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Title: Revolution: A The Rise of Magic, Book 4

Author: L. E. Barbant, Michael Anderle, C. M. Raymond

Narrator: Kate Rudd

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-16-17

Publisher: LMBPN Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"No matter what," she said, "tomorrow ends with blood."

Adrien's master plan has been revealed and the battle lines are drawn. With the ashes of the Boulevard still hanging in the air, Hannah and team must race to prepare their ragtag army before the full might of Arcadia descends upon them.

While Karl works to whip his troops into shape, Parker invades the belly of the beast, and Hannah and Ezekiel head on diverging paths to seek help.

They've made a stand, but can they win the war?

Revolution brings the first arc of The Rise of Magic series to an explosive end, finally setting right decades of old wrongs and answering the question of good versus evil.

It's an action-packed story, filled with heart, humor, and the never-ending pursuit of justice.

Members Reviews:

AMAZING

AMAZING READ! Revolution: Age Of Magic - A Kurtherian Gambit Series (The Rise of Magic Book 4) my fourth read/listen from author C.M. Raymond picks up where Book 3 left off. I love this incredible amazing fantasy. Reminiscent of The Lord of The Rings in scope, the personality of the characters and the voice inflections of the narrator add depth to the listening experience. Well developed characters, a story line that continues to grow on you as you continued until you couldnt wait to read the finish. A problem with audio books is that you cant just read faster as the excitement mounts to get to the end faster. I cant wait to read book 5 in the series. Im sure that author C.M. Raymond has more good writing waiting in the wings!

fantastic

my sister got me addicted to this series the whole Kazarian Gambit world and I can't wait for the next one to come out

EXCELLENT.

Very ending to Adrian, the antagonist. I am glad that this series will continuing with

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Title: The Stone Sky

Subtitle: The Broken Earth, Book 3

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 52 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

An Amazon Best Book of the Year, 2017

The incredible conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo Award-winning The Fifth Season

The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.

Essun has inherited the phenomenal power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every outcast child can grow up safe.

For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted what her mother will not admit: that sometimes what is corrupt cannot be cleansed, only destroyed.

Critic Reviews:

"Amazing." (Ann Leckie)

"Breaks uncharted ground." (Library Journal)

"Beautiful." (Nnedi Okorafor)

Members Reviews:

This is a very special read

I am a geologist that enjoys fantasy books. I have not found a better yet.

Great Series!

Listened to nine hours of this book over two days. Fascinated about how it was going to end! Really enjoyed the series! Found this book slightly slower than the first two.

Fabulous story, fabulous narration

I just listened to all three books of the trilogy back-to-back and it was a wonderful time. Im sad its over.

Very good and not what I expected

I think this is the best written of the trilogy. I wasn't expecting much from the plot when I started listening but there's lots of interesting plot going on. The writing is a little slow and the narration, whilst excellent, is also a little slow but other than that I really enjoyed the book.

a good ending

I think the second was the strongest in the trilogy, but this is still intriguing. Not as fully satisfying a conclusion as I would have liked, but still a powerful tale.

A bit confusing at times as the change in character's "voice", which is easily visible on the page, is not formally signalled to the listener.

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Title: A Step into the Dark

Subtitle: Ollie Wit, Book 1

Author: Donna Augustine

Narrator: Angel Clark

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-17

Publisher: Strong Hold Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ollie Wit is the strongest Shadow Walker born in decades, but it's a gift with a steep price. Walking in the Shadowlands can bring untold powers and spells, and even greater risks. Every step into that other world brings her closer to the monsters that have haunted her since a child, destroyed her family and wreaked havoc all around her. Kane knows Ollie is the key to getting the spell he needs and he's the answer to ending her torment. But it's a bargain that brings her closer to her own destruction. Even if she succeeds, will she be able to walk away from the newfound power that comes with walking in the Shadowlands?

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Title: Final Fantasy XV: Swords and Gut: An Unofficial FF Novel, Volume 1

Author: Yoshimoto Takeshi

Narrator: Anthony Ibrahim

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-17

Publisher: Yoshimoto Takeshi

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Venture into Eos to witness the beginning of a beautiful friendship between a fearless trainer and his talented but struggling pupil - a youthful prince haunted by the demons of the past, yet destined to become the hero his people can rely on in times of peril. This is the tale of anger and contempt turning into sincere devotion and respect, amid the tranquility of fishing and the intensity of battle.

Members Reviews:

Excellent!

I want more! can't wait for next volume and get to hear how Noctis grows as a prince and a warrior!

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Title: Unfiction

Author: Gene Doucette

Narrator: Brad Wills

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-03-17

Publisher: Gene Doucette

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 26 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When Oliver Naughton joins the Tenth Avenue Writers Underground, headed by literary wunderkind Wilson Knight, Oliver figures he'll finally get some of his wild imaginings out of his head and onto paper.

