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Not Your Villain
- Sidekick Squad Series, Book 2
- De: C. B. Lee
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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After discovering a massive cover-up by the Heroes' League of Heroes, Bells and his friends Jess, Emma, and Abby set off on a secret mission to find the Resistance. Meanwhile, power-hungry former hero Captain Orion is on the loose with a dangerous serum that renders meta-humans powerless, and a new militarized robotic threat emerges. Everyone is in danger. Between college applications and crushing on his best friend, will Bells have time to take down a corrupt government?
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So poor...
- De Nancy D. en 05-04-25
- Not Your Villain
- Sidekick Squad Series, Book 2
- De: C. B. Lee
- Narrado por: JD Jackson
So poor...
Revisado: 05-04-25
This book feels like the result of so many things going wrong. The first book ended in a way that felt like it was going to be the albatross around this book's neck. That's not true. It isn't THE albatross, it is just AN albatross. There are so many problems here that the first one becomes almost lost in the crowd. The story seems to have no structure, fumbling anything that could be a dramatic turn and leaving it with no consequences. The political intrigue from the first book is utterly ignored, and while the romance in the first book was cure, this one takes up equal time but is utterly uninteresting. The antagonists seem utterly passive and incapable, leaving no sense of danger to anything that happens. To top it all off, the story does start to move better towards the end, but it is left with the same 'and everything worked out and went back to normal' ending that didn't work the first time. Maybe some of this could have worked better with more elegant writing, but everything is spelled out like the reader has no idea how the world works.
J.D. Jackson might be the biggest problem of all. I'm not the biggest fan of the first narrator, but he is so much worse. He reads this like it is a grocery list and can't pronounce a single non-English word (I get that some can be hard, but horchata? Seriously?) He even manages to mess up some English words,referring to Smasher and Shockwave as Shocker and Smashwave.
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Not Your Sidekick
- Sidekick Squad Series, Book 1
- De: C.B. Lee
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 8 h
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Welcome to Andover, where superpowers are common, but internships are complicated. Just ask high school nobody, Jessica Tran. Despite her heroic lineage, Jess is resigned to a life without superpowers and is merely looking to beef-up her college applications when she stumbles upon the perfect (paid!) internship only it turns out to be for the town's most heinous supervillain.
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best book I've ever read, amazing narration
- De Amazon Customer en 08-07-19
- Not Your Sidekick
- Sidekick Squad Series, Book 1
- De: C.B. Lee
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
Good until the end
Revisado: 05-01-25
I liked this overall. Superhero worlds are nothing new, but the post post apocalyptic setting gives some original flavor. I was also pleasantly surprised that the book was willing to give a fresh criticism of these kinds of good vs evil stories. I'm always happy to see a queer norm book, or semi-norm in this case, and actually having more than one character is great. I enjoyed several of the twists but guessed them all far in advanced and could have done with less hints as it made the characters seem a little dumb for not figuring them out with so much evidence. That doesn't mean they don't work, just that they needed better implementation.Where the problem really comes in is right at the end. Everything goes back to normal? Really? If things had been left on a 'to be continued ' it would have worked much better. Good overall even if it didn't stick the landing.
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Deathbound
- The Eynhallow Saga, Part 1
- De: Heather Palmer
- Narrado por: Freya Mavor, Jessie Mei Li
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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In the kingdom of Eynhallow, Princess Ythsie is preparing to choose a husband, in order to secure the kingdom’s future. Everything changes when Stroma, a skilled fighter from a remote village, becomes her new bodyguard. As mysterious deaths rock the palace, Ythsie and Stroma uncover a web of ancient magic and deadly court intrigue. The princess discovers she has a rare and dangerous gift - the ability to communicate with the Deathless, Eynhallow's cursed undead army.
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Confusion
- De Terri en 01-20-25
- Deathbound
- The Eynhallow Saga, Part 1
- De: Heather Palmer
- Narrado por: Freya Mavor, Jessie Mei Li
Just okay
Revisado: 04-27-25
Story takes a while to get going but the romance is good. The narrators... yeah not great.
