english’. The narrator’s voice acting for him is super endearing too. I’d kill to see more from this universe and its characters.

My one issue with the narration was how fast he was talking. I had to set it to 0.75x because I was missing a lot of information.

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One of the best books I've ever read

The world building, character, and relationship development are superb. The narrator brought it to life beautifully. I hope the author writes more in this universe!

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Amazing World Building

This was such a fun , sexy and entertaining story. The world building is rich , layered and massive. Even though, there's a lot of really steamy , sexually explicitly intimate times and laughter galore , the plot and narrative of the story is serious and very real. I love how compassionate and empathic this story was written.

Michael Lesley narration was perfect! It was an absolute delight , listening to his portrayal of Tris and all other characters.

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The Fifth Gender, audio version.

Michael Lesley has the perfect voice for this book. His performance was Just Right! *sigh*

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So fantastic

I wish there were more stories for adults in this series. It is soooo good.

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would love to hear more!

Very interesting and unique. Fun to imagine that this world looked like. Deep subject matter and thoughtful intent.

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