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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- De: Suzanne Collins
- Narrado por: Santino Fontana
- Duración: 16 h y 16 m
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.
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Bad part
- De Edgars Dumins en 05-19-20
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- De: Suzanne Collins
- Narrado por: Santino Fontana
It was okay; not the right narrator
Revisado: 01-02-24
Narrator really hurt this book for me. He was far too stiff. The story was alright, I guess I expected something a little different.
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A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
- De: T. Kingfisher
- Narrado por: Patricia Santomasso
- Duración: 8 h y 30 m
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Fourteen-year-old Mona isn't like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can't control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter, and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt's bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona's life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona's city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona's worries.
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A tour de force unimaginably good
- De Joella Berkner en 10-21-21
- A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking
- De: T. Kingfisher
- Narrado por: Patricia Santomasso
Wonderful
Revisado: 07-07-23
Whimsical, wonderful, ridiculous notion of a magical baker saving the city. Great subtle world Building. Highly recommend
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The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- De: Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
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Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules. But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.
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TERRIBLE Narration!
- De Kayla I en 07-08-22
- The Colour of Magic
- Discworld, Book 1
- De: Terry Pratchett
- Narrado por: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
Liked it
Revisado: 05-14-23
Liked it.
This first novel of the series felt a bit like Pratchett was stretching his fingers and playing. Seeing what the world was about. Seeing what characters would emerge. It bopped around a lot which made it hard to follow, but I am still going to march to the next book in the Discworld journey.
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The Winter Sea
- De: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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History has all but forgotten.... In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next best-selling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write. But then she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction....
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Get Out Your Hankies
- De MJ en 07-29-11
- The Winter Sea
- De: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor
Incredible setting and narrator
Revisado: 12-17-22
Really enjoyed this book. What I might've loved most of all was the setting: the chill Scottish countryside and the winter sea, violent and fierce. She made the setting feel so alive for me, I still picture the dark sea, the biting wind, the land as it crests and dips, the green hills. Definitely want more books set in that kind of landscape.
The author told the dual POV story well, too, which is not easy. I immediately liked the characters and enjoyed their stories, both present and past. It was a very fun twist to have that ancestral connection and memory. The coziness of the small town was a plus. I also enjoyed learning more about Jacobite history.
Also, the narrator was AMAZING. She did all the voices so incredibly well. A good narrator is rare.
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The Orphan Witch
- A Novel
- De: Paige Crutcher
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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Persephone May has been alone her entire life. Abandoned as an infant and dragged through the foster care system, she wants nothing more than to belong somewhere. To someone. However, Persephone is as strange as she is lonely. Unexplainable things happen when she’s around - changes in weather, inanimate objects taking flight - and those who seek to bring her into their family quickly cast her out. To cope, she never gets attached, never makes friends. And she certainly never dates.
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So much potential!
- De Heather en 10-05-21
- The Orphan Witch
- A Novel
- De: Paige Crutcher
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
Predictable
Revisado: 11-20-22
I always know when I set an audiobook to an increased speed, it's usually not a good sign. This one wasn't quite a DNF, but it was just lacking something, or many things. It felt predictable, and not in a good way. Was it flat? maybe? Having a hard time pinning it down. I just wanted it to end.
Saving graces were Dorian and Moira.
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Annihilation
- Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrado por: Carolyn McCormick
- Duración: 6 h y 11 m
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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
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Great story, bad narrator
- De Julian P. en 01-26-16
- Annihilation
- Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Jeff VanderMeer
- Narrado por: Carolyn McCormick
Will sit with you
Revisado: 11-20-22
I feel like I need to let this sink in a little, as I just finished today. It will probably sink into me like spores and slowly change me...
I loved the atmospheric quality of the book, the rich descriptions of nature dripping off the page. I loved how quickly things changed and then how slowly they did. I loved how the book ended and can't imagine what the next books will even contain.
I'm betting this one is going to sit with me.
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How to Stop Time
- De: Matt Haig
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 10 h y 1 m
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history - performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher - the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's history first hand. Better yet, a captivating French teacher at his school seems fascinated by him.
