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The Midnight Witch
- De: Paula Brackston
- Narrado por: Marisa Calin
- Duración: 15 h y 33 m
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Lady Lilith Montgomery is the daughter of the sixth Duke of Radnor. She is one of the most beautiful young women in London and engaged to the city’s most eligible bachelor. She is also a witch. When her father dies, her hapless brother Freddie takes on his title. But it is Lilith, instructed in the art of necromancy, who inherits their father’s role as Head Witch of the Lazarus Coven. And it is Lilith who must face the threat of the Sentinels, a powerful group of sorcerers intent on reclaiming the Elixir from the coven’s guardianship for their own dark purposes.
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Ridiculously inane lead character
- De Alison en 06-12-15
- The Midnight Witch
- De: Paula Brackston
- Narrado por: Marisa Calin
Like the concept
Revisado: 12-20-23
...buy it somehow fell short. I think part of it is the reader, she designates great character depictions, but when she narrates the story or talks in first person, she gets this kind of climatic whine that sounds like she is going to break, and never does. I do not think I am describing it very well. it took forever to get through this book, I kept droning out the story and losing my place. The writing is good enough, except, the heroine seems weak, like not flawed weak, but weak fabric.
The story, however, is fascinating. The concept of this society and the Era in which it takes place is all very nice.
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Fairy Tale
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
- Duración: 24 h y 6 m
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Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a horrific accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house at the top of a big hill, with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from that shed.
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A Boy and his Dog at the end of the World
- De Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com en 09-06-22
- Fairy Tale
- De: Stephen King
- Narrado por: Seth Numrich, Stephen King
First S. King Book and it was FANTASTIC!
Revisado: 10-04-23
Common sense tells us King must be a great writer not only for his popularity, but also from the variety of Hollywood productions. I knew his stories were creative from what I had witnessed on the silver screen in both Horror and Drama genres. I knew that. As a collector of fairytale, modern, classic, and folklore, I wasn't sure what to expect when I downloaded this, only knowing that it was a perfect title for my inductory King book. The character building was fantastic, sure. The plot: despair, true love in unexpected ways, and so much I can't say for fear of spoiling the book for others. I was pleasantly surprised. The story was an adventure with all the darkness I expected from King, the gut wrenching drama I knew him to create from stories like Shawshank and Green Mile, and I was surprised how many times I laughed outloud...my happy black heart. This story exceeded my expectations in adventure, drama, character building, and damn can he paint a scene with words.
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House of Salt and Sorrows
- De: Erin A. Craig
- Narrado por: Emily Lawrence
- Duración: 12 h y 50 m
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Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were 12, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts.
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a novelized folk tale
- De Sarah en 10-30-19
- House of Salt and Sorrows
- De: Erin A. Craig
- Narrado por: Emily Lawrence
voice is a hard cannot.
Revisado: 05-03-22
monotone and nasal, kind of whiny. I. cannot listen to it, I will read it in book form.
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The Once and Future Witches
- De: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 16 h y 3 m
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In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters - James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna - join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement.
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Almost. Not quite there.
- De LovelyD en 11-29-20
- The Once and Future Witches
- De: Alix E. Harrow
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
I'm going to have to read this one...
Revisado: 11-04-21
The narrator is incredibly... mundane. When voicing for others, she does rather well, but aside from dialogue, you can predict the inflections and intonations in her voice like a literary major would in Shakespearean iambic pentameter, except without the drama. The voice dips and raises when describing a scene or a character's emotion, and really the beauty of the words is lost in the dreary voice.
However, the story seems great, and I want to know this story. I will be reading the physical book and returning this audiobook... I'm on chapter 9.
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A Discovery of Witches
- A Novel
- De: Deborah Harkness
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
- Duración: 23 h y 59 m
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Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lost and enchanted alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782, deep in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Its reappearance summons a fantastical underworld, which she navigates with her leading man, vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont.
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A feast for the mind and imagination
- De Barbara en 02-21-11
- A Discovery of Witches
- A Novel
- De: Deborah Harkness
- Narrado por: Jennifer Ikeda
NO!
Revisado: 10-26-21
Beauty and Beast... I can't do it. worse than Twilight with better writing. Nice metaphors... okay historical references... way too long romance scenes... this story is dumb.
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The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
- Duración: 11 h y 50 m
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Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.
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I can't listen to it.
- De Kindle Customer en 10-26-20
- The Queen's Gambit
- De: Walter Tevis
- Narrado por: Amy Landon
The chess battles were as interesting as a sword
Revisado: 01-03-21
battle. This story was very well written, interesting characters and situations. Kept my attention through entirety. May listen again on a long road trip.
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Indianapolis
- De: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost 300 miles from the nearest land, nearly 900 men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own.
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As good as In Harm's Way but different
- De tru britty en 07-13-18
- Indianapolis
- De: Lynn Vincent, Sara Vladic
- Narrado por: John Bedford Lloyd
Unexpectedly Fascinating
Revisado: 06-20-20
While the story of the Indianapolis is known, the depth of the tragedy was something I was ignorant to. My grandfather, a WWII vet, had mentioned it casually as he was in the Navy, but never anything else beyond. I picked this book to listen to for the month of May, when choosing books to match holidays- so it was an aloof choice.
I was pleasantly surprised.
