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Dead of Winter
- By: Darcy Coates
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Despite the uncomfortably claustrophobic quarters and rapidly dropping temperature, Christa believes they'll be safe as they wait out the storm. She couldn't be more wrong. Deep in the night, their tour guide goes missing...only to be discovered the following morning, his severed head impaled on a tree outside the cabin. Terrified, and completely isolated by the storm, Christa finds herself trapped with eight total strangers. One of them kills for sport...and they're far from finished.
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Unpredictable
- By Books 4 U on 12-21-23
- Dead of Winter
- By: Darcy Coates
- Narrated by: Emily Ellet
Confused by all the hype…
Reviewed: 01-02-25
This book is fine. I didn’t love it but it’s also not the worst I’ve ever read. I think I would have liked it better though if I didn’t see so much praise for it ahead of time.
At best it felt like a pretty run of the mill thriller but I found a lot of it to be pretty repetitive and one note. I was constantly rewinding because I was spacing off.
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Be Ready When the Luck Happens
- A Memoir
- By: Ina Garten
- Narrated by: Ina Garten
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon—shares her personal story with those hungry for a seat at her table. Here, for the first time, Ina Garten presents an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail.
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I love that Ina narrated it.
- By Tricia on 10-06-24
- Be Ready When the Luck Happens
- A Memoir
- By: Ina Garten
- Narrated by: Ina Garten
My favorite book this year
Reviewed: 10-10-24
I’ve been watching Ina with my mom since I was a kid. I’m a huge fan. It was so fun to see a different side of her in this book.
Such a hilarious, intelligent, business minded, woman. Her humor and love for food are so evident here. And her love for Jeffery had a smile on my face every time she talked about him.
I loved this book.
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The Last Housewife
- A Novel
- By: Ashley Winstead
- Narrated by: Alexis Van Aiken
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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While in college in upstate New York, Shay Evans and her best friends met a captivating man who seduced them with a web of lies about the way the world works, bringing them under his thrall. By senior year, Shay and her friend Laurel were the only ones who managed to escape. Now, eight years later, Shay’s built a new life in a tony Texas suburb. But when she hears the horrifying news of Laurel’s death―delivered, of all ways, by her favorite true-crime podcast crusader―she begins to suspect that the past she thought she buried is still very much alive.
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Whoa
- By Lela on 09-09-22
- The Last Housewife
- A Novel
- By: Ashley Winstead
- Narrated by: Alexis Van Aiken
Really disliked every moment
Reviewed: 09-26-24
I’d love to list some positives here but I really didn’t like this book at all. Finally did myself a favor and stopped listening with 2 hours left. I tried.
The reader did a good job. That’s all I’ve got.
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All You Have to Do Is Call
- By: Kerri Maher
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
- Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
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The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground health clinic composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to embrace their futures by offering reproductive counseling and safe, illegal abortions. Veronica, Jane’s founder, prides herself on the services she has provided to thousands of women, yet the price of others’ freedom is that she leads a double life. When she’s not at Jane, Veronica plays the role of a conventional housewife—a juggling act that becomes even more difficult during her own high-risk pregnancy.
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wonderful story
- By E. Louise on 10-06-23
- All You Have to Do Is Call
- By: Kerri Maher
- Narrated by: Lauryn Allman
Good book but..
Reviewed: 09-09-24
I loved so much about this book. The characters and the historical elements especially. So thankful for all of the brave women who fought so hard for reproductive rights.
My complaint about this book was mostly the pacing. There were long portions that didn’t seem to have much plot development. Would have loved a quicker pace.
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The Truth According to Ember
- By: Danica Nava
- Narrated by: Siena East
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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Ember Lee Cardinal has not always been a liar—well, not for anything that counted at least. But her job search is not going well and when her resumé is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she takes matters into her own hands. She gets “creative” listing her qualifications and answers the ethnicity question on applications with a lie—a half-lie, technically. No one wanted Native American Ember, but white Ember has just landed her dream accounting job on Park Avenue (Oklahoma City, that is).
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Meet cute rom com
- By McKayla Crouss on 01-24-25
- The Truth According to Ember
- By: Danica Nava
- Narrated by: Siena East
Loved this
Reviewed: 08-21-24
Fell in love with these characters, flaws and all.
I was planning to give this book a 4 star for the humor, characters and story. And then I got to the steamy scenes and decided to give it a 5.
Fun read.
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Wolfsong
- A Green Creek Novel
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrated by: Kirt Graves
- Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
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Oxnard Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then his father left. Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in next door, harboring a secret that would change him forever. The Bennetts are shapeshifters. They can transform into wolves at will. Drawn to their magic, loyalty, and enduring friendships, Ox feels a gulf between this extraordinary new world and the quiet life he’s known, but he finds an ally in Joe, the youngest Bennett boy.
