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Dawn of Wonder
- The Wakening, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Renshaw
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 29 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42,433
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 39,700
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39,601
When a high-ranking officer gallops into the quiet Mistyvales, he brings a warning that shakes the countryfolk to their roots. But for Aedan, a scruffy young adventurer with veins full of fire and a head full of ideas, this officer is not what he seems. The events that follow propel Aedan on a journey that only the foolhardy or desperate would risk, leading him to the gates of the nation's royal academy - a whole world of secrets in itself. But this is only the beginning of his discoveries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Instant Favorite
- By Joe on 03-21-16
- Dawn of Wonder
- The Wakening, Book 1
- By: Jonathan Renshaw
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
maybe the best audiobook I've listened to.
Reviewed: 06-04-24
Renshaw rules. Reynolds rules. Great story and a great performance. I can't wait for the next one.
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Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
- Length: 21 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 48,221
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44,624
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44,629
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Erotica with Dragons
- By Trev on 05-13-23
- Fourth Wing
- Empyrean, Book 1
- By: Rebecca Yarros
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler, Teddy Hamilton
not very good
Reviewed: 03-26-24
this book doesn't really have anything worth mentioning going on in it. the narrator was ok.
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The Lesser Dead
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,323
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,053
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,047
New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live - and die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody - he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city's sidewalks.
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2 out of 5 stars
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NICE GUYS NEARLY ALWAYS FINISH LAST
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-27-17
- The Lesser Dead
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
this guy is such a versatile writer
Reviewed: 09-23-22
I've read a few of buehlman's books now, and they've all been different genres. they've all been excellent.
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Library at Mount Char
- By: Scott Hawkins
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,134
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,719
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,716
Carolyn's not so different from the other human beings around her. After all, she was a normal American herself once. That was a long time ago, of course - before the time she calls "adoption day", when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call Father.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Your Local Library
- By Lorfet on 04-05-16
- Library at Mount Char
- By: Scott Hawkins
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
this is a masterpiece
Reviewed: 09-14-22
This story was perfect, and the narrator performed it beautifully. Word. Word. Word. Word.
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Between Two Fires
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Steve West
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,283
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,778
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,764
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm - that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict. Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mesmerizing Knight Errant Tale
- By Tango on 05-01-13
- Between Two Fires
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Steve West
this book will make you feel
Reviewed: 01-24-22
Many of us grow up hearing and learning christian stories and because of this, we are desensitized to how amazing those stories can feel when heard for the first time. This book can remind you of the wonder that results from facing concepts like grace, redemption, and the immortality of the soul. Great book.
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The Blacktongue Thief
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,533
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3,184
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,173
Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- By Anne Vaughan on 05-28-21
- The Blacktongue Thief
- By: Christopher Buehlman
- Narrated by: Christopher Buehlman
this book is excellent
Reviewed: 01-06-22
A full review requires at least 15 written words, but I am no author.
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The Scarab Path
- Shadows of the Apt, Book 5
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 430
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 384
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 384
Ancient powers are waking. The war with the Wasp Empire has ended in a bitter stalemate, and Collegium has nothing to show for it but wounded veterans. Cheerwell Maker finds herself broken in ways no doctor can mend, haunted by ghosts of the past. Meanwhile, the powerful Wasp Empress is regaining control over those imperial cities that refused to bow to her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What an Amazing Series!
- By K M Kaufman on 01-16-22
- The Scarab Path
- Shadows of the Apt, Book 5
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
left me hoping for more deaths.
Reviewed: 08-16-21
The only resolutions I find myself hoping for are horrific, ignoble and inconsequential deaths for both Thalric and Cheerwell maker.
Slipping while walking and hitting, and hitting her head on a stone to degrade in some palsy off-screen mention, or maybe him getting snatched up by a wild animal and having his legs and arms ripped out would both make for some sweet endings.
Im not sure if I'm alone, but I've grown to hate both of those two with a level of emotion that a character intended to be a villain will be hard pressed to draw out of me.
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The Book of Koli
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,841
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,440
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,429
Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don't get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will.mKoli has lived in Mythen Rood his entire life. He believes the first rule of survival is that you don't venture too far beyond the walls. He's wrong.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Very Special Book
- By Charles Elmore on 04-22-20
- The Book of Koli
- By: M. R. Carey
- Narrated by: Theo Solomon
this is excellent
Reviewed: 07-27-21
This author must be read. The narrative, the campfire story-telling style that the plot is unveiled in, and the world setting are all done masterfully. Above all else, the author makes you care about the characters, which for me, is usually the most difficult hurdle.
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The Doors of Eden
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
- Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 954
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 856
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Story4 out of 5 stars 855
Four years ago, two girls went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor. Only one came back. Lee thought she'd lost Mal, but now she's miraculously returned. But what happened that day on the moors? And where has she been all this time? Mal's reappearance hasn't gone unnoticed by MI5 officers either, and Lee isn't the only one with questions. Julian Sabreur is investigating an attack on top physicist Kay Amal Khan. This leads Julian to clash with agents of an unknown power - and they may or may not be human.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- By Kindle Customer on 08-23-20
- The Doors of Eden
- By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
DONT LISTEN TO THE HATERS
Reviewed: 06-07-21
This is a great story. It is everything you would expect out of a writer as skilled as tchaikovsky.
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Parable of the Sower
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,806
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 12,323
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 12,283
God is change. That is the central truth of the Earthseed movement, whose unlikely prophet is 18-year-old Lauren Olamina. The young woman's diary entries tell the story of her life amid a violent 21st-century hell of walled neighborhoods and drug-crazed pyromaniacs - and reveal her evolving Earthseed philosophy. Against a backdrop of horror emerges a message of hope: if we are willing to embrace divine change, we will survive to fulfill our destiny among the stars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dystopia before dystopia was cool...
- By Amber on 05-28-14
- Parable of the Sower
- By: Octavia E. Butler
- Narrated by: Lynne Thigpen
the parable within is more valuable than the story
Reviewed: 05-22-21
critiques:
Octavia butler wrote this story from the POV of a protagonist who is presented as well versed and capable in many complex subjects with what comes off as very little or no experience herself.
Paternal love/relationships with men, starvation, community, abuse and the abused, survivalism, multiculturalism, white American people, firearm handling/use, agriculture, logistics, the strengths/weaknesses of people in emergency situations, personal defense, community planning are examples of the subjects that sound more like a person imagining effects and responses without any relatable background in any of them. The result is an author's story that lands somewhere between disingenuous and under prepared.
praise:
In spite of the flaws in the story in my opinion, the concepts it presents and the introspection it caused in me were worth noting.
The presentation of transformations, evolution of belief, and growth in the young woman protagonist are beautifully written and will give the reader cause to wonder about how these things have occured in their own lives.
There is a decent portrayal of struggles between the freedom of modern thought structures vs. tradional stricture.
My take-away, as both a father of girls and a white person (after i got myself past her constant indictments of both of those things) was to want to be better at both. Understanding our roles in our own lives and finding a balance between what and who we are is extremely difficult. This book does a good job at offering the kinds of critisisms that, if thought on correctly, can prompt us into taking an honest look at how/what the things we do as people can effect the people around us. For that i am grateful to her.
Also, the narrator is very, very good.
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