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All-Night Pharmacy
- A Novel
- By: Ruth Madievsky
- Narrated by: Moniqua Plante
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister Debbie to Salvation, a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of sensual and risky interactions—nothing unusual for two sisters bound in an incredibly toxic relationship. Our unnamed narrator has always been under the spell of the alluring and rebellious Debbie and, despite her own hesitations, she has always said yes to nights like these. That is, until Debbie disappears.
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Good enough listen but not quite there
- By Caroline on 09-02-23
- All-Night Pharmacy
- A Novel
- By: Ruth Madievsky
- Narrated by: Moniqua Plante
Not much happens
Reviewed: 05-06-24
There are some wonderful moments in this book, but it’s a lot of exposition and tangents. It probably could have been 50% shorter
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The Husbands
- A Novel
- By: Holly Gramazio
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
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When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.
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Ho hum pretty repetitive story
- By Lucy on 05-08-24
- The Husbands
- A Novel
- By: Holly Gramazio
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
The novelty wears off
Reviewed: 04-20-24
Good book, love the concept, but after a few hours the storyline gets dull. We get it, husbands come out of the attic. I got quite sick of it
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The Dinner
- A Novel
- By: Herman Koch, Sam Garrett - translator
- Narrated by: Clive Mantle
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
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It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the polite scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse - the banality of work, the triviality of the holidays. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a 15-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families.
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The Axis II Dinner Club
- By Mel on 04-12-13
- The Dinner
- A Novel
- By: Herman Koch, Sam Garrett - translator
- Narrated by: Clive Mantle
I’m so confused
Reviewed: 12-05-23
I’m two hours in and he’s spent the last 30 minutes telling an anecdote about Paris that has 1) nothing to do with the plot and is 2) incredible boring. Nothing has happened this entire book
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My Dark Vanessa
- A Novel
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrated by: Grace Gummer
- Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
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2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, 15-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful 42-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: Remain silent, firm in the belief that her teenage self willingly engaged in this relationship, or redefine herself and the events of her past.
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I apologize
- By Judy George on 03-13-20
- My Dark Vanessa
- A Novel
- By: Kate Elizabeth Russell
- Narrated by: Grace Gummer
I love the narrators voice!
Reviewed: 08-04-23
The book was great, and the narrator was even better. Although, I felt like this book hit the ground running and by about halfway it reached an understandable conclusion. A lot of filler after that. Still worth a go!!
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