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Narrated by:
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Lynnette R. Freeman
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By:
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P. Djèlí Clark
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Eveen the Eviscerator is skilled, discreet, professional, and here for your most pressing needs in the ancient city of Tal Abisi. Her guild is strong, her blades are sharp, and her rules are simple. Those sworn to the Matron of Assassins—resurrected, deadly, wiped of their memories—have only three unbreakable vows.
First, the contract must be just. That’s above Eveen’s pay grade.
Second, even the most powerful assassin may only kill the contracted. Eveen’s a professional. She’s never missed her mark.
The third and the simplest: once you accept a job, you must carry it out. And if you stray? A final death would be a mercy.
When the Festival of the Clockwork King turns the city upside down, Eveen’s newest mission brings her face-to-face with a past she isn’t supposed to remember and a vow she can’t forget.
“One of my favorite authors … I loved this one.”—Rebecca Roanhorse, New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun
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- Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
- Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
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Solenne Bonet lives in Texas where choice no longer exists. An algorithm determines a Black woman’s occupation, spouse, and residence. Solenne finds solace in penning the biography of Henriette, an ancestor who’d been an enslaved concubine to a wealthy planter in 1800s Louisiana. But history repeats itself when Solenne, lonely and naïve, finds herself entangled with Bastien Martin, a high-ranking government official. Solenne finds the psychological bond unbearable, so she considers alternatives. With Henriette as her guide, she must decide whether and how to leave behind all she knows.
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Wow
- By Amazon Customer on 03-28-25
By: Rae Giana Rashad
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Metal from Heaven
- By: August Clarke
- Narrated by: Vico Ortiz
- Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
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Ichorite is progress. More durable and malleable than steel, ichorite is the lifeblood of a dawning industrial revolution. Yann I. Chauncey owns the sole means of manufacturing this valuable metal, but his workers are on strike. They demand Chauncey research the hallucinatory illness befalling them. Marney Honeycutt, a luster-touched child worker, stands proud at the picket line with her best friend and family. That’s when Chauncey sends in the guns.
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The narration ruined it for me
- By Bob Winning on 02-09-25
By: August Clarke
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The Nightward
- Book One of the Waters of Lethe
- By: R.S.A. Garcia
- Narrated by: Nneka Okoye
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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For 500 years Gaiea’s Hand has stood as a ward against the Dark. The Age of Chaos is a faded memory. The Goddess has left Gailand and given her Blessing to the Queens to rule in her stead. Princess Viella of the court of Hamber is the Spirit of Gaiea, presumptive heir to the throne and budding wielder of magic. And yet she’s still a child—not yet ten years old—and a day spent evading her teachers and her dutiful bodyguard, Luka, is much more satisfying than learning about telepathy, illusions, and other spells, or obeying even her mother, the Queen. There is time enough…until there isn’t.
By: R.S.A. Garcia
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
- By: Malka Older
- Narrated by: Lindsey Dorcus
- Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
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Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have disappeared from Valdegeld University—yet no one has noticed. The answers to this case may lie on the moon of Io—Mossa’s home—and the history of Jupiter’s original settlements during humanity’s exodus from Earth. But Pleiti’s faith in her life’s work as a scholar of the past has grown precarious, and this new case threatens to further destabilize her dreams for humanity’s future, as well as her own.
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I love this series!
- By Jim Cira on 01-21-25
By: Malka Older
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This Cursed House
- By: Del Sandeen
- Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
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In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has always been able to see. When she receives an unexpected job offer from the Duchon family in New Orleans, she accepts, thinking it is her chance to start over. But Jemma discovers that the Duchon family isn’t what it seems. Light enough to pass as white, the Black family members look down on brown-skinned Jemma.
