Malinda Halim
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State of Terror
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Joan Allen
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7,873
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,044
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,995
After a tumultuous period in American politics, a new administration has just been sworn in, and to everyone’s surprise the president chooses a political enemy for the vital position of secretary of state. There is no love lost between the president of the United States and Ellen Adams, his new secretary of state. But it’s a canny move on the part of the president. With this appointment, he silences one of his harshest critics, since taking the job means Adams must step down as head of her multinational media conglomerate
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful story and great narration
- By Amazon Customer on 10-14-21
- State of Terror
- A Novel
- By: Louise Penny, Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Joan Allen
So who is a thinly disguised who
Reviewed: 10-27-21
I loved this audio book. Although I was fairly sure I had worked out who the bad guy was and I did anticipate a major plot twist, it kept me guessing . I was never really sure I was right (I was) The most fun for me was trying to decide which character was a thinly disguised doppelganger for which real life p!ayer/political figure. Dunn was easy. Williams not so much. I would love to be able to ask the authors.
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The Testaments
- The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 23,672
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21,187
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,036
More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by a third: Aunt Lydia. Her complex past and uncertain future unfold in surprising and pivotal ways.
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5 out of 5 stars
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It does what a sequel should do.
- By Fountain of Chris on 09-10-19
- The Testaments
- The Sequel to The Handmaid's Tale
- By: Margaret Atwood
- Narrated by: Derek Jacobi, Mae Whitman, Ann Dowd, Bryce Dallas Howard, Tantoo Cardinal, Margaret Atwood
In Today's America Frighteningly Plausible
Reviewed: 09-21-19
Well though out, well written and believeable. Man loose ends nicely tied up . When I first encountered The Handmaids Take many years ago it was comfortably improbable however chilling and enthralling I found the plot, in fact it was shelved as Science Fiction. (A classification I disagree with). However events of the intervening years have made Atwoofs dystopian future possible if ,I hope, unlikely. We have experienced an erosion in the reproductive freedoms of women and seen an admitted serial sexual abuser of women installed in the highest office in the US. We have experienced several years of growing class resentment and a deeping of distrust between a number of social and ethnic groups coupled with increasing violence in our society. I no longer see The Rebuplic of Gilliad as impossible but I hope it is not inevitable
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