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Radiance
- Wraith Kings, Volume 1
- De: Grace Draven
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,234
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,969
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,976
Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, has lived content as the nonessential spare heir to a throne secured many times over. A trade and political alliance between the human kingdom of Gaur and the Kai kingdom of Bast-Haradis requires that he marry a Gauri woman to seal the treaty. Always a dutiful son, Brishen agrees to the marriage and discovers his bride is as ugly as he expected and more beautiful than he could have imagined.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An unexpected and awesome surprise!!!!
- De Sharon en 06-17-15
- Radiance
- Wraith Kings, Volume 1
- De: Grace Draven
- Narrado por: Gabrielle Baker
Fantasy romance as advertised
Revisado: 08-11-20
I liked it. Fairly unique world and characters, good romance, some action at the end-overall was exactly what I expected (in a good way).
Unfortunately it took over half the book to get used to the narrator. Other reviews hear a lisp, but I think it is more her accent (sounds like she's talking with mothballs). I'm interested in the sequel but unlikely to buy the audiobook.
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To Kill a Kingdom
- De: Alexandra Christo
- Narrado por: Jacob York, Stephanie Willis
- Duración: 12 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,599
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,332
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,327
Princess Lira is siren royalty and the most lethal of them all. With the hearts of 17 princes in her collection, she is revered across the sea. Until a twist of fate forces her to kill one of her own. To punish her daughter, the Sea Queen transforms Lira into the one thing they loathe most - a human. Robbed of her song, Lira has until the winter solstice to deliver Prince Elian's heart to the Sea Queen and or remain a human forever.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Promises more than it delivers.
- De Bookworm en 03-11-19
- To Kill a Kingdom
- De: Alexandra Christo
- Narrado por: Jacob York, Stephanie Willis
Good readers and interesting concept
Revisado: 05-12-20
The POV switches between male and female characters, and I thought both readers did well, though I preferred the male voice (the female reader was a bit overdramatic at times) and I wish they had coordinated a bit more on how they did the accents of the different characters. Good performance overall though. - 4 stars
I really liked the concept of the story (what if the Little Mermaid wanted to eat the prince instead of marry him), and the setting (vaguely Mediterranean?) was interesting. The last third, and especially the final battle, struggled and just did not really make sense or live up to the rest of the book. -2.5 stars
Overall, good for a quick read, but unlikely to listen to this again.
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Case Histories
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Susan Jameson
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 2,633
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,235
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 2,236
Case One: A little girl goes missing in the night. Case Two: A beautiful young office worker falls victim to a maniac's apparently random attack. Case Three: A new mother finds herself trapped in a hell of her own making - with a very needy baby and a very demanding husband - until a fit of rage creates a grisly, bloody escape.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Trippy book
- De mary en 01-20-09
- Case Histories
- A Novel
- De: Kate Atkinson
- Narrado por: Susan Jameson
Excellent narrator elevates mystery
Revisado: 09-20-19
The narrator did an amazing job with a diverse group of characters, and she gave the story an even stronger emotional punch.
The structure of the plot and most of the characters were interesting, and the book dug into hard topics like parenthood, grief, and the impossibility of "closure." The two knocks I have on the story are that the third case history was treated like an afterthought (especially the sister), and the resolution of all of the mysteries at the end was kind of disconnected from everything that had come before. Overall a better literary novel than a tight mystery/detective story, but worth the short listen.
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Dark Moon Defender
- The Twelve Houses, Book 3
- De: Sharon Shinn
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 19 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 295
The Rider Justin is sent to the small town of Neft, so he can spy on the nearby Lumanen Convent where the Daughters of the Pale Mother reside. He quickly learns that Coralinda Gisseltess, the leader of the Daughters, is indeed persecuting mystics and the people who shelter them. Even more quickly, he falls in love with Ellynor, one of the convent novices. But the courtship is perilous in the extreme.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing change in narrator.
- De shirley en 03-05-09
- Dark Moon Defender
- The Twelve Houses, Book 3
- De: Sharon Shinn
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
4 star book, 2.5 star narration
Revisado: 06-20-19
A few caveats for this review:
(1) I've read these books a few times before and always enjoyed them, so I already liked the story and the relationships between the characters. Interesting world building and in-depth character studies, but nothing that is going to blow your mind or shake up the genre. The mix of fantasy and romance (pretty tame romance actually) is nice and entertaining.
(2) I also really enjoyed the narration for Mystic and Rider and The Thirteenth House. I get why they switched to a male narrator for books 3 and 4, but I started off a bit disappointed so I was already a little biased against the narrator from the beginning.
(3) I immediately recognized Barrett from his narration of Bonfire of the Vanities, which was really good but given that all of those haracters are pretty terrible people it threw me off at first.
With those caveats, I thought he did a good job with the main characters, especially the new ones (Justin, Ellynor, the Lestra, Senneth) except for two fairly important supporting characters--Kirra and Cammon. The voice he used for Kirra was only a bit annoying, but the accent for Cammon morphed midway through the book from the more proper English accent Van Dyke used in books 1 and 2 to a horribly grating cockney accent. Luckily he only appears in a few scenes here, but it is so bad that I am probably not going to get book 4 since he is the main character and I couldn't take it for a full book.
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