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The 1960s setting makes it even more interesting
- By NMwritergal on 11-01-24
By: Del Sandeen
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
- By: Stephen Graham Jones
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch, Stephen Graham Jones
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton—and a place where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, and shared sense of unfairness of being on the outside through the slasher horror Jones loves, but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing his own autobiography. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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So much fun
- By Amber on 08-13-24
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Not What She Seems
- A Novel
- By: Yasmin Angoe
- Narrated by: Jordan Cobb
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
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After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small cliffside town no longer feels like home. Jac hasn’t been there since the beloved chief of police fell to his death—and all the whispers said she was to blame. That chief was Jac’s father. Racked with guilt, Jac left town with no plans to return. But when her granddad lands in the hospital, she rushes back to her family, bracing herself to confront the past.
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Mystery from the beginning.
- By Anonymous User on 05-04-25
By: Yasmin Angoe
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The City in Glass
- By: Nghi Vo
- Narrated by: Susan Dalian
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
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The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a place of joy and desire, revelry and riot. And then the angels come, and the city falls. Vitrine is left with nothing but memories and a book containing the names of those she has lost—and an angel, now bound by her mad, grief-stricken curse to haunt the city he burned.
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No investment
- By Kevin Alan Wenner on 11-07-24
By: Nghi Vo
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Shut Up, This Is Serious
- By: Carolina Ixta
- Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Belén Dolores Itzel del Toro wants the normal stuff: to experience love or maybe have a boyfriend or at least just lose her virginity. But nothing is normal in East Oakland. Her father left her family. She’s at risk of not graduating. And Leti, her super-Catholic, nerdy-ass best friend, is pregnant—by the boyfriend she hasn’t told her parents about, because he’s Black, and her parents are racist.
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A novel for the Bay
- By Ellie on 01-12-24
By: Carolina Ixta
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The Bookshop Sisterhood
- By: Michelle Lindo-Rice
- Narrated by: Ariel Blake
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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After years of hard work, four best friends—Celeste, Yasmeen, Toni and Leslie—are finally on the verge of opening the bookstore of their dreams. A place where their community can find solace with an intriguing new read, a comforting beverage and book-loving friends. But before they can cut the ribbon, their worlds are upended.
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Great sisterhood
- By Amazon Customer on 05-05-25
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The Ninth Rain
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jen Williams
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- By Renae on 09-09-22
By: Jen Williams
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Rose/House
- By: Arkady Martine
- Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
- Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
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A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else. But now Deniau's been dead a year, and Rose House is locked up tight, as commanded by the architect's will: all his possessions and files and sketches are confined in its archives, and their only keeper is Rose House itself. Rose House, and one other.
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Bad Plot
- By xon69 on 10-22-24
By: Arkady Martine
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Black Sun
- By: Rebecca Roanhorse
- Narrated by: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
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In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial even proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger.
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5-star Concept; Too Many Threads Left Hanging
- By Lisa Davidson on 10-26-20
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- Rose
- 03-05-25
Lynnette R. Freeman killed it
I read this novel with Lynnette R. Freeman’s narration and for me, she knocked it out of the park. She really brings this story to life. I loved it. I couldn’t put it down. It was so fun and light — just what I needed. Lots of laughs and a satisfactory ending (that also ended in laughs)!
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- Andrea Crofts
- 09-05-24
He can't miss!
Clark has done it again. This story is thrilling, disturbing, clever, funny and I loved every second. His wit is unparalleled, his characters well rounded and you are fully immersed in the world he built. I find myself wishing to read Asheel the maniac hunter stories...but more stories about Evene would be fantastic as well.
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- 🔥 Phx17 🔥
- 02-17-25
Funnier and lighter than I expected
“Ayro’s flaming tentacles!”
With the cover art and a summary promising binding assassin’s contract, I was expecting something darker, grittier, and violent. And yes, there are some F bombs and more than a few deaths.
But the overall tone is YA and more Brothers Grimm than grimdark.
Eveen: “So, I stopped and asked myself: what would the hero I most admire do in a spot like this?”
Behind her, Sky had put her head in her hands and was muttering, “Please don’t bring up Ashiel the Maniac Hunter”
Eveen: “Ashiel the Maniac Hunter!!”
