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Saturn's Children
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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In Saturn's Children, Freya is an obsolete android concubine in a society where humans haven't existed for hundreds of years. A rigid caste system keeps the Aristos, a vindictive group of humanoids, well in control of the lower, slave-chipped classes. So when Freya offends one particularly nasty Aristo, she's forced to take a dangerous courier job off-planet.
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If you know it's erotica beforehand, it might help
- By Christopher Murphy on 02-23-15
- Saturn's Children
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
Stopped at Ch3 due to smuttiness
Reviewed: 08-16-24
Way too much smutiness. Should have known do to the word [concubine] in the description. This book is not categorized as "romance" or "erotic",
Some of you may like listening to an android having sex sith her tranport system, then lewd conversations with her hotel.
Not for me.
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Closer Than You Know
- A Novel
- By: Brad Parks
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
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Melanie grew up with the constant upheaval of foster care. Now that she's survived into adulthood - with a loving husband, a steady job, and a baby boy named Alex - she thought that turmoil was behind her. Until one Tuesday evening when she discovers Alex has been removed by Social Services. And no one will say why. It's a terrifying scenario for any parent, but doubly so for Melanie, who knows the unintended horrors of what everyone coldly calls "the system".
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Now this is SUSPENSE!!!!
- By shelley on 03-07-18
- Closer Than You Know
- A Novel
- By: Brad Parks
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Plot twist is off the hook.
Reviewed: 08-15-24
Semi spoiler :: Just got to the plot twist, culminating action - pretty darn good. Five chapters to go? Ok, I am at the top of the roller coaster.
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Maxwell Cain: Burrito Avenger
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: J. D. Ledford
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Maxwell Cain, also known as “Bloody Rain Cain,” is a cop fed up with the murderous hooligans who control the streets of San Pajita, California. After years of public service, Max is fired for executing too many dirtbags, and he seeks solace at his favorite taqueria. When his comfort burrito is sullied by the careless actions of brutal thugs, Max finally snaps. What begins as an argument over a ruined lunch quickly spirals into a hurricane of blood and revenge. Max is joined in his fight by the gorgeous Kate Valentine, a baker with an itchy trigger finger.
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Very entertaining
- By timj26 on 04-29-19
- Maxwell Cain: Burrito Avenger
- By: Adam Smith
- Narrated by: J. D. Ledford
Not an earth shattering write - but a fantasic rea
Reviewed: 08-13-24
J. D. Ledford does it again. Very well matched narrator to book. the book is a bit corny - just how much can a burrito do as a supporting actor in a book? The antoganist is over the top as read by J. D. Ledford, and that was EXACTLY what I wanted.
Bought because the idea sounded really funny, and it is, and J. D. Ledford does a great job w/ the book.
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Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
- By: Jack Townsend
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Drunk customers. Shoplifting raccoons. Otherworldly visitors. As night-shift clerk at the 24-hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. That is, until his best friend reveals the body of a local politician hidden in the trunk of a car, setting off a chain of events with apocalyptic potential. Soon, Jack finds himself entangled in a supernatural conspiracy involving monster hunters, sociopaths, doomsday cultists, and...garden gnomes?
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Mr. CreepyPasta Narration is better
- By Kelsey on 08-11-23
- Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
- By: Jack Townsend
- Narrated by: Jon Grilz
Light horror, not heavy; GREAT narrator match.
Reviewed: 08-13-24
First - we some to audible often times hoping for a great narrator match to story, characters, environment. This match up delivers. Jon Grilz captures the essance of Gas Station Jack.
Second - The book delivers well on myst points of the summary (the racoons were a little light), so you are getting what you think you are getting. Entertaining but light on the horror side (which is great, I don't think I'd like this if it went any deeper in that space than it did).
TTFN,
happy reader
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Memorial Day
- By: Vince Flynn
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
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It's just seven days before Memorial Day, and a spike in CIA intelligence has pointed to a major terrorist attack on the United States. Now it's up to counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp to pull out all the stops. Rapp immediately leaves for Afghanistan, where he leads a special forces unit on a daring commando raid across the border into a remote Pakistani village. Their target: an al-Qaeda stronghold. Rapp and his team soon discover plans for a catastrophic nuclear attack on Washington, DC.
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Excellent Book
- By Char on 01-29-11
- Memorial Day
- By: Vince Flynn
- Narrated by: George Guidall
Solid action
Reviewed: 07-30-24
Really solid action. You’re never wanting as you read it, interesting development of the area of mind and the potential for actually bringing a new into the US. This is completely believable.
