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The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- De: Nathan Lowell
- Narrado por: Tom Taylorson
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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For five grand a month and a million-dollar chaser, Roger Mulligan didn't care how crazy the old geezer was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year. But they didn't tell him about the pixies.
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I LOVED this book!
- De Kristin Butner en 04-24-21
- The Wizard's Butler
- The Wizard's Butler, Book 1
- De: Nathan Lowell
- Narrado por: Tom Taylorson
A drama, not much fantasy, no adventure. Still interesting
Revisado: 04-10-25
It's really just a <1 slice of life of a guy hired to be an octogenarian's butler. There's very little magic used, but it's enjoyable to see the character change over time and grow into the role of a butler. It's mostly well-written with consistent characterization. I say "mostly" because there were a couple instances of the 80 year old who has been experiencing memory loss for 10 years with no internet or TV using modern buzzwords unprompted. This isn't a spoiler and is evident from his first scene, but I also don't know why he pretended to be worse off mentally than he was for his niece.
I'm curious to have backstory filled in about why Shackelford is so revered in the world of people with "talents," but I'm not sure if it's enough to continue the series yet.
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Toxic Positivity
- Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
- De: Whitney Goodman LMFT
- Narrado por: Whitney Goodman LMFT
- Duración: 6 h y 8 m
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Every day, we’re bombarded with pressure to be positive. From “good vibes only” and “life is good” memes, to endless advice, to “look on the bright side,” we’re constantly told that the key to happiness is silencing negativity wherever it crops up, in ourselves and in others. Even when faced with illness, loss, breakups, and other challenges, there’s little space for talking about our real feelings—and processing them so that we can feel better and move forward.
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Great book but painful delivery
- De Melissa en 03-13-22
- Toxic Positivity
- Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
- De: Whitney Goodman LMFT
- Narrado por: Whitney Goodman LMFT
Not What I'm used to when I hear "Toxic Positivity"
Revisado: 03-09-25
The narration is flat and more of a lecture tone. I gave it a few hours, but between it just being "stop telling people to cheer up and just listen and accept" and the author falling for the anti-racism grift, I'm not really confident she's helping.
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Mimic & Me 3
- A LitRPG Adventure
- De: Cassius Lange, Ryan Tang
- Narrado por: Ryan H. Reid, Jeff Hays, Dorrie Sacks
- Duración: 17 h y 3 m
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After a hundred years of regrets, revenge is just around the corner. We have finally reunited with Kristan, Marko, Franja, and Renata, who proved to be instrumental in our battle against Harkel's Hellhounds and the siege on Arrdeam. Having brought down the first leg of Harkel's slaving empire, we're getting ever closer to cutting off the head of the snake. Before we can face him, though, we must still grow stronger, but assassins lurk in the shadows and dangerous foes want us dead.
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- De Xavier en 09-26-24
- Mimic & Me 3
- A LitRPG Adventure
- De: Cassius Lange, Ryan Tang
- Narrado por: Ryan H. Reid, Jeff Hays, Dorrie Sacks
Excellent performances
Revisado: 12-31-24
There's not a lot of tension in the combat anymore due to power creep with the main cast, but the main cast is also fun and they're written consistently. Jeff Hays must be having an absolute ball with how he plays Chester.
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Jake's Magical Market
- De: J.R. Mathews
- Narrado por: Travis Baldree
- Duración: 20 h y 41 m
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Jake is working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to bring about the downfall of civilization. But cruel and arbitrary gods from another world? Who would have guessed that? When these cruel gods shuffled Earth like a deck of cards, nothing was in the same place anymore. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items appear scattered across the globe. And suddenly, everyone has access to a new, strange magical card system that gives them magical powers.
