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A Whole New World
- A Twisted Tale
- By: Liz Braswell, Disney Press
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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When Jafar steals the genie's lamp, he uses his first two wishes to become sultan and the most powerful sorcerer in the world. Agrabah lives in fear, waiting for his third and final wish. To stop the power-mad ruler, Aladdin and the deposed Princess Jasmine must unite the people of Agrabah in rebellion. But soon their fight for freedom threatens to tear the kingdom apart in a costly civil war. What happens next? A "street rat" becomes a leader. A princess becomes a revolutionary. And listeners will never look at the story of Aladdin in the same way again.
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Loved this!!!
- By Catherine E on 08-04-16
- A Whole New World
- A Twisted Tale
- By: Liz Braswell, Disney Press
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
I have never regretted a purchase more.
Reviewed: 11-05-24
The first half of the book is literally the Disney movie up through the Cave of Wonders, after that it stays with Disney but cuts out Aladdin getting the lamp and goes straighy to the end where Jafar has it. They change a few things all of which is predictable, minus the actual 3rd wish, and add a bunch of boring dialog, I kept waiting for "the good part" but it never came.
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Taken by Fate
- The Alpha Territories, Book 1
- By: Shannon Mayer
- Narrated by: Summer Roberts, Tyler Donne
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Plucked out of the Collector’s Pens, auctioned off to a vampire contingent, and sent across the ocean to the Alpha Territories was not exactly how I planned to spend my week. Actually, scratch that. I had planned the first bit. But I was supposed to be sold to the werewolves so I could save my friend from a fate worse than death. Instead, the bloodsuckers have me and so far? It's not going great. I've been shoved into a corset and made to look like an extra on the cast of Bridgerton, all to take part in the Harvest Games....
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Just nope!
- By CLL on 10-30-22
- Taken by Fate
- The Alpha Territories, Book 1
- By: Shannon Mayer
- Narrated by: Summer Roberts, Tyler Donne
myth meets hunger games (general plot hints)
Reviewed: 09-11-24
An interesting take on Vampires, Werewolves, etc blended with a hunger games theme. The leading perfect in every way mans sexual obsession is a bit repeatative. He wants her, we get it. Our heroine is also depicted as female perfection though, so how does a vamp resist?
Sienna shows up and despite be "terrified" for 2 seconds, she constantly disobeys with no repercussion, without trying gains the admiration of all the "right" people and is touted as the underdog which shes not. The other contestants don't like her, so what. Its the vamps that matter and they like her, and as someone that wins everything, how is she an underdog? She's clearly the front runner.
i liked the human/vampire dynamic. The power disparity was the one thing that felt genuine and I was bummed when they "discover" she's supernatural with powers. It makes for lazy writing and insincere struggles imo. All these hard times are alluded to, but the horse you knew for 3 days is hurt and suddenly the power just rips out of you? right. Give me a human struggling in a supernatural world, not a witch wiggling her fingers for an easy out.
Despite the plot flaws, again imo, the story itself is solid and I like the world she has created.
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Academy Magic: The Complete Series
- The Coven
- By: Chandelle LaVaun
- Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen
- Length: 43 hrs and 19 mins
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You know you’re invisible when even your bullies forget to pick on you. That’s me, Bettina Blair, hidden in plain sight. No matter how hard I try, I just never fit in with my classmates. Now I know why. I’m a witch...apparently. One little demon attack and my parents confess their ugly secret…and ship me off to an elite academy of magic—for witches only. I just don't belong here, and Jackson Lancaster keeps reminding me every single chance he gets. This boy is the most insufferable, intolerable, unbearable, judgmental person to ever have the right to be that gorgeous.
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Do NOT get this audiobook! See review:
- By Iniysa on 06-16-23
- Academy Magic: The Complete Series
- The Coven
- By: Chandelle LaVaun
- Narrated by: Vanessa Moyen
Easy listen, predictable plot and twists
Reviewed: 08-22-24
The narrator uses the same voice (bettina) for all characters unless speaking in 1st person. When you are hearing Jacksons inner thoughts but hes talking to bettina it can be confusing. He and Bently have their own "voice" but she uses the same for every other male and there are several. Same with the girls. a couple have accents, otherwise, all the same.
the story is good, if unbelievable. the protagonist is introduced as a bullied outcast nerd yet is described as looking like a super model while being smart, sweet, funny, brave, strong, determined - basically perfect. she then goes to witch school, immediately makes friends with all the popular kids, and in 3 short weeks of physical training, and without magic, is fighting off demons better than seasoned adult fighters. the main group is also around 16 yet act 25, in all ways, including s3x scenes. while the fully trained powerful adult coven members get killed off in minor skirmishes, for some reason, the teenagers dominate the field, killing everything with barely a scratch. there are several twists, all but 1 is predictable.
the perfect series to zone in and out because even if you miss something, you didnt. dispite my complaints ^ i did find the story to be enjoyable. im not sorry i bought it, but i doubt ill ever listen to it again.
