kyle crawford
- 132
- reviews
- 8
- helpful votes
- 179
- ratings
-
The Butcher Game
- A Dr. Wren Muller Novel
- By: Alaina Urquhart
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Joe Knezevich
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Destruction follows the ruthless serial killer, Jeremy Rose, the Bayou Butcher, as he heads north to evade capture for his horrific crimes. As he seeks safe harbor with a former friend, he remains focused on unfinished business with forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller, the only target who’s ever escaped him—twice. But not this time. He’s determined to make Wren suffer, and he’s promised to make her play by his own twisted rules.
-
-
How the story , did such a turn from the original
- By JENNIFFER RUNYON on 09-30-24
- The Butcher Game
- A Dr. Wren Muller Novel
- By: Alaina Urquhart
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Joe Knezevich
good but more predictable than the first
Reviewed: 09-30-24
"He's reluctantly kind but stupidity wafts from him like department store cologne."
The Butcher's Game by Alaina Urquhart
"People love turning death into something other than the ultimate horror show they believe it to be."
The Butcher's Game by Alaina Urquhart
"It is always strange to see those kinds of things happen postmortem. Things that normally make a person squirm don’t matter anymore. Nothing hurts when you’re dead."
The Butcher's Game by Alaina Urquhart
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
These Things Linger
- By: Dan Dan Franklin, Cemetery Dance Publications
- Narrated by: Joseph Stephenson
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
When Alex Wilson’s estranged uncle unexpectedly dies, Alex realizes he would do just about anything to make peace with the man who had raised him as his own. He’d even reach out to the dead. But things more dangerous than ghosts haunt his uncle’s broken down trailer and the nearly abandoned one-gas-station town of Fair Hill just beyond. Things that can devour the living and the dead alike, and are all too ready to answer his call.
-
-
ghosts
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-24
- These Things Linger
- By: Dan Dan Franklin, Cemetery Dance Publications
- Narrated by: Joseph Stephenson
so good!
Reviewed: 09-11-24
"The pain went on and on, rolling over me in waves. It carved into my arm, my chest, my leg, setting my nerves on fire. The seconds ticked on, each one feeling like a minute, an hour, a lifetime. Time is different here. There’s so much more of it."
These Things Linger by Dan Franklin
"In the face of pain there are no heroes"
George Orwell 1984
"Time was a useless concept when you were sitting awake in the dark, and in constant pain."
Stephen King: The Dark Tower
"the pain standing out like a sharp moment in time."
Mindy McGinnis, In a Handful of Dust
"hurt has a way of stretching out a heartbeat into an infinity of going colder, slower, every breath another starburst of too much to cope with, lighting up the cerebrum with constellations of anguish."
Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw
"She had no real interest, but hearing her voice reassured her that she wasn’t dead.
Not yet, at least."
Stephen King: The Dark Tower
"from his pain he knew he was not dead."
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 16 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
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.
-
-
Bad ending and Immaturity
- By The Story Adict on 09-13-17
- A Court of Thorns and Roses
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
good stuff
Reviewed: 08-28-24
"The green of his eyes matched the grass between my fingers, and the amber flecks were like the shafts of sunlight that streamed through the trees."
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
"It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses."
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
“It’s a rare day indeed when someone thanks you for bringing them to their death.”
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
“Among a sea of mundane faces, yours is a work of art.”
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
"There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.
At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.
By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.
For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
When I kill, I do it slow …"
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
"His eyes were the color of a sky I’d never see again if I refused to kill him, a color I’d never get out of my mind, never forget no matter how many times I painted it."
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
"But I was being ripped apart from the inside out, and I thrashed, unable to out-scream the pain."
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Siege of Stone
- Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The Sorceress Nicci, the Wizard Nathan Rahl, and the young swordsman Bannon remain in the legendary city of Ildakar after a great internal revolt has freed the slaves and brought down the powerful wizards council. But as he fled the city, capricious Wizard Commander Maxim dissolved the petrification spell that had turned to stone the invading army of General Utros fifteen centuries earlier. Now, hundreds of thousands of half-stone soldiers from the ancient past have awakened, led by one of the greatest enemy commanders in history.
-
-
Terry Goodkind is phoning it in at this point
- By Kyle Martin on 01-06-19
- Siege of Stone
- Sister of Darkness: The Nicci Chronicles, Book 3
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
still good
Reviewed: 08-28-24
"Adessa would have stayed behind to fight the rebels all night and not count the cost in blood, because a traitor’s blood was small coin indeed."
Siege of Stone by Terry Goodkind
"The next sunset, the clouds over the mountains grew crimson, as if the blood of children had been added to the sky"
Siege of Stone by Terry Goodkind
"Darkness fell like a blanket tossed over the trees."
Siege of Stone by Terry Goodkind
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Witch's Oath
- Children of D’Hara, Book 4
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Richard knew that there would be no help coming. It was all up to him to stop the threat or Kahlan would die. They all would die. Nine companions - Richard, Kahlan, the witch woman Shale and six Mord-Sith, Rikka, Vale, Cassia, Nyda, Berdine and Vika - are hunting a warlock in the waterlogged depths of the People's Palace. It will take all their skills to close on their quarry, but do any of them understand the true power of a Witch's Oath?
