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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now? Monique is not exactly on top of the world. Her husband, David, has left her, and her career has stagnated.
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Glucose Gluttony
- By W Perry Hall on 03-17-18
- The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
- A Novel
- By: Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Narrated by: Alma Cuervo, Julia Whelan, Robin Miles
For older readers (60+)
Reviewed: 08-11-24
This book was okay, but it wasn't that interesting. I think readers over the age of 60 might identify with it and enjoy it most. Most of the book is set in eras very different from today, when people declared love and got married after 2 dates. They didnt even know each other and elevated 'like' to 'love'. For me, the story was too plain. Nothing much happens, there's no mystery, or intrigue. I finished the book, but wouldn't read more from this author.
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The Locked Door
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
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Some doors are locked for a reason.... While 11-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora's father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence. Nobody knows her father was a notorious serial killer. And she intends to keep it that way. Then Nora discovers one of her young female patients has been murdered.
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- By Liliane Ski on 09-24-21
- The Locked Door
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Shaina Summerville
The voice
Reviewed: 08-04-24
The book/story were good, I did not like the narrator's voice though. It's like she scream speaks, and they just turned her volume down. My ears were popping the entire book, her voice is harsh, and she over-enunciates every word. At times you can hear that she has a softer voice, and she should really use that tone to narrate, not this theater-projecting tone.
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Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
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Definitely needed the trigger warning, but..
- By Hillary on 02-01-16
- Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Great read
Reviewed: 04-07-24
Yes, there are horrifically graphic parts. Just about the worst acts you could possibly imagine. But it's captivating, unpredictable, well written, and the narrator is perfect. If you can handle graphic torture and still enjoy the book, then you might enjoy this book. Just remember, it's fiction.
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Undateable
- A Happy Endings Novella
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Brooke Bloomingdale, Evan Parker
- Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Look, I’m all for romance novels, but life doesn’t always work out like it does in a book. Friends don’t usually turn into lovers, fake dates don’t often become more, and billionaires rarely have carved abs. I’m not a negative Nelly; I’m just a realist. As a friend and a coworker to Gavin Sexy Pants Clements, I fit firmly in the “undateable" category.
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✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫ Great Female Narrator
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 12-10-22
- Undateable
- A Happy Endings Novella
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Brooke Bloomingdale, Evan Parker
Cute short story.
Reviewed: 11-07-23
I enjoyed this short story and you probably will too. Seems it is linked to at least one other book: Shut Up and Kiss Me, which takes place after this book.
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Stuck-Up Suit
- By: Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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It started out like any other morning on the train - until I became mesmerized by the guy sitting across the aisle. He was barking at someone on his phone like he ruled the world. Who did the stuck-up suit think he was...God? Actually, he looked like a god. That was about it.
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Nope!
- By Tammy on 10-18-16
- Stuck-Up Suit
- By: Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
Good book
Reviewed: 10-25-23
This was a good book and I would recommend it. I had a hard time getting through it and had to keep taking breaks from it for a few days at a time. For whatever reason, it really moved me and made me feel all the feelings the characters were feeling. I was really sad and crying for days. It reminded me of times in my life when I had those emotions during other situations in my own relationship. I just had to take breaks to get over those overwhelming feelings. And then of course I had to tell my husband of 20 years why I was so upset. We've been through a lot over the decades and we're different people now. He's great and just held me and apologized (again) for his actions in the past that made me feel that way. But yeah, good book!
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Colonist's Wife and Heart's a Mess
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Elena Wolfe
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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New York Times best-selling author Kylie Scott presents two stand-alone novellas in this must-listen collection. Colonist's Wife: She'll run to the far corners of space to avoid her violent history, hide her true identity, and pass herself off as a mail-order bride. But no one can escape their past forever. And as for her new husband...well, he's nothing like she expected.
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fast paced good stories
- By me on 05-06-19
- Colonist's Wife and Heart's a Mess
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Elena Wolfe
I only wish the stories were longer.
Reviewed: 10-21-23
Like other reviewers, I only wish the stories were longer. The Colonist's Wife was a good story. Romance novels are often very similar, and I get tired of the same old themes and tropes. This story had a bit of sci-fi and was more interesting to me. Heart's a Mess was good too. The author managed to be as compelling, and I had all the feelings, even in the short time frame. The narrator was fabulous, as she always is.
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Repeat
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
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When a vicious attack leaves 25-year-old Clementine Johns with no memory, she’s forced to start over. Now she has figure out who she was and why she made the choices she did - which includes leaving the supposed love of her life, tattoo artist Ed Larsen, only a month before. Ed can hardly believe it when his ex shows up at his tattoo parlor with no memory of their past, asking about the breakup that nearly destroyed him. The last thing he needs is more heartache, but he can’t seem to let her go again. Should they walk away for good, or does their love deserve a repeat performance?
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Adorable Story of Love
- By B. Wood/@chapter_break on 01-10-19
- Repeat
- By: Kylie Scott
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt
I enjoyed it
Reviewed: 10-19-23
I liked this book. It really got me in all kinds of feelings. There was enough suspense and interest, and it's not a goody two shoes romance. The narrator was great, as always.
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The Private Rehearsal
- Caught Up In Love, Book 4
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Sebastian York, Ava Erickson
- Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
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The first rule of directing is simple: Never fall for your leading lady. The second? Don’t let it get to you when she stage-kisses another man. Looks like I’ve already broken both. Now my jealous, possessive heart wants all of her - the ingenue who’s the star of my next show. I’m captivated by her raw talent, her addictive charm, and her desperate need for me. Soon we’re staying late in the empty theater, our private rehearsals spiraling into forbidden territory. Exactly where I can’t go.