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Lots of 5 star reviews
- De Noah M en 01-09-22
- Jake's Magical Market
- De: J.R. Mathews
- Narrado por: Travis Baldree
Lacks Focus on the Market Idea
Revisado: 10-16-24
I was interested in reading a story focused around a market after listening to some books written by the narrator about a coffee shop and book store in a fantasy setting. Unfortunately, Jake's story leaves the market somewhere around 4 hours in and starts to focus on an interplanetary/metaversal setting and constant magical improvement for Jake. While Jake becomes focused on returning to his market, the rest of the story kind of meanders and few of the characters stick around for more than a couple hours and often feel underdeveloped. One couple, a woman and her wife, make it very clear that they are two married women, but disappear from the story entirely in maybe 20 minutes after their introductions and the woman even having a spouse could have been dropped entirely.
The story could use more another revision and look at by an editor. I will use two examples for this. Often, hardship and training are glossed over with, "and a few weeks passed as I worked on X skill," which robs some of the other characters of development, I think. Another issue is inconsistent language. When Jake meets a character whose gender he does not know/doesn't have one, he will refer to the character as "it". I find this the preferable gender-neutral pronoun, but the narrator seems to give it a negative inflection for the first few characters. However, when Jake goes back and reunites with a non-gendered character in the last third of the book, "it" becomes "they" for no reason, and this made that interaction a bit confusing. I often have trouble processing "they" used like this, but it is especially difficult when there are sentences like, "Character turned away to look at their monitors." And the next time Jake sees a character he doesn't know the gender of immediately, the author goes back to "it".
TL;DR: Doesn't focus on its selling concept, other characters are mostly glorified extras, and could use some revisions to tighten the language and narrative up.
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Fimbulwinter
- Daniel Black, Book 1
- De: E. William Brown
- Narrado por: Guy Williams
- Duración: 8 h y 38 m
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Summoned to a world in the midst of apocalypse, Daniel Black would have his hands full just staying alive. Add in refugees, desperate soldiers, scheming nobles and a pair of thoroughly wicked witches, and life is going to be very busy indeed. Good thing he has magic of his own to even the scales. But will even that be enough?
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GIVE ME BOOKS 4, 5, 6, ..... GIVE ME MORE!!!!!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 03-06-16
- Fimbulwinter
- Daniel Black, Book 1
- De: E. William Brown
- Narrado por: Guy Williams
Feminists won't like this one
Revisado: 07-30-23
So the cause of this isekai book to get off the ground is typical of many isekais, but also includes a bit of a real issue that is common with red pill communities with the protagonist coming home early and catching his wife cheating on him and then calling the cops on him over a fake domestic violence charge and setting a restraining order on him the night he spends in jail. As an MRA I appreciated this issue coming up. When the protagonist is met with an old Norse realm (with touches of Greek mythology) that has very old gender roles and actually explains the why of them mostly. Since I like history and mythology, I appreciated this as well even though it's not fully explained why women are so easy here until chapter 7. I think the author exaggerates how quickly women are to hop into bed in this sort of time period.
Around chapter 7 the book liked to pepper each chapter with at least one sex scene and I grew bored with it. It plays with love, but mostly just deals with lust and attachment.
Narrator was fine, but a bit dull.
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Boom Box
- Duck and Cover Adventures Series, Books 1-3
- De: Benjamin Wallace
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
- Duración: 20 h y 33 m
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It’s the end of the world as you've never known it. Join the Librarian as he does his best to make the post-apocalyptic world a better place by protecting the weak, fighting injustice, squaring off against a group of former renaissance fair workers who have established a kingdom in the Rocky Mountains, and so on. Can one man make a difference in the face of such murderous cannibals and super smart bears? Probably not.
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The Post-Apocalypic story we all deserve!!!
- De Denver Williams en 03-21-19
- Boom Box
- Duck and Cover Adventures Series, Books 1-3
- De: Benjamin Wallace
- Narrado por: Phil Thron
Mad Max Parody Moves into Social Commentary
Revisado: 07-25-23
The first book is a decent parody of Mad Max/Fist of The North Star/post-apocalyptic westerns. The second book starts with the theming of small societies rising up from social groups.
The second book is "what if Renaissance Faire workers rebuilt society?" Decent, but doesn't really stand out beyond the premise.
The third was the most obvious commentary and shows when this was written. I can tell the author had a strong online presence with the college town of "Tollerance" and the hypocritical attitudes of SJWs at the time. I swear the Carey/Kari character was based off of "Big Red" from the Men's Rights protests going on in the mid-late 2010s. It was brilliant satire.
