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Winter’s Gifts
- Rivers of London, Book 3
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 272
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Story4 out of 5 stars 239
When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an 'X-Ray Sierra India' incident, the operator doesn't understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does. That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town—and there's no sign of Henderson. Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbors report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising—cutting off the town, with no way in or out . . .
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- By MerylB on 06-24-23
- Winter’s Gifts
- Rivers of London, Book 3
- By: Ben Aaronovitch
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
Wow. What a terrible narrator!
Reviewed: 06-28-23
Most Brit actors—TV and cinema— affect wonderful American accents, so what’s up with this audiobook narrator? And a parka is not a “parker,” and thank the goddess that the Brit author didn’t use puffer or puffa. If I had to be in the weather conditions described, I’d insist on a parka, styled longer than most.
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Burner
- Gray Man, Book 12
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,829
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,189
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,178
When you kick over a rock, you never know what's going to crawl out. Alex Velesky is about to discover that the hard way. He's stolen records from the Swiss bank that employs him, thinking that he'll uncover a criminal conspiracy. But he soon finds that he's tapped into the mother lode of corruption. Before he knows it, he's being hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the CIA. Court Gentry and his erstwhile lover, Zoya Zakharova, find themselves on opposites poles when it comes to Velesky. They both want him, but for different reasons.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It’s a MASTERPIECE!!!!
- By shelley on 02-21-23
- Burner
- Gray Man, Book 12
- By: Mark Greaney
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Another fabulous audiobook
Reviewed: 05-21-23
Bravo to author Mark Greaney for another thriller featuring both Six and Anthem. Excellent voice-acting by one of my favorite narrators, Jay Snyder. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this audiobook, and I highly recommend it. I hope you like it as well!
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Zone War
- Zone War Series, Book 1
- By: John Conroe
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,384
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,169
Eco-terrorists unleash the worst attack the world has ever seen. Over 25,000 autonomous combat drones are released in Manhattan. Hundreds of thousands are dead, and the entire island is evacuated and quarantined in just a few days' time. Ten years later, Manhattan is still empty of humans, with the exception of the salvage specialists of the most watched reality show in history: Zone War. Produced live and unedited, the show follows five teams of armored vehicle specialists who brave the active drones to recover lost riches and collect bounties on dead ones.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I'll say this, it was more than I though it was.
- By Cody on 09-05-19
- Zone War
- Zone War Series, Book 1
- By: John Conroe
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
Enjoyable YA action, sci-fi book for gamers
Reviewed: 05-02-23
Younger male fam members loved the Kindle copies I gifted, so I listened to the audiobook and liked it. Excellent for fast walks on the beach.
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Cold Heart Creek
- Detective Josie Quinn, Book 7
- By: Lisa Regan
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 969
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 862
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 858
When a park ranger stumbles across the bodies of Valerie and Tyler Yates by a creek in the small town of Denton, Detective Josie Quinn is first on the scene. Still reeling from the news that her abusive mother is dying, Josie suspects this is more than just accidental poisoning, and she’s right: Someone jammed a crudely carved pendant necklace down Valerie’s throat before she died. Combing the area, Josie’s team discover a third sleeping bag indicating there could have been an extra guest around the fire that night. A lucky escape? A missing victim? Or a suspect on the run?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this series!
- By Dee Norenberg on 12-06-19
- Cold Heart Creek
- Detective Josie Quinn, Book 7
- By: Lisa Regan
- Narrated by: Kate Handford
Straight-from-TV cult tropes
Reviewed: 05-02-23
It must be hard for authors to keep their ongoing-series’ books fresh, especially avoiding tropes. As I listened, I guessed the “twists” coming up. Plus there’s too much repetition of info from earlier books. Author, please trust your readers and our memories.
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Desperation in Death
- An Eve Dallas Novel
- By: J. D. Robb
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,958
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,571
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,560
New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely destroyed. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who’d been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina, who’d hatched the escape plan. Mina was the more daring of the two—but they’d been equally desperate.
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2 out of 5 stars
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child/sex trafficking is not entertaining
- By Cheryl Lynn on 09-08-22
- Desperation in Death
- An Eve Dallas Novel
- By: J. D. Robb
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
A dark book about child trafficking and murder
Reviewed: 09-13-22
This is one of JD Robb’s darker books that features child trafficking and sexual slavery. I left a full review in Goodreads and Amazon’s Kindle review section. I have every one of JD Robb’s Eve Dallas books, but this is one audiobook that I won’t listen to again.
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Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,038
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 917
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 915
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the devil: To escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Awesome with a few hitches.
- By Levi Fay on 10-01-21
- Light from Uncommon Stars
- By: Ryka Aoki
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay
Good audiobook overall
Reviewed: 05-26-22
This was a decent listen but I’m glad I had a Kindle copy to refer to, because of the odd narrative structure. The constant mid-scene POV changes became annoying, especially when I wasn’t sure which female character was speaking.
