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Travis Colfax was born into the hero life. His parents were pillars of the community, and he became a sidekick at the age of nine. He is the only member of the family not to manifest a power. His sister has extraordinary speed. His brother can talk to the dead.
Seven years in he's starting to have his doubts about continuing a career in heroics. Plagued by his own failures, he's giving serious thought simply to hanging up the mask for good and moving on. If only he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
The rest of the hero community grows distracted by an alien threat, and they overlook a far more human danger lurking in New Port Arthur. A few missing gang members and a rambling madman leads Travis to stumble upon a calculating, lethal scientist whose plans have so far eluded the notice of the authorities despite a trail of corpses left behind.
As the trajectory of Doctor Omicron's plan unravels, Travis discovers he must find himself and muster what help he can before the amoral researcher unleashes an even greater danger on an unsuspecting world.
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John Charming isn't your average prince... He comes from a line of Charmings - an illustrious family of dragon slayers, witch-finders and killers dating back to before the fall of Rome. Trained by a modern day version of the Knights Templar, monster hunters who have updated their methods from chain mail and crossbows to Kevlar and shotguns, John Charming was one of the best-until a curse made him one of the abominations the Knights were sworn to hunt.
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Charming is Like Dresden in wolves clothing
- By Suzanne on 05-24-14
By: Elliott James
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All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault
- By: James Alan Gardner
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
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Kim Lam is an ordinary college student until a freak scientific accident (what else?) transforms Kim and three housemates into Sparks - and drafts them into the never-ending war between the Light and Dark. They struggle to master their new abilities - and (of course) to design cool costumes and come up with great hero-names. Turns out that "accident" was just the first salvo in a Mad Genius's latest diabolical scheme. Now it's up to four newbie heroes to save the day, before they even have a chance to figure out what their team's name should be!
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Great start to a new series!
- By Donaithnen on 11-16-17
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Patient Zero
- The Joe Ledger Novels, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Maberry
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there’s either something wrong with your world or something wrong with your skills - and there’s nothing wrong with Joe Ledger’s skills. And that’s both a good and a bad thing. It’s good because he’s a Baltimore detective who has just been secretly recruited by the government to lead a new task force created to deal with the problems that Homeland Security can’t handle....
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Yes! It IS that good. Five stars and more.
- By Kim Venatries on 10-05-12
By: Jonathan Maberry
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METAtropolis
- By: Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Elizabeth Bear, and others
- Narrated by: Michael Hogan, Scott Brick, Kandyse McClure, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Armed camps of eco-survivalists battle purveyors of technology in this exclusive, original production featuring five sci-fi masters and five all-star narrators.
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Not a wasted credit
- By james on 10-27-08
By: Jay Lake, and others
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Tabula Rasa
- By: Kristen Lippert-Martin
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
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The Bourne Identity meets Divergent in this action-packed debut thriller with a Katniss-esque heroine fighting to regain her memories and stay alive, set against a dystopian hospital background.
Sarah starts a crazy battle for her life within the walls of her hospital-turned-prison when a procedure to eliminate her memory goes awry and she starts to remember snatches of her past. Was she an urban terrorist or vigilante? Has the procedure been her salvation or her destruction?
The answers lie trapped within her mind. To access them, she'll need the help of the teen computer hacker who's trying to bring the hospital down for his own reasons, and a pill that's blocked by an army of mercenary soldiers poised to eliminate her for good. If only she knew why…
"This is a snap-the-whip story, dark and fast. The sparks of humor in the voice won me over. Bottom line: I think the cocktail of suspense and believable smart-assery adds up to an addictive dose of reader appeal." —Blythe Woolston, author of the William C. Morris Award winner The Freak Observer
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Definitely YA
- By Tango on 04-27-15
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The Year's Top Short SF Novels 5
- By: Cory Doctorow, Ken Liu, John P Murphy, and others
- Narrated by: Tom Dheere, Nancy Linari
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
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Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2014 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.
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Narrator sounds like Tony Danza
- By Sean on 03-05-16
By: Cory Doctorow, and others
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Nightshades
- A Paranormal Thriller (Nightshades, Book 1)
- By: Melissa F. Olson
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Alex McKenna is the new Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the Bureau of Preternatural Investigations - the division tasked with investigating crimes involving shades. Or vampires, as they're more widely known. Children have been going missing, and agents are routinely being slaughtered. It's up to McKenna, and some unlikely allies, to get to the bottom of the problem, and find the kids before it's too late.