I am not a history buff, and I do not generally read books on history beyond historical fiction. This book maintained my interest through most of the book. At first it was a little difficult getting into the book, going through all the key characters/victims stories, while not reading their names with my own eyes (and my ears don't remember as well as my eyes remember), but then all at once it clicked into place and I was able to follow along. I thought the book's division of introducing the people involved and the ship in the first part, the event for the second part, and the after events before Congress and a middle school boy trying to get the captain's charges dropped was a great organization of the story. The reading sounded like it was being told from a veteran's perspective, yet full of facts and descriptions rather than opinions. The writing was done so well, I could visualize the strange chaos well and not have to re-listen to figure out what was happening when the ship started to sink (sometimes when action scenes are being told, I have to listen again to see if I heard what I thought I visualized).
this book is great and it's my first 5star rating all the way around. It ticked all the boxes for me. I'm just sorry that the story is true. The authors did the story justice by telling it so well. My heart goes out to those poor kids lost at sea.
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The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Wingate
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, y otros
- Duración: 15 h y 6 m
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From the best-selling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.
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I want more!!!
- De Mrstlg en 04-11-20
- The Book of Lost Friends
- A Novel
- De: Lisa Wingate
- Narrado por: Sophie Amoss, Sullivan Jones, Robin Miles, Bahni Turpin, Lisa Wingate, Lisa Flanagan, Dominic Hoffman
Beautiful
Revisado: 06-20-20
Its hard to say, did the performance make the book? Or did the story make the book? Either way, the execution of both was beautifully done.
The performance from the various readers was well acted: appropriate intonations to express emotions and ambiances, dialects and accents done very well, it was almost like listening to old radio theatre, but without sound effects and a variety of voice actors. I thought it very well done. I really enjoyed different voices following the different stories, it made following the story easier.
The story was beautiful and heart wrenching in a variety of ways. Metaphors were not thrown about like confetti, and were done with a subtle poetic flair. The trials of the modern character and the mysteries that continued to unravel were fun to follow along, and kept one's interest waiting for the next event around the corner. The freed slave's story was excellent being full of adventure, a quest one might say, and kept you in the edge of your seat wondering what danger might antagonize the girls next. I loved this book and will probably listen to it again. I didn't realize the story content when I picked it for the month, and how appropriate for the times and Juneteenth it is. I recommend this story to anyone who has a love for historical fiction in an American setting.
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Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- De: Glendy Vanderah
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
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After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.
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Enjoyable. Which "story" version is true...
- De Christina en 03-16-19
- Where the Forest Meets the Stars
- De: Glendy Vanderah
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
Great Story
Revisado: 06-15-20
The story was a wonderful and beautiful well imagined piece. The writing at times was so beautiful and poetic, but faltered when the dialogue started. Conversation content of the dialogue was okay between some characters, especially when they were talking of trauma struggles and life battles, but that wasn't the problem: the characters were rich and layered, and the author built up interesting layers with the conversations as you discovered them. The problem with the dialogue was the lack of verbs and adverbs. Everything was a "...he said" and "she said". For such rich content at times and beautifully descript writing, the dialogue conversation with only "he said" and "she said" seemed to fall extremely flat. It became redundant and annoying to hear the performer continuously repeat "he said" and "she said". Why not some "she replied enthusiastically" or "he declared" type phrases. Chapters became longer with the redundancy.
The performance was okay. She portrayed everyone as a whiner, and it was hard to listen to unless one imagined the context of the situation, such as a conversation, coming out of the character in a different way than was being portrayed. At times, the situation that was being read did not correlate with how the narrator was projecting the situation. Frustration sounded like whining, sadness and grief sounded like whining, anger sounded like whining, it was rather a shallow performance.
I am biased, as my profession has me working in medical facilities and hospitals, but the hospitalization scenes just irked me... nurses and doctors do not allow half the stuff that was allowed in the story, but it is just a novel, and I am biased.
Overall, the story was a beautiful story and maintained my interest, but I think I would have preferred to have read it as a book to be able to skip past writing weaknesses and to be able to direct the character intonations within my imagination.
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The Giver of Stars
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- De: Jojo Moyes
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
- Duración: 13 h y 52 m
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Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So, when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.
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About time!
- De Amazon Customer en 10-25-19
- The Giver of Stars
- Reese's Book Club (A Novel)
- De: Jojo Moyes
- Narrado por: Julia Whelan
Performance Makes the Story
Revisado: 06-14-20
The story overall was pretty good. Leading characters were strong, the supporting characters were a little underdressed, but they did well enough in dialogue. Alice's husband, Bennet, seemed to be a weak character in both construction and constitution. His character bothered me for a number of reasons, why was there no resolution or follow up with his oddness... kind of disappointing and felt like a plot holes, but then it was not all that imperative to the plot in general.
I enjoyed the realizations the main character had about herself and her transformation and process of growing, but had a hard time with a few plot twists, not how they played out, rather how they were written: rushed and sending to try and hurry up to finish off a resolution. As I reread that last sentence, I realize it doesn't make sense unless I use spoilers, so I will just leave it and say, the end seems rushed and also as though the author is trying to tie off all kinds of unnecessary ends.
I REALLY liked the inclusion of literature quotes.
Narrator's performance was good. I love how she consistently sticks with a character's voice, maintains their characteristics and personalities through subtle inflections and intonations.
Overall a really good listen and story.
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