There are mercurial goddesses, competitive killers, and one snarky spitfire assassin in over her head,
all narrated with unique variety by Ms. Freeman. I never thought I’d have so much fun listening to ladies who tsk, pfft, and click their teeth. Even the Rasta accents were over the top entertaining.
This was wicked fun.
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- Geldari
- 10-30-24
Delightful and deadly!
Assassins, pulp novels, time travel mischief, political deviousness, and high adventure? This has it all!!
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- Roy Sachleben
- 10-09-24
A Modern Pulp Tale
This is not your typical modern fantasy story. This tale has more in common with the great pulp fantasy stories of the early 1900s. Modern dialogue, quirky heroes, swords and nebulous but omnipresent magic up lifted by a modern author. Lots of fun!
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-11-25
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Although this isn't the typical type of fantasy I enjoy reading, I chose this book from a list of books of good reads challenge because the story sounded intriguing and I really liked the cover. I enjoyed the characters and world setting and found myself chuckling throughout this book. I have to admit that I wasn't really keen on some of the voices the narrator used and it took me a bit to get past it but the story just drew me in anyways. This is why I am completing the good reads challenge so I can venture out from my typical read and I was not disappointed!
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- Sandy
- 04-21-25
Good
I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this book when I first started reading it, but it did get better. I did like the FMC even though she was an assassin. I did find it interesting that she is not really sure how she became an assassin after her death, and all of her memories of her previous life are gone. The FMC has been contracted to kill a girl that looks exactly like her. I love the mystery of this girl and where she came from. I also liked how the FMC handled this contract.
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- Matthew A Drexel
- 09-01-24
So much fun. Totally unique fantasy.
What a unique and well developed world!? This book is less than 7 hr long, yet it has so much mythology and history and unique magic and complex characters. But despite packing so much in a novella it never felt overdone or dense. Fast paced. Funny. Highly recommended.
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- LexiLikesLiterature
- 08-13-24
Phenomenal Performance!!!
The Dead Cat Tails Assassins has a quirky title and a bold story concept. I'm talking about a dead female Assassin whose current assignment involves magic, time travel, a multiverse, politics, and sassy Goddesses with sharp tongues and teeth. How would I describe this? Well imagine if John Wick was in a fantasy world with Mages and Gods... and John Wick was a dead, brown-skinned Diva with deadly blades 🤣 That's a good description!
This book was dedicated to the culture... and the culture thanks my dear author 💜
So readers, are you ready to be dropped into a pure fantasy story? There will be no detours into unrequited love stories. There's no stumbling into any genres just for the pretty or dramatic scenery. Nope. And theres none of the usual fluff. Personally, I've become a fan of this type of writing. When you're reading dozens of these novels a year, you get the gist. With that in mind, this may not be for the casual fantasy reader as there is no beach to slowly walk into the depths. The story starts in the middle of something new to characters and the world. We don't get hours of backstory or pages of explanation of how this world functions. As a reader, you catch on as you go.
The main character was well done. Since she doesn't have any memories, the reader doesn't get anything about her past. But as the story progresses, you realize you're following along with someone who is dangerous enough to be feared, sweet enough to be a lover, strong-willed enough to not just do as she is expected, skilled enough to taunt other assassins, and righteous enough to stand up for an underprivileged community. She has the layers of a character that could hold down a series, but I hear this is a stand-alone novel.
One thing that ears didn't care for was some of the dialogue. This is not earth, but characters used earth phrases such as referring to someone as a "Badd B**ch". That's a very much earthy lingo that can break the reality seal for some readers. I would have preferred the author sticking with creating their own lingo as was done with "shipping".
The narrator, Lynnette R. Freeman, was like warm brownies on a cold day good. She was giving out voices, accents, good dialect, and perfect tone for days. I am so excited. I will be searching for audiobooks narrated by her in the future.
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- maria donaghue
- 08-15-24
lots of plot twists
great spin on several classic themes yourself from the past, alternate worlds with majic and assasins thrown in! Great plot and windrful narration!
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