The second and third books each begin with a pre-apocalypse story that don't feel like they relate to the rest of the book in any way beyond romantic feelings.
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Knighthood
- Atlantis Rising Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Evan Currie
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
- Duración: 11 h y 36 m
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The world fell, the invaders won, and demons now ruled what had once been man's domain. The great works of a once powerful civilization lie in ruins, its people having forgotten the wonders of their forefathers as they now live in the yoke. Not everyone is willing to go quietly into the endless night, however. Human pests still infest occasional parts of the conquered world. In one nearly uninhabitable part of that world, a very young such pest has come of age and, without understanding what it means, she walks in the shadow of destiny.
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bad bad bad
- De Mr.Snuffy en 04-20-22
- Knighthood
- Atlantis Rising Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Evan Currie
- Narrado por: Cassandra Campbell
Ending conflict overstayed itself
Revisado: 12-10-22
Decent overall, but some parts dragged on longer than necessary. Could spend more time with exploring the world in the second half. The final battle and escape made me question how exhausted the characters weren't displaying.
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Uncontrollable
- A LitRPG Adventure
- De: Sean Oswald
- Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski
- Duración: 15 h y 23 m
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Taken from life as an office drone by a trickster god, Tim finds himself in the magical world of Iocusinte, where change is his only constant. It grants him great potential, enough to be sought out by different factions looking to use him for their own ends. That potential, however, is mercurial. His Class and very appearance shift at random. If Tim is to survive long enough to enjoy this new world and the friends he's making, then he'll have to solve the riddle of his nature and learn to master the uncontrollable.
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Good one
- De CC en 12-16-21
- Uncontrollable
- A LitRPG Adventure
- De: Sean Oswald
- Narrado por: Daniel Wisniewski
interesting concept, good acting
Revisado: 11-15-22
As interesting a concept as an isekai protagonist switching classes and bodies for those classes is, the story just didn't grab me as much as other stories do. It may just come down to Tim knowing about isekai and being sort of happy to be in another world as a level 19 of 20 character, but needing to constantly relearn how his class works when he changes. Curious to have a largely atheistic setting when people regularly pop into the world represented by one of the deities being their patrons complete with an embroidered satchel showing a deity's symbol.
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Goroth
- Everybody Loves Large Chests, Book 7
- De: Neven Iliev
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, Gary Furlong, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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At a glance, the dwarves and gnomes of the Horkensaft Kingdom are two peoples who are worlds apart. The former are seen as hardcore traditionalists hell-bent on maintaining the status quo, while the latter only look ever forward and upward as they grasp at the future with both hands. And yet, these two seemingly opposing cultures serve as a counter-balance to each other, creating a civilization that draws upon the wisdom of the past to face new challenges.
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There's such a thing as to much background noise.
- De casey rose en 08-27-22
- Goroth
- Everybody Loves Large Chests, Book 7
- De: Neven Iliev
- Narrado por: Jeff Hays, Annie Ellicott, Gary Furlong, Will Watt, Alejandra LaFlor
Ever increasing quality
Revisado: 09-05-22
Soundboard Theater is really upping the performance game. it's like an old radio drama now, but better acted
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Match Game
- Expeditionary Force, Book 14
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
- Duración: 20 h y 20 m
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For years, the ancient alien AI known as Skippy (the Magnificent, don’t forget that part) has been able to do one impossible thing after another. What is his secret? It’s simple: 100 percent Grade-A extreme awesomeness. And also because he had never been faced with an opponent of equal power. Until now. This time, he might need a little help from a band of filthy monkeys.
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What a let down.
- De Rabidbadger en 06-08-22
- Match Game
- Expeditionary Force, Book 14
- De: Craig Alanson
- Narrado por: R.C. Bray
Writing remains on point. Blooper in chapter 7
Revisado: 06-22-22
The editing at the start of this one feels off. There's also an outtake left in on chapter 7, just after 17:45 when Bishop is talking about how tequila affects him.
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