Jonathan D. Rees
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Alpha Test
- Angromoria, Book 1
- By: David R. Pendleton
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
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The advertisement offered the ultimate Virtual Reality experience. Using a new technology known as Immersive Virtual Reality or IVR, you could truly experience the game as if you were in it. For someone who has been confined to a wheelchair all of his life, the promise was impossible to ignore, but only a few would be invited to take part in the Alpha test of the new game. Devon decided he would be one of those few.
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Pretty Good
- By Christopher on 06-30-19
- Alpha Test
- Angromoria, Book 1
- By: David R. Pendleton
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
Pendleton was an imaginative genius!
Reviewed: 01-25-23
this book has so much in the way of gaming, movie, music, comic culture references it's absolutely mind boggling. with a great blend of humor both in the form of things such as dad jokes straight up through stand-up comedy your always laughing or enjoying a moment of feeling included in the books cultured variety. By public standards every last part of this book, once you got past the explanation of how the world came to be in the prologue, was absolutely perfect. may he rest in peace knowing he made a masterpiece.,
I hope the next in series carries on with his spirit when they finish what he started.
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Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems
- An Unconventional Heroes Publisher's Pack
- By: L. G. Estrella
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
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Timothy Walter Bolton - better known as Timmy - has spent most of his life as a necromancer. When he isn't terrorising his enemies, he's plotting inside his castle, which is built on top of lightless chasms filled with nameless horrors and beings of a generally malevolent and megalomaniacal nature. But after one of his latest creations, a zombie hydra-dragon-bear, tries to eat him, he decides that maybe it's time to find a new, less dangerous, career.
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Sound Editing Needed
- By Robert on 05-29-20
- Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Army of Golems
- An Unconventional Heroes Publisher's Pack
- By: L. G. Estrella
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
Creative Comical so much fun
Reviewed: 08-17-22
Absolutely loved the creativity, worldbuilding, characters, world building, humor.
The subtle points towards possibilities abounding and the plain limits applied by one's own merits "Geralds" especially. this is a world I'd love to read/listen to so much more of. and I'd even dip head first into the world if it ever hit tabletops anywhere.
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Death Shall Come
- An Ishmael Jones Mystery
- By: Simon R. Green
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Ishmael Jones and his partner Penny have been summoned to remote Cardavan House, home of the world’s largest private collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts, for the unveiling of George Cardavan’s latest acquisition: a bona fide Egyptian mummy. When a bloodstained body is discovered beside the empty sarcophagus, Ishmael is dismissive of the theory that the mummy’s curse is to blame.
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Good story, great narration!
- By HeatherT. on 11-01-20
- Death Shall Come
- An Ishmael Jones Mystery
- By: Simon R. Green
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
predictable but awesome
Reviewed: 06-27-22
love Simon R. Green, the works published are amazing. I started with the night side series and couldn't get enough.
that being said I love this book too the story was predictable after reading some of his other works, but the world its feel the people depicted are all so enjoyable. it's worth every moment spent.
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Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City
- The Official Movie Prequel
- By: Pat Cadigan
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
- Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
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On the shattered surface of the earth, there is a metropolis that lives amid the garbage thrown down from the inhabitants of a sky city floating above it. Welcome to Iron City. A lonely doctor specializing in cyborg repair, Ido, is doing his best to help the citizens of Iron City. Hugo, a young man surviving on a life of crime, spots the ultimate steal: an object that will unearth secrets from his own past. And Vector, the most powerful businessman in the city, has his sights set on a new technology that will change the future of Iron City forever....
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Just don't think about it.
- By Nicole F. on 08-29-19
- Alita: Battle Angel - Iron City
- The Official Movie Prequel
- By: Pat Cadigan
- Narrated by: Brian Nishii
covers allot of the basis
Reviewed: 06-15-22
Personally I like it but the original Manga was better I want to see someone do a reading of the original work
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Stonefather
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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When Runnel leaves his mountain valley to head for the great city of the water mages, he has no idea of his own magical talents. But he soon finds that without meaning to, he complicates and then endangers the lives of everyone he comes to know and care about. For when it comes to magic, there are rules and laws, and the untrained mage-to-be must be careful not to tap into deep forces and ancient enmities. Otherwise, other people might end up paying the price for his mistakes.
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Familiar and unique--a breath of fresh air
- By Scott on 03-10-09
- Stonefather
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrated by: Emily Janice Card
amazing world, fun listen, felt really short
Reviewed: 04-15-22
I loved the start of the book, how it tied the main characters personality into how he is as an adult, gave explanation to his thoughts, the culture, his bliss. I loved how it played out and even ended. it was way too short though... waaaay too short.
