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Once Upon a Crime
- De: Brynn Kelly
- Narrado por: Chase Brown, Rebekkah Ross
- Duración: 10 h y 50 m
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Lana Fleming’s sister has vanished from the set of TV’s hottest show, and no one seems to care. Desperate for answers, Lana sneaks in as an extra, only to get stranded with Griffin Hart, an A-list action star with a reputation for good abs and bad decisions. Though Griffin didn’t expect to be cast as a librarian’s sidekick in a real-life thriller, he’s weirdly into it—and into her. Even more unsettling—she sees right through his playboy persona. But their meet-cute soon turns deadly when they uncover a Hollywood scandal for the ages.
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Never a dull moment
- De Christina Clark en 03-11-25
- Once Upon a Crime
- De: Brynn Kelly
- Narrado por: Chase Brown, Rebekkah Ross
Great wordsmithing!
Revisado: 03-13-25
So many books seem like they are written by ChatGPT prompts (lifeless) but this rollicking madcap action story showed a love of great turns of phrases and “moments.” Plus it was just damned fun to listen to.
I liked the characters, their quirks and their story arcs. The voice actors were excellent, especially Rebekkah Ross’s ability to voice completely different characters.
Unfortunately there are no sex scenes, only fade to black implied ones. Or fortunately depending on your preferences.
Also, I’m going to have to overcome my aversion to poetry and go read me some Walt Whitman. They included some lines from “When I Heard at the Close of the Day” and I had no idea this poet I thought of as a pompous old white guy was so poignantly sensuous. They way it was read - I really ‘got’ it. Thanks for that!
Also - producers and especially directors of audiobooks get little praise but I think all the choices they made were good. Voices were clear and pacing was good and the character’s’ emotions came through. (Though I always listen at 1.2 speed- I’m pretty sure they 1.0 & 1.1 speeds are always slightly slower than the original. )
All in all both thumbs up👍👍
May I also recommend Brynn Kelly’s “You Only Die Twice .”
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Her Broken Billionaire Boss
- A Clean Billionaire Romance, Book 3
- De: Bree Livingston
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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Sara Lynch needs an escape from her mother's soap-opera life. When she gets a call from the nursing agency saying a confidential client needs care, it's the perfect opportunity to get the break she craves - two weeks in a mountain lodge taking care of billionaire and former football star Liam Thomas.
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The narrator is awful!
- De Bruce and Marissa en 03-18-25
- Her Broken Billionaire Boss
- A Clean Billionaire Romance, Book 3
- De: Bree Livingston
- Narrado por: Lauren Ezzo
Very Meh.
Revisado: 03-10-25
Everything was just ‘ok.’ It wasn’t the worst romance I’ve read but it also wasn’t very good.
Plot: meh
Dialogue: very meh
Spice: non existent
Narrator: not bad but not a fan
I can’t remember if I paid money for this but if I did it wasn’t worth it. Certainly don’t waste a whole credit on it.
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Benched
- Minnesota Caribou, Book 1
- De: Colleen Charles
- Narrado por: CJ Bloom, Teddy Hamilton
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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I've sworn off women because I caught my fiancee with my brother. Now, they're both dead to me. They represent an ache so deep, I might never recover. I've never known a goal I couldn't score - or a girl I couldn't score with. Until I see her curled up in a sexy ball in my hospital room. She's off-limits. Julia Wales is lush, smart, more determined than I am, and 100 percent taboo. For the first time in my life, I want someone I can't have.
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A break up and love story in 1 week unbelievable
- De melissa en 09-24-20
- Benched
- Minnesota Caribou, Book 1
- De: Colleen Charles
- Narrado por: CJ Bloom, Teddy Hamilton
Narrators valiantly try to save a mess of a story
Revisado: 12-25-24
Cringe worthy in so many places. I don’t even know where to begin. I listened to the end so you don’t have to.
What even is this story? It could have embraced its telenovella aspirations, with maybe an estranged evil twin or someone back from the dead, for fun a tongue in cheek tale. The author could have tried to make it funnier - a lively farce. Or more realistic. Whatever. As it is, it’s a confusing mishmash.
The originating premise is never explained - how could an unrelated woman be allowed into a famous person’s hospital room? It goes downhill from there. The conniving ex-fiancée’s machinations and her posse are so outlandishly Evil (™) that it’s just stupid. Since this takes place over several months surely a PR team would have stepped in and put an end to the shenanigans.
But what really makes this book unbearable is the self absorbed, whiny FMC. She always doubts the MMC’s motives and actions. At one particularly crucial point she basically accuses him of doping and lying, a real punch to the gut, and then wonders why he isn’t calling her. Like, hello, FMC?! After all of what’s gone before, you couldn’t see that ex is behind this too? No introspection or internal growth. I wouldn’t have taken her back.
Yet that is what the MMC does. He really deserved more.
