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The Wayward Bard
- World of Chains, Book 1
- De: Lars M.
- Narrado por: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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With all the pesky planning out of the way, Daniel set out to realize his ultimate dream: gaining enough money to buy a tropical island and spend his days playing the violin and RPGs. What could possibly go wrong?
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A New Look
- De Austin en 10-24-18
- The Wayward Bard
- World of Chains, Book 1
- De: Lars M.
- Narrado por: Justin Thomas James, Jeff Hays, Laurie Catherine Winkel
A rare find
Revisado: 12-25-19
A compelling and complex story that is made even better by quality narration and sound editing. I’ve been waiting for a long time to read a litrpg where the bard isn’t a complete caricature, and this fit the bill. A great story.
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Dead-End Demons (Horrors of Helensview)
- De: Jeffrey Beesler
- Narrado por: Matthew Raftis
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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Not every Demon is a monster. Not every person is a human. Either one could kill Dylan Weaverson. Five years have passed since Dylan’s brother, Chase, died in an explosion at Gus Peddle’s gas station in Helensview. Since then, Dylan has vowed revenge on the Demon nation, starting with a dark alley slaying of a gambler Demon. Before the cops catch him, Dylan begins to drive back to his farm outside Grain’s Plains, rescuing gas station owner Gus Peddle along the way.
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Fantastic
- De Amazon Customer en 06-14-24
- Dead-End Demons (Horrors of Helensview)
- De: Jeffrey Beesler
- Narrado por: Matthew Raftis
A worthy sequel
Revisado: 12-25-19
If you read/listened to the first in the series and enjoyed it enough to want to hear more, you’ll likely enjoy this one just as much. Beesler’s style is pretty unique. It’s quirky and reminiscent of old-school pulp from the golden era of sci-fi. It’s a great story.
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Our War
- De: Craig DiLouie
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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After his impeachment, the president of the United States refuses to leave office, and the country erupts into a fractured and violent war. Orphaned by the fighting and looking for a home, 10-year-old Hannah Miller joins a citizen militia in a besieged Indianapolis. In the Free Women militia, Hannah finds a makeshift family. They'll teach her how to survive. They'll give her hope. And they'll show her how to use a gun.
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More political commentary than anything else.
- De Amazon customer en 08-03-21
- Our War
- De: Craig DiLouie
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
The horrors of war
Revisado: 12-18-19
What a great book. The story of child soldiers and the psychological impact on them—and society—during a second American civil war. The book is dark, gritty, and gripping. I couldn’t stop listening. It does a good job of showing how idiotic people can be, no matter what their political leanings are. Highly recommended.
Also, I’m pretty sure this is the first one narrated by Andrew Eiden that I’ve listened to. While I initially wondered by this wasn’t read by a woman as 3/5’s of the main POV characters are women, I think he did a fantastic job.
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Core of Fear: A Paranormal LitRPG Dungeon Core
- Spirit Core, Book 1
- De: Jonathan Brooks
- Narrado por: Sarah L. Colton
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Clive Logan is a serial killer; or, to be more accurate, Clive Logan was a serial killer. Caught after a record-breaking streak of murders, he was executed by lethal injection by the state, while thousands of his victims' grieving family members watched. That should’ve been the end of his emotionless and unfeeling existence - but it wasn’t.
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A whole new field of LitRPG
- De Anthony en 10-29-19
- Core of Fear: A Paranormal LitRPG Dungeon Core
- Spirit Core, Book 1
- De: Jonathan Brooks
- Narrado por: Sarah L. Colton
Great, clever dungeon core
Revisado: 11-07-19
I’m not a huge dungeon core fan, but I love gamelit, and I love horror. So I jumped at the chance to listen and review this. It’s a great, solid story. But most importantly, it’s clever. We don’t get clever nearly as much as I’d like in these stories.
It almost reads like a deconstruction of a Paranormal Activity movie. As in, why does the poltergeist slowly ramp up the scare stuff if it can pull off all that stuff it does at the end? It fits well in this scenario.
This is my first book by Sarah Colton also. She is an excellent, well-rounded narrator. Hopefully she does more gamelit or horror titles in the future.
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Sex, Death & Honey
- The Misadventures of Butch Quick
- De: Brian Knight
- Narrado por: Roberto Scarlato
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Meet Butch Quick, a reluctant tough guy with a bad attitude and a talent for trouble. If the job is too dirty or dangerous for anyone else, then Butch is your man. When Butch repossesses a vintage 1968 Mustang from a neighborhood troublemaker, he uncovers a dark secret that tangles him up with a local drug kingpin and his army of moronic goons, a foul-mouthed macaw, and a dangerous woman named Honey.
