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Nicola Barber
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Jo Baker
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Malin has always been different, and when her father dies, leaving her alone, her choice is clear: stay and remain an outsider forever or leave in search of the mythical inheritance she is certain awaits her. Apprenticed to a series of strange and wonderful characters, Malin embarks on a grueling journey that crosses oceans and continents - from the high seas to desert plains - and leads to a discovery that she could never have expected. Beautifully written and hauntingly strange, The Mermaid's Child is a remarkable piece of storytelling and an utterly unique work of fantasy from literary star Jo Baker.
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There came an elastic aftershock of creaks and groans and then, softly softly, a chinking shower of rubbled cement. Leaves calmed and trunks stood serene. Where, not a minute before, there had been a suburb, there was now only woodland standing amid ruins. There is no warning. No chance to prepare. They arrive in the night: thundering up through the ground, transforming streets and towns into shadowy forest. Buildings are destroyed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Post apocalypse with a little bit of magic
- De Tam en 09-20-16
De: Ali Shaw
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The Good Thief
- De: Hannah Tinti
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Twelve-year-old Ren doesn't know who his parents were. He doesn't know who left him at St. Anthony's orphanage, or how he lost his left hand when still an infant. He is resigned to life without a family to call his own and terrified of the future. But then a young man named Benjamin Nab appears, claiming to be Ren's long-lost brother, and his convincing tale of how Ren lost his hand and his parents is enough to persuade the monks at the orphanage to release the boy. But is Benjamin really who he says he is?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Close But No Cigar?
- De Andrew Moore en 10-03-09
De: Hannah Tinti
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Leopard at the Door
- De: Jennifer McVeigh
- Narrado por: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 441
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 388
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 385
After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion - a strange, intolerant woman - has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching the boiling point. And looming over them all is the threat of the Mau Mau, a secret society intent on uniting the native Kenyans and overthrowing the whites.
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5 out of 5 stars
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IMPERIALISM
- De Haberwoman en 08-02-18
De: Jennifer McVeigh
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The Door Before
- 100 Cupboards Prequel
- De: N. D. Wilson
- Narrado por: Kathleen Gati
- Duración: 5 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 116
Hyacinth Smith can see things that others miss, stop attack dogs from attacking, and grow trees where no trees have grown before. But she's never had a real home. When her father tells them they've inherited a house from their great-aunt, Hyacinth sees trouble brewing. Their great-aunt has been playing with forces beyond her control, using her lightning-tree forest to create doors to other worlds. When one door opens, two boys tumble through...bringing with them a battle with the undying witch-queen, Nimiane.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If Siri read you a book
- De Brian K en 06-29-17
De: N. D. Wilson
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The Oversight
- De: Charlie Fletcher
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 258
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 238
Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic start to a fantasy series
- De jessica en 06-01-14
De: Charlie Fletcher
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The Ritual
- De: Adam Nevill
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,515
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,366
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,361
When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise. With limited experience between them, a shortcut meant to ease their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives. Lost, hungry, and surrounded by forest untouched for millennia, Luke figures things couldn't possibly get any worse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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AMAZING AND SCARY
- De Emily McDonald en 02-15-18
De: Adam Nevill
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The Ninth Rain
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- De: Jen Williams
- Narrado por: Jot Davies
- Duración: 20 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 182
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 182
Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t put it down!
- De Renae en 09-09-22
De: Jen Williams
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The Scorpio Races
- De: Maggie Stiefvater
- Narrado por: Steve West, Fiona Hardingham
- Duración: 12 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,782
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,620
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,624
With her trademark lyricism, Maggie Stiefvater turns to a new world, where a pair are swept up in a daring, dangerous race across a cliff—with more than just their lives at stake should they lose.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stiefvater at Her Best
- De The Mankers en 07-01-12
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The Janissary Tree
- A Novel
- De: Jason Goodwin
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 417
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 288
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 291
It is 1836. Europe is modernizing, and the Ottoman Empire must follow suit. But just before the sultan announces sweeping changes, a wave of murders threatens the balance of power in his court. Who is behind them? Only one intelligence agent can be trusted to find out: Yashim Togalu, a man both brilliant and near-invisible in this world. You see, Yashim is a eunuch.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Interesting premise, annoying narrator
- De Phillipa Somerville en 09-18-07
De: Jason Goodwin
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The Feed
- A Novel
- De: Nick Clark Windo
- Narrado por: Clare Corbett, Nick Clark Windo
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 74
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
The Feed is accessible everywhere, by everyone, at any time. It instantaneously links us to all information and global events. Tom and Kate use the Feed, but Tom has resisted its addiction. The Feed's collapse, taking modern society with it, leaves people scavenging to survive. Tom and Kate have managed to protect themselves and their family. But then their six-year-old daughter, Bea, goes missing. Who has taken her? How do you begin to look for someone in a world without technology?
