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The Centre
- A Novel
- De: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
- Narrado por: Balvinder Sopal
- Duración: 8 h y 36 m
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Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of “great works of literature,” but instead mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies, living off her parents’ generous allowance, and discussing the “underside of life” with her best friend, Naima. Anisa’s mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, only adds to her growing sense of inadequacy with his savant-level aptitude for languages, successfully leveraging his expansive knowledge into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu with native fluency practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret.
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Hmm. Uh, yeah, sure. Okay, I guess.
- De Madison en 08-11-23
- The Centre
- A Novel
- De: Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
- Narrado por: Balvinder Sopal
Gripping, fun, and so smart
Revisado: 11-26-23
I loved this book so much. It was beautifully written and performed. Despite being fun and accessible, it is packed with big ideas—about language, colonization, gender and power. The Q&A with the author at the end is a treat. She communicates nuance and complexity in an engaging and deeply relatable voice. ❤️
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Murder on Cold Street
- The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 5
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 13 h y 15 m
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Inspector Treadles, Charlotte Holmes’ friend and collaborator, has been found locked in a room with two dead men, both of whom worked with his wife at the great manufacturing enterprise she has recently inherited. Rumors fly. Had Inspector Treadles killed the men because they had opposed his wife’s initiatives at every turn? Had he killed in a fit of jealous rage because he suspected Mrs. Treadles of harboring deeper feelings for one of the men? To make matters worse, he refuses to speak on his own behalf, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.
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This series is fantastic
- De Nicole en 10-07-20
- Murder on Cold Street
- The Lady Sherlock Series, Book 5
- De: Sherry Thomas
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
Favorite in the series
Revisado: 11-10-23
This installment is so much fun! And Kate Reading is at the top of her game.
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A Disappearance in Fiji
- De: Nilima Rao
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
- Duración: 7 h y 19 m
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1914, Fiji: 25-year-old Akal Singh would rather be anywhere but this tropical paradise—or, as he calls it, “this godforsaken island.” After a promising start to his police career in his native India and Hong Kong, Akal has been sent to Fiji as punishment for a humiliating professional mistake. Lonely and grumpy, Akal plods through his work and dreams of getting back to Hong Kong. When an indentured Indian woman goes missing from a sugarcane plantation and Fiji’s newspapers scream “kidnapping,” the inspector-general reluctantly assigns Akal the case.
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Good historical story
- De JU en 09-20-23
- A Disappearance in Fiji
- De: Nilima Rao
- Narrado por: Sid Sagar
Fun and well researched
Revisado: 10-19-23
The author tells a compelling and historically rich story, and the narrator is great. Hope there are some well-developed female characters who are neither villains nor victims in the next installment!
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A Proposal They Can't Refuse
- De: Natalie Caña
- Narrado por: Valentina Ortiz
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Kamilah Vega is desperate to convince her family to update their Puerto Rican restaurant and enter it into the Fall Foodie Tour. With the gentrification of their Chicago neighborhood, it's the only way to save the place. The fly in her mofongo—her blackmailing abuelo says if she wants to change anything in his restaurant, she'll have to marry the one man she can't stand: his best friend’s grandson.
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Lovely Romcom
- De Elizabeth en 09-08-22
- A Proposal They Can't Refuse
- De: Natalie Caña
- Narrado por: Valentina Ortiz
Great reader, half-baked story
Revisado: 05-09-23
The narrator was fantastic, the story and characters were unconvincing. The romance formula is reliable, but it only works if the setup is convincing, and in this case it is just silly. Secondary characters were underdeveloped and MCs behaved in ways that humans… don’t.
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Wundersmith
- The Calling of Morrigan Crow
- De: Jessica Townsend
- Narrado por: Gemma Whelan
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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The captivating and heart-pounding sequel to the New York Times best-selling and number-one Kids' Indie Next Pick Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, as heroine Morrigan battles a new evil. Morrigan Crow and her best friend Hawthorne Swift are now proud scholars in the elite Wundrous Society, but life is far from perfect. Does Morrigan have what it takes to prove that she belongs in the Society? Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow was an instant New York Times best seller and an IndieBound best seller.
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Amazing Story and Narration
- De Kyleen en 08-24-20
- Wundersmith
- The Calling of Morrigan Crow
- De: Jessica Townsend
- Narrado por: Gemma Whelan
So much fun!
Revisado: 12-02-22
I started the series when looking for gifts for my niblings, and couldn’t stop after the first one. Overall, the recording lives up to the book, though I have a few quibbles with the recording. First, the chapter breaks come with often extended musical interludes and long enough pauses to make me wonder if I had my sleep timer on. It’s annoying. Also, the reader, while solid on description & internal monologues, is a bit over-the-top with voices. I tried to tell myself that this is meant to speak to a younger audience, but sometimes even the main character (a little girl), sounds like an old woman—I imagine I’m the interest of being expressive or something. It was distracting. Those minor quibbles aside, I highly recommend the series. Strong Harry Potter vibes in the world building and plot, but the (writer’s) voice and the characters feel authentic and genuinely likable.
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The Nox
- De: Joe White, Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Lashana Lynch, Michiel Huisman, Ralph Ineson, y otros
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
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2045, the Arctic Circle. A crew of six aboard the research vessel, The Nox, embark upon a voyage through the melting ice and Arctic dark in search of the last of the polar bears. The mission represents a ray of hope in a world ravaged by climate change, but it quickly becomes clear that some on board are in search of more than bears. Isolation and the disorientation of 24/7 darkness soon have the group losing their grip on reality – accidents, nightmares, or hauntings – no one can be sure, but the voyage seems cursed.
