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Carl's Doomsday Scenario
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2
- Written by: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The ratings and views are off the chart. The fans just can't get enough. The dungeon gets more dangerous each day. But in a grinder designed to chew up and spit out crawlers by the millions, Carl and Princess Donut need to work harder than ever just to survive. They call it the Over City. A sprawling, once-thriving metropolis devastated by a mysterious calamity. But these streets are far from abandoned. An undead circus trawls the ruins. Murdered prostitutes rain from the sky. An ancient spell is finally ready to reveal its dark purpose.
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Ridiculously fun!
- By Slap Chop on 2022-01-09
- Carl's Doomsday Scenario
- Dungeon Crawler Carl, Book 2
- Written by: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
Great Sequel
Reviewed: 2024-11-05
I’m hooked! The narration is my all-time favourite and the story is endearing - this is a great second book.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
- A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure
- Written by: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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A man. His ex-girlfriend's cat. A sadistic game show unlike anything in the universe: a dungeon crawl where survival depends on killing your prey in the most entertaining way possible. In a flash, every human-erected construction on Earth - from Buckingham Palace to the tiniest of sheds - collapses in a heap, sinking into the ground. The buildings and all the people inside have all been atomized and transformed into the dungeon: an 18-level labyrinth filled with traps, monsters, and loot.
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Great MC
- By 7g3p on 2021-08-28
- Dungeon Crawler Carl
- A LitRPG/Gamelit Adventure
- Written by: Matt Dinniman
- Narrated by: Jeff Hays
Spectacular, addictive, worth it
Reviewed: 2024-11-05
Jeff Hays and Matt Dinniman are an incredible combo. I’ll surely be listening to this series annually.
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The Original
- Written by: Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
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When Holly Winseed wakes up in a hospital room, her memory compromised and a new identity imposed on her, a team of government agents wastes no time stating their objective. With intent to infiltrate and defeat the terrorist group ICON, the agents tell Holly that she is now a Provisional Replica and has one week to hunt down and kill her Original for the murder of her husband, Jonathan. If she succeeds, she’ll assume her Original’s place in society. If she fails, her life will end.
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My New Favourite Audiobook
- By J on 2021-02-10
- The Original
- Written by: Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Pretty bad on all fronts
Reviewed: 2024-07-05
The story is just..bad. Tacky, no depth, pacing is bleh, writing is stiff and things are written to impose the info on us. Just..overall, very weak. The narration is not awful but I felt like it made all the faults stand out even more as the MC really feels superficial.
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The Book That Broke the World
- The Library Trilogy, Book 2
- Written by: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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The Library spans worlds and times. It touches and joins distant places. It is memory and future. And amid its vastness Evar Eventari both found, and lost, Livira Page. Evar has been forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to recover the book she wrote—one which is the only true threat to the library’s existence—if she's to return to her life.
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Great time
- By erika on 2024-07-16
- The Book That Broke the World
- The Library Trilogy, Book 2
- Written by: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
Great entertainment
Reviewed: 2024-04-30
My true rating is 4.25 - the story was engaging and I was happy to return to it after The Book That Wouldn’t Burn. Personally, it’s not on the same level as the previous which I loved, but the writing has gotten better (and the editing). I look forward to the third book. Narrator: When listening to the first book it took awhile before getting accustomed to the narrator- everything felt a little stiff. After a few hours I was used to it and could ‘feel’ the story - they are amazing at doing different voices, gravelly voices and male interpretations. So it was an easy return for this book, but still a tiny bit stiff in 3rd person narrating.
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The Book That Wouldn't Burn
- Written by: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
- Length: 22 hrs and 28 mins
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The boy has lived his whole life trapped within a book-choked chamber older than empires and larger than cities. The girl has been plucked from the outskirts of civilization to be trained as a librarian, studying the mysteries of the great library at the heart of her kingdom. They were never supposed to meet. But in the library, they did. Their stories spiral around each other, across worlds and time. This is a tale of truth and lies and hearts, and the blurring of one into another.
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Great Book
- By Murphy on 2025-01-27
- The Book That Wouldn't Burn
- Written by: Mark Lawrence
- Narrated by: Jessica Whittaker
Worth the slow, daring buildup
Reviewed: 2024-02-14
It took me a while to get used to the narrator but when I finally attuned I could hear their marvellous talent and ability to voice all types of genders & creatures. The story felt somehow distant in the beginning and I got emotionally attached towards 8hrs (before that I was quite interested just not in love) after that it just gets better and better. I kinda guessed alot of what was going on but that didn’t take away any of the fun along the ride! I Highly recommend - I’ve already pre-ordered the next book.
