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An Ember in the Ashes
- De: Sabaa Tahir
- Narrado por: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
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Laia is a Scholar living under the iron-fisted rule of the Martial Empire. When her brother is arrested for treason, Laia goes undercover as a slave at the empire's greatest military academy in exchange for assistance from rebel Scholars who claim that they will help to save her brother from execution.
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Not That Impressed.
- De Brian en 05-01-15
- An Ember in the Ashes
- De: Sabaa Tahir
- Narrado por: Fiona Hardingham, Steve West
World building? What world building?
Revisado: 12-29-24
I bought this because a trusted reviewer and her husband (ifkyk) raved about it and I’ve aligned with her tastes otherwise but WOW was this one a surprise. Maybe the later books go more into world building, maybe they redeem the many many many casual threats of rape against the main character, maybe maybe maybe… Whatever redeeming qualities the rest of the books have, this one cannot keep my interest. The abject and absurd cruelty wielded against the main character and other enslaved characters is gruesomely described without any… is pay off an evil thing to want from it? It’s tone setting—set dressing—on a romantasy that doesn’t explore its world at all. It’s a truly baffling mix of being unromantic and unfantastical leaving me wondering why it was written at all. For the joy of torture scenes? For the off handed reference to rape every other chapter at the least? It’s not for lack of strong stomach or even that this content is particularly triggering for me (though not a cozy walk in the park to be clear) but that it lacks purpose other than to show that one character is comically evil just because that’s what’s in her soul I suppose. Don’t waste your time. Read something that commits to itself instead of this deeply uncomfortable mediocrity.
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Switching Tracks: Out of the Trash
- Train Hoppers, Book 1
- De: Lena Gibson
- Narrado por: Rusty Mewha, Angelina Rocca
- Duración: 10 h y 40 m
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Life in SoCal in 2195 is controlled by a corporatocracy. Elsa scavenges twenty-first-century trash, living on the edge of starvation in this ruthless world through her grit and instincts. When she unearths a metal tube containing maps to six Doomsday seed bunkers and a silver key, she dreams of renewable sources of food and a life based on more than subsistence, but GreenCorps will stop at nothing to acquire her find. Accused of theft and beaten half to death, she escapes with a handsome train hopper. They seek the long-lost bunkers, hoping to break GreenCorps' monopoly on food.
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storyline was exciting and kept my attention
- De Anonymous User en 08-05-24
- Switching Tracks: Out of the Trash
- Train Hoppers, Book 1
- De: Lena Gibson
- Narrado por: Rusty Mewha, Angelina Rocca
At least I got it for free
Revisado: 11-12-24
The acting was monotonous, the story was predictable and bland, the world needed way more detail, the prose was repetitive at best, the characters had no chemistry and no wonder considering they didn’t have much personality to react with each other in the first place… I bought this as part of the 2 for 1 credit deal in October 2024 and I’m counting this as the free title for my own sanity.
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The Tenth Girl
- De: Sara Faring
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Mark Sanderlin
- Duración: 15 h y 35 m
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At the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi - a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother - it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina’s elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house - despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic young man, and rumors of mysterious Others. But one of Mavi’s 10 students is missing, and students and teachers begin to behave as if possessed.
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Good until it's not
- De vbrown7380 en 11-20-24
- The Tenth Girl
- De: Sara Faring
- Narrado por: Frankie Corzo, Mark Sanderlin
Confusingly bad?
Revisado: 07-14-21
If you are expecting a legitimate ghost story set in Latin America, go read Mexican Gothic. If you want a sloppy mess of half baked plot points, here is the book for you! What could have been a deep and interesting look at Argentine politics in the 1970’s, leftist action, colonialism, and grief is instead an entirely different story with the previous points as set dressing.
SPOILERS AHEAD
This story is about a boy who falls in love with his mother’s avatar in a video game designed for players to haunt, terrorize, and mutilate in game characters (9 of which are 12-13 year old girls with programmed abusive backgrounds) for the purpose of telling a myth. The characters in the school are fabrications whose backgrounds don’t matter despite most of them having detailed histories of abuse.
The novel reads as a rambling mess of half formed ideas and plot points running into each other without forethought or consideration.
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Little Darlings
- A Novel
- De: Melanie Golding
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they're right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own...creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she's imagining things. A month passes. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren's side in a park. But when they're found, something is different about them.
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A creepy kind of mystery!
- De Carole Wooten en 05-22-19
- Little Darlings
- A Novel
- De: Melanie Golding
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
Fantastic Performance
Revisado: 11-21-20
The performance by Stephanie Racine was perfect. She brought the story to life and gave so much to her roles. Narrators don’t normally put in such a talented and nuanced performance as Stephanie Racine has here. One of the greatest narrators I’ve heard.
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