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The Change
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,177
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,991
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,991
Big Little Lies meets The Witches of Eastwick—a gloriously entertaining and knife-sharp revenge fantasy about three women whose midlife crisis brings unexpected new powers—putting them on a collision course with the evil that lurks in their wealthy beach town.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book until you realize what it’s about
- By Kaitlin Rosenthal on 05-16-22
- The Change
- A Novel
- By: Kirsten Miller
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
Such a Fun Ride!
Reviewed: 06-12-24
Extraordinarily well imagined story of vibrant characters anchored to a world of magical realism.
I thoroughly enjoyed this rollicking, grown up tale in which no elves, vampires, fae, werewolves or demons appear in which the only magic is the power of women.
Accomplished, propulsive writing coupled with a reading by January LaVoy, a master of the narrative arts, make the Change one of my all time favorite listens.
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The Heiress
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Hawkins, Kiara Ronaghan
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,964
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,877
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,876
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest woman, she’s also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family’s estate high in the Blue Ridge Mountains. But in the aftermath of her death, her adopted son, Camden, wants little to do with the house or the money—and even less to do with the surviving McTavishes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can’t get over the mispronunciation of Appalachia
- By Brandon Pierson on 01-16-24
- The Heiress
- A Novel
- By: Rachel Hawkins, Kiara Ronaghan
- Narrated by: Dan Bittner, Eliza Foss, John Pirhalla
Highly Entertaining
Reviewed: 02-14-24
Enjoyable, engaging story. Fascinating characters. Extremely well read.
The Heiress certainly held my interest.
Absolutely worth a credit.
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Hadley Beckett's Next Dish
- By: Bethany Turner
- Narrated by: Aimee Lilly
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
Celebrity chef Maxwell Cavanaugh is known for many things: his multiple Michelin stars, his top-rated Culinary Channel show To the Max, and most of all his horrible temper. Hadley Beckett, host of the Culinary Channel's other top-rated show, At Home with Hadley, is beloved for her Southern charm and for making her viewers feel like family. When Max experiences a very public temper tantrum, he's sent packing to get his life in order. When he returns, career in shambles, his only chance to get back on TV and in the public's good graces is to work alongside Hadley.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly Enjoyable and Funny!
- By cgashley on 05-30-21
- Hadley Beckett's Next Dish
- By: Bethany Turner
- Narrated by: Aimee Lilly
Enjoyable but Predictable
Reviewed: 12-11-23
I usually find Bethany Turner’s stories to be quite entertaining. This one held no surprises and brought nothing new to the genre.
Great reader though!
Still better than 90% of the (generally awful) romcoms out there because Turner can actually write.
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A Haunting on the Hill
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 123
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 123
Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It’s enormous, old, and ever-so eerie—the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre at best ...
- By #LoriAnn on 10-05-23
- A Haunting on the Hill
- A Novel
- By: Elizabeth Hand
- Narrated by: Carol Monda
Terrific Production!
Reviewed: 10-21-23
Hand and Monda are my audio book dream team. Elizabeth Hand writes smart, utterly engaging stories. Carol Monda is my favorite reader and has a particular affinity for reading Hand’s outstanding novels. This work is also extraordinarily well produced; the sound effects actually enhance the storytelling. Usually, they just get in the way.
A Haunting on the Hill is the perfect continuation of the Jackson classic. I find some of my fellow reviewers’ comments that the characters are dislikable to be odd since Hill House is - and always has been- a house of illusion, manifesting and preying upon the darker parts of each character’s psyche.
This production defined creeping dread. I enjoyed every second of it.
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The Words Between Us
- By: Erin Bartels
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 259
Robin Windsor has spent most of her life under an assumed name, running from her family's ignominious past. She thought she'd finally found sanctuary in her rather unremarkable used bookstore just up the street from the marina in River City, Michigan. But the store is struggling and the past is hot on her heels. When she receives an eerily familiar book in the mail on the morning of her father's scheduled execution, Robin is thrown back to the long-lost summer she met Peter Flynt, the perfect boy who ruined everything.
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5 out of 5 stars
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love the author
- By Elwood Sulzer on 10-31-19
- The Words Between Us
- By: Erin Bartels
- Narrated by: Stina Nielsen
Lovely Story
Reviewed: 05-12-23
Engaging storytelling with excellent character development and prose.
Great reader & production.
I stayed up late to finish it.
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I Am Not Nicholas
- By: BBC Studios
- Narrated by: Jane MacSorley
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 108
“I am not Nicholas Rossi!” gasps Arthur Knight through an oxygen mask in March 2022. Recently discharged from a Covid ward in Glasgow, he's in a wheelchair. The police say he’s Nicholas Rossi, suspected of faking his death and wanted for rape in Utah. The story makes headlines globally.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good story. Cringey interviewer.
