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The Best of Friends
- By: Lucinda Berry
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate, Tara Sands, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,680
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,309
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Story4 out of 5 stars 3,299
Best friends Lindsey, Kendra, and Dani endure every parent’s nightmare when a tragic accident befalls their teenage boys, leaving one dead, another in a coma, and a third too traumatized to speak. Reeling from the worst night of their lives, the three mothers plunge into a desperate investigation of the bizarre incident. How could something so horrible happen in their wealthy Southern California suburb? They soon discover that the accident was just the beginning, and troubling discoveries lead to chilling questions: Do they really know their children? Do they even know each other?
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4 out of 5 stars
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Synopsis is well-written but misleading. Minimal mystery. Women’s fiction w angsty melodrama.
- By A Customer on 09-15-20
- The Best of Friends
- By: Lucinda Berry
- Narrated by: Amy Rubinate, Tara Sands, Coleen Marlo
Just Ok.
Reviewed: 07-07-22
Overall I felt like this read super melodramatic and none of the characters were all that likable. Plus the narrator for Lindsey had a voice that sounded much older than the woman she was portraying and she did an annoying thing with her voice when reading emotional scenes that sounded almost congested like she’d been crying that got really old really fast.
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The Unheard
- A Novel
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 500
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 445
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Story4 out of 5 stars 445
In this new heart-pounding stand-alone from the internationally best-selling author that People calls “razor sharp", a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when the girl draws a disturbing picture - but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I love Nicci French but this one is “meh”
- By Chana Goanna on 11-03-21
- The Unheard
- A Novel
- By: Nicci French
- Narrated by: Olivia Vinall
Could have skipped this one.
Reviewed: 03-07-22
I got this as part of a 2 for 1 deal thank goodness. Like other reviewers said, the main character is so unbelievably unlikable and the kid is annoying. Plus I felt like I had to completely suspend reality because in the real world, she would have earned herself a stay in a psych unit; I literally rolled my eyes and groaned out loud several times. The only thing that saved this one was the narrator.
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Magic Hour
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12,594
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 11,519
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,479
In the rugged Pacific Northwest lies the Olympic National Forest - nearly a million acres of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this old growth forest, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible narration
- By Howard Egan on 12-27-20
- Magic Hour
- By: Kristin Hannah
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Good… but the narrator.
Reviewed: 06-17-21
Like several other reviews have indicated, the choice of narrator for this story was terrible. The main characters are supposed to be women in their late 30’s and she sounds like she’s in her 70’s. Also, she gave several of the cop characters these weird accents that almost sounded Brooklyn-esque… like she thinks that’s just what a cop should always sound like, except that the story is set in Washington. And then there is another character who is supposed to have an accent and I legitimately have no idea what it was supposed to be, but it certainly wasn’t Louisiana bayou as the author suggests. All in all, the story was decent (not my favorite Kristin Hannah), but the narration really killed it for me.
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The Haunted
- By: Bentley Little
- Narrated by: Dan Butler
- Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 7,457
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,773
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6,766
The Perry family's new house is perfect - except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that odd smell coming from a dark corner in the basement. Pity no one warned the family about the house. Now it's too late. Because the darkness at the bottom of the basement stairs is rising.
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3 out of 5 stars
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You had me until...ugh
- By David Shear on 03-05-13
- The Haunted
- By: Bentley Little
- Narrated by: Dan Butler
Nope
Reviewed: 11-01-20
I downloaded this to listen to around Halloween figuring it would be a good spooky season read. No thanks. It was just so over the top and the amount of near pornographic sex scenes sealed the deal for me. Couldn’t even finish it.
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Lies She Told
- By: Cate Holahan
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Lisa Larsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,374
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,562
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,545
Liza Cole has 30 days to write the thriller that could put her back on the best seller list. In the meantime, she's struggling to start a family with her husband, who is distracted by the disappearance of his best friend, Nick. With stresses weighing her down in both her professional and her personal lives, Liza escapes into writing her latest heroine, Beth. Beth is a new mother who suspects her husband is cheating on her while she's home alone caring for their newborn. Then the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Truth is stranger than fiction is stranger than fiction is stranger..,.
- By shelley on 09-23-17
- Lies She Told
- By: Cate Holahan
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden, Lisa Larsen
Eh
Reviewed: 10-01-20
I wanted to like this book but honestly found both female lead characters so unlikeable. Also (and this is probably just a weird personal preference quirk), but I found it so strange that they would both call their husbands “my spouse”. Why not just husband?