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Very disappointing
- De Rachelphoenix en 10-16-22
- The Nox
- De: Joe White, Catriona Ward
- Narrado por: Lashana Lynch, Michiel Huisman, Ralph Ineson, full cast
So much moaning!
Revisado: 11-16-22
This, more radio play than audio book, was not my jam. I appreciate the effort taken with sound effects, but it was often difficult to figure out what was going on, and there was SO MUCH MOANING. Also: crying, sobbing, heavy breathing, whimpering, chain rattling, slurping, etc. Like, some things I’d rather not hear while washing dishes. Story was ok, but predictable.
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The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
- De: Alexis Hall
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
- Duración: 10 h y 36 m
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Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 221b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Miss Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.
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Pure enjoyment!!
- De Brooklyn Bookish en 07-23-19
- The Affair of the Mysterious Letter
- De: Alexis Hall
- Narrado por: Nicholas Boulton
Delightfully bananas
Revisado: 11-05-22
This was loads of fun and well read. Lots of Sherlock, with dashes of fairytales and dystopian classics.
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Talon
- The Talon Saga, Book 1
- De: Julie Kagawa
- Narrado por: Caitlin Davies, MacLeod Andrews, Chris Patton
- Duración: 12 h y 32 m
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Long ago, dragons were hunted to near extinction by the Order of St. George, a legendary society of dragon slayers. Hiding in human form and growing their numbers in secret, the dragons of Talon have becomestrong and cunning, and they're positioned to take over the world with humans none the wiser. Ember and Dante Hill are the only sister and brother known to dragonkind. Trained to infiltrate society, Ember wants to live the teen experience and enjoy a summer of freedom before taking her destined place in Talon.
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Doctor's Notes Review
- De Doctor's Notes en 12-28-14
- Talon
- The Talon Saga, Book 1
- De: Julie Kagawa
- Narrado por: Caitlin Davies, MacLeod Andrews, Chris Patton
So, so bad
Revisado: 11-04-22
This is one of the worst books I have ever read or listened to. The readers were all overwhelmingly corny, and the story was poorly written and conceived. That said, one of the readers has an almost magically soporific voice, so I “listened” to most of the book in search of sleep—it never failed me.
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Midnight Robber
- De: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 12 h y 44 m
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It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....
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Even Through the Dimensions, Girls Are Not Safe
- De mary en 12-11-12
- Midnight Robber
- De: Nalo Hopkinson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Difficult and beautiful
Revisado: 05-30-21
First, the narrator: I’ve heard Robin Miles read a number of books, and have always been happy with her performance, but I was... unconvinced by the choice at first. I’ve only ever heard her read American books, and wondered how she would do with a book so deeply shaped by Caribbean oral traditions and Jamaican patois. She was magnificent—this is one of the best readings I’ve ever heard.
The book itself was both formally experimental and, once it really got started, totally gripping (not an easy combination to pull off). The first couple of hours were hard for me to get into—it was a lot of setup. But I’m really glad that I stuck it out. I’ve encountered many references to Afrofuturism, as a genre, but this is one of the only books I’ve read (or cultural products I’ve consumed) that so fully and convincingly builds a future around the complex history of (one part of) the African diaspora. It’s going on the “buy a hard copy” list.
SPOILER ALERT/TRIGGER WARNING
This book contains some very difficult material—specifically the graphic and repeated rape of a child. While the author is judicious in her presentation of this material (she doesn’t put us through the same horrors again and again, and there is nothing salacious or exploitative about her use of this content), it is still extremely distressing. Those who may be triggered by this content may want to consider skipping this book, or sticking with a hard copy. I can easily imagine someone having a panic attack while driving or out for a walk.
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The Paths Between Worlds
- De: Paul Antony Jones
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
- Duración: 11 h y 29 m
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For Meredith Gale, ending her life seems like her only choice, and that choice is the reason she’s dangling by her fingertips from a bridge high above the freezing water of the San Francisco Bay. But someone or some thing has other plans for Meredith, and as her fingers slip from the cold steel of the bridge, a disembodied voice asks her a simple question: “Candidate 13: Do you wish to be saved?” Realizing her mistake too late, Meredith screams “Yes!” and instantly finds herself transported to a mysterious island, alongside hundreds of other Candidates like her.
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A whole lot of fun!
- De Jane en 04-16-19
- The Paths Between Worlds
- De: Paul Antony Jones
- Narrado por: Kate Reading
Spoilers ahead but it DOESN’T MATTER
Revisado: 04-28-21
You would think that a book with intrademensional Nazis and mega-sharks as plot points would be hilarious. And yet.... this is a predictable, plodding book with a LOT of problems, none of which are particularly funny. Beyond the plot holes and freshman-comp writing style (so many times the same descriptive word is used twice in one sentence, she wrote tersely with great terse-ness), the characters are poorly developed and... don’t make sense. Although the characters are allegedly plucked from every and all times/universes/locations, all but one of the central characters is an American or European of the 19th to early 21st century. Despite the magic translator (eye roll), the author couldn’t be bothered to introduce any characters from beyond his sphere of familiarity and comfort. The only exception is a crazy hot superhero type from the future, who is, I guess, not white? She is moderately interesting on account of her husband being a computer though, so props for that. Overall, however, it is not good. It is not good at all.
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