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I don’t understand all the love…
- By Shauna Gallo on 06-06-24
- Wolfsong
- A Green Creek Novel
- By: TJ Klune
- Narrated by: Kirt Graves
Too much weird groomer stuff..
Reviewed: 06-11-24
I really was hesitant to start this series because it didn’t seem like my thing. So I was surprised at how quickly I loved it… and then I was annoyed at how quickly I didn’t love it again.
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The lead character falls in love with, for all intents and purposes, his adopted brother he has known since they were 16 and 10 respectively. The author then goes out of his way to start their relationship when they are 23 and 17 for some reason.
The book is then filled with actual things groomers say to justify their actions like “he wants it too” “he’s mature for his age” “he grew up fast” “he’s actually the dominant one” “his family is cool with it” “nothing physical has happened YET” “he’s the one pursuing me” and the silliest, “things are different for werewolves.”
Well I’m not a werewolf so I thought it was weird.
Add to this the the reason this 17 year old boy “had to grow up fast” is because he was literally tortured and SAed at a very young age and it makes it even more creepy that his adult brother figure began “dating” him.
There were so many other ways this story could have dealt with an age gap (having them closer in age, having them not act like family members, having them begin dating later in the story, etc) so the fact that this is the route that was chosen is deliberate and weird.
I’ve seen so many 5 star reviews that don’t mention this at all and that’s concerning..
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Best Men
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
- Length: 10 hrs
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Max Moody thought he had everything figured out. He’s trying to live his best life in New York City and has the best friend a gay guy could ask for: Paige. She and Max grew up next door to each other in the suburbs of Chicago. She can light up any party. She finishes his sentences. She’s always a reliable splunch (they don’t like to use the word brunch) partner. But then Max’s whole world is turned upside down when Paige suddenly announces some huge news: she’s engaged and wants Max to be her man of honor.
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A Sweet Gay Romance...
- By Greenmarkut on 05-17-23
- Best Men
- By: Sidney Karger
- Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
No thank you
Reviewed: 06-07-24
I really tried to love this book. I didn’t succeed.
This was nowhere near the worst book I’ve ever read but there were enough things that didn’t work for me that I just really didn’t enjoy reading this.
I understand complicated characters, character arcs and enemies to lovers tropes, but this just felt like two gay men treating each other poorly while competing for the attention of straight people. While that obviously does happen in real life, for me it doesn’t make an enjoyable or cute romcom. It seemed their only goal for most of the book was to be considered a straight woman’s “gay best friend” which felt like a plot a decade or two out of place.
They also spent so much time being rude to each other that by the time they did fall in love that it felt, to me, random and unearned.
Add to all of that, the main character had real “pick me” energy and was constantly complaining about other gay men (and gay music and gay culture, etc.) in a way they clearly thought was clever or fresh. I did not.
I just didn’t love it and, especially during Pride, I wish I could say that I did.
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Open Water
- By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Narrated by: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins
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Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
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Second person POV releases poignant perspective
- By Storytellersrus on 09-25-21
- Open Water
- By: Caleb Azumah Nelson
- Narrated by: Caleb Azumah Nelson
Difficult to rate.
Reviewed: 05-03-24
I think it’s important when reading a book like this that multiple things can be true at once.
I can very much appreciate how beautifully written this book is while also accepting that this writing style is not for me.
I had an appreciation for the words and also found it hard to get into.
Less of a critique and more of a preference.
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A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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When a sharp cry wakes Jean in the middle of the night during a terrible tempest, she’s convinced it must have been a dream. But when the cry comes again, Jean ventures outside and is shocked by what she discovers—a young woman in labor, drenched to the bone in the bitter cold and able to speak barely a word of English.
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Atmospheric in the Best of Ways—not to miss!
- By Syd Young on 04-11-24
- A Sweet Sting of Salt
- A Novel
- By: Rose Sutherland
- Narrated by: Aven Shore
Wow.
Reviewed: 04-23-24
I picked this book on a whim and I was completely blown away. Lush, exciting, romantic. And the reader did such an amazing job.
Will be listening to this again.
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The Emperor and the Endless Palace
- By: Justinian Huang
- Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Across these seemingly unrelated timelines woven together only by the twists and turns of fate, two men are reborn, lifetime after lifetime. Within the treacherous walls of an ancient palace and the boundless forests of the Asian wilderness to the heart-pounding cement floors of underground rave scenes, our lovers are inexplicably drawn to each other, constantly tested by the worlds around them.
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Intriguing Story
- By Brittany Miller on 10-21-24
- The Emperor and the Endless Palace
- By: Justinian Huang
- Narrated by: Dylan J. Locke, Will Dao, Telly Leung
An ambitious book
Reviewed: 04-17-24
This was a sexy and ambitious book that didn’t really click with me most of the time. There was a lot to love, and the sex scenes were sexy, but I often found the rest of the plot confusing. I wanted to love it but I never got there unfortunately.
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