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Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer 2
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer, Book 2
- By: James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Shrubley, the Hero Adventurer, has vanquished the serpentii threat. Everything he ever wanted is within his twiggy grasp: fame, fortune, adoration, and the love of the people who had once shunned him for being a monster. But Shrubley is an adventurer at heart. Along with his monstrous friends, Cal, Slyrox, and Smudge, Shrubley embarks on a long journey to the fabled monster city of Pandaemonium. Guided by Countess Haalften, Shrubley seeks to master his Sage Knight essence healing powers even as vampyrs, monsters, and bandits ambush the party along the way.
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Where’s the next one?
- By T.L.M. on 04-02-25
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer 2
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer, Book 2
- By: James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Not as good as the first
Reviewed: 03-21-25
This is half a book. It does not end satisfyingly at all as it sequel baiting. I enjoyed the first book mostly though the insistent meta jokes aren't my thing. It felt like they had an unreasonable amount of power creep for Shrubly at the expense of other characters. I do not plan to continue the series.
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Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer, Book 1
- By: James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
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As a monster, Shrubley is forbidden from joining the adventurers guild. In a world where essence artists rank up in power and most monsters are feral beasts, Shrubley is among the weakest of creatures and is treated as an outcast. With curiosity essence bound to his spirit, Shrubley might be weak, but he's intelligent and determined. Against all the odds, he discovers a loophole from the Druid that gave him life—but there's a deadly catch. For a chance of ever being accepted as a true adventurer, he must challenge an otherworldly realm threatening to consume everything.
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Whimsical writing and unfocused editing
- By Andreas on 11-13-24
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer
- Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer, Book 1
- By: James T. Callum, K.H. Sohmer
- Narrated by: Travis Baldree
Cant keep a good shrub down.
Reviewed: 03-21-25
A fun and bubbly adventure of an eternally optimistic shrub. The reader does a great job bringing this story to life. The story does contain a lot meta humor which I personally don't care for in the story but it's few enough and spread out that it's easy enough to overlook.
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In the Event of Love
- Fern Falls, Book 1
- By: Courtney Kae
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
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With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn't headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown on Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another. Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. The memory of their perfect, doomed first kiss is still fresh. Way fresher than the freezing mud Morgan ends up sprawled in on her very first day back, only to be hauled out via Rachel's sexy new lumberjane muscles.
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Kina cheesy and childish but sweet
- By Samuel Warren on 01-08-23
- In the Event of Love
- Fern Falls, Book 1
- By: Courtney Kae
- Narrated by: Melissa Moran
A heartwarming reconnection
Reviewed: 11-18-24
An enjoyable story of two people reconnecting. I thought the story came down a little too hard on Morgan's career but overall handled compromise well. Though I am not a fan of the surprise at the end.
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The Romance Recipe
- By: Ruby Barrett
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens, Natalie Naudus
- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Amy Chambers: restaurant owner, micromanager, control freak. Amy will do anything to revive her ailing restaurant, including hiring a former reality-show finalist with good connections and a lot to prove. But her hopes that Sophie’s skills and celebrity status would bring her restaurant back from the brink of failure are beginning to wane… Sophie Brunet: grump in the kitchen/sunshine in the streets, took thirty years to figure out she was queer.
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3 Stars
- By Jillian on 06-02-23
- The Romance Recipe
- By: Ruby Barrett
- Narrated by: Chelsea Stephens, Natalie Naudus
Say "Yes, Chef" to love.
Reviewed: 11-18-24
An exciting romance about two ambitious people balancing a budding romance while pursing their career dreams.
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Make the Season Bright
- By: Ashley Herring Blake
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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It's been five years since Charlotte Donovan was ditched at the altar by her ex-fiancée, and she’s doing more than okay. Sure, her single mother never checks in, but she has her strings ensemble, the Rosalind Quartet, and her life in New York is a dream come true. As the holidays draw near, her ensemble mate Sloane persuades Charlotte and the rest of the quartet to spend Christmas with her family in Colorado. But when Charlotte arrives, she discovers that Sloane’s sister Adele also brought a friend home—and that friend is none other than her ex, Brighton.
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Make the Season Bright
- By Stephanie on 02-06-25
- Make the Season Bright
- By: Ashley Herring Blake
- Narrated by: Kristen DiMercurio
Romanticizing a toxic romance.
Reviewed: 11-18-24
This book got a visceral reaction from me. I was expecting a hallmark esq reconnection story with a Christmas backdrop. But instead we get a story about a a selfish monster who refuses to acknowledge and empathize with pain she has caused. Instead the author tries to gaslight the audience that she is justified in her actions.
This book wants you to root for Brighton's career and emotional wellbeing. But Charlotte needs to give up her career and her emotion wellbeing is ignored when its inconvenient for Brighton.