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The Sookie Stackhouse Companion
- By: Charlaine Harris
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker, Laurie Birmingham, Christina Moore, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Fans of Charlaine Harris’ best-selling Sookie Stackhouse novels will find much to enjoy in this companion to the immensely popular series. Included are a never-before-published novella and an exclusive interview with Alan Ball, creator of HBO’s True Blood. Sookie herself guides listeners on a tour of Bon Temps, gives them a peek at the werewolf and werepanther communities, provides a glimpse of her best friend Tara’s dress shop, and offers a look at Merlotte’s - the bar where Sookie earns her living.
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Very dissappointed!
- By Kelleefornia on 09-12-11
its a series recap
Reviewed: 05-29-24
If you like listening to a 30 min to hour ish long recap of each book to get an extra 30 seconds of non essential easily surmised information then this is the book for you. Total waste of time imo
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Dead Until Dark
- Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #1
- By: Charlaine Harris
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
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Vampires have officially "come out of the coffin", and Miss Sookie can't wait for one to come her way.
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Not what I expected
- By Holly on 09-17-08
- Dead Until Dark
- Sookie Stackhouse Southern Vampire Mystery #1
- By: Charlaine Harris
- Narrated by: Johanna Parker
Basic predictable story with bad a narrorator
Reviewed: 03-19-24
The narrorator makes Sookie sound like a beligerent bratty child and has no character range. She basically gives Sookie and Sookie with a cold for the guys. The single point of view telling from someone constantly either acting simple and/or throwing a tantrum was annoying. Sookie felt a very sheltered, bordering special needs 12 yr old, not a 25 yr old mentally sound woman. Rather than root for the protagonist I found myself wishing one of the Vamps would put her out of my misery. The story is predictable and and has a lot fewer interesting charachters, interactions and twists than the tv show. I decided to read the book because they almost always have way more details and interesting things left out but this is a rare occasion where the show far exceeded the books.
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Hunting November
- By: Adriana Mather
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
- Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
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After surviving a crash course in espionage at the mysterious Academy Absconditi, November has only one purpose: finding her missing father. Along with fellow student (and heartthrob) Ash, November follows the clues that her father left, embarking on the deadliest treasure hunt of her life. The first clue is in her hometown, where old friends beckon and unexpected enemies lurk around every corner.
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Great second book/conclusion
- By Lindsey on 10-20-20
- Hunting November
- By: Adriana Mather
- Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
loved it
Reviewed: 03-15-24
The narrorator, while appropriate for a teenage girl, doesn't have much character range. the story is fast paced action, suspense and a nice plot twist at the end. i appreciate that the author keeps the "love" scenes pg.
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Sparking Magic
- By: Nika Gray
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
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I don’t know who I am. I don’t know how I got here. All I do know is if I stop running, I will never be free. When I burst from the woods into a rush of headlights and asphalt and open night sky, I think I’ve made it. I’m free. I’m safe. Then blinding energy explodes in front of me and the last thing I see before it all goes dark is a handsome face hovering over mine. Yay me, right? I awake to find myself magicked to a hospital bed with some non-handsome guy telling me my magic is uncontrolled and dangerous. The way they see it, the choice is simple: enroll in their magic academy ...
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Poor narroration of a parody porn
- By That1chic on 02-23-24
- Sparking Magic
- By: Nika Gray
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Poor narroration of a parody porn
Reviewed: 02-23-24
This is an AI read book. It reads the entire story in one voice with no character distinction. The protagonist is a New York born and raised woman but the book is read in a proper British accent which I found disconnecting and annoying.
There is MINIMAL character development. What development there is doesn't make sense and too much emphasis is placed on hooking up and not enough on what is supposed to be the actual plot. I kept reading because the plot premise is good, waiting for the story to fill out but it never did.
