Noelle M.

For your angsty teen vampire fix.

Revisado: 06-22-22

The voice acting is spot on, and the story is okay. It’s a good guilty pleasure read. You need to be able to ignore some issues with character development and pacing, but if you can do that and just enjoy the ride you’ll get the magic school, young love, easy read you’re looking for…

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Disjointed, but still worth the listen.

Revisado: 06-11-19

I love Bradbury, and most of the stories in this collection. My only qualm is that they do not fit well together as a narrative. It makes sense considering they were all written separately and then later collected, but it's presented as a narrative and thus ends up feeling disjointed.

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Excellent example of Woolf/the modernist writers.

Revisado: 06-11-19

Mrs. Dalloway is a good novel, and a fine example of Virginia Woolf's work. But I can't honestly rate it higher, because I've never fully enjoyed the modern/Joycean writers due to their stream of consciousness writing style.

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A Fisher memoir for Star Wars fans.

Revisado: 06-11-19

Carrie Fisher is a great writer, and so funny, but this isn't her best. Too many diary entries, not enough Fisher-isms. But that being said, for a Star Wars fan it's ideal. It gives a very unique perspective into behind-the-scenes of making the film that I had not encountered previously (not to mention some accounts of the oh-so-sexy Harrison Ford of the 1970s).

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Fantastic book for science lovers (probably).

Revisado: 08-18-15

Where does The Martian rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

One of the best.

What about R. C. Bray’s performance did you like?

Really, really good. Narration makes or breaks a story and his performance was spot on. The voices, accents, and personalities really came through. This was by far the books greatest strength.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

It already exists: "Bring Him Home"

Any additional comments?

This is a great science fiction book because it is what good science fiction should be: believable. While it is outside the realm of what is currently happening in science and space exploration (which is why it's fiction), it is inside the realm of possibility. That is what makes it so good and also what probably deters people.

A lot of the book is just a guy trying to use science to survive. Details of the actual science, what's possible, what's not, what would really happen if... that's what this book is made of.
If you like science, you'll find that to be fantastic and refreshing. If not, you might get bored or feel it's tedious.

I also felt like it was paced well and being able to get off the red planet and see what is going on at home was a good way to break things up and experience different emotions and perspectives. Watney is a great character.

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A new

Revisado: 08-04-15

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I would recommend this book to teens who like paranormal, fantasy, or horror. It's really entertaining from a paranormal mystery stand point, but Maureen is also just funny, dead on in capturing the teen experience, and also it's in London so British accents and culture galore!

What did you like best about this story?

At first it was hard to get into. All the things that made the first story great were no longer present (no ripper mystery, no seemingly normal story about boarding school life with a surprise paranormal twist, etc). But by the end, Johnson won me over with a new cast to care about and entirely new direction for the story that was interesting and exciting.

What does Nicola Barber bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Nicola is very good at the accents and voices. There are a lot of different accents and she did really well making them sound genuine and unique to the point where you know whose talking just based on the voice. Narration is extremely important to audiobooks. They make or break it. I'm at the point with this series that if they switch the narrator (Nicola) I'd have a very difficult time continuing. Her voices are the characters now, ya know? I don't know if I just got used to Nicola or if she's really just coming into her own on this second installment but I found it much better that the first. Critical even.

Do you think The Madness Underneath needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

UM YES. Anyone reading or listening to the story knows that the ending leaves you saying "WTF JUST HAPPENED?" and needing to jump right into the next installment.

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Boarding school fiction with a paranormal twist.

Revisado: 07-30-15

Would you consider the audio edition of The Name of the Star to be better than the print version?

Not sure, since I haven't read it.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Name of the Star?

I really liked the fact that for the first half it read like a realistic fiction book about boarding school life in England.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Nicola Barber?

On the fence. Her accents were good but her actual normal narration was really distracting. She over enunciated which was annoying.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

"Jack is back."

Any additional comments?

Fun, quick YA listen. Nothing overwhelmingly good, but decent writing and performance and intriguing storyline.

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