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3 out of 5 stars
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uhhh
- De Michelle en 03-10-20
De: Nick Clark Windo
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Stations of the Tide
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- De Robert L. en 03-25-12
De: Michael Swanwick
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The Survivors
- De: Kate Furnivall
- Narrado por: Imogen Church
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 175
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really interesting
- De Karen en 11-10-18
De: Kate Furnivall
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Everything Under
- A Novel
- De: Daisy Johnson
- Narrado por: Esther Wane
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 75
The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most. She grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. One phone call from her mother is all it takes for the past to come rushing back. To find her, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A brilliantly understated classic
- De Jeff Lacy en 10-29-19
De: Daisy Johnson
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The Iron Dragon's Daughter
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 14 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 79
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 71
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 71
Named a New York Times notable book of 1994, The Iron Dragon's Daughter tells the heartrending story of a changeling child who is kidnapped to a realm of malls and machines and enslaved in a vast, infernal factory. Ultimately, she escapes and attempts to educate herself about this alien world, while being tormented by visions of the life she was denied.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Inconsistent story and makes for a poor experience
- De Martin Smith en 07-10-15
De: Michael Swanwick
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The Wild Hunt
- De: Emma Seckel
- Narrado por: Ruth Urquhart
- Duración: 8 h y 50 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island in years, but when she finds herself called home from a disappointing life on the Scottish mainland by her father's unexpected death, she is determined to forget the sorrows of the past and start fresh. Fellow islander Iain MacTavish, a RAF veteran with his eyes on the sky and his head in the past, is also in desperate need of a new beginning. A young widower, Iain struggles to return to the normal life he knew before the war. But this October is anything but normal. This October, the sluagh are restless.
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5 out of 5 stars
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one of my favorite books ever
- De Cait en 11-02-24
De: Emma Seckel
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The Last Mapmaker
- De: Christina Soontornvat
- Narrado por: Sura Siu
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 68
As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one aboard with secrets. When Sai learns that the ship might be heading for the fabled Sunderlands—a land of dragons, dangers, and riches beyond imagining—she must weigh the cost of her dreams.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bad
- De Amy R en 10-29-23
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The Boat Runner
- A Novel
- De: Devin Murphy
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 11 h y 44 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 167
Beginning in the summer of 1939, 14-year-old Jacob Koopman and his older brother, Edwin, enjoy lives of prosperity and quiet contentment. Many of the residents in their small Dutch town have some connection to the Koopman lightbulb factory, and the locals hold the family in high esteem. On days when they aren't playing with friends, Jacob and Edwin help their uncle Martin on his fishing boat in the North Sea, where German ships have become a common sight. When war breaks out, Jacob's world is thrown into chaos.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not a typical World War II story
- De Marsha L. Woerner en 01-31-18
De: Devin Murphy
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Mermaid's Child
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución5 out of 5 stars
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- Clay Lady
- 09-10-24
Beautiful story of personal strength and longing
The language is exquisite. Sights, smells, sounds are all rendered visible through the combination of exceptional writing and heartfelt narration.
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- Chloe Leinwand
- 02-13-21
What an awful book.
The reader’s voice is amazing. She could read me the dictionary and I would be enthralled.
However this book was awful: disgusting, violent, gratuitously sexual. I’m really sorry I wasted the tine listening to it.
Then you find out at the end it’s the narrator talking to her daughter. I’d be horrified if I were her kid and had to listen to it. And then the story just kind of randomly ends, like the author ran out of awful ideas.
Don’t buy this.
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución4 out of 5 stars
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- Kaycee
- 06-06-15
Didn't like the story
I loved Longbourn, but didn't like this at all. The story was not engaging - I felt like I wanted to get away from the constant travails and unhappiness. I don't read only pleasant books, but there was just nothing about this story that was engaging. I didn't particularly like Malin, the main character, or feel drawn into her life. I didn't like having to listen to the sections in which Malin talked about being forced to suck on men's smelly "dicks," etc. Baker didn't feel the need to go into detail about the horrific conditions endured by slaves on the slave ship, but portrayed it through Malin's feelings about the slaves and how many died. Yet Baker seemed to enjoy adding some detail about what Malin endured when she was forced to work as a prostitute. Maybe it's just me; maybe that doesn't bother most people.
If the performance hadn't been so good, I wouldn't have kept listening and hoping it would get better. It was a waste of the credit I used to buy it, and now I wish I had quit listening and asked for a refund.
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