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When We Believed in Mermaids
- A Novel
- By: Barbara O'Neal
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Katherine Littrell
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 13,694
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11,769
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11,722
Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few heart-wrenching seconds to upend Kit’s world. Live coverage of a club fire in Auckland has captured the image of a woman stumbling through the smoke and debris. Her resemblance to Josie is unbelievable. And unmistakable. With it comes a flood of emotions - grief, loss, and anger - that Kit finally has a chance to put to rest: by finding the sister who’s been living a lie.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still listening, but barely...
- By katie brinson on 11-11-19
- When We Believed in Mermaids
- A Novel
- By: Barbara O'Neal
- Narrated by: Sarah Naughton, Katherine Littrell
Nope.
Reviewed: 07-11-20
I only got halfway through this book before giving up (which I never do). The story was so over the top absurd, but even that I could have lived with. What I couldn’t get over, was the terrible narration. One character was just overly bright and kind of monotone and the other (like several other reviewers have said) had such strange pronunciation of the letter “I” that I found it distracting and then, eventually, irritating.
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The Housekeeper
- A Twisted Psychological Thriller
- By: Natalie Barelli
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
- Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 10,879
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 9,576
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9,537
When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been 10 years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position - she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's the life Claire used to have before Hannah came along and took it all away from her.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Best Psych Thriller EVER Until the Last Two Hours
- By mercyjam317 on 01-07-20
- The Housekeeper
- A Twisted Psychological Thriller
- By: Natalie Barelli
- Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Just OK
Reviewed: 02-28-20
I 100% agree with other reviewers about the narrator. The main character whose perspective the story comes from is in her early 20’s and the narrator sounds at least double that which was hard for me to get past. The story itself was ok but I felt like the ending was kind of anticlimactic and abrupt.
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The Rise of Magicks
- Chronicles of The One, Book 3
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 10,049
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9,043
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8,982
After the sickness known as the Doom destroyed civilization, magick has become commonplace, and Fallon Swift has spent her young years learning its ways. Fallon cannot live in peace until she frees those who have been preyed upon by the government or the fanatical Purity Warriors, endlessly hunted or locked up in laboratories, brutalized for years on end. She is determined to save even those who have been complicit with this evil out of fear or weakness - if, indeed, they can be saved.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not great. Not even a little.
- By Jamie on 12-23-19
- The Rise of Magicks
- Chronicles of The One, Book 3
- By: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Disappointing Finale.
Reviewed: 12-12-19
I loved the first book. The second, not as much but I still enjoyed it. This one was honestly difficult to get through. Lots of redundant battle scenes, too much over the top dialogue from the main character, and a cheesy ending to top it all off. So bummed!
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What Happens in Paradise
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,083
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,399
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,369
A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life—and death—of a man they thought they knew. Along the way, they're about to learn some surprising truths about their own lives, and their futures.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Set up to sell the next book?
- By PaigeTurner on 06-19-20
- What Happens in Paradise
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
Eh.
Reviewed: 10-27-19
I really enjoyed the first book in this series for what it was: light beach reading, a little bit of a mystery, perfect. This one was just a little too over the top. The annoying love triangle with the brothers and main character is absurd and I felt like nothing really happened. I feel like I’ll have to stick with the final one just so I get some closure but really I was pretty unimpressed.
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The Other Mrs. Miller
- By: Allison Dickson
- Narrated by: Holly Palance
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,800
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,591
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,586
When a new family moves in across the street - the exuberant Vicki, who just might become the gossipy best friend Phoebe's always wanted, and her handsome college-bound son, Jake, who offers companionship of a different variety - Phoebe finds her dull routine infused with the excitement she's been missing. But with her head turned she's no longer focused on the woman in the car. And she really should be.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Eh.
- By Bridget on 07-24-19
- The Other Mrs. Miller
- By: Allison Dickson
- Narrated by: Holly Palance
Eh.
Reviewed: 07-24-19
Rarely do I actually write full reviews, but this story was absurd. The characters were completely unlikeable and I found myself routing for them all to fail. That paired with a story line that’s completely insane (even for a domestic thriller) really did it for me. But honestly the worst part about this one was the narrator— the main characters are supposed to be in their 30’s and she sounds well into her 60’s. It just seemed to be a strange choice, plus the painfully forced dialogue didn’t do her any favors. I’d pass on this one!
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