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✫✫ 4 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 03-09-20
- The Private Rehearsal
- Caught Up In Love, Book 4
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Sebastian York, Ava Erickson
WOW, amazing book.
Reviewed: 09-11-23
This book was fabulous. It was the most passionate book I've read in a while, and I read more than 200 books a year. It was very emotionally engaging and I loved it so much!!!! Some books are just better than others at being completely immersive and this book really did it for me!
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The Knocked Up Plan
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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This single gal has had enough of the games, the BS, and the endless chase. I know what I want most, and it's not true love. It's a bun in the oven, and I'm not afraid to hit up my sex-on-a-stick coworker to do the job. Ryder is gorgeous, witty, and wild - and he's also a notorious commitmentphobe. That makes him the perfect candidate to make a deposit in the bank of me. I won't fall for him, he won't fall for me, and there's no way baby will make three. Right?
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AHHH... BLISS AFTER A SOLID GOLD LISTEN
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 07-02-17
- The Knocked Up Plan
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
Good read
Reviewed: 09-11-23
This was a good book, but it was hard for me, and I expected that. If you have experienced infertility you should think carefully before reading this book. The title and beginning of the book are obvious that this book is all about having a baby, so it's no surprise. I enjoyed the book, and I thought I could handle it, but I couldn't. I'm 44 now, with unexplained infertility. My husband and I spent more than a decade going through fertility treatments and trying to have a child. Month after month, year after year. Hopes and grief and so many medications, medical procedures, and we tried everything we could afford. My eggs are likely the problem, but we couldn't afford IVF to be sure that was the cause (it certainly isn't my husband). IVF is still outrageously expensive as most insurance does not cover fertility treatments. One single try, in one single month, is more than $20,000. I need donor eggs, and that doubles the cost. Surrogacy is $80,000 on top of that, although I would have tried to carry the baby myself first, if I had been so lucky, and we weren't. We would have been happy to adopt, but we couldn't. People think anyone can adopt a child, and it's really not that easy, and plenty expensive as well. It doesn't matter how many children need homes, they don't just hand them out to good people that want one. I didn't want to try foster care, I don't think I could have handled getting attached and then having to let them go. We were still "trying" when COVID started and COVID ended up being the end of the road. It was a long time before doctors were willing to do any medically unnecessary visits/procedures. I say "trying" because the doctors don't actually let you try for as long as you want. My doctors stopped helping after 2 years. They say if it hasn't happened in 2 years of fertility treatments, then it's not going to, and they won't let you take medications or offer any medical assistance after years of failure. All we could really do is track my cycle and try at home, which never worked, and we stopped even that much with COVID. Pregnancy alone was unlikely when I started trying at 31, and by 41 it was kind of crazy to hope for a miracle, so I had to let the last shred of hope go. The grief though, that stays forever. It's honestly more grief than people I have loved and then died. I was raised in an abusive home, and all I ever wanted in this life was to make my own family. My whole life I've seen happy families, not perfect families, I wasn't hoping for that, but I wanted to be a mother that loved her child(ren) and I wanted them to know without a doubt, that they were absolutely loved. When I was 23 I met a boy online and we fell in love over the phone (yeah, before cell phones, and 20 years ago the long distance phone bill was like $600+ a month). In the middle of the night I escaped the abuse and moved myself from Wisconsin to Alaska, and I never looked back. 20 years later we're still together, married, but it's still only the two of us. His small family has been cordial and kind (just his mother and brother), but never welcoming and has never felt like family to me. So yeah, I knew it was going to be hard to read this book, but it wasn't until the end that I was devastated and depressed again. I know these romance novels are intended to be all sunshine and rainbows, where the most negative or realistic situations are usually over silly miscommunications. I know romance novels have to have the "happy every after" ending of marriage and babies so that readers feel all warm, fuzzy, and fulfilled at the end. An epilogue with children down the line is easier than a whole book about about babies. I know what's what the author chooses to write, but I wish someone was writing something more real for the rest of us that have really struggled. In this book I wish it had been harder for them to get pregnant. I wish it had touched on the monthly emotional roller-coaster of hope, then grief, then intentional hope (because you have to force yourself to have hope, even knowing it just results in a larger fall into grief), and riding that wave for 6 months...a year.... The toll it takes on a relationship. The pain of watching everyone around you progress in their lives while you're still standing back at the starting line, getting farther and farther behind. The reality that this society is entirely built around families and this singular life purpose. The pain of feeling like you're missing out on everything, every single day of your life. Constantly missing these experiences that you'll never get to have. I wish this book had done something...anything...more than an easy walk.
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Delayed Gratification
- Always Satisfied, Book 2.5
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Shane East, Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Once upon a time, a sexy, charming, hot British guy walked into my bar. He was flirty and delicious, and we hit it off right away. So well in fact that I'd have given him my number. Except, fate decided to play a trick on me. Since the guy turned out to be my brother's best friend, he was off limits. So, we made a pact to be just friends. And we became great friends. It worked for a while. Until the night we were snowed in....
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✫✫ 4.5 Stars ✫✫
- By ❤️Cyndi Marie❤️🎧Audiobook Addicts🎧 on 11-20-19
- Delayed Gratification
- Always Satisfied, Book 2.5
- By: Lauren Blakely
- Narrated by: Shane East, Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
Mislabeled on Audible
Reviewed: 08-31-23
Audible has this book labeled as 2.5, but it's really 1.5. It even has a teaser chapter of book 2, so it is LEGIT BOOK 1.5. I read it after 2, which doesn't break the storyline, but some parts of book 2 would have made a lot more sense if I'd read this one first.
I enjoy their love story and it's a cute book.
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