- By Arger on 02-15-23
- I Am Not Nicholas
- By: BBC Studios
- Narrated by: Jane MacSorley
A lot to like
Reviewed: 03-08-23
It’s a fascinating story and extraordinarily well told.
I just wish writer/reader Jane MacSorley hadn’t inserted quite so much of herself….or maybe we needed much more. This part reportage, part incomplete personal essay just didn’t wow me. It could have.
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The Do-Over
- By: Bethany Turner
- Narrated by: Talon David
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 375
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 375
Hot-shot lawyer McKenna Keaton finds herself in hot water with her own law firm when she’s (falsely!) accused of embezzlement. Placed on unpaid leave, she suddenly finds herself with the free time to return home and attend her youngest sister’s wedding activities. But it’s not all fun and games. Waiting back home is shy, nerdy Henry Blumenthal—McKenna’s high school rival for valedictorian who once took three hours to beat her at chess. Scratch that. He’s Hank Blume now, the famed documentarian, Durham, North Carolina’s, darling son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really good story.
- By Rebekah52 on 05-14-22
- The Do-Over
- By: Bethany Turner
- Narrated by: Talon David
Entertaining Story
Reviewed: 01-28-23
Solid - if predictable- story. Very well written: good prose, excellent character development. Excellent reading.
All in all, a very engaging romp.
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Cat & Vivian
- A Novella
- By: Amanda Eyre Ward
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Catherine Taber, Cynthia Darlow, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5,891
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,487
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Story4 out of 5 stars 5,488
Vivian, a former reporter and a newlywed, doesn’t know what to do with herself after an incident with her husband forces her to question their partnership and her future. Yearning for the ocean air and a sense of home, she retreats to Tybee Island to clear her head and visit her Nana, a retired PI who now struggles with dementia. The phone rings: Catherine Grant, a housewife living in a private development nearby, woke up to find her husband and their baby girl missing, and she is desperate for help.
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1 out of 5 stars
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dreadful, depressing story
- By Marcia Schoonover on 08-06-22
- Cat & Vivian
- A Novella
- By: Amanda Eyre Ward
- Narrated by: Karissa Vacker, Catherine Taber, Cynthia Darlow, Matt Boren
Smart and Engaging
Reviewed: 01-23-23
This novella is much more than an interesting detective story. Cat and Vivian are abused women who shut down emotionally in two very different ways. It’s a fascinating, deftly written tale about loss and the women’s attempts to regain personal autonomy that takes place over 5 days.
The audio production is excellent, with four accomplished readers but falls down a bit in one area; one of the characters is newly wounded and re wounded during the story- a choice was made to have her hesitant and a little whispery at times which is an appropriate dramatic choice, but not so good for the listener. I had to rewind more than a few times to catch what I worried might be an important plot point. Still, I heartily recommend Cat & Vivian.
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It Starts with Us
- A Novel
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 40,361
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 35,723
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35,665
Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good narration. Story was meh.
- By Cynthia on 10-19-22
- It Starts with Us
- A Novel
- By: Colleen Hoover
- Narrated by: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
Huh…
Reviewed: 11-02-22
It Starts With Us is more like a lengthy epilogue to It Ends With Us than an actual novel.
Excellent production short on story. Definitely don’t read before Hoover’s excellent It Ends With Us.
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The Comeback
- By: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,254
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14,998
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,927
Ariadne Hui thrives on routine. So what if everything in her life is planned down to the minute: That’s the way she likes it. If she’s going to make partner in Toronto’s most prestigious law firm, she needs to stay focused at all times. But when she comes home after yet another soul-sucking day to find an unfamiliar, gorgeous man camped out in her living room, focus is the last thing on her mind. Especially when her roommate explains this is Choi Jihoon, her cousin freshly arrived from Seoul to mend a broken heart. He just needs a few weeks to rest and heal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I LOVED this!!!
- By Khb1870 on 07-19-22
- The Comeback
- By: Lily Chu
- Narrated by: Phillipa Soo
Outstanding Entertainment!
Reviewed: 08-12-22
….In so far as it’s an early 21st century romcom. That wasn’t meant to be backhanded; author Lily Chu has penned two of the best romcoms I’ve listened to - but - it’s - y’know- a romcom…
Chu really knows how to construct characters, tell a story and keep the reader’s interest. I’m an old lady who couldn’t possibly care any less about K-POP and yet, I stayed up late listening to the end.
One complaint: many passages seemed to be sped up. Was it necessary? Phillips Soo is an excellent reader, why not just let her do her thing?
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