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Vampire World: Publisher's Pack
- The Vampire World Saga, Book 1-2
- Written by: P.T. Hylton, Jonathan Benecke
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
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It's been over a century since the humans lost the war for Earth. Cities have been reclaimed by nature, and the planet is quiet and empty by day. At night, feral vampires - more beast than man - roam the lands, hungry for blood. The few thousand surviving humans live on a massive airship that circles the Earth, moving with the rotation of the planet so it's always in sunlight.
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Love me some Vampire Sagas
- By Mee Mee on 2022-08-22
- Vampire World: Publisher's Pack
- The Vampire World Saga, Book 1-2
- Written by: P.T. Hylton, Jonathan Benecke
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
Poorly written and childish
Reviewed: 2024-01-12
The voice actor did a great job! It kept convincing me to keep going until the story just got way too silly - this is kind of written like a preteen story, in the sense that the political and scientific happenings are dumbed down a million, the protagonist is a bratty insolent frustrated ‘teen’ that is constantly validated in her testing of authority - it isn’t believable that she has such a position in her workforce and she doesn’t have much of a brain. Everything in this book lacks depth and realism. If you check other reviews there are some pretty good arguments pointing out plot holes.
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One True Mate
- Westin Pack Series, Book 1
- Written by: Julie Trettel
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Carly Robins
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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Kelsey Adams is alone, and has been since childhood. Running away is all she knows and necessary to preserve her deepest, darkest secret. She cannot afford for anyone to get close, or know about the monster within. But when she lands a lucrative job as an administrative assistant to Kyle Westin, CEO of the Westin Foundation, her life changes and everything's at stake. Can she conceal her growing feelings and her true self from this enigmatic, strong willed man, or will her world fall apart?
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A Good Shifter Romance
- By Shadowlands88 on 2024-02-16
- One True Mate
- Westin Pack Series, Book 1
- Written by: Julie Trettel
- Narrated by: Joe Hempel, Carly Robins
Toxic sexist crap
Reviewed: 2023-09-28
Love interest stalks MC at night watching her nude and it’s supposed to show his love - we shouldn’t be shown this as if it’s something to accept.
Constant Jealousy and possessiveness is used to show the extent of love - that’s just wrong.
Love interest is constantly hiding info and planning everything on his own without including the individual concerned- again, really bad relationship behaviour.
It was certainly a good representation of everything I’d say is wrong, toxic, and damaging in how to be with a partner.
A good case of stupid simplistic storytelling too.
Couldn’t finish it was so bad.
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Ocean's Echo
- Written by: Everina Maxwell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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Rich socialite, inveterate flirt, and walking disaster Tennalhin Halkana can read minds. Tennal, like all neuromodified “readers,” is a security threat on his own. But when controlled, readers are a rare asset. Not only can they read minds, but they can navigate chaotic space, the maelstroms surrounding the gateway to the wider universe. Conscripted into the military under dubious circumstances, Tennal is placed into the care of Lieutenant Surit Yeni, a duty-bound soldier, principled leader, and the son of a notorious traitor general. Whereas Tennal can read minds, Surit can influence them.
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Gentle science fiction with a relationship
- By Anonymous User on 2023-06-13
- Ocean's Echo
- Written by: Everina Maxwell
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Gentle science fiction with a relationship
Reviewed: 2023-06-13
This is my second Maxwell read but first audio listen of their work. The performance was lovely and focused, making parts that could be tedious more meaningful. I know everyone is reacting to the fact that this isn’t ‘romance’ enough, and I’d say it’s a new, modern approach to romance, one that puts its energies on building trust, on getting to know the significant other, and on personal/mutual growth, rather than attraction and sexual tension/flirting which we’ve all been conditioned to expect from decades of stories made with the purpose of demonstrating power through love or the necessity to form a couple just cuz. Maxwell writes with an extreme respect for human life, dignity and rights, which helps me realize some of my internalized aspects (I’d get hungry for ‘more violence’, ‘more sex’ ‘more dramatic’) and it helps me see that we don’t need to diminish humanity in stories to drive points through.
As a science fiction it was fun- I just wish the physicist world building was less abstract, and I felt like I couldn’t ‘feel’ how characters acted within it- often we’d get ‘and they did X’ rather than descriptions of how X could happen. Anyway, it wasn’t my favourite but I was happy for it and would read more from the author.
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