Marbars43
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The Close-Up
- By: Pip Drysdale
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Things have not been going well for Zoe Ann Weiss. Once a young novelist full of promise, now she has a failed debut under her belt, a mountain of debt, a dead-end job, and an agent who's about to drop her if she doesn't write something new and brilliant soon. Worst of all, she's blocked. Can't-write-a-word blocked. But all that changes one night when she runs into her old flame, Zach Hamilton. It's like no time has passed at all. They start casually dating, and Zach makes her feel like anything is possible. Like the stars have finally realigned themselves in her favour.
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Confusing story narration not great
- By Marbars43 on 17-11-2024
- The Close-Up
- By: Pip Drysdale
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
Confusing story narration not great
Reviewed: 17-11-2024
The story was a bit over the top.
The narrator did not try her hardest and sounded very whiny.
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Everywhere We Look
- By: Martine Kropkowski
- Narrated by: Sonya Kerr
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Three friends travel to Marcoy, a regional town for a weekend away from family life. One year ago, a tragic incident splintered the group, and the women have seen little of each other since. Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months away, and she hopes this weekend will help her re-emerge from the depression she's been living with. Bridie worries that she is not a good enough mother. She worries about most things, really, but she's dealing with things just fine. At least that's what she tells herself. In fact, she only agreed to this weekend away out of a sense of duty.
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Great debut
- By Jacob on 12-11-2024
- Everywhere We Look
- By: Martine Kropkowski
- Narrated by: Sonya Kerr
Confusing and boring
Reviewed: 13-10-2024
I found this book confusing to understand with the switching back and forth in time and it was boring.
Do not recommend
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The Perfect Guest
- By: Ruth Irons
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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We all have that friend - the one who doesn't quite belong. Dinah Marshall is that person and knows it. After someone drops out, she's invited to spend the weekend at a luxury holiday home with women she's known since university. However, the gulf between them has widened since then, and Dinah is conscious of being the only one with no money, career, partner or children. Feeling like an outsider, she takes to snooping around the house. She's fascinated by its owners - and when she discovers she can secretly stay an extra night, that fascination quickly spirals into obsession.
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Enchanting!!
- By Marbars43 on 02-08-2024
- The Perfect Guest
- By: Ruth Irons
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
Enchanting!!
Reviewed: 02-08-2024
Ruth is the new Alice Feeney.
This book and the narration was excellent!!!
Highly recommended
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One of Those Mothers
- By: Megan Nicol Reed
- Narrated by: Anna-Mai Hoek
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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When a local father is convicted of the possession and distribution of child pornography, the tight-knit, middle-class community is quick to unravel. He is granted permanent name suppression, and soon friend turns on friend, neighbour delivers up neighbour, and hysteria rapidly engulfs them all. Who among them was capable of such moral trespass?
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Didn’t like the ending
- By Marbars43 on 14-07-2024
- One of Those Mothers
- By: Megan Nicol Reed
- Narrated by: Anna-Mai Hoek
Didn’t like the ending
Reviewed: 14-07-2024
The book dragged on a bit too much for me.
I didn’t like the ending.
I didn’t like the narrator.
Glad it was free and I didn’t waste a credit.
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The Wrong Child
- By: M. J. Arlidge, Julia Crouch
- Narrated by: Alex Rivers
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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When 3-month-old Max is abducted, his parents are plunged into their worst nightmare. Devastated mum Sarah only took her eyes off him for a second, but that doesn't stop her guilt. Even husband Jake can't hide his anger that their little boy went missing on her watch. By contrast there are smiles and celebration at a caravan park in Lincolnshire, as baby Blaze is introduced to the Star family. Jenna and Gary are delighted with the new addition to their family. But trouble is brewing for the Star family.
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Something actually happens!!
- By Marbars43 on 15-06-2024
- The Wrong Child
- By: M. J. Arlidge, Julia Crouch
- Narrated by: Alex Rivers
Something actually happens!!
