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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
- A Novel
- De: Bob the Drag Queen
- Narrado por: Bob the Drag Queen
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show.
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F**king brilliant
- De luminousshadow en 04-06-25
- Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
- A Novel
- De: Bob the Drag Queen
- Narrado por: Bob the Drag Queen
Wonderful concept
Revisado: 03-28-25
What creative idea! I wasn’t sure what to expect but I found this story engaging, interesting, funny, and moving. The historical elements were conveyed so well, and I felt a warm attachment towards Harriet and the other musicians. I also absolutely love that the two songs were included at the end. My only possible note was that Bob did the narration them self. Their voice is so recognisable that it made it hard for me to fully sink into the POV of the MC. There were a few times where I heard Bob say “I” in the story and I had to remind myself, that’s Darnell, not Bob. That would kind of take me out of the story.
Highly recommend
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Melt for You
- Slow Burn, Book 2
- De: J.T. Geissinger
- Narrado por: Pippa Jayne
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
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Socially awkward Joellen Bixby has a date every Saturday - with her cat, a pint of ice cream, and fantasies of the way-too-handsome Michael Maddox. She’d give anything to win over the unattainable CEO of her firm, but how can she when she blends in so well with her cubicle? The answer may be closer than she thinks. Cameron McGregor is a cocky, tattooed Scottish rugby captain who just moved in next door. He’s not Jo’s type - at all - but the notorious playboy is offering to teach the wallflower everything he knows about inspiring desire.
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Took me by surprise
- De GSKM in sc en 05-17-18
- Melt for You
- Slow Burn, Book 2
- De: J.T. Geissinger
- Narrado por: Pippa Jayne
DNF- really unlikeable characters and outdated cliches
Revisado: 01-28-25
I usually have a policy of not reviewing books I don’t finish, but these other reviews are so off that I feel a need to try and spread some truth. The 3 main characters are absolutely flat and unlikeable. There is no warmth or charm or interesting quirky traits, they are each cookie cutter cliches you have seen a MILLION times before. The sad overweight self hating pushover FMC who lacks any curiosity or joy about her life, the MMC with a brashness that is weird and inappropriate and inconsistent with ‘charm’, the other MMC who is a two dimensional snobby rich guy. Also the story has suspicious kinda racist descriptions of music, and, so far at least, isn’t handling body positivity well at all.
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The Friend Zone
- De: Abby Jimenez
- Narrado por: Erin Mallon, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 9 h y 34 m
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Kristen Petersen is perfectly fine. She has friends she'd fight to the death for and the very best dog in the world: Stuntman Mike. In fact, everything's calm in the world of Kristen, until she starts to plan her best friend's wedding and meets the best man, Josh Copeland. Josh is funny, sexy, stands up to her sarcasm, and is always one snack ahead of her hangry. Even Stuntman Mike adores him. But he wants a big family, and Kristen knows children are probably not a part of her future.
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Awful Female Narrator, Exhausting Female Character
- De T Jones en 12-20-24
- The Friend Zone
- De: Abby Jimenez
- Narrado por: Erin Mallon, Teddy Hamilton
Awful Female Narrator, Exhausting Female Character
Revisado: 12-20-24
This was one of the worst narrators I’ve heard in a LONG time. The woman voicing the FMC POV was terrible. Her vocal tone was a mix between uptight professional newsreader and teenage cheerleader; it was weird and off putting. However when she voiced the male character it was even worse.
As for the writing, there was a lot of heart in this story but ultimately it was just exhausting. The FMC has created a story in her head and will not have a conversation, or accept any other information to sway her perspective. It is soooo tiring to endlessly read about a person determined to self sabotage at all costs. There wasn’t enough respite in the writing, bad things happened, more bad things happened, more bad things happened, more bad things happened. There wasn’t much banter, and the little moments of happiness didn’t ring true enough to carry through the bad times. The characters felt sort of flat and when the HEA finally came it didn’t feel joyous because there had just been too much ‘bad things’.
This felt like a first book, and I’m glad to have read other books by Abby Jimenez, so I know she can write great books.
Content warnings for infertility.