I was surprised by the narrator’s incompetence at pronouncing Japanese words. Perhaps she also mangled other languages, too.
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Right Behind Her
- Bree Taggert, Book 4
- By: Melinda Leigh
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,016
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,834
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,821
Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way. When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree’s dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she’s spent most of her life trying to forget.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard to listen to
- By Gary Brinkman on 09-15-21
- Right Behind Her
- Bree Taggert, Book 4
- By: Melinda Leigh
- Narrated by: Christina Traister
Worst sound quality of all the Audible versions I have
Reviewed: 09-15-21
The sound is uneven so that it interfered with my listening, and I switched to the Kindle version. I recommend the Kindle or hard copy version of this book. I paid $1.99 for the audiobook, so I’m mulling whether I’ll bother to actually call Audible and return this. The storyline features a solid mystery with author’s usual, heavy internal-monologuing—due to the complex psychological profile of the protagonist. I read this as a stand-alone, without problems.
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The Bone Code
- A Temperance Brennan Novel
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Linda Emond
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 850
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 758
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 752
On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec 15 years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Been Awhile
- By cdigo on 07-13-21
- The Bone Code
- A Temperance Brennan Novel
- By: Kathy Reichs
- Narrated by: Linda Emond
Complex to convoluted mystery w/ medical/biotech terminology. Anti-vaxx undertones.
Reviewed: 09-07-21
A Bouchercon acquaintance mentioned that she bleeped over this book’s medical/science jargon, so out of curiosity, I bought “Bone Code” during a Kindle sale. I prefer listening to spoken French, so I burned a credit on the Audible version. Brava, Linda Edmonds, for brilliant narration throughout—and for sailing through the med/science/technical jargon. Brava!
The setting is post-Covid . . . but pandemic reminders abound, because a secondary storyline features a deadly bacterial infection getting started in NC. The murder storyline is set in Montreal and in Charlotte, with Tempe flying to and fro, accompanied by her cat Birdie, whose loud meow-yowls annoy other passengers.
There is a lot of jargon—science, medical, biotech—but much of it is communicated via dialogue and mostly avoiding word walls. Overall, this is solid 4 star crime fiction, but I docked a star because of content that might inflame the current, politically-driven anti-vaxx narrative. It doesn’t matter that a scientist in this book explains the different types of vaccines, including mRNA. I recently discovered that science and scientists are irrelevant to some Americans.
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The Night Thief
- Jackman and Evans Book 8
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6,390
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,914
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,882
When everyone is sleeping, he comes into their houses. He takes one thing. A photo of their child. A sinister thief on a power trip or something even darker and more sinister? Detectives Jackman and Evans find themselves on the hunt for a highly unusual burglar who seemingly only steals photographs. But then, late one night, an elderly woman falls to her death after seeing someone in her home. Did she really fall, or was she murdered?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Couldn’t get into it
- By Jenny D. on 08-26-21
- The Night Thief
- Jackman and Evans Book 8
- By: Joy Ellis
- Narrated by: Richard Armitage
Two convoluted storylines. A thieving-murder-kidnap storyline. Plus a problematic somnambulist.
Reviewed: 08-30-21
Excellent crime fiction by author Joy Ellis, with brilliant audiobook narration by Richard Armitage. I love Joy Ellis’ Audible books, but this time it took me longer to finish, because I had to listen intently—as I do to nonfiction. “The Night Thief” is dense with subplots, multiple characters, important details, and red herrings. I didn’t even try this audiobook in a car, because I often had to re-listen to get all the particulars. It’s a great listen with a martini in hand, whilst unwinding in the evening.
DI Jackman, DS Evans & their A-team investigate two different sneak thieves, who frighten women in their homes at night. One thief, who steals photos of young boys, murders an elderly woman. The second storyline features a strange man—with an atypical case of somnambulism—whose intensity and odd behavior sets off alarm bells in psychologist Laura Archer, who calls in Dr. Sam Page, her friend and mentor. There are several subplots and many secondary & tertiary characters—including six women victims, their sons, nephews, and grands.
I plan to buy the kindle version when it’s released, because although I gave this audiobook my full attention, I might have missed some details.
4.5 stars, bumped up to 5 stars.
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Monsoon Rain
- Heavy Rain and Thunder Sounds
- By: Greg Cetus
- Narrated by: Greg Cetus
- Length: 51 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 25
This recording features continuous sounds of monsoon rain and gentle thunders. Monsoon rain comes quick; it is powerful, rich and indulging. It will serve as perfect agent to neutralise any other unwanted noises of urban landscape or noisy office, allowing you to focus, relax or meditate in your own space.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Relaxing, somewhat vigorous downpour
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 07-05-20
- Monsoon Rain
- Heavy Rain and Thunder Sounds
- By: Greg Cetus
- Narrated by: Greg Cetus
Annoyingly monotonous. Just constant pounding no rain.
Reviewed: 07-06-21
Needs some change in rhythm, pace, power or something to vary the rain. Also needs more thunder to break the monotony.
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