Josephine W.
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Korjh's Bride
- A Cyborg's Mail Order Bride
- By: T.J. Quinn, Clarissa Lake
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 22
Zara Maples wants to escape her lackluster life and find her soulmate, so she applies to the interstellar Narovian Matchmaking Service which finds people’s soulmates based on genetics. Korjh a Narovian cyborg retired from battle, once a full human, longs a family of his own like the one he lost as a boy in an alien invasion. Retired to a backwater colony of Modonne where he can’t get a date because he is cyborg, he applies to the Matchmaking service to find his genetic complement, his soulmate, because unlike Narovian felines he cannot recognize his fated mate. After two years they find...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration was awful, story was adolescent
- By Josephine W. on 05-14-24
- Korjh's Bride
- A Cyborg's Mail Order Bride
- By: T.J. Quinn, Clarissa Lake
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
Narration was awful, story was adolescent
Reviewed: 05-14-24
I’ve heard MUCH better virtual voice narration - this was SO adolescent! Mispronunciations, emotionless. The story was pointless, characters lacked dimensions, the whole thing lacked anything approaching maturity. The author needs to grow up and get some pointers from reading C.S. Smith or Ruby Dixon or Honey Phillips. Or maybe just stick to children’s stories.
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The Last Tribe
- By: Brad Manuel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 16,361
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 15,090
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15,040
Fourteen-year-old Greg Dixon is living a nightmare. Attending boarding school outside of Boston, he is separated from his family when a pandemic strikes. His classmates and teachers are dead, rotting in a dormitory-turned-morgue steps from his room. The nights are getting colder, and his food has run out. The last message from his father is to get away from the city and to meet at his grandparents' town in remote New Hampshire.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A perfect year in the post apocalypse.
- By Andrew Pollack on 06-18-16
- The Last Tribe
- By: Brad Manuel
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
Loved this!
Reviewed: 07-17-23
Great story, great narrative. No violence, definitely a family-friendly story. Probably more happily-ever-after and coincidentally meeting someone with THE perfect kind of expertise than is realistic, but a very good story nevertheless. I wish the author would do a sequel to include Hawaiian life and DEFINITELY to include West Coast survivors!
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Red Adam's Lady (Rediscovered Classics)
- By: Grace Ingram
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story5 out of 5 stars 33
The fair Lady Julitta has a problem. She is not wealthy. She prizes her virginity. And her liege, whom she despises, is intent on rape. Red Adam is the lord of Brentborough castle - young, impetuous, scandalous, a 12th-century hell raiser. On one of his night of drunken revelry, he abducts Julitta. Though she fends him off, keeping her virginity, he has sullied her honor. Then to the astonishment of all, he marries her. Red Adam's Lady is a boisterous, bawdy tale of wild adventure, set against the constant dangers of medieval England.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Story, Terrible Narrator
- By Josephine W. on 11-21-18
- Red Adam's Lady (Rediscovered Classics)
- By: Grace Ingram
- Narrated by: Caroline Slaughter
Great Story, Terrible Narrator
Reviewed: 11-21-18
I have loved this story and enjoyed re-reading it for over 20 years. I was SO excited and impatient to download my Kindle copy of this book earlier this year, and was equally pleased to find an Audible version available. I have been greatly disappointed, though, with the quality of the narration. Not only is the narrator unfamiliar with the proper pronunciation of Norman (French) words and common medieval terms (such as clothing, food, activities), but she is even given to mispronounce commonly-used modern English words. DID NOBODY PROOF THIS RECORDING??? The narrator was so bad that I became distracted, paying more attention to her mispronunciations than to the story itself. This is an excellent adventure/suspense/romance novel, and deserves a MUCH more professional narration. To anyone not familiar with this wonderful story, I heartily recommend downloading the Kindle version; but do not waste your time with the audiobook - not unless the recording undergoes a major edit at some time in the future.
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