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Immortality is a bummer
- De Em en 02-09-18
- How to Stop Time
- De: Matt Haig
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
How to do "immortal" right
Revisado: 08-08-22
Our protagonist, Tom, has a rare condition in which he ages much, much slower than others. In fact, he's 400+ years old and he only looks about 40. He clings to life because he knows he has a daughter who is like him, still alive after hundreds of years, searching.
He interacts with different major history figures (like Shakespeare, Captain Cook and F. Scott Fitzgerald) that make it a lot of fun. He learns all types of languages and hobbies and skills throughout these hundreds of years. Still, he remains human. He's bored, he's searching, he's feeling. It's a very moving book that reminds us to live right now, to feel instead of fear, and to do what is right.
This is how to do "immortal" right. I recently DNF'd a book with a similar premise (though instead of it being a genetic condition, it was a demon's curse) that simply wandered around, picked up no hobbies, and was so flat and self-pitying. I was nervous when I started How to Stop Time, but was pleasantly surprised when it did it right.
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Once There Were Wolves
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte McConaghy
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
- Duración: 8 h y 27 m
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Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska. Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love.
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Takes a dive into dark
- De Linda Ottey en 08-10-21
- Once There Were Wolves
- A Novel
- De: Charlotte McConaghy
- Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld
Whew
Revisado: 05-21-22
This woman knows how to write and wake up the inner wild within me! An intense book about wolves, grief, and sisterhood. The scenes stay with you and haunt you. And now I want to go back to school and study ecology or something to try to save the world and its animals.
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Before They Are Hanged
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
- Duración: 22 h y 39 m
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The second novel in the wildly popular First Law Trilogy from New York Times best seller Joe Abercrombie. Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory.
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Can't stand to hear the word grimace' any more.
- De Max en 08-29-17
- Before They Are Hanged
- De: Joe Abercrombie
- Narrado por: Steven Pacey
Simply love these books
Revisado: 02-15-22
"Say one thing for Logen Ninefingers, say he's a fighter."
I simply love these books, even if they are near 500 pages each. Abercrombie's voice is unique, excellent, and full of humor. His writing drips with rich imagery, always relevant to the scene/setting/mood/character at hand. The characters jump off the page. They feel real, with actual flaws and mistakes, struggle through the sh*t they call life. And the arcs! The character arcs are masterfully woven, happening so subtly and realistically that at the end you're like wow, he's now x.
Jumping right into the next one.
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The Jasmine Project
- De: Meredith Ireland
- Narrado por: Hannah Choi, Jennifer Aquino, Ramón de Ocampo, y otros
- Duración: 9 h y 15 m
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Jasmine Yap’s life is great. Well, it’s okay. She’s about to move in with her longtime boyfriend, Paul, before starting a nursing program at community college - all of which she mostly wants. But her stable world is turned upside down when she catches Paul cheating. To her giant, overprotective family, Paul’s loss is their golden ticket to showing Jasmine that she deserves much more. The only problem is, Jasmine refuses to meet anyone new. But...what if the family set up a situation where she wouldn’t have to know? A secret Jasmine Project.
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Great for young adults
- De Alana en 01-22-22
- The Jasmine Project
- De: Meredith Ireland
- Narrado por: Hannah Choi, Jennifer Aquino, Ramón de Ocampo, Joy Osmanski, Gary Tiedemann
Great for young adults
Revisado: 01-22-22
Such a fantastic book for young adults, especially teenagers navigating first love. So many young women settle for what they think they deserve. Any attention they get is good attention so it doesn't matter if he kinda sucks. This book does well to show how you ought to be treated, how to start valuing yourself, and evaluate others who you're in a relationship with.
It was a little slow to start, but once the contest started and the family dynamics were in, I loved it. The sense of the big family was real, the comradery, the drama, the chaos, the love -- it was dynamic and special.
Definitely will read more from Ireland. I'd even love her to do an Adult novel so she can unleash the full unfiltered hilarity that you might spot on her Twitter account.
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