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As a side note, because thats what the actual plot feels like, her back story is she grew up in foster care and is really disliked. She has no friends, her roommates kicked her out, etc. The author provides 0 explanation for the dislike but boy is she popular with the guys. One night she meets a hot guy at work, hooks up, and after is abducted via magic portal by creepy old guys.
We first meet out protagonist as she is escaping a lab with amnesia and almost gets run over. The driver just happens to be Headmaster at a magical school and he takes her there. Upon waking and throughout the book, she shows 0 fear and barely a mild curiosity about why she was abducted and can't remember anything. She makes immediate besties with the first girl she meets and naturally, her roomies are the most popular girls who hate her before even meeting her. You know where thats going.
The hottest guys at school obsessively want her on first sight and she returns their interst, declaring she is going to sleep with them and proceeds to do so the very next day. Her intense horniness without explanation is seriously eye roll worthy and the sex scene over the top, so much that I skipped through most of it. If you guessed her stratosphere reaching orgasm unlocked her memories, you would be right. Do we get some much needed info on who she is and whats going on? No! We get my first spoiler paragraph. But wait, the hot guy from the night she was abducted is a student too and just as obsessed with her as the guy she just boned. Que the love triangle.
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All Fall Down (Embassy Row, Book 1)
- By: Ally Carter
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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This exciting new series from New York Times best-selling author Ally Carter focuses on Grace, who can best be described as a daredevil, an Army brat, and a rebel. She is also the only granddaughter of perhaps the most powerful ambassador in the world, and Grace has spent every summer of her childhood running across the roofs of Embassy Row. Now, at age 16, she's come back to stay in order to solve the mystery of her mother's death.
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Another great book by Ally Carter!
- By Lindsey on 01-22-15
- All Fall Down (Embassy Row, Book 1)
- By: Ally Carter
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
If you like slow plots and whining protagonists...
Reviewed: 08-03-23
The first few chapters up through the hill party are fine. It's character introduction, and they're setting up the story. Then, you have to sit through twenty plus chapters of the protagonists' self-pity and constant whining. In the beginning, I felt compassion, but several chapters later, with a very slow moving and unimaginative plot that's been done to death, Im irritated every time Grace speaks. It's so slow, so predictable, and so annoying that I looked up the end online and moved the book to my archive without finishing. I predicted all but Ms. Chancellor in the ending, btw.
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Kingdom of Ash
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
- Length: 33 hrs and 11 mins
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Aelin has risked everything to save her people - but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day....With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they've gathered to battle Erawan's hordes might not be enough to save them.
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Well, too much torture for me; I'm out.
- By lekitto on 06-05-20
- Kingdom of Ash
- By: Sarah J. Maas
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Evans
Spoiler alert
Reviewed: 04-25-23
i love a good happily ever after, but the take down of Arowan was too simple, the build up for the valg princesses that went nowhere was disappointing, and that every main character lived with no major injuries was a little too neat. That Mannon lost all her 13 and Abraxos lost his mate was especially heartbreaking. I would have liked to have met Vaughn at some point since he was part of the cadre, but there was no reason for his prolonged absence really given. Also, the male characters were just as instrumental, especially Dorian, in winning, yet emphasis was put on the women's roles and theirs down played. The subservience all the males developed was a bit emasculating as well, imo. There was a lot I thought was well done, but this is not my favorite book in the series. I hope the author might revisit this world at a later time with the next generation, maybe dealing with the angry Gods or something.
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Impact Winter
- By: Travis Beacham
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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From executive producers of The Walking Dead and Travis Beacham, the writer of Pacific Rim, comes a heart-stopping Audible Original featuring a brilliant British cast. It’s the near future and seven years since a comet hit the earth and blotted out the sun. The world is a dark, frozen landscape. And then, beastly creatures emerge and take over. A story of apocalypse, horror, and adventure, Impact Winter is a wholly original new saga created just for Audible with immersive 3D audio that dares you to pop in your earbuds and listen in the dark.
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can't stand the sounds
- By Joseph on 02-18-22
- Impact Winter
- By: Travis Beacham
- Narrated by: full cast
not terribly original, but its entertaining
Reviewed: 01-14-23
This doesn't sound like a true audiobook. it's more like listening to a movie you can't see. no, "he said," or "she walked across the room." its different voices talking and distracting sound effects that drown out the dialogue at times. if you are a fan of this genre, it will definitely feel familiar. im not sure how it got so many high star reviews.
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