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The Highlander
- To Tempt a Highlander, Book 3
- De: Kerrigan Byrne
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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They call him the Demon Highlander. The fearsome Lieutenant Colonel Liam MacKenzie is known for his superhuman strength, towering presence, and fiery passion in the heat of battle. As laird to the MacKenzie clan, the undefeated marquess has vanquished his foes with all the rage and wrath of his barbaric Highland ancestors. But when an English governess arrives to care for his children, the master of war finds himself up against his greatest opponent...in the game of love.
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Great series - hoping there is more to come!
- De denise en 09-24-16
- The Highlander
- To Tempt a Highlander, Book 3
- De: Kerrigan Byrne
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
Trigger warning
Revisado: 11-09-24
This was a well written tale but many parts were difficult to listen to. Especially the first part - the abuse that happened to both main characters was vomit inducing. It very graphically sets up what’s at stake for these two very damaged people.
There is a HEA and lots of feels along the way - but it’s not an easy road.
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The Virgin Who Ruined Lord Gray
- Swooning Virgins Society Series, Book 1
- De: Anna Bradley
- Narrado por: Jessica Bright
- Duración: 11 h y 18 m
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Other young ladies might occupy their spare time with drawing or needlework, but Sophia Monmouth spends hers scaling rooftops and shadowing suspicious characters. Her objective: to gain information that will free a friend wrongly accused of murder. She hasn't bargained on being spotted and followed back to the Clifford School by a mysterious earl who holds almost as many secrets as she does. Tristan Stratford, Lord Gray, earned the nickname the Ghost of Bow Street because no man has ever escaped him.
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MISLEADING TITLE THERE ARE NO VIRGINS IN THIS STOR
- De Edwina "I Love books" en 08-22-21
- The Virgin Who Ruined Lord Gray
- Swooning Virgins Society Series, Book 1
- De: Anna Bradley
- Narrado por: Jessica Bright
The fun story holds up on a second listen
Revisado: 10-05-24
Ok, sue me, but I loved the aspect of a school for girls that teaches them espionage and also the lead character’s climbing skills though it’s fantastical that such a place and person would exist. I liked that the story was interesting, adventurous AND had a pleasing action:angst ratio. In other words, we didn’t have to listen to several chapters of “I’m not good enough,” though there was a bit - just enough.
The tropes were delightful. The way the students of the “Swooning Virgins Society” poked fun at the gothic romances they read while simultaneously enjoying the hell out of them was chef’s kiss. 😘 It was a clever way to set up the series and
Shout out to the narrator Jessica Bright. I’ll be looking for more of her work.
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The Pact
- Winslow Brothers, Book 2
- De: Max Monroe
- Narrado por: Troy Duran, Avery Reid
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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"I need a ride," I said to a sexy stranger on a Harley. Three hours later? A six-foot-tall Marilyn Monroe was officiating our Vegas wedding at the Happy Chapel. But it's not love—it's business—a marriage pact made out of desperation so my career doesn't go up in flames. Sure, Flynn Winslow is a hot, broody, mysterious man that women all over the globe would sell their souls to land for real, but I have my eyes on the prize and our marriage arrangement will end in three months with no strings attached. Right?
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Sweet!
- De 🌼Daisy H. en 09-13-22
- The Pact
- Winslow Brothers, Book 2
- De: Max Monroe
- Narrado por: Troy Duran, Avery Reid
Meh. DNF.
Revisado: 08-25-24
The female mc was so annoying. I started skipping over parts of her chapters but it didn’t really help.
I usually love a fake marriage trope but this one was so preposterous that I just couldn’t get into it.
Male narrator was good. Female narrator performed the part as it was written, I guess.
Did not finish
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Ridorkulous
- Dorky Duet, Book 1
- De: Mary Frame
- Narrado por: Chris Chambers, Samantha Summers
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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Reese Jackson is living her safest life. This polymath is tired of trying to fit in with a small town that never knows what to do with her. She goes from her classes to her room and back - no parties, no dates, and no drawing attention. Until one noisy night, when Reese gets kicked out of her dorm. Fitz Moreland is living his okayest life. He's on his own to pay for college, but he's scraping. Until he gets him kicked out. What happens when there's one single room left for rent in town and they both desperately need it? A money-seeking landlord arrives, making them complete, of course.
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Matt is that Jude?
- De RiverRosa en 02-28-25
- Ridorkulous
- Dorky Duet, Book 1
- De: Mary Frame
- Narrado por: Chris Chambers, Samantha Summers
Quirky Texas college town shenanigans
Revisado: 07-13-24
I normally don’t read about this age group but this one caught my eye. Many, many moons ago I went to university in a small Texas college town and this story reminded me of how many of us were weirdos/smart kids/creative kids or just plain misfits from other small towns finally flying our freak flags and trying to find our way in life. I could totally see a cast of characters like this. (Small pet peeve- Texans with deep multigenerational roots don’t think of themselves as Southern but maybe the Granma was from somewhere else). Cute story. Good as part of my audible library package.