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45 Things To Do Before You're 45: A Novel
- De: Julia Tuffs
- Narrado por: Isy Suttie
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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Meet Charlie; unfulfilled and perimenopausal, Charlie’s suburban life is a far cry from the Manhattan glamour she once dreamed of. Her husband is incapable of talking about anything other than his latest Ironman challenge, her sex life consists of fictional encounters with Hollywood stars, her kids need constant man-management, and to make things worse, her optician has just prescribed her reading glasses. Oh, and she can’t stop crying at TV adverts… In the hope of re-discovering her sense of self, Charlie begins writing a list: 45 things to do before she’s 45.
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45 going on 15
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 01-31-25
- 45 Things To Do Before You're 45: A Novel
- De: Julia Tuffs
- Narrado por: Isy Suttie
A lack of consequences
Revisado: 04-19-25
While the story does get going after a while, by the end, it feels like the character is right back where she started. She starts self-centered and superficial and ends the same way. If there were more consequences for this lack of change, it may have worked, but she just breaks off her already dead marriage. Her kids are okay despite her abandoning them for months, there are no health reproduction from all the crap, she doesn't even quit drinking. There are moments where it works, but it is unbearable at the beginning and end.
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Sneakerhead
- De: Amanda Eyre Ward
- Narrado por: Amanda Eyre Ward, Timothy Harrison Meckel
- Duración: 1 h y 55 m
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When Amanda Eyre Ward's 13-year-old son, Harry, dove headfirst into the world of sneaker culture, she found herself baffled by his obsession with flashy, expensive shoes that seemed like mere status symbols. Determined to bridge the gap with her teenage son, Ward reluctantly decided to embrace the mantra of "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em". As she shed her preconceptions and immersed herself in the quest to snag the latest drops, Ward discovered a community far richer than she had imagined.
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Ima be honest.
- De Bryant SUPREME en 08-12-24
- Sneakerhead
- De: Amanda Eyre Ward
- Narrado por: Amanda Eyre Ward, Timothy Harrison Meckel
Look deeper
Revisado: 03-28-25
When the narrator described herself screaming at her 12-year-old because he wouldn't talk to her then a few minutes later that same son was reading out an explanation full of sterile scientific explanations for his love of shoes, moving it away from any blame of his mother, I knew the story was going to come to the wrong conclusion. Yes, the boy is growing up and gaining independence, but a bigger reason for the separation is because his mother is forcing her way in for content. She writes from her life, and he is just more content to be used. I don't feel it is sweet, I think there is something more exploitative underneath.
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The Accidental Dating Experiment
- De: Lauren Blakely
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt, Jacob Morgan
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with my best friend’s little sister before our lives went in different directions. Now, I’m the grumpy to Juliet’s sunshine on a popular dating podcast we host, and when a wealthy fan gives us a charming coastal cottage as the biggest thank you ever, we head to the town where I grew up to give it a makeover. And find the house has only one bed. Located under a mirrored ceiling.
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The kind of Romance everyone needs in their collection!
- De M. Santos en 04-11-24
- The Accidental Dating Experiment
- De: Lauren Blakely
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt, Jacob Morgan
Romance between your two most beige friends
Revisado: 10-16-24
If millennial was a slur, these two would be the stereotypical depiction. Their romance was pointless, they aren't interested enough for me to care, and instead of saying "just f*** already" I kept saying "just f*** of already".
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Stranger
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
- Duración: 2 h y 33 m
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Meet Harry, aspiring tech entrepreneur. He’s a would-be Steve Jobs trapped in a cubicle gig at an angel investor firm, so close and yet so far from his dreams. His marriage is foundering, his career is stalled out, and all he wants is to create an app like Uber, or Tinder, something to make real change in the world, and change his own life forever. Now meet Peter, a deeply troubled computer genius who lives in a basement apartment, chugging red wine, nursing old grudges and writing code. When Harry meets Peter, it’s both of their lives that will change, when they invent an app for murder.
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Be careful the ideas you share
- De Noah chapman en 07-11-23
- Stranger
- De: Ben H. Winters
- Narrado por: Vikas Adam
Kind of dumb
Revisado: 03-11-24
A 21st century remake of Strangers on a Train isn't a bad idea for a story, but the concept is brought down by the execution. The story is predictable, and the characters are old stock. I thought we were past the chubby sweaty nerd, but I guess not. I guess that makes sense that since everything about technology in this book operates like it is magic. There could have been some commentary about modern tech here but heavy-handedness brings that down along with any thrills. Can't say I recommend.
