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Loose Woman & Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
- De: Sandra Cisneros
- Narrado por: Sandra Cisneros
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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A collection of stories, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. The women in these stories offer tales of pure discovery, filled with moments of infinite and intimate wisdom.
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- De Marcio en 09-15-07
The title story is worth it.
Revisado: 06-22-24
The title story, "Woman Hollering Creek," is one of the best American short stories ever.
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The Accidental Alchemist
- De: Gigi Pandian
- Narrado por: Julia Motyka
- Duración: 9 h y 48 m
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Unpacking her belongings in her new hometown of Portland, Oregon, herbalist and reformed alchemist Zoe Faust can't help but notice she's picked up a stowaway. Dorian Robert-Houdin is a living, breathing three-and-half-foot gargoyle - not to mention a master of French cuisine - and he needs Zoe's expertise to decipher a centuries-old text. Zoe, who's trying to put her old life behind her, isn't so sure she wants to reopen her alchemical past... until the dead man on her porch leaves her no choice.
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Brixton ruined this for me.
- De Meep en 02-05-17
- The Accidental Alchemist
- De: Gigi Pandian
- Narrado por: Julia Motyka
Vegans Validated
Revisado: 05-15-24
This is a fun little paranormal mystery set in Portland OR (Keep it weird!) and featuring a long-lived, 28 year old, white haired, vegan alchemist. And a gargoyle, who is NOT a love interest.
The reader is good, too, though PacNW natives may wince at the mispronounciation of Willamette.
The central character hammers her vegan nail pretty solidly, and this tracks with the Portland rep. Recipes are included, so you can truly digest this story.
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Spells & Caramels Magical Mysteries: The Complete Series
- De: Erin Johnson
- Narrado por: Hannah Somerville
- Duración: 63 h y 57 m
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Twenty-nine-year-old Imogen Banks is hashtag struggling. After a disaster ends her career, destroys her home, and burns up all the money she’s saved to open her own bakery, she enters a baking contest for an all-or-nothing last-ditch chance at getting her life together. But when she arrives at the mysterious island off the coast of France, she discovers all the inhabitants of the quaint town are magical, and if she wins the contest, she’ll become the next royal baker at the castle on top of the hill. No worries that the last royal baker appears to have been murdered.
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Loved it, but..
- De Sy en 01-23-23
DNF
Revisado: 02-24-24
Poor reading performance. Juvenile characters who are only ostensibly adults. Shallow characterization. Dull prose. Plodding plot. Not for me.
I do think this would probably be good for a tween or very young teen who likes adventure/fantasy/mystery and wants to read chapter books with very brief chapters. Inonly made it half way through book 2 before calling it quits, so I can't vouch for content beyond that.
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Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
- Duración: 11 h y 27 m
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads to the colors of the houses to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter, Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons.
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Boring and Drawn Out!!!
- De M. Ryder en 10-05-17
- Little Fires Everywhere
- De: Celeste Ng
- Narrado por: Jennifer Lim
Good book, complex issues
Revisado: 02-17-24
This is a good book. It's worth a read. The plot raises questions about parenthood, ralatiobships,and possession of others.
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A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 16 h y 7 m
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When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
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Bad ending and Immaturity
- De The Story Adict en 09-13-17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- De: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
Melodramatic teen paranormal romance
Revisado: 05-29-23
A++ for the reader here. She made an otherwise mediocre book tolerable.
The story? Well, if I was thirteen and still in the grip of a hormonal tsunami, I would probably love this. I suspect it's aimed at a teen market. As an adult and someone who knows a smidge about writing, it was maudlin. It was like listening to a middleschooler read her own heartfelt love poetry, poorly written and overly sentimental. But, you know, with feeling. A lot of feeling. And a narcissistic sense of entitlement.
This heroine lost me when she crossed the wall and became a lapdog. She alienated me with her behavior toward the people in her village. The ending was like an eighth grader's martyr fantasy. It was all pretty over the top.
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The Atlas Paradox
- De: Olivie Blake
- Narrado por: Alexandra Palting, Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, y otros
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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Six magicians were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime. Five are now members of the Society. Two paths lay before them. All must pick a side. Alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and The Society of Alexandrians will be revealed for what it is: a secret society with raw, world-changing power, headed by a man whose plans to change life as we know it are already under way.
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can barely understand the female characters
- De Shane Robinson en 10-31-22
Audio interpretation bad. Story good.
Revisado: 04-23-23
The actor voicing Parisa whispers half her lines and growls the other half. Is this supposed to be sexy? It is annoying, ridiculous, and reduces the character to a single note-a major fail for the actor and a catastrophe for this audiobook. We literally cannot hear half of what she says. and the other half is misdelivered.