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A Demon in Silver: Book One of War of the Archons
- The War of the Archons Series, Book 1
- By: R. S. Ford
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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In a world where magic has disappeared, rival nations vie for power in a continent devastated by war. So when a young farm girl named Livia demonstrates magical powers for the first time in a century, there are many across the land that will kill to obtain her power. Duke Gothelm's tallymen, the blood-soaked Qeltine Brotherhood, and cynical mercenary Josten Cade: All are searching for Livia and the power she wields. But Livia finds that guardians can come from the most unlikely places and that the old gods are returning to a world they abandoned.
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Random sex scenes
- By Jonnie on 09-25-20
- A Demon in Silver: Book One of War of the Archons
- The War of the Archons Series, Book 1
- By: R. S. Ford
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
wasn't looking for Smutt, liked the world design
Reviewed: 04-02-22
listen to one action book with a single smut scene suddenly everything I try to listen to that Audible suggest has it and I hate it. that being said the world design the characters and the plot was pretty interesting if I could completely remove the several smut scenes I would have been much happier though
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Rule of Cool
- A LitRPG Novel
- By: Matthew Siege
- Narrated by: Felicia Day
- Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
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Raze is "just" a lowly Gearblin chained to the quest-giver desk at the worst (and only) arcade in town. And that’s a problem for her. It means that she’s a Non-Participating Citizen, someone who can’t see her stats nor make opposed rolls against Heroes. It’s why her life’s worth less than the vendor trash she doles out. The old-timers swear it didn’t used to be like this; their issues only began once RNGesus went AFK a thousand years ago, leaving the questionably blessed Heroes to conquer everything without consequence.
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Before you buy, listen to the preview
- By Amazon Customer on 02-25-21
- Rule of Cool
- A LitRPG Novel
- By: Matthew Siege
- Narrated by: Felicia Day
Glorious Listen
Reviewed: 11-03-21
down on your luck, out of the game, and itching for trouble. this was a good laugh, with the right blend of humor to sarcasm, and more. will be listening again with my Wife. hope to see a sequel someday.
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Exit Interview with My Grandmother
- On 76th Between Columbus and Amsterdam, a Ninety-Two Year Old Woman Is Reading Sally Rooney
- By: Lily Meyersohn
- Narrated by: Lily Meyersohn
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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At once profoundly personal and far-reaching, Exit Interview with My Grandmother serves as a meditation on the beginning of a young woman’s life and the series of questions that arise from examining love, loss, family, memory, and death. Moving between cities and centuries, Meyersohn probes her family's Jewish history and her grandparents' relationships in part to decipher her own young queer relationships, but also to examine how we ought to behave in the face of a world riddled with uncertainty and doubt.
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blaaaaah.
- By Annie on 05-03-20
- Exit Interview with My Grandmother
- On 76th Between Columbus and Amsterdam, a Ninety-Two Year Old Woman Is Reading Sally Rooney
- By: Lily Meyersohn
- Narrated by: Lily Meyersohn
A touching and important view and lesson on life
Reviewed: 01-16-21
the title speaks it all for me. thank you for the perspective, and some really good words for the soul.
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Agent 355
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
- Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins
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The tide is turning against the colonists in the Revolutionary War, and 18-year-old Elizabeth Morris cannot sit by idly. Quietly disdainful of her Tory parents, who drag her along to society events and welcome a British soldier into their home during their occupation of New York City, Elizabeth decides to take matters into her own hands. She realizes that, as a young woman, no one around her believes that she can comprehend the profound implications of being a nation at war - she is, effectively, invisible. And she can use this invisibility to her advantage.
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Should’ve leaned into history or romance
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 07-03-20
- Agent 355
- By: Marie Benedict
- Narrated by: Emily Rankin
Blessed Perception
Reviewed: 09-21-20
The Beautiful outlook she provided here imagined or not into such a major Role as Agent 355 performed really shows how far we have to go. This book was well worth the listen.
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Interview with the Robot
- By: Lee Bacon
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins, Ellen Archer, Josh Hurley, and others
- Length: 3 hrs and 42 mins
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Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: she’s a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.
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Good Short Listen
- By Ronnie on 01-07-20
Beautiful
Reviewed: 07-17-20
A little janky in a couple of the conversations mid book. However over all this book was beautiful fairly original and absolutely something I will re-listen to from time to time and will be very excited to share with my own kids when I have some that are old enough
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