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The Write Hook
- The My So-Called Mystical Midlife Series, Book 1
- By: Robyn Peterman
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Four months of wallowing in embarrassed depression should be enough. I’m beginning to realize that no one is who they seem to be, and my life story might be spinning out of my control. It’s time to take a shower, put on a bra, and wear something other than sweatpants. Difficult, but doable. With my friends - real and imaginary - by my side, I need to edit my life before the elusive darkness comes for all of us.
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The first half of a book😡
- By Buttons on 07-26-21
- The Write Hook
- The My So-Called Mystical Midlife Series, Book 1
- By: Robyn Peterman
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
Good start...
Reviewed: 12-14-24
Good start to a new series for me from an author I love. Onto the next...
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And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- By: Nick Jones
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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Still haunted by the disappearance of his little sister, Amy, over 20 years ago, Joseph Bridgeman’s life has fallen apart. When a friend talks him into seeing hypnotherapist Alexia Finch to help with his insomnia, Joseph accidentally discovers he can time travel. His first trip only takes him back a few minutes, but his new-found ability gives him something he hasn’t felt for the longest time: hope.
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British or American?
- By Stanner on 06-28-21
- And Then She Vanished
- Joseph Bridgeman, Book 1
- By: Nick Jones
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
Good story
Reviewed: 12-01-24
Good story with likable characters. Interesting concepts of how to achieve time travel and the consequences of jumping.
And you have to love Ray Porter as the narrator. I think he's capable of turning any boring story into something palatable!
Onto the next in the series...
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Run for Your Midlife
- The Good to the Last Death Series, Book 9
- By: Robyn Peterman
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
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Apparently, there’s no rest for the over-forty crowd. Yes, I have fabulous friends. Yes, I have a beautiful baby. Yes, the ghosts are coming back home. Yes, I’m in love with the Grim Reaper. However, that sexy Demon has got some major ’splainin’ to do … like his possible involvement in the shocking kidnapping of my worst and most deadly enemy. With a drag queen and an ice queen as my back up, we’re going to sashay away into the Darkness to find the truth and turn a wrong into a right. Although, I’m learning fast that black and white are often clouded with shades of gray.
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What am I missing? Edit: chapter 11 is missing.
- By Any Quick on 04-25-23
- Run for Your Midlife
- The Good to the Last Death Series, Book 9
- By: Robyn Peterman
- Narrated by: Jessica Almasy
I adore this series...
Reviewed: 11-30-24
I fell in in love with this series back in book 1 when Gideon was introduced. I'm not fond how this book ended on such a cliffhanger, but it happens.
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The Dragon Shifter's Mates Boxed Set Books 1-4
- By: Eva Chase
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Felicity Munroe
- Length: 23 hrs and 32 mins
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When Ren Landis goes looking for excitement on her 21st birthday, getting kidnapped is a little more than she bargained for. So is finding out that shifters exist - and that she's one, too. As the last of the dragon shifters, she's got a role to fulfill: Take the alphas of the four shifter groups as her mates and unite all shifter kind. No pressure, right? Too bad Ren's fate isn't as simple as getting it on with four scorching-hot men.
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Listen at .085x speed
- By Chelsea Shannon on 12-30-20
- The Dragon Shifter's Mates Boxed Set Books 1-4
- By: Eva Chase
- Narrated by: Joe Arden, Felicity Munroe
Meh...
Reviewed: 11-30-24
Female narrator does a not so great job.
It is poorly written smut. I wasn't impressed.
Both narrators say "Dragon" Dre-Gen throughout entire book, really annoying!
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The End of Eternity
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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The Eternals, the ruling class of the Future, had the power of life and death not only over every human being but over the very centuries into which they were born. Past, Present, and Future could be created or destroyed at will. You had to be special to become an Eternal. Andrew Harlan was special. Until he committed the one unforgivable sin - falling in love. Eternals weren’t supposed to have feelings. But Andrew could not deny the sensations that were struggling within him. He knew he could not keep this secret forever. And so he began to plan his escape.
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Amazing story. Audio quality could be better.
- By NM on 09-02-20
- The End of Eternity
- By: Isaac Asimov
- Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom
Outdated...
Reviewed: 11-14-24
I found this story odd, outdated, boring and just unintentionally complicated. It was probably good for its time, but definitely reads like 1950's pre-science era. This was my first encounter with Asimov, I'm hoping others of his works aren't as dated because this took me days to listen to it all.
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Spells of Mist and Spirit
- Tarot Academy Series, Book 5
- By: Sarah Piper
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Nicole Poole
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Our enemy claims that the darkness lives in all Arcana. That in a world of light and shadow, one cannot exist without the other. That we're all but one tragedy away from giving in. Even the mages who've sworn to love and protect me. Even me - the Star herself. We call ourselves the Light Arcana, but you know what? The enemy's right. I've seen that darkness. Tasted it. Felt it flickering inside me like a black flame.
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what an ending!!
- By Moxxi Anderson on 12-14-21
- Spells of Mist and Spirit
- Tarot Academy Series, Book 5
- By: Sarah Piper
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Nicole Poole
Okay series
Reviewed: 10-05-24
Narrator did not have a very wide or good range in voices.
pPot was meh & explicit with the main female character being a straight up hoe. Seriously, how is it okay that she sleeps with 4 or 5 guys, all friends and/or family, sometimes 2 or more at once & everyone is just like "heck yeah, this is the perfect relationship. BIG FAT NO...
