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Children of Memory
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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Earth failed. In a desperate bid to escape, the spaceship Enkidu and its captain, Heorest Holt, carried its precious human cargo to a potential new paradise. Generations later, this fragile colony has managed to survive, eking out a hardy existence. Yet life is tough, and much technological knowledge has been lost. Then strangers appear. They possess unparalleled knowledge and thrilling technology–and they've arrived from another world to help humanity’s colonies. But not all is as it seems, and the price of the strangers' help may be the colony itself.
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Read it and weep.
- By Saul on 02-03-23
- Children of Memory
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Mel Hudson
A mess
Reviewed: 06-07-23
This was a half-baked idea dump for expanding the Children of Time universe without actually writing a story. Great narration though!
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Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues
- By: Molly Harper
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Jonathan Davis
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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A hilarious new standalone novella brimming with otherworldly charm from the reigning queen of paranormal romantic comedy Molly Harper! Ingrid Asher is the newest resident of Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where shapeshifters, vampires, witches and dragons live alongside humans.
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An absolute gem!!!
- By Sara on 06-07-19
- Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues
- By: Molly Harper
- Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Jonathan Davis
Cute
Reviewed: 07-09-19
The world of this series is silly and all of the characters are lovable goobers. Very enjoyable, cute and sweet.
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A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- An Audible Original
- By: Ben Garrod
- Narrated by: Ben Garrod
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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Most children go through a dinosaur phase. Learning all the tongue-twisting names, picking favourites based on ferocity, armour, or sheer size. For many kids this love of ‘terrible lizards’ fizzles out at some point between starting and leaving primary school. All those fancy names slowly forgotten, no longer any need for a favourite. For all those child dino fanatics who didn’t grow up to become paleontologists, dinosaurs seem like something out of mythology. They are dragons, pictures in books, abstract, other, extinct.
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strong performance, misleading title
- By MT on 07-05-19
- A Grown-Up Guide to Dinosaurs
- An Audible Original
- By: Ben Garrod
- Narrated by: Ben Garrod
Good stuff
Reviewed: 07-09-19
Just some good good dinosaur facts presented for your listening pleasure. Essentially a PBS special in audio form. Relaxing and educational.
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The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent
- By: Larry Correia
- Narrated by: Adam Baldwin
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Have you ever seen a planet invaded by rampaging space mutants from another dimension or Nazi dinosaurs from the future? Don't let this happen to you! Rifts happen, so you should be ready when universes collide. A policy with Stranger & Stranger can cover all of your interdimensional insurance needs. Rated "Number One in Customer Satisfaction" for three years running, no claim is too big or too weird for Tom Stranger to handle.
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Someone owes me a new keyboard
- By Aimee M on 05-24-16
Right-Wing Garbage
Reviewed: 07-09-19
A screwball-type comedy, which manages to be funny here and there. At other times it's painfully cliche, unimaginative, and littered with cringe-worthy, highly dated meme jokes (Chuck Norris, really?). The writing is generally competent, though on more than one occasion, one of the aforementioned memes is inserted so forcefully that the section of writing stops making sense. It also became clear pretty rapidly that it's a right-wing propaganda trash-heap, taking constant jabs at millennials and the ACA/universal healthcare, and more than one scene painting Obama as a lazy, idiot Marxist. Then there's a nice sprinkle of patriarchy worship just to finish off this crap sundae.
I listened to it all the way through just to see if it would redeem itself, but nope. I finished the last quarter of the book on 2x speed.
I guess it all just went over my head, though, since the author would probably say that I'm one of the "sissies, liberals, or crybabies" (quote straight from the book) that's ruining the whole world.
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War of the Spark: Ravnica (Magic: The Gathering)
- By: Greg Weisman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Teyo Verada wants nothing more than to be a shieldmage, wielding arcane energies to protect his people from his world’s vicious diamondstorms. When he’s buried alive in the aftermath of his first real tempest, the young mage’s life is about to end before it can truly begin - until it doesn’t. In a flash, a power he didn’t know he had whisks him away from his home, to a world of stone, glass, and wonder: Ravnica.
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Painful for Fans
- By Brad on 04-24-19
- War of the Spark: Ravnica (Magic: The Gathering)
- By: Greg Weisman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
I feel bad for the author
Reviewed: 05-30-19
This must have been a tough job, cramming so much MTG lore and so many characters into one book. It felt summarized at times, stopping to grind through long lists of characters and factions just to keep it all straight.
So I don't blame the author too much for the clunky writing. To reach the amount of exposition that should have been there, this should have been a series of novels starting back with Amonkhet at the earliest.
The performance of the audiobook was wooden and droning, however. A good narrator could have added some necessary color to the text, but this guy sounded bored, almost like a text-to-voice program.
Recommended for the sole reason that the following line exists as a chapter head: "Sixty-nine. Two Dragons." Nice.
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Blood Destiny: Blood Curse Series book 1
- By: Tessa Dawn
- Narrated by: Eric Dove
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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He is a lethal vampire bound by an ancient curse. She is an agent of homeland security investigating a dangerous cult. Theirs is a Blood Destiny about to unfold.
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Hands down, one of the best authors out there!
- By Diana (@Offbeat Vagabond) on 06-15-15
- Blood Destiny: Blood Curse Series book 1
- By: Tessa Dawn
- Narrated by: Eric Dove
Disgusting Rape Fantasy
Reviewed: 12-23-16
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
The sound of it burning in a fire.
Has Blood Destiny: Blood Curse Series book 1 turned you off from other books in this genre?
Yes
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Disgust!
Any additional comments?
I have never hated a book this much. I am a quarter of the way in, and I will not finish it. I've read a few spoilers and know that not a thing improves. Honestly, I can't believe a woman wrote this trash - she should be ashamed! This is an utterly DISGUSTING rape fantasy - all of the male characters are described as unnaturally, physically perfect and incredibly powerful, capable of overpowering any woman. And, to top that, they are forced by celestial powers or whatever to "mate with" a particular fated woman if they don't want to die. So, the story is all about how the supposed protagonist Alpha Male breaks down the defenses of a weak and terrified, isolated woman using manipulative psychology - some straightforward, some supernatural. And then he rapes her, forces her to have his babies, kills one of them, and SHE LIKES ALL OF IT. Because he made her like it. And yet, according to the author and people who somehow like this, it's not a dark tragedy, but a romance.
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