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Fun, with enough novelty to be interesting
- By S. Yates on 01-27-18
By: Melissa F. Olson
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Dire: Fate
- The Dire Saga, Book 0.5
- By: Andrew Seiple
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 48 mins
- Unabridged
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All Doctor Dire wants to do is save the world. But those pesky heroes keep getting in the way, and it's all she can do to give them a good fight without killing them. Supervillainy is such an underappreciated job these days....
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A good taste
- By AV on 02-23-21
By: Andrew Seiple
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Bluescreen
- A Mirador Novel
- By: Dan Wells
- Narrated by: Roxanne Hernandez
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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From Dan Wells, author of the New York Times best-selling Partials Sequence, comes the first book in a new sci-fi-noir series. Los Angeles in 2050 is a city of open doors, as long as you have the right connections. That connection is a djinni - a smart device implanted right in a person's head. In a world where virtually everyone is online 24 hours a day, this connection is like oxygen - and a world like that presents plenty of opportunities for someone who knows how to manipulate it.
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not bad, but difficult narrator
- By Dennis Bingham on 05-02-16
By: Dan Wells
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Necropolis
- By: Michael Dempsey
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift. Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority.
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'Necropolis' Rocked My World
- By HEIDI on 01-19-12
By: Michael Dempsey
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Cold City
- Repairman Jack: Early Years Trilogy, Book 1
- By: F. Paul Wilson
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
- By Andrew Pollack on 01-17-14
By: F. Paul Wilson
What listeners say about Shadowboy
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- Jazz T
- 12-04-15
A slightly different take on superheros
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would definitely recommend this good to friends as its interesting. I hate book where I can guess what is going to happen at the two or three chapters ahead so it nice to find something that keeps me guessing.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Shadowboy?
Dealing with bureaucracy. Don't want to spoil much but the first chapter was great where it shows some of the downsides of being a superhero
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not really. It was an interesting book, but I would not like it if it was overly provocative.
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- Kingsley
- 03-27-15
Superheroes in a bureaucratic world
4.5 / 5. So not quite the full 5 I gave it....
This book is fun. It has a few issues but I found it very easy to overlook them due to everything else about the book.
In a world of heros our protagonist, Shadowboy, is continuing the family business of heroing. His broth and sister do it, his dad does it. His mum did it. Only unlike everyone else in his family Shadowboy has no powers. This gives the story a great "in over his head" element and also provides some of the early tension in the book. Shadowboy is old enough to no longer be a sidekick, and is now moving into being a full on hero. He's just not that good at it.
What made this book different to other comic books or superhero books I have read is the bureaucracy. Marvel has the Superhero Registraciton Act but doesn't really go into the nitty gritty of how it would play out in a real world. This does. And the answer is Red Tape! What to be a hero? Fill out this form. Want to move from a sidekick to Hero? Another form. Want to be a leader of a team? You need endorsements to be a leader, the team base has to meet certain building codes. Change your hero name? Form for that too.
And don't get me started on insurance.
The bureaucracy does not bog down the book. It's there filling out the world but not slowing it down. And it adds some nice comedic effect too.
There are some issues - such as a large amount of coincidences about how many of the heros accidentally know each other in real life outside of costume without realising it, but if you can accept these sorts of things then it is a lot of fun just following the escapades.
Ambler does really good with the narration. Really helped with the enjoyment of it. He hits the right beat for the jokes and for the emotional stuff. He provides a lot of different voices for characters. He does add distortion and effects to some characters voices (some villains, aliens etc, all chosen well to suit the characters) to varying success - some of the distorted characters can be hard to understand occasionally. But other than that it was really great narration.
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- Linda
- 01-17-18
Different and Fun
What did you love best about Shadowboy?
I loved the way living in the real world was part of being a superhero or sidekick.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Shadowboy?
I can't quote it but there were times I laughed out loud at some of the dialogue and this is unusual for me.
What three words best describe Corey Ambler’s performance?
good and bad
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
I looked forward to getting back to it.
Any additional comments?
I intend to recommend this to friends who enjoy the genre.
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