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Good story, good narrator

Revisado: 11-28-23

I really liked the narrator. I think the author may have dragged out the story a little too long, but on the whole I quite liked it.

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New York, a helluva town

Revisado: 03-27-21

This is like a good tall tale told by an enthusiastic narrator. It's not a big, complex story. It's the story of a city coming alive and finding itself in peril, and trying to deal with that. And there's some cosmic horror thrown in for good measure.

The narration was PHENOMENAL. The best narration can make a good book better, and that's what I found here.

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Good story, GREAT narration

Revisado: 03-14-21

This is the first book by Trollope that I’ve read. I made a really good choice in picking the version! The narrator was outstanding! The story was fine. There was some real suspense and witty in some parts. The narrator brought it all to life.

We read this for my Victorian book club. I may actually read more Trollope just for myself!

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More Murderbot!

Revisado: 05-08-20

If you like the Murderbot novellas, you'll probably like the Murderbot novel. I like them all, and I was delighted and not disappointed by the novel. There's more Murderbot, more snarky comments, more humans to be irritated with, but to save anyway. And ART is back. There's lots of action, and lots of stuff going on.

I loved it.

And Kevin R. Free does an absolutely fabulous job of narrating these books.

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Music was too loud

Revisado: 08-28-18

I didn’t mind the sound effects, but the “soundtrack”was too loud. I thought many of the music selections didn’t fit the story.

Nothing should detract from Michael Hordern’s lovely, lovely narration. That made the book for me.

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Interesting premise, so-so execution

Revisado: 08-07-18

Note: some general spoilers here.

Kill Creek started with a promising premise: get four famous horror writers to spend the night in a haunted house, and do a web broadcast of what happens.

And the first 2/3 of the book are pretty good. Not a whole lot objectively happens in the night spent in the house. Then everyone goes home. When they get home, they find out that the house is haunting THEM.

The last part is what happens when they decide that they HAVE to go back, to try to find out how the house got such a hold over them. If you like violent and bloody endings to horror novels, this will be right up your alley. I personally thought it got a little overwrought. It might have been the audio I was listening to, with the narrator getting a bit worked up through it all. The heightened emotion and action had the paradoxical effect of making me care less about what I was listening to. I kept thinking, "Oh, this is the big cinematic finish, ho hum. Ah, if it gets made into a movie, this scene will work well." :( That sort of feeling tends to spoil a book for me. That's my quirk, I think, though.

Narration was good otherwise.

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Intriguing beginning to the series

Revisado: 11-13-17

N.K. Jemisin is an excellent writer. In The Fifth Season, we have people with a really unusual and intriguing power: they can cause earthquakes and move mountains. And that can be a threat to civilization.

The story told isn't linear, and it takes a bit of attention to understand what's happening. But it all comes together in the end, with a bit of a cliffhanger ending.

The narrator is competent though maybe not excellent. I'm on my second listen of this book, and still enjoying it. I'm looking forward to future volumes in the series!
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Well done performance, but

Revisado: 10-11-16

it was basically "Aliens" meets "Prometheus." TBH, I was a little bored. Too bad, because I think the full-cast audio was really nicely done.

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A light and pleasant listen

Revisado: 03-27-15

This is a nice, light entertainment, the first volume in a serial novel. I think it has some characteristics of the old-fashioned Western serial movies. It's set in the Old West, but one that has more in common with "The Wild, Wild West" than with "Tombstone".

I was interested in this book because it has a train in it, albeit a very unusual train, one that doesn't need conventional tracks. It has a bit of the paranormal, with a ghost, dog-men, a possible zombie(?). It has a wacky genius professor, a clockwork butler, and a Hero With A Past. A Heroine shows up near the end of this volume too.

This isn't the sort of thing I usually spend much time on, so I don't plan to pick up the other volumes, but I don't regret listening to this.

The narrator is earnest and tries really hard. His pronunciation of Sleipnir slides around a little, and there are a few infelicities in his pacing, but I'll give him A for effort.

I got this audiobook for free in return for an honest review. This is my honest opinion. If you like this sort of Crazy West steampunk-y story, you'll like this book.

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An easy, enjoyable mystery

Revisado: 03-12-15

This is my second Raine Stockton dog mystery. It's the 8th book in the series, and the other one I read was the very first book (Smoky Mountain Tracks). I was afraid I'd be bothered by what I'd missed in the intervening books, but the author gives enough background in the course of the story that I could mostly fill in the missing pieces.

This is a fairly cozy mystery, though a child does get put into a bit of danger. It takes place in St. Bart's, where Miles, Raine's boyfriend, has taken her for a much-needed vacation. And of course there is murder involved. Raine tries to navigate the world of the rich and famous, but feels a bit alienated. She misses her mountain home.

The mystery part is pretty straightforward. The author does foreshadow some of what's going to happen from the very first, and there weren't (to me) any real surprises in how the plot worked out. But I liked the way two themes of the plot dovetailed at the end, and echoed each other. (I'm trying to avoid spoilers here!)

I started listening to this book on Wednesday night, and finished listening on Thursday afternoon. A book that keeps me listening straight through is fairly rare! It helps that the narrator has a warm and lovely voice. She does just enough different voices/accents to help keep the characters clearly defined. I liked that Miles' mother's South Carolina accent was just a bit different from Miles' Atlanta accent.

It's an easy, enjoyable listen, and I'm glad I had the chance to hear it.

One note: I was slightly disappointed that she left her Aussies at home. If she'd had an Aussie with her instead of a Golden Retriever, she probably wouldn't have had a dog that would go off with a stranger! Aussies are generally more cautious than that. :) (Yes, I've shared my home with Australian Shepherds for many years.)

Full disclosure: I received this audiobook for free in return for an honest review.

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