But when Wilson takes an intense interest in Oliver's writing and his genre stories of dragons, aliens, and spies, things get weird. Oliver's stories don't just need to be finished: they insist on it.

With the help of Minerva, Wilson's girlfriend, Oliver has to find the connection between reality, fiction, the mythical Cydonian Kingdom, and the non-mythical nightclub called M Pallas. That is, if he can survive the alien invasion, the ghosts, and the fact that he thinks he might be in love with Minerva.

Unfiction is a wild ride through the collision of science fiction, fantasy, thriller, horror, and romance. It's what happens when one writer's fiction interferes with everyone's reality.

Unfiction is the latest novel from Gene Doucette, the best-selling author of The Spaceship Next Door.

Members Reviews:

Perfectly Captured Tone and Well Matched Wit

It's not uncommon for me to grit and white-knuckle my way through an audio book's questionable mode of narration for the sake of a good story. Unfiction was pleasantly absent of such a compromise. Author Gene Doucette writes with sharp wit and the keen observation of a true student of the human experience. With nostalgic nods to all our favorite old stories Doucette playfully spins a yarn that is contemporary and new yet warmly familiar.

Narrator Brad Wills captures Doucette's voice with impeccable timing and delivery. Clear and articulate, Wills delivers the story at a pace that matches the tone and feeling of the story: quick and abrupt when the action is hot, steady and deliberate when delivering the more introspective moments of the piece.

It's unfortunate that Wills is not the narrator of Doucette's The Spaceship Next Door as it is next on my list of must listen audio books, as I have enjoyed both the story and its narration immensely.

Listen close and look for the clues as Wills delivers the story of Oliver Naughton's constantly shifting reality in Gene Doucette's Unfiction. You won't be disappointed!

UNREALITY IN THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) would be proud of the masterful story telling and performance of this unique and highly entertaining book that drags the characters and the reader through myriad clichés and tropes of sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, writer geeks, intrigue, chicanery and mixed mayhem and mystery mingled with flying alien bugs, dragons, magicians, sexual innuendo....all captivatingly managed with lighthearted, self-abasing humor, and hardly ANY run-on sentences!

Highly recommended!!!!

The Writers Guild takes a trip to Wonderland

I had a bit of trouble getting into this story for the first couple chapters but I'm very fond of the author so I pushed through. I'm very glad I did this is probably one of the most creative weaving of stories that I've read in a long time! one of those books that you like more and more as you listen and are sad when it ends

Wonderful.

I had no idea where the story was going. Or stories. It had me laughing out loud in places.

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Title: Dragon Bones

Subtitle: Nia Rivers Adventures, Book 1

Author: Ines Johnson, Jasmine Walt

Narrator: Kate Marcin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-15-17

Publisher: Dynamo Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 46 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Tomb Raider meets urban fantasy in a new, spine-tingling adventure from a New York Times best seller...

Meet Nia Rivers: archaeologist, fashionista, and an ancient immortal with a serious memory problem.

For the last couple of centuries, Nia has been trying to fill in the blanks of her past by shedding light on history's darkest stories. Her motto: the ugliest stories are the ones that deserve to be told the most.

But when a mysterious woman comes forth with a 2000-year-old relic from Nia's past, Nia isn't sure if the story connected to it is one she wants told to the world. Unfortunately, Nia has no choice but to uncover the truth - fast - before a greedy land developer buries the site forever. The fact that he's also an immortal, with a millennia-old grudge against her, doesn't help. Neither do the dark assassins who have been stalking her for centuries, and who've suddenly decided to up their game to end her life.

Letting her enemies have their way might be best for Nia, especially when the truth might expose a horrific crime from Nia's past. But all stories deserve to be told.

Even the ugliest ones.

Even if they say you might be a mass murderer.

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Members Reviews:

A trip into deep mythology. Some new ideas.

Good character and world development. I got a bit confused with the two immortal men in her immortal life. Looking for this to get cleared up in future books. I Like her friend Lauren, seems like she's fun to help lighten up the somber mood.

2 and a half

The story is ik but it didn't hold my interest. I didn't connect with the characters and lost interest. Kate Marcin has a nice voice but sometimes her accent slipped.

Nice beginning...

Dragon Bones is a nice beginning to a series. An immortal trying to preserve history all while trying to remember what she's forgotten. Super ninjas, immortals, and a wiley human female mix it up more than once. Throw in a maddened human with "super abilities" and an unanticipated gross twist along with a love triangle and you've got an interesting book!

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Title: Special Agent in Charge

Subtitle: The Federal Witch, Book 3

Author: T S Paul

Narrator: Francis Alais

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-17

Publisher: All Chaos Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 65 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The Magical Crimes Division of the FBI has a new boss!

Agatha Blackmore's probationary period is over and she has been promoted to Special Agent in Charge. Now armed with a new team of paranormal investigators, she is setting out on a new