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Colored Television
- A Novel
- By: Danzy Senna
- Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Jane has high hopes her life is about to turn around. After years of living precariously, she, her painter husband, Lenny, and their two kids have landed a stint as house sitters in a friend’s luxurious home high in the hills above Los Angeles, a gig that coincides magically with Jane’s sabbatical. If she can just finish her latest novel, Nusu Nusu, the centuries-spanning epic Lenny refers to as her “mulatto War and Peace,” she’ll have tenure and some semblance of stability and success within her grasp. But things don’t work out quite as hoped.
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- By NMichelle on 10-13-24
- Colored Television
- A Novel
- By: Danzy Senna
- Narrated by: Kristen Ariza
Inexcusable Racial Bashing
Reviewed: 12-07-24
What a disappointment for a supposedly Woke Society.
Terrible. Guess what race I belong to…You’re wrong.
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The Perfect Son
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens, Daniel Thomas May
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.
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If you love animals give this one a miss!
- By Rachel on 08-18-22
- The Perfect Son
- By: Freida McFadden
- Narrated by: Suzie Althens, Daniel Thomas May
Preposterous
Reviewed: 09-02-24
The surprise ending twist was interesting. The storyline was unnecessarily prolonged. I’m left feeling confused.
Free (Audible Plus) was a good price.
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Surviving Dirty John
- My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder
- By: Debra Newell, M. William Phelps - contributor
- Narrated by: Debra Newell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Debra Newell is nothing if not a survivor. By the time she met John Michael Meehan online, she lived through a near-fatal childhood illness, an attempted rape in her 20s, the traumatic death of her sister at the hands of her brother-in-law, four failed marriages, and a litany of dating disasters. But despite those tragedies, she seemed to have it all: adoring children, a successful business, a fabulous penthouse apartment.
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HORRIBLE narration
- By Liesl522 on 12-09-21
- Surviving Dirty John
- My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder
- By: Debra Newell, M. William Phelps - contributor
- Narrated by: Debra Newell
Shocking story
Reviewed: 08-31-24
Interesting account of hoax and betrayal if you can get through the narrator’s cringeworthy mispronunciations
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Starvation Heights
- Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1911 two British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, read a brochure about a revolutionary fasting treatment that promised a lifetime of good health. The sanatorium in the village of Olalla, west of Seattle, was surrounded by a beautiful forest, sparkling waters and fresh air. The sisters agreed it sounded perfect and exactly the restorative holiday they needed. But within a month of arriving, under the supervision of Doctor Linda Burfield Hazzard, Claire and Dora began to realise the frightening truth – they were not patients but prisoners at the isolated sanitorium.
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Excellent true crime story!
- By Colleen T. Mizeres on 01-26-23
- Starvation Heights
- Dangerous Women: True Crime Stories
- By: Gregg Olsen
- Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Repetitive
Reviewed: 08-30-24
Far too long for a story that could have been told in 3
hours. Predictable ending
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Nantucket Nights
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
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For 20 years, Kayla, Antoinette and Val have performed their own special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate lives to drink champagne, swap stories and swim naked under the Nantucket stars. But on one of those bonding nights, one of their trio swims out from the shore and doesn't return. After the surviving friends emerge from their grief, they realize that the repercussions of their loss go far beyond their little circle, and they begin to uncover layers of secrets—and their connections to each other—that were never revealed on the beach.
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Desperate
- By C. Reed on 08-08-18
- Nantucket Nights
- A Novel
- By: Elin Hilderbrand
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
Interesting until it wasn’t
Reviewed: 02-28-24
Ending is disappointing. Story too long for payoff at finale. Hilderbrand’s story lines are much better in later books.
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Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon Copperhead is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. Relayed in his own unsparing voice, Demon braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
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Wow! It’s a Masterpiece
- By Billy on 10-25-22
- Demon Copperhead
- A Novel
- By: Barbara Kingsolver
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
Amazing!
Reviewed: 12-08-22
Captivating !
One of the best books I’ve read in years. I didn’t want it to end.
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The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was.
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The worst book I have ever heard
- By Amazon Customer on 05-14-21
- The Last Thing He Told Me
- A Novel
- By: Laura Dave
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
Tedious
Reviewed: 08-06-21
Slow & pointless. Shallow characters. The narrator was the worst I’ve ever heard - it was a painful listening experience.
Don’t waste a credit
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Grange House
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Blake
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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Maisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange. In 1896, when Maisie turns 17, her visit marks a turning point. On the morning after her arrival, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: drowned lovers, found clasped in each other's arms. It's only the first in a series of events that casts a shadow over Maisie's summer. As she considers the attentions of two very different young men, Maisie also falls under the gaze of Miss Grange, who begins to tell her disturbing stories of her past.
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Boring!
- By Mary Beth Conrad on 04-07-22
- Grange House
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Blake
- Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
Dry
Reviewed: 12-28-20
This book did not hold my attention. I am an avid Audible “reader” and found it difficult to get through. Predictable and disappointing conclusion.
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The Fatalist
- By: Campbell McConachie
- Narrated by: Neil Pigot
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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What factors are at play in the creation of a cold-blooded killer? How can a relaxed, sociable, loving man with a strong work ethic keep the truth of his inner life, his dark side, hidden from friends, family and even the woman he marries? Informed by the science of criminal psychology, court documents and transcripts, correspondence and many interviews with Rose in the notorious Goulburn Supermax prison, Campbell McConachie's account is a unique and fascinating journey into the life and mind of a multiple murderer.
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Incredibly dry
- By Caroline on 12-29-19
- The Fatalist
- By: Campbell McConachie
- Narrated by: Neil Pigot
Incredibly dry
Reviewed: 12-29-19
This book was long, boring and very hard to wade through. Don’t bother wasting a credit.
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Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
- Length: 20 hrs
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Sisters. Strangers. Survivors. More than 20 years ago, Claire and Lydia's teenaged sister Julia vanished without a trace. The two women have not spoken since, and now their lives could not be more different. Claire is the glamorous trophy wife of an Atlanta millionaire. Lydia, a single mother, dates an ex-con and struggles to make ends meet. But neither has recovered from the horror and heartbreak of their shared loss—a devastating wound that's cruelly ripped open when Claire's husband is killed.
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Definitely needed the trigger warning, but..
- By Hillary on 02-01-16
- Pretty Girls
- By: Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
Bizarre - and WHY???
Reviewed: 03-21-19
I couldn’t finish this book & returned it. Gratuitous sordid (and repetitive) details regarding torture of victims. What was the author’s intent? Horrific.
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