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The Youngbloods: Family Demons
- De: Gwenda Bond, Kami Garcia, Sam Humphries
- Narrado por: Khristine Hvam, Lee Osorio, Amber Dekkers, y otros
- Duración: 4 h y 33 m
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The Youngbloods are a mafia-like demon family, sent as a sinister advance team to prepare Earth for an infernal invasion. But when something goes wrong, the demon invasion never comes and the Youngbloods are stuck on crappy Earth with the worst creatures in the world—each other. Petra Youngblood is the family’s hunter. Her job: to track and kill the annual human sacrifice that keeps the Youngbloods immortal. Otherwise, they will crumble to dust. But as Petra is hunting down this year’s sacrifice, a man named Killian Irons, she breaks the first demonic rule.
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Can’t wait for release of next in series!
- De What do you do with 1 en 06-23-23
No fun in moderation
Revisado: 02-21-24
This is a story about evil demons doing nefarious things... or that's what it wants to be. In actuality, it is a story about kind-of evil demons acting like they are doing nefarious things. That could be fun if it was treated like a joke, but it is played too straight. It could have worked straight if the demons were more of a chilling kind of evil or were clever, but that isn't the case either. The story tries to play it off like they are smart, but instead, makes everyone around them dumb. The last chance was the romance, but that is too shallow to get invested in. At the same time, it could have worked if it was purely physical and super spicy, but there was nothing beyond some slightly suggestive language.
All in all, it doesn't go very far in any direction and doesn't do anything well enough to be engaging or bad enough to be fascinating. Glad it is split up into parts so I can bail now.
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Daughter of No Worlds
- The War of Lost Hearts, Book 1
- De: Carissa Broadbent
- Narrado por: Dan Calley, Esther Wane
- Duración: 15 h y 32 m
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Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely escapes with her life. Desperate to save the best friend she left behind, Tisaanah journeys to the Orders, the most powerful organizations of magic Wielders in the world. But to join their ranks, she must complete an apprenticeship with Maxantarius Farlione, a handsome and reclusive fire wielder who despises the Orders.
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I couldn’t finish it
- De Kinsey en 05-26-22
- Daughter of No Worlds
- The War of Lost Hearts, Book 1
- De: Carissa Broadbent
- Narrado por: Dan Calley, Esther Wane
Interesting but unbalanced
Revisado: 12-04-23
While the world is interesting and the main conflict compelling, so much doesn't come up until the second half of the book. There just isn't enough time to come to terms with all the sudden rules, and I wonder why they weren't more spaced out.
The even worse thing that came up in the second half was the second narrator. This guy has the worst breath control I have ever heard! He gasped for air after every three words, and by the end, I wondered if he had a respiratory problem. The main narrator is fine, but second one is hard to get through
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This Story Is a Lie
- A Novel
- De: Tom Pollock
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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Seventeen-year-old Peter Blankman is a math genius. He also suffers from devastating panic attacks. Pete gets through each day with the help of his mother - a famous scientist - and his beloved twin sister, Bel. But when his mom is nearly assassinated in front of his eyes and Bel disappears, Pete finds himself on the run. Dragged into a world where state and family secrets intertwine, Pete must use his extraordinary analytical skills to find his missing sister and track down the people who attacked his mother. But his greatest battle will be with the enemy he's fought his entire life: the constant terror that threatens to overwhelm him.
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Forward Backwaref & Switch Backs, Keep You Guessing!
- De Bonnie Buchanan en 03-20-25
- This Story Is a Lie
- A Novel
- De: Tom Pollock
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Disorganization works with the story
Revisado: 12-04-23
At first I thought the information was being introduced in a strange or nonsensical order, but it ended up working well with the theme and plot of the story. The panicked writing and jumping around truly feels like the inside of someone's anxious head. Not sure all the twists fully line up and one of the villains gets forgotten about, but the plot is otherwise solid and very engaging. The writing alone makes it more than worth your time.
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