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Dead as a Doornail
- Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #5
- De: Charlaine Harris
- Narrado por: Johanna Parker
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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Sookie Stackhouse enjoys her life, mostly. She's a great cocktail waitress in a fun bar; she has a love life, albeit a bit complicated, and most people have come to terms with her telepathy. The problem is, Sookie wants a quiet life - but things just seem to happen to her and her friends. Now her brother Jason's eyes are starting to change: he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time.
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Fangs for another Sookie story
- De Kathy en 01-11-10
- Dead as a Doornail
- Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #5
- De: Charlaine Harris
- Narrado por: Johanna Parker
Ugh The audio is so annoying
Revisado: 11-08-24
I’ve listened to this series a few times now and everytime I get to this book it’s a shock. The narrator sounds so different all of a sudden. Her voice for Sookie, her tone and expression are exaggerated and just wrong. The actual audio is not great either as there are a lot of mouth sounds. I don’t know what changed behind the scenes when this was recorded but this book is not enjoyable. The difference in the audio keeps me fully separated from the story.
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Corregidora
- De: Gayl Jones
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 6 h y 3 m
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Blues singer Ursa is consumed by her hatred of Corregidora, the 19th-century slave master who fathered both her mother and grandmother. Charged with 'making generations' to bear witness to the abuse embodied in the family name, Ursa Corregidora finds herself unable to keep alive this legacy when she is made sterile in a violent fight with her husband. Haunted by the ghosts of a Brazilian plantation, pained by a present of lovelessness and despair, Ursa slowly and firmly strikes her own terms with womanhood.
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Homophobia and toxic masculinity
- De T Jones en 06-16-24
- Corregidora
- De: Gayl Jones
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
Homophobia and toxic masculinity
Revisado: 06-16-24
I understood this to be a feminist classic. It’s not.
….. now some extra words for Audible because of minimum requirement.
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The Name-Bearer
- Flowers of Prophecy, Book 1
- De: Natalia Hernandez
- Narrado por: Ana Osorio
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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For her entire life, the Name-Bearer's sole purpose has been to receive and deliver the names of the future monarchy from the Flowers of Prophecy. But when the child is finally born and the Name-Bearer is sent to the Flowers, they refuse to name him. Instead they deliver a prophecy; another child was born who is more worthy of the Naming, and if they are found and brought before them it will usher in a reign of peace. Having failed in her duties the Name-Bearer is considered a traitor to the crown, and must hide among an elite sect of warrior women.
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wonderful
- De glagar en 07-06-24
- The Name-Bearer
- Flowers of Prophecy, Book 1
- De: Natalia Hernandez
- Narrado por: Ana Osorio
AI Narrator? Story Not Finished
Revisado: 05-21-24
I wonder if this was narrated by AI? I know it has a human’s name but I understand AI companies have purchased the rights/ vocal sound to some human narrators… there were some very weird pronunciations by this narrator. They did not seem connected to a human’s accent or lack of understanding (common words) but seemed as if they were read phonetically, as if by an AI who didn’t know better. The errors were confident and exactly the same each time that word came up… idk?
Otherwise, the book’s pretty good. Definitely YA. Two big drawbacks, the first is that it is quite slow. There are exciting sections scattered through, and the MC and the world are both interesting, so it mostly kept my attention. But it’s slow. The second BIG issue with the story is that it doesn’t finish. At All. It just stops with nothing in any way resolved. As if a longer book was just ripped in half at a random place and the first bit sold as ‘book 1’.
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Academy Magic: The Complete Series
- The Coven
- De: Chandelle LaVaun
- Narrado por: Vanessa Moyen
- Duración: 43 h y 19 m
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You know you’re invisible when even your bullies forget to pick on you. That’s me, Bettina Blair, hidden in plain sight. No matter how hard I try I just never fit in with my classmates. Now I know why. I’m a witch...apparently. One little demon attack and my parents confess their ugly secret…and ship me off to an elite academy of magic—for witches only. I can't summon magic. I can't fight with my hands or my fists. I just don't belong here, and Jackson Lancaster keeps reminding me every single chance he gets. This boy is the most insufferable, intolerable, unbearable, judgmental person.