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The Yanthus Prime Job
- A Pepper Melange Novella
- By: Robert Kroese
- Narrated by: J. D. Ledford
- Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins
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Pepper Melange, a bartender on the backwater planet Yanthus Prime, has sworn she'd never go back to her life of crime. But when she finds herself in debt to the Ursa Minor Mafia, she decides to bet everything on one more score: the theft of the Emerald of Sobalt Prime, the most valuable gem in the galaxy. To pull off the heist, Pepper has to recruit some very unusual allies - as well as outwit local law enforcement and the Mob.
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For what it is, its GREAT
- By Lego Man on 07-26-24
- The Yanthus Prime Job
- A Pepper Melange Novella
- By: Robert Kroese
- Narrated by: J. D. Ledford
For what it is, its GREAT
Reviewed: 07-26-24
One of the nice things about the Starship Grifters books is this side character that shows up now and then, Pepper Melange . This novella completes her origin story, how she started in a life of crime.
The Starship Grifters is one of the absolute best-est Narrator to Book to Main characters out there in SF on Audible. We need more J. D. Ledford.
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Cul-de-sac
- A Novel
- By: Joy Fielding
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times best-selling author of All the Wrong Places.
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I rarely give a book 5 stars...
- By Blue sky on 08-14-21
- Cul-de-sac
- A Novel
- By: Joy Fielding
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
True - twisted lives. Thriller? nope.
Reviewed: 06-30-24
When you read the description you are lead to think a suspicious murder will happen and that’s the lynch pin. Nope, not so at all. Quite predictable.
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Hunting Game
- By: Candice Fox
- Narrated by: Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, Tony Goldwyn, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
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Prepare to be captivated by acclaimed crime writer Candice Fox’s gripping audio thriller, Hunting Game. Featuring an all-star cast including Krysten Ritter, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Goldwyn, you’re about to enter a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. NYPD Detective Esme 'Es' Compran (Krysten Ritter) finds herself torn between her duty and her own desperate circumstances when a child is kidnapped. The victim's father, Jack Dengate (Tony Goldwyn), is a controversial big pharma CEO whose company's price hikes on life-saving drugs have dire consequences for Es' ailing daughter.
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Man what a GREAT story….BUT……
- By ShawniqueLovesToRead on 03-15-24
Great cast and good story
Reviewed: 04-24-24
Yep - the cast was great. Liked them all. Decent tension in here, sufficient moral ambiguity to deal with.
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The Case of the Felonious Faire
- 5-Minute Sherlock, Book 3
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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When a fiendish fraudster has been fomenting financial falsehoods, who can find the finagler? The World’s Greatest Detective Agency, of course! Staffed by the eccentric man who calls himself Sherman Holmes and aided by his ever-composed assistant Watson, the duo will take on cases other agencies might consider helpless, hopeless, or downright preposterous. Which is how our fearless fellows find themselves investigating a Renaissance faire’s cooked books, with the finger of guilt pointing directly at their client.
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Fun and captivating
- By Samuel Warren on 12-08-23
- The Case of the Felonious Faire
- 5-Minute Sherlock, Book 3
- By: Drew Hayes
- Narrated by: Scott Aiello
Really fun read, no 4 letter words, good fantasy
Reviewed: 04-24-24
First - these days, I really detest "four letter words". They REALLY take away from a book, and mean that you can't listen to them in the car w/ kids, or anyone else who is 4LW opposed (I generally am, tolerate them).
Sherman Holmes - pretty darn funny character, in is grandious behaviors. His ever-composed assistant Watson steals the show, though, as the narrator. Listening to them engage in all that the Ref-fare has to offer is really great.
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The Lord of Darkness
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
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This is a story about someone who is just a "normal" college girl. Well, maybe not "completely normal."... It's not like she is the most powerful living weapon ever created... It's not like she carries what is effectively a nuclear weapon in the holster she wears... It's not like she is an Evil Galactic Overlord... Or is it? I always knew my birth parents had to be complete assholes; why else would they name me something horrible like Vladimira Darkness. Now that I am in college, I go by the nickname Mira. Then, a bunch of these heavily armed men-in-black types showed up and made me come ...
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Great action, story moves very quickly, VV not bad
- By Lego Man on 04-24-24
- The Lord of Darkness
- By: David Collins
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Great action, story moves very quickly, VV not bad
Reviewed: 04-24-24
Really don't know how this ended up in my library, but here we are. 2.5 hrs in. Audio has turned me around to "virtual voice". I was vehemently opposed to it. but its not bad. Not as great as, say Ray Porter or Scott Brick, but not bad.
Story - over the top, requires significant suspension of disbelief. But hey - tis "Speculative Fiction", so that's par for the course. Many of the written word issues do not come through in audio form (there are complaints about that online).
The MC adapts to her role as Lord of Darkness well enough. Will update once I am done.
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