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Spells of Breath and Blade
- Tarot Academy Series, Book 2
- By: Sarah Piper
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Nicole Poole
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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I spent my whole life believing magick was a curse - and that I didn't have enough of it to worry about, anyway. Turns out I was wrong on both counts. I'm so much more than a magick-blessed Academy student. I'm an Arcana Witch, bound to a sacred order whose sole duty is to protect magick - and one another - at all costs. Thankfully, I'm not alone. My Arcana magick brought four fiercely loyal, impossibly sexy Arcana mages into my life. But it also brought trouble. Corrupt Academy officials. Mysterious attacks stripping students of their power.
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Good Continuation
- By Nic S on 12-11-24
- Spells of Breath and Blade
- Tarot Academy Series, Book 2
- By: Sarah Piper
- Narrated by: Stephen Dexter, Nicole Poole
Decent, but major cliffhanger!!!
Reviewed: 09-30-24
This was a decent seque to the first book. BUT this book's cliffhanger is ridiculously abrupt!!! Thank the Gods that book #3 is already oout & in mt TBR que!!
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Awaken Online: Ember
- Tarot, Book 1
- By: Travis Bagwell
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
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Finn Harris should have been the one to die. But he wasn't - his wife took his place. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael. Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. They're calling it Awaken Online.
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Solid Side Story
- By Evan Rose on 12-04-19
- Awaken Online: Ember
- Tarot, Book 1
- By: Travis Bagwell
- Narrated by: David Stifel
A good LITRPG story...
Reviewed: 09-17-24
A good LITRPG story with a twisted ending that I'm not sure I buy. I'm thinking it has to be a ruse. We'll see though because I'm on to the next book in the series right now!
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Temporal
- By: Julian Simpson, Richard MacLean Smith, Bec Boey, and others
- Narrated by: Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Jessie Mei Li, and others
- Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
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In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes. Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.
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It was ok.
- By Cregg Terasa on 08-06-24
Just plain confusing...
Reviewed: 08-16-24
I wanted to like this book. I thoroughly enjoyed the full cast of characters performing all of their respective roles.
I loved the time jumping to important yet odd & unresolved incidents in time.
The interactions that were made during each time were we played.
And I particularly liked that 2 of the main characters got stuck because of course they broke their time travel equipment & had to live out 7 years actual time on Earth.
The icing on the cake is that they grew to love living here on Earth opposed to living on Mars, but who wouldn't with the way the living conditions were described on Mars. It was everything that Musk has boasted about for years, which doesn't sound even remotely impressive.
But I listened and relistened to the final chapter several times trying to piece together all the clues to make the story make sense. It just doesn't make any sense, like at all.
I enjoy reading & watching Sci-fi, even hard Sci-fi with detailed terminology, equations and tech talk. This just missed somewhere, somehow. Maybe I overlooked something in the beginning. But at this point I'm just left not understanding the book at all and I'm beyond frustrated with having relistened to the last 30 minutes again & again. I'm done trying to figure it out because I have officially lost interest. It's sad because I feel like it could have been a really good story...
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
The only thing that could make even remote sense is it was the computer system that set everything up. But even that doesn't make the whole book cohesive.
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Ceaseless
- Existence #3
- By: Abbi Glines
- Narrated by: Ashley Litz
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
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Can he make her fall in love with him…again? When Pagan Moore proved worthy of Death's devotion, he was given the gift of getting to keep her. But Dank was never promised that Pagan would keep him. When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny. It's time for Pagan's soul to choose if she truly wants an eternity at Death's side or if she wants the mate created just for her. Dank didn't think he had to worry about her choice. He knew where her heart belonged.
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Great book, nails on chalkboard narrator
- By Kimberly on 01-12-14
- Ceaseless
- Existence #3
- By: Abbi Glines
- Narrated by: Ashley Litz
Okay ending to the trilogy...
Reviewed: 08-14-24
This final book was fairly predictable. Everything ended as expected. Happily ever after! The end!
The only part that was remotely unpredictable was in the last 5 minutes or so.
No spoilers. I'll just say that the duo saying they were taking away a "troublemaker" was just weird. It made no sense to include that little bit. It did nothing for this plot & there isn't an additional book in the series. Why even mention it?
My biggest issue with the entire series is/was the narrator.
I don't know how it is possible for a female to be able to do all of the male character voices better than all but 1 female voice (which I'm guessing is her natural speaking tone). Seriously, the male voices were done so well that you'd have thought it was a guy doing them. They were on point! But she can only do one semi-alright female voice? Boggles my mind!
The narration of Miranda just continued to get worse & worse. It was somewhat bearable in book 1. It got worse in the 2nd book. But I wanted to gouge my eardrums out this go around! If I wasn't so invested in the plot I would have DNF'ed it.
If I ever hear the combination of that nasally, high pitched, valley school inflection ("Like, oh my god"), blended with a voice that simultaneously sounds like a temper tantrum squealing 4 year old...It'll be too soon!!
I honestly don't know how this narrator pulled off such an irritating tone for a character. I'm even more shocked that it was approved!
I might check out some more stories by this author but I've been completely turned off by the narrator's performance.
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