The author likes the character of Brighton so much that she frames Charlotte losing her dream career that she carved out in a city she loved and moving away from the small community she brought together as a good thing because that means Brighton won't have to compromise on playing guitar in dive bars in the town Brighton prefers. Charlotte asks Brighton multiple times to be given space because she, you know, abandoned her at the alter and Brighton refuses to listen. Brighton is asked not to reveal their relationship BUT she does. Brighton chooses to play a song that gave Charlotte traumatic flashbacks 3 days after Brighton saw Charlotte upset. When put in a situation that mirrors the pain she caused Charlette she doesn't connect the dots and instead she thinks she has justified anger, Brighton is sad her parents are on a vacation without her BUT Brighton's actions caused Charlotte to be separated from her psuedo-adoptive family for 5 years and its never mentioned.
This could have been a great story about facing the actions of your past and dealing with the consequences and growing as a person. But instead it just bends over backwards to remove all responsibility from Brighton because she felt sad while she was doing it.
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Foundryside
- A Novel
- By: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
- Length: 19 hrs and 34 mins
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Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a heavily guarded warehouse on Tevanne’s docks, is nothing her unique abilities can’t handle. But unbeknownst to her, Sancia’s been sent to steal an artifact of unimaginable power, an object that could revolutionize the magical technology known as scriving. The Merchant Houses who control this magic - the art of using coded commands to imbue everyday objects with sentience - have already used it to transform Tevanne into a vast, remorseless capitalist machine.
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Parts & Sums
- By CaffineFreeJAVA on 05-07-19
- Foundryside
- A Novel
- By: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrated by: Tara Sands
Characters make frustrating decisions
Reviewed: 05-21-24
Characters consistently made choices that felt forced and hypocritical. There is a consistent belittling of the female leads experience. Her trauma is often brought up as a reason for her actions but then they just have the male lead be like "You may have been born into slavery and have been abused and experimented on and seen everyone you care about including your mother figure ruthlessly murdered BUT I signed up for an officer position in a war and saw people die of hunger so pipe down and do what I need you to do or I'll throw you in jail." it makes for a very unlikable dynamic where I just wanted her to leave the town the whole time.
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Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.
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Bazinga
- By Davidgonzalezsr on 05-04-21
- Project Hail Mary
- By: Andy Weir
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
A great modern setting sci-fi story.
Reviewed: 03-24-24
The concept got a little out there at times but the set up was solid. the author did his research to make the science feel real and plausible to the average reader. there are discussions of what other life would look like that I really enjoyed as it pushed the bounds of what I would have considered an alien life could be.
Overall it was a fast and light read much like the authors other work The Martian. Definitely worth the read.
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Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Twenty years ago, it was as if someone turned on a light. The future blazed into existence with each deliberate word that William Gibson laid down. The winner of Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer didn't just explode onto the science fiction scene - it permeated into the collective consciousness, culture, science, and technology.Today, there is only one science fiction masterpiece to thank for the term "cyberpunk," for easing the way into the information age and Internet society.
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Story? Classic. Narrator? Ugh.
- By Sage on 11-11-14
- Neuromancer
- By: William Gibson
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
A classic but dated story.
Reviewed: 01-30-24
This story is a classic and in a very real way started the cyberpunk genre as we know it today. But Because it is so structural to the genre it's easy to overlook all the interesting world building done because they are "normal" for every story in the cyberpunk genre. this unfortunately causes this story to seem to focus on other aspects that have since been developed to fit modern audiences making it feel like it's dated. I would still recommend this book to people who want to see where it all started.
I would not recommend this version though. The performance of this book was jarring for me. The tone and style consistently took me out of the story. it felt like reader was trying his best to dramatize up some hard boiled detective noir story, which while is charming in that genre was not what I hoped for in this one. His reading of female parts become eyeroll worthy as he nailed that breathy girl voice guys do when they want to jokingly appear to talk like a women. At times, I turned off the recording cause I could no longer ignore my disdain for the reading and put on music to finish out my commute.
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The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
- Length: 40 hrs and 29 mins
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This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and ambition that set LBJ apart. It follows him from the Hill Country to New Deal Washington, from his boyhood through the years of the Depression to his debut as Congressman, his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, at age 31, of the national power for which he hungered.
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The Best of all Biographies
- By David C. Daggett on 12-14-13
- The Path to Power
- The Years of Lyndon Johnson
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Grover Gardner
An unprecedented look into a persons life
Reviewed: 09-15-23
A well written chronicle of the early life of LBJ. Expertly sets up the times and conditions in which a person can grow up wanting power over anything so long as they have it.
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Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Fry - introductions
- Narrated by: Stephen Fry
- Length: 71 hrs and 57 mins
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Ever since he made his first appearance in A Study In Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes has enthralled and delighted millions of fans throughout the world. Now Audible is proud to present Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, read by Stephen Fry. A lifelong fan of Doyle's detective fiction, Fry has narrated the definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes - four novels and four collections of short stories. And, exclusively for Audible, Stephen has written and narrated eight insightful introductions, one for each title.
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Chapter Guide!
- By Katya Rice on 05-25-18
Great performance
Reviewed: 09-15-23
The books have always been surprisingly simple. But the length of this 63 hours just show how much there is. At least you'll be able to say confidently that you have not read all of Sherlock Holmes.
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