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Do NOT get this audiobook! See review:
- De Iniysa en 06-16-23
- Academy Magic: The Complete Series
- The Coven
- De: Chandelle LaVaun
- Narrado por: Vanessa Moyen
Terrible Narration
Revisado: 02-14-24
The narrator/ producers decided to voice this book in the most distracting confusing way. The pov changes from chapter to chapter between characters with different genders and accents. When the pov changes the narrator uses the same perky American teenage girl voice/ accent/ inflections for each character, except when they speak out loud, when she changes her voice/ accent to suit the character. The book begins with many chapters in a row in the pov of the MC teenaged girl, so that becomes the “voice” of that character in your mind. Then halfway through the book the other povs begin. Suddenly the chapter from the perspective of the surly English guy is being performed with the same “voice” as the American teen girl. Except when he speaks out loud when he suddenly has a deep voice with an English accent. Then more and more POVs are introduced and they all have the inner dialogue of the perky teen girl who is the MC. It’s SO WRONG. WTH?
Also the writing begins quite badly. It gets better as the story goes on but you have to persevere. This is a book to skip, or to buy on sale.
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A Shadow in the Ember
- Flesh and Fire, Book 1
- De: Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen
- Duración: 25 h y 7 m
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Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel’s future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera’s real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania - she’s not the well protected Maiden but an assassin with one mission - one target. Make the Primal of Death fall in love, become his weakness, and then...end him.
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A credit lost.
- De Jodeei en 10-25-21
- A Shadow in the Ember
- Flesh and Fire, Book 1
- De: Jennifer L. Armentrout
- Narrado por: Stina Nielsen
Slow copy of B&A made worse by narrator
Revisado: 01-12-24
I’ve tried to listen to this three times. It’s mind numbingly boring. I really tried to like it but it’s too similar to B&A - if B&A was not as well written, and the story felt like something you’ve already read. The decision to use the same narrator was terrible choice. Her delivery is so distinctive it just emphasises the sad thin ways this book is a poor copy of B&A. Also the narrator’s overly emotional breathy style makes the story drag even more than it would from the writing. Too me this book seems like a cynical grab for money- taking advantage of fans of B&A. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn it was ghost written. It has the feel of a junior author trying to copy B&A; the feel of an author who doesn’t care about the story.
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The Eidolon
- The Magnus Academy, Book 1
- De: K.D. Edwards
- Narrado por: Josh Hurley
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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In the epic conclusion to K.D. Edwards' first blockbuster trilogy in the Tarot Sequence series, audiences followed Rune on a race against time as an age-old threat rose to threaten the city of New Atlantis. Now, for the first time, The Eidolon tells what really happened to Max, Quinn, and Anna as prisoners in the Hourglass Throne's base of operation.
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Down the rabbit hole and through pocket dimensions
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 03-01-23
- The Eidolon
- The Magnus Academy, Book 1
- De: K.D. Edwards
- Narrado por: Josh Hurley
Excellent Continuation of The Tarot Sequence
Revisado: 08-14-23
I saw that this has been described as the beginning of The Magnus Academy trilogy. I think that’s an unfair expectation, as this little novel requires the reader to have read and remembered the Tarot Sequence trilogy. Having said that, this is as good as the previous books. Enjoyable and super engaging. Definitely recommend, although it will leave you desperate for the next book.
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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
- De: Kalynn Bayron
- Narrado por: Hewot Tedla
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But in the last weekend of the season, Charity’s co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity’s role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they’ll need to figure out what this killer is after.
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Fantastic summer camp horror story
- De Anonymous User en 05-11-24
- You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
- De: Kalynn Bayron
- Narrado por: Hewot Tedla
Great story imperfect narration
Revisado: 06-24-23
This is a fun, scary, twisty YA adventure which lives up to Bayron’s previous works. If you enjoyed the others I think you’ll like this too. I think it’s to be expected with this genre, but it is worth reminding yourself to suspend your disbelief and critical thinking, so you can just enjoy the ride.
I was surprised by the narration though. Surely Bayron is established and esteemed enough that publishers get her top quality professionals? That doesn’t seem to have been the case. The narrator wasn’t bad, but there were many instances where she seemed to think a sentence was complete and then realised there was still a word or two on the next line. And the production have recorded the drop-ins in a different way than the rest of the book. So right in the middle of a paragraph there will be a sentence that has a more condensed sound that seems to have been recorded in a much smaller space. Then the book continues on as normal - till the next drop-in. It’s very distracting.
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