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Hep
- De Anon en 10-21-18
- Sex, Death & Honey
- The Misadventures of Butch Quick
- De: Brian Knight
- Narrado por: Roberto Scarlato
Hep
Revisado: 10-21-18
Fun, quick, witty. This is a no-nonsense crime caper featuring a badass bounty hunter and a hilarious bird. Five stars
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The Drake of Ehknac
- The Adventures of Carmen Delarosa, Book 1
- De: Kody Boye
- Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price
- Duración: 1 h y 54 m
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The Hornblaris Mountains - home to the great Dwarven people - are a miraculous sight to behold, but beneath their towering peaks lie monstrous dangers. Carmen Delarosa, a travelling merchant's daughter, has lived within the mountains and even travelled their passages her entire life without issue. But when a drake appears along a routine trading route and slaughters an entire caravan, including her family, Carmen vows to take justice into her own hands.
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Carmen Delarosa is one determined Dwarf.
- De The Bookwyrm Speaks en 05-08-17
- The Drake of Ehknac
- The Adventures of Carmen Delarosa, Book 1
- De: Kody Boye
- Narrado por: Rhett Samuel Price
Great High Fantasy
Revisado: 04-11-17
This is a classic revenge story. Dwarf Carmen DeLarosa's entire family is killed by a drake that attacked their caravan. A year later, after she comes of age, Carmen sets out to hunt down the beast.
So, I've personally never been a huge fan of these small, bite-sized stories, especially in fantasy, but this one is really well done and entertaining. The writing is tight, and most importantly, the writing is *good.* I do wish this story was a little more fleshed out, but again that comes to my size bias. The action is quick and flows well. Her motivations are clear and make sense.
This is just the first of a series, and it appears the next book is 3x the length of this one, which is good. It doesn't appear this second book is out on audio.
Price is a good, deliberate narrator whose voice just drips with gravitas. I'm not certain he's the best choice for this story, given it's exclusively from the point of view of a female dwarf, but he does a great job anyway. He's one of those guys who could narrate the instructions on a pack of ramen and make it sound epic.
My verdict: if you like your fantasy tight and quick, this is a great read or listen.
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Interstellar Dad
- De: Jeff Beesler
- Narrado por: Robert Neil DeVoe
- Duración: 6 h y 21 m
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Andrew Skyes would do just about anything to be a dad. Unfortunately, a twist of fate leaves him unable to conceive a child, making his life a nightmare. His wife Denise leaves him because of this. He can't even perform well at work after the divorce. If he could just focus on making enough sales to keep his boss happy, he might turn things around for himself. While trying to score a sale outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Andrew's jeep blows a flat. Just as a tow truck operator named Tucker comes to his rescue, a weird ship crashes in the desert.
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I Love This Book!
- De Michelle Peterson en 09-11-23
- Interstellar Dad
- De: Jeff Beesler
- Narrado por: Robert Neil DeVoe
Great Book
Revisado: 06-04-14
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Basic plot: After breaking down on the side of the road, a recently-divorced man and the tow truck driver who came to help him witness the crash landing of an alien vessel. After some shenanigans, both men end up impregnated by a race of Amazonian green-hued aliens.
Awesome, right? I thought so.
The story is *really* about the uncertainty and fear and wonder that comes with fatherhood. The author attempts to explore the question why some fathers don't care for their children while others are hopelessly enamored with the idea of fatherhood. And why we are so drawn to the idea of having children, AND how some of us deal with the inability to have kids. We also have the ex-wife: a character who is hard to like, but is also hard to hate, which is something I really appreciate. It's left up to the reader to decide what to think of her, and by the end, there's no real resolution to that question. Again, that's something I'm okay with.
There were a couple non-resolutions I'm not so okay with, but it's clear this was meant to be part of a series, so it's acceptable as a reader, as long as these are cleared up by the end of the series. (What's up with the crazy lady who wanted the quote on the windows? Tucker's ambiguity at the end. The relationship with the navigator, etc.)
I'm giving this five stars for the sheer ambitiousness of the story and the easy execution. This is not a typical sci-fi/fantasy novel. There are no great space battles. There's very, very little violence. There are no harrowing action sequences ....and that's okay. It's a story about wonder, and it's a story about new beginnings, with an easy humor sprinkled throughout. In many ways, it's very quiet and subtle. For that, I think many people won't enjoy--or 'get'-- this, but those who like the idea of a story about fatherhood, they will be quite pleased, I think.
The prose itself almost makes the story read like it is for young adults, though the subject matter obviously is for an older audience. The storytelling style is quick and matter-of-fact. The author has a few quirks... an over reliance on cliched phrases, the tendency to over-remind readers of previous details, which is a sign of an author who isn't so trusting of his own work. And the story itself has a few technical issues (for example, the main character is lamenting in one scene how he doesn't have the ability to contact another character, and is suddenly calling him on the phone a few scenes later), all of which another edit would have caught, and in the end they are very minor details, and are mostly things only a person reading with a critical eye would really be bothered by. Also, I did find myself wondering multiple times why the main character didn't just ask the aliens some more question about the baby within him, which would've cleared up a lot of his stress and wonder. Again, minor details.
Overall a good, solid book. I will read part 2 when it is released.
Regarding the audio production itself... Very well done. I have listened to probably 100+ audio book in the past couple years, and this ranks up there in quality, especially considering this is a self-published book. Robert Neil DeVoe does an excellent job narrating this. Kudos.
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