-
-
So disappointing
- By David M on 01-13-20
- Witch's Oath
- Children of D’Hara, Book 4
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
good
Reviewed: 05-27-24
“Human beings have an infinite capacity for ignorance and intolerance. As a result, they can be profoundly dangerous."
Witches Oath by Terry Goodkind
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
You Like It Darker
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Stephen King
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to digest.
-
-
Chilling and beautiful stories
- By MamaBear on 05-24-24
- You Like It Darker
- Stories
- By: Stephen King
- Narrated by: Will Patton, Stephen King
A return of mastery
Reviewed: 05-25-24
Yes, Mr. King, I do in fact Like It Darker! Say true & say thankee-sai! This is a welcome return to the quintessential form of The Master Wordsmith! I breathed a sigh of relief reading it, to have returned to the comfort of familiar places written in a familiar style following the disheartening disappointment & abandonment of style and character devotion that saturated the experience of reading Holly. With this collection, King steps down from his soapbox and back into the shoes that only he can fill. Creating stories that haunt the mind with horror and thoughts of "what if," as the type of horror is not solely the wildly fantastic but also right in the pocket of King's wheelhouse creating fears of what could actually be. Images creep into one's mind, seemingly innocently, of the terrors that could & sometimes do actually lie in the Darker shadows of the world. His understanding subtle examination of the human psyche combined with devotion to a character driven plot form is nothing short of absolute mastery. All this, in addition to just plain great writing. With most of my reviews, I include a few or a handful of my favorite quotes from the book with the number depending on the skill of the author. I'll never forget one of my favorite authors messaging me: "You always pick out the lines that I personally thought when I wrote them - fuck yeah" with the majority of King's work, I often find that there are simply too many of those great lines to list, though I often include a smathering of the best of them.
"Someone is always painting pictures. Someone is always telling stories. Someone is always playing Call me the Breeze on the guitar. Most are forgettable, some are competent, few are indelible."
Two Talented Bastids, You Like It Darker by Stephen King
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Hateful Things
- Children of D’Hara, Book 2
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 3 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Novella #2 from the Children of D'Hara series. A continuation of The Sword of Truth and the story of Richard & Kahlan.
-
-
Sorely disappointed
- By Laura A on 12-23-19
- Hateful Things
- Children of D’Hara, Book 2
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
creature feature
Reviewed: 05-21-24
Hateful Things has a vibe reminiscent of an old school horror creature feature... I dig it!
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Scribbly Man
- Children of D’Hara, Book 1
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
From the internationally best-selling author of the Sword of Truth series comes a new Richard and Kahlan novella. "They are the monsters under the bed when you are little, the shape just caught out of the corner of your eye when you thought you were alone, the shadow of something in a dark corner that surprises you and then isn't there. They stop you dead with a knot of unexpected terror in the pit of your stomach. I think that the star shift has brought us closer to their realm so that they now have the power to step into our world and hurt us."
-
-
great intro to a story, but too short for a novel.
- By Amazon Customer on 06-18-19
- The Scribbly Man
- Children of D’Hara, Book 1
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: John Skelley
different
Reviewed: 05-19-24
While still good, the writing has a subtly different feel than the earlier works in the series... almost as if it was ghost written.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
The Law of Nines
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Turning 27 may be terrifying for some, but for Alex, a struggling artist living in the Midwest, it is cataclysmic. Something about this birthday, his name, and the beautiful woman whose life he has just saved has suddenly made him - and everyone he loves - a target. A target for extreme and uncompromising violence...
-
-
Can't stand alone
- By Don Gilbert on 09-19-09
- The Law of Nines
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
skilled
Reviewed: 05-18-24
This modern branch out from the Sword of Truth series was amazingly done... I couldn't help but think of the Master wordsmith Stephen King in parts with the setting partly in Maine, the Daggett Trust feeling a bit like the Tet Corporation & the Gateway bringing to mind rose vibes.
"Go then, there are other worlds than these."
Stephen King
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Warheart
- Sword of Truth, Book 15
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
All is lost. Evil will soon consume the D'Haran Empire. Richard Rahl lies on his funeral bier. It is the end of everything. Except what isn't lost is Kahlan Amnell. Following an inner prompting beyond all reason, the last Confessor will wager everything on a final desperate gambit, and in so doing, she will change the world forever.
-
-
For fans of the Sword of Truth series only...
- By Billy Chan on 12-01-15
- Warheart
- Sword of Truth, Book 15
- By: Terry Goodkind
- Narrated by: Sam Tsoutsouvas
😁
Reviewed: 05-15-24
"The light mist and fitful drizzle felt cold on her face, like ice against the grief burning inside her."
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
"He had given her a chance to accept the truth. Those who refused to see the truth were not immune from it."
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
“Prophecy is a compression of the future into the present."
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
"Prophecy is contaminating the nature of time in our world"
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
"Now, flies walked across her dead eyes staring up at the sky."
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
“I know. You’re the right man for the job, and I know you will make those who came before you proud, those under your care safe, and those under your sword terrified.”
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
“In this world, everyone must die. None of us has any choice in that. Our choice is how we wish to live.”
Warheart by Terry Goodkind
Memento Mori
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!