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The Billionaire's Fake Fiancée
- Billionaires of Manhattan, Book 4
- De: Annika Martin
- Narrado por: Neva Nevarre, Jason Clarke
- Duración: 10 h y 34 m
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I’m no Prince Charming, and the last thing I want is a Cinderella. My instructions were simple: Scour the city for a fake fiancée who’s not my type at all. Have her on my jet Monday morning, dressed for a yacht vacation. I need a woman believable enough to convince a certain client that I’ve changed my playboy ways...yet too annoying to tempt me - no emotional entanglements, thank you very much. This is business only. If she’s unfazed by my looks and wealth, all the better. Should be easy. Right? Apparently not, because my people go and hire Tabitha. My hairdresser.
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Best send up of soap operas ever
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 12-22-22
- The Billionaire's Fake Fiancée
- Billionaires of Manhattan, Book 4
- De: Annika Martin
- Narrado por: Neva Nevarre, Jason Clarke
Characters talking tropes is a kind of sly fourth wall break
Revisado: 06-08-24
Loved the writing, loved the narrators (yay Neva Navarre!) loved the heroine’s story. She felt so like a real person that I bet the author has a friend with some of her quirks. The “not gonna love again, nu-uh no way never” trope can be tedious but was pushed just the right amount. It takes a masterful hand.
But what really worked was the female characters all knowingly joking about tropes that is almost but not quite a fourth wall break. Romcom aficionados will appreciate this like a sly wink and a nudge.
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Dirty Little Midlife Mistake
- Heart’s Cove Hotties, Book 3
- De: Lilian Monroe
- Narrado por: Ava Blair, Mercer Boffey
- Duración: 8 h y 40 m
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Candice Viceroy - widow, mother, business owner - isn’t supposed to kiss anyone. Especially not Hollywood heartthrob and hunky silver fox, Blake Harding. Not in front of half a dozen cameras and a whole movie set’s worth of lights. And not when, for the first time in nearly a decade, she gets certain special tingles in a certain special place. So, Candice does what any normal, rational person would do: she runs away. Literally. One thing she doesn’t expect?
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Over 40 love
- De babzie en 01-19-22
- Dirty Little Midlife Mistake
- Heart’s Cove Hotties, Book 3
- De: Lilian Monroe
- Narrado por: Ava Blair, Mercer Boffey
OMG the repetition
Revisado: 05-22-24
Ok, caveat of everyone grieves differently but…in this fairy tale, a 40+ widow of 3 yrs has a 2nd chance at love with a dreamy older Hollywood heartthrob but CONSTANTLY says oh I’m unworthy, it’s too soon, I can’t bring another man into my almost adult (17yo) daughter’s life…jeez we get it already! So annoying. Fast forwarded thru some of it. Editor could have cut out even 1/3 of that and it would’ve been much better. Maybe the author had a word count target.
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Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress
- Bachelor Chronicles Series. Book 5
- De: Elizabeth Boyle
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Lady Philippa Knolles has loved Captain Thomas "Dash" Dashwell since he first stole a kiss from her on a smuggler's beach near Hastings. Now after what seems like a lifetime of waiting, Pippin is offered a chance to renew her scandalous affair with Dash. But the man from that first heady kiss and the man she rediscovers all these years later are hardly the same. Tucked away in the back of her closet is a red dress, the one she wore long ago to win his heart....Could it have enough memories left inside it to rekindle a passion she's never forgotten?
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Boyle never disappoints
- De Kindle Customer en 01-29-22
- Memoirs of a Scandalous Red Dress
- Bachelor Chronicles Series. Book 5
- De: Elizabeth Boyle
- Narrado por: Susan Duerden
Enthralling storytelling
Revisado: 05-09-24
I loved this story of love, loss and middle age reckonings of past betrayals and disappointments. This was the best of the series. The young lovers' story is told in flashbacks that heighten the pain experienced by the disillusioned middle aged former lovers . The starry eyed Pippin met in previous books is now the widowed Lady Knolls, living on rose tinted memories of her dashing young pirate. Lady Knolls is given the chance to reunite with Capt Dash by his son, supposedly to nurse him back to health, only to find in his place a bitter, foul mouthed, brandy soaked sot. Throw in complications from the younger generation, far more staid and shocked by their elders, and the road to reconciliation is fraught indeed.
This would make a great movie - pirates, adventures, romance and daring and coming into your own even later in life.
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I saw that the book was to be deleted from the Plus Catalog so I listened a second time and my god, how it holds up! It was almost better the second time. It had been just enough time that I forgot some details. I decided to purchase it in the future.
And by the way the narrator Susan Duerden is a favorite of mine but I must say she really performed the hell out of this book. So glad it was her narrating.
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