As with the first book of this series, having multiple actors each read a chapter was a *terrible* idea. If you are going to do that, you have to get them into the room together and read like a script, each actor owning a voice. What we have here is a bunch of random readers taking turns reading chapters, each voicing the same characters differently. They can't agree on Callum's accent or on Tristan's accent. No one seems to have any idea how to read Raina. The actor reading Parisa, the one who _should_ have some sense of her depth, is the only one who reads her like a heartless prostitute. There is a massive continuity fail in this audio performance.
The story is definitely good. The audiobook performance stinks. Just go read the text version.
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The Atlas Six
- De: Olivie Blake
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 59 m
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The Alexandrian Society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. Those who earn a place among the Alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. Enter the latest round of six: Libby Rhodes and Nico de Varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality.
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I kept listening out of spite
- De Julie en 03-09-22
- The Atlas Six
- De: Olivie Blake
- Narrado por: Andy Ingalls, Caitlin Kelly, Damian Lynch, David Monteith, James Patrick Cronin, Munirih Grace, Siho Ellsmore
Great story! Meh reading.
Revisado: 04-05-23
This story is solid, and plan to get the sequel because it's just episode #1. Each chapter follows a different character, all of whom are magical people joining a closed group overseeing the famed library of Alexandria. Of course, nothing is as it seems. This story reminds me a lot of The Umbrella Academy. It's part Survivor, part Magicians (Lev Grossman), and part Harry Potter, albeit a grown-up version. Good stuff.
I am not impressed with the choice to have different actors read each chapter. The idea I am sure is to give each character a unique voice, but the problem is that each chapter has multiple people speaking, so what happens is that you hear 8 or 9 different actors reading Atlas, 8 or 9 different readers as Libby, 8 or 9 different voices for Parisa... Instead of 8 unique voices, we have 64 overlapping voices. It's confusing. Just one talented reader would have been a better choice.
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The Bloomin' Psychic Boxed Set: Books 1-3
- De: Annabel Chase
- Narrado por: Meghan Kelly
- Duración: 19 h y 25 m
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The Bloomin' Psychic Boxed Set includes the first three books in the series: Petal to the Metal, Life's a Birch, and Drive Me Daisy.
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Horrible narration.
- De M. Wilhite en 03-03-22
- The Bloomin' Psychic Boxed Set: Books 1-3
- De: Annabel Chase
- Narrado por: Meghan Kelly
Light, funny, and a little magical.
Revisado: 11-21-22
The stories are great, and this is a solid deal with three novels bundled for one credit.
The writer has great characters woven into these murder mysteries. The protagonist is going through some character growth, but she handles it with humor, making these stories a fun read. These are far better written than the reader's performance suggests.
The reading was really rough on the first book, but better by the third. In the first book, the reader didn't seem to know who this character is or how to do the intonation. The third book was much better wirh fewer singsong intonations and misread emphases. I wish more readers and writers worked together on audiobooks.
If you are looking for a murder mystery that is light and amusing in tone and sprinkled with a few psychic hints, this is a good choice.
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The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
- De: Sangu Mandanna
- Narrado por: Samara MacLaren
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don’t mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised by strangers, she’s used to being alone and she follows the rules...with one exception: an online account, where she posts videos "pretending" to be a witch. She thinks no one will take it seriously.
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The perfect cozy fall read!
- De Chloë Ester K. Cook en 10-04-22
- The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
- De: Sangu Mandanna
- Narrado por: Samara MacLaren
Excellent!
Revisado: 10-27-22
Bravo! At last, genuine story of real people with unreal abilities! I loved it! Great reader. Great story. Fantastic!
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In the Company of Witches
- De: Auralee Wallace
- Narrado por: Cassidy Brown
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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For 400 years, the Warren witches have used their magic to quietly help the citizens of the sleepy New England town of Evenfall thrive. There's never been a problem they couldn't handle. But then Constance Graves - a local known for being argumentative and demanding - dies while staying at the bed and breakfast Brynn Warren maintains with her aunts. At first, it seems like an accident...but it soon becomes clear that there's something more sinister at work, and Aunt Nora is shaping up to be the prime suspect.
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Ehhhhhh
- De Johnny Thunder en 09-26-23
- In the Company of Witches
- De: Auralee Wallace
- Narrado por: Cassidy Brown
Good story. Mystery + Magic
Revisado: 10-23-22
Good story. Witches, it seems, lose parents and grow up with aunts. There is a _Practical Magic_ vibe to the set up, but the story goes in a different direction entirely. I enjoyed it.
I don't think the reader is the right one for this author. You know that kid in class who could read the assigned text aloud in class but didn't put emphasis in the right places? That's what this felt like. The voice was clipped, but the text had more fluid wording.I think a more drawling American accent might have fit better. This reader's voice is not terrible, but didn't quite fit. Still worth the listen though.
I enjoyed the presence of the animals here. I like that the protagonist went everywhere by bicycle in her small town. These were fun touches.
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