Micaiah Evans
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Goddess of the North
- De: Georgina Kamsika
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
- Duración: 11 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Detective Inspector Sara Nayar is a goddess. Literally. A Hindu goddess accidentally brought to England during Queen Victoria's reign. Working now as a police detective, Sara survives on humanity's innate faith in law and order. Sheffield is a city of many gods, however, and when Sara witnesses a murder, she knows the perpetrator is divine. As a goddess of order, she must solve the crime before the god can kill again, but thousands of years living as a human has left her spiritually weak.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magnificent, Fun, and Intelligent!
- De Micaiah Evans en 10-18-20
- Goddess of the North
- De: Georgina Kamsika
- Narrado por: Zehra Jane Naqvi
Magnificent, Fun, and Intelligent!
Revisado: 10-18-20
This book is pure delight from start to finish. The premise, the plot, the magic, the food, the settings, and especially the characters (!) conspire to immerse the reader (or listener) so deeply that the real world disappears. Kamsika is a master of pacing, dialogue, and sensory detail. There's not a dull phrase in the entire book, and I couldn't stop listening. I had to invent new housecleaning chores just to have an excuse to keep the story playing!
Also, the narrator is superb. Her voicing of the characters is flawless, and her cadence and pitch make the audiobook a true auditory pleasure.
I can't recommend this book (and audiobook!) enough. Buy it, enjoy it, recommend it, gift it. The world needs more books like this.
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Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
- Peasprout Chen, (Book 2)
- De: Henry Lien
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 8
Now in her Second Year at Pearl Famous Academy of Skate and Sword, Peasprout Chen strives to reclaim her place as a champion of wu liu, the sport of martial arts figure skating. But, with the new year comes new competition, and Peasprout’s dreams are thwarted by an impressive transfer student. Yinmei is the heir to the Shinian throne and has fled her country for Pearl. When she excels both academically and socially, Peasprout begins to suspect that Yinmei is not a refugee at all but a spy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A magnificently worthy sequel!
- De Micaiah Evans en 10-02-19
- Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
- Peasprout Chen, (Book 2)
- De: Henry Lien
- Narrado por: Nancy Wu
A magnificently worthy sequel!
Revisado: 10-02-19
This book is, if possible, even better than the first. A truly marvelous continuation of the adventures (and misadventures) of Peasprout and her growing retinue of brilliant accomplices. I can not recommend this book enough. My daughter loves it too. She has listened to it at least eight times.
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The Dead of Winter
- De: Jack Night
- Narrado por: Folly Blaine
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 51
For the Anderson family, Rockwell is the picture-perfect small town. A wholesome place to start over. But as the autumn days begin turning to winter something is awakened deep within the woods. Something bent on revenge. Cut off from the rest of the world they must fight to stay alive as the haunting presence lays claim to Rockwell, exposing the dark secrets of the town that created it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top-notch reading of a fairly good book
- De Micaiah Evans en 06-12-14
- The Dead of Winter
- De: Jack Night
- Narrado por: Folly Blaine
Top-notch reading of a fairly good book
Revisado: 06-12-14
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The book itself is a fast-moving, engrossing horror novel with engaging characters, compelling motivations, an interesting premise, and a well-planned and executed plot. It succeeds in being truly scary in many places and is fairly creepy throughout. Enough emotional connection is established among the characters to make their fates important.
If there is a weakness in the book, it is the language. Though generally effective, many of the metaphors and dialogue elements tend towards cliché, and word choices and phrase structures are rarely original. This does not interfere directly with enjoyment of the story, but it does keep it from rising to the top tier of horror literature.
The narration of the audiobook, however, is truly brilliant, and ultimately what got me into the book in the first place and kept me engaged throughout. Folly Blaine's calm, collected voice is appropriately chilling when applied to the books gruesome content, and her use of varied inflections and intonations imbues the characters with richer identities than offered by the raw source material. She has an ideal register for narration and I look forward to listening to other books read by her in the future.
Overall, I recommend this audiobook highly to anyone looking for a creepy small-town mystery wrapped in the trappings of a grisly horror tale.
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