Benjamin Button
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Kalyna the Cutthroat
- Failures of Four Kingdoms, Book 2
- By: Elijah Kinch Spector
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi, Michael Crouch
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Radiant Basket of Rainbow Shells, scholar of curses and magical history, has spent several years on a research expedition abroad in Quruscan, one of the four kingdoms of the Tetrarchia. When Radiant’s home country of Loasht suddenly revokes his citizenship—and that of his entire ethnic enclave—he soon finds that Quruscan is no longer a safe haven either. He needs someone to help him escape: someone with the sheer cunning to escort him to safety. The perfect candidate is Kalyna Aljosanova: a crafty, mysterious mercenary with an uncanny reputation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This is long, but so worth it.
- By Benjamin Button on 01-07-25
- Kalyna the Cutthroat
- Failures of Four Kingdoms, Book 2
- By: Elijah Kinch Spector
- Narrated by: Samara Naeymi, Michael Crouch
This is long, but so worth it.
Reviewed: 01-07-25
I really just wish I had listened to the first book before this one. Long, but not one wasted word. Loved the characters, the action, the world! It was all great!
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 185,844
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 169,748
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Story5 out of 5 stars 169,195
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Holy $hit!
Reviewed: 10-02-24
This was a four all the way through, BUT THE END!!!! I’m about to squawl my eyes out one chapter from the end!
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This Is Why We Lied
- A Will Trent Thriller
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,748
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,638
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,638
For GBI investigator Will Trent and medical examiner Sara Linton, McAlpine Lodge seems like the ideal getaway to celebrate their honeymoon. Set on a gorgeous, off-the-grid mountaintop property, it’s the perfect place to unplug and reconnect. Until a bone-chilling scream cuts through the night. Mercy McAlpine, the manager of the Lodge, is dead. With a vicious storm raging and the one access road to the property washed out, the murderer must be someone on the mountain. But as Will and Sara investigate the McAlpine family and the other guests, they realize that everyone here is lying.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another great read .
- By Summer on 08-25-24
- This Is Why We Lied
- A Will Trent Thriller
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
I’ve read every Karin Slaughter novel….
Reviewed: 08-23-24
This is the best one since she killed off Jeffrey, not that I’ve completely forgiven her for that or finished properly grieving for him
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The Lie in Our Marriage
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,990
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,907
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,906
On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len’s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Maggie leans against the apple tree, watching her fun-loving husband and darling children as her heart swells with pride. As the joyful party atmosphere disappears into the night, close by, the lifeless body of a young woman is pulled from a river. Slipping upstairs to find the special gift for her adoring husband, Maggie stumbles across something else hidden amongst the dusty boxes of family keepsakes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great twist!
- By Pinkgirl on 11-18-23
- The Lie in Our Marriage
- By: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrated by: James Lailey
So much stuffing…
Reviewed: 06-01-24
I have read other books by this author and loved them, BUT this one had so much unnecessary repetition. It was like the author had been paid by the word, realized the book fell 1000 words short of that word count, and then repeated words and phrases unnecessarily just to increase the word count. Drove me as crazy as my student’s asinine use of AI to create drivel I’m forced to read through to try to find the imaginary point.
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Elvis and Me
- By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Narrated by: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,240
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,928
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,921
The inspiration for the major motion picture Priscilla directed by Sofia Coppola, this New York Times best seller reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, told by the woman who lived it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a story!
- By Pen Name on 08-28-22
- Elvis and Me
- By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
- Narrated by: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley
Interesting story…horrible narration surprisingly
Reviewed: 03-17-24
All I could think the entire time I listened to this book was this is where Katie Britt got the awful inspiration for her trad wife, creepy-ass, State of the Union rebuttal. That laugh that occasionally comes in to the narration is sooooo fake!
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Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,840
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,587
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,574
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Maybe a beautiful story, This author should never narrate
- By Student on 01-02-20
- Song of Solomon
- A Novel
- By: Toni Morrison
- Narrated by: Toni Morrison
Beautiful story
Reviewed: 02-22-24
I love books narrated by the author, but this one went a little slow for me. Jack the speed up if you are ADD and it will be a beautiful, heart breaking ride.
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Fledgling
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 995
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 993
Fledgling, Octavia E. Butler's final novel, is the story of a young amnesiac girl whose inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must learn who wanted to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Child in sexual situations
- By Laura on 05-13-11
- Fledgling
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
OMG! This is so freakin good!
Reviewed: 02-10-24
I HATE vampire books and have quit reading several favorite authors when they experimented with writing one. But this book!!! So hard to put down, such good characters, and this story??? Truthfully, it’s a 4.5, NOT a mere 4.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
- Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,047
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,185
Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have heard before.
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2 out of 5 stars
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This book sucked the life out of me
- By RMan on 08-08-22
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
- A Novel
- By: Gabrielle Zevin
- Narrated by: Jennifer Kim, Julian Cihi
Best book of 2023
Reviewed: 01-06-24
Never could have imagined how much I would love this book! Can’t wait for more from this author.
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A Place for Us
- A Novel
- By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,190
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,963
As an Indian wedding gathers a family back together, parents Rafiq and Layla must reckon with the choices their children have made. There is Hadia, their headstrong eldest daughter, whose marriage is a match of love and not tradition. Huda, the middle child, determined to follow in her sister’s footsteps. And lastly, their estranged son, Amar, who returns to the family fold for the first time in three years to take his place as brother of the bride.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started on Audible, finished with a book in my hand
- By CO Mom on 09-17-18
- A Place for Us
- A Novel
- By: Fatima Farheen Mirza
- Narrated by: Deepti Gupta, Sunil Malhotra
Ugly cry alert
Reviewed: 12-28-23
This book is so beautiful. Be ready to ugly cry so don’t read in a public place where you will be embarrassed!
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,684
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10,047
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 10,022
Their Eyes Were Watching God, an American classic, is the luminous and haunting novel about Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930s, whose journey from a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance has inspired writers and readers for close to 70 years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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perfection
- By Mel on 04-06-15
- Their Eyes Were Watching God
- By: Zora Neale Hurston
- Narrated by: Ruby Dee
Best novel and narration of all time
Reviewed: 12-12-23
This is my all-time favorite novel. I have read it 20+ times. I always find new vignettes she has taken from her more anthropological works as I read more of them. Ruby Dee KILLS this! Use you next credit! I’m going to listen to this one over and over,
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