Reviewed: 15-06-2024
Unlike a lot of books I listened to recently this book had a really good storyline and kept me interested right until the end.
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Identical
- By: Saskia Sarginson
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
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When Alice gets a desperate message from her estranged identical twin sister Cecily, she can’t help herself. She has to say yes. Pushing down the memories of the terrible childhood that ultimately tore them apart, she arrives at her sister’s house. Cecily has left instructions: how to work the oven, what to cook for supper, what to say to her husband. She says she’ll only be gone a week. She just needs to contact a lawyer, sort her head out, and work out how to get away from her marriage safely. Alice barely knows why she’s agreed...
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Boring as !
- By Marbars43 on 02-06-2024
- Identical
- By: Saskia Sarginson
- Narrated by: Anna Burnett
Boring as !
Reviewed: 02-06-2024
Nothing happens- skipped few chapters as it was like putting pins in eyes. Wish I never WASTED a credit. Who the heck is reading manuscripts these days and letting them through?
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The Trip
- By: Phoebe Morgan
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand, Jess Nesling, Sid Sagar
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Four friends on the holiday of a lifetime. Until a vicious murder shatters their paradise. Four friends who'd do anything for each other, until now. Only one of them committed a crime. But all four know how to keep a secret. And they're all guilty of something.
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Not her greatest work
- By Marbars43 on 12-05-2024
- The Trip
- By: Phoebe Morgan
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand, Jess Nesling, Sid Sagar
Not her greatest work
Reviewed: 12-05-2024
Really not Phoebe's greatest work - draggs on, nothing really happens, very predictable and then suddenly finishes.
Do not recomend if are thinking its going to be like her other books.
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Kill Your Husbands
- By: Jack Heath
- Narrated by: Jessica Bell, Zindzi Okenyo, Ryan Johnson, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
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It was supposed to be fun. A relaxing trip to a remote mountain retreat where there’s no phone reception. Three couples, friends since high school, are looking forward to a weekend of drinking, reminiscing and flirting. When someone suggests swapping partners, it doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. The lights will be switched off, for privacy. It’s not really cheating if you don’t know who you were with, right? But when the lights come back on, one of the men is dead. No-one can agree who was in which bedroom with whom.
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How can it be??
- By Michael Black on 20-12-2023
- Kill Your Husbands
- By: Jack Heath
- Narrated by: Jessica Bell, Zindzi Okenyo, Ryan Johnson, Catherine Văn-Davies, Megan Smart, Tai Hara, Johnny Carr, Kristy Best, Ed Oxenbould
So Ridiculous
Reviewed: 11-02-2024
Gross
Swingers
Rape
Angry male syndrome
A stupid book - didin't listen to it all as it was so annoying
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Anna O
- By: Matthew Blake
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Hannah Curtis, Sarah Cullum, and others
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
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Anna Ogilvy hasn’t opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She’d committed the crime of the century – but nothing and no-one could wake her from the nightmare. Believers in her innocence call her Anna O. Believers in her guilt call her Sleeping Beauty.
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Good story but so over-written
- By Shanelle Newton Clapham on 29-05-2024
- Anna O
- By: Matthew Blake
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens, Hannah Curtis, Sarah Cullum, Christine Rendel
OMG
Reviewed: 08-02-2024
This guy is the next Alex Michaelides
What a wild ride
Can’t wait to read his next book
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The Island
- By: Catherine Cooper
- Narrated by: Heather Long
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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When a select group of influencers and journalists receive an exclusive invitation to a luxury resort in the Maldives, it seems like the ultimate press trip. But when the island is cut off during a storm and people start dying, it looks like someone has murder in mind. Are the guests really who they seem to be, or does each one of them have a secret to hide? Something they would kill for?
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Too much backstory
- By Anonymous User on 25-08-2024
- The Island
- By: Catherine Cooper
- Narrated by: Heather Long
Confusing and boring
Reviewed: 06-11-2023
Not sure how I made it to the end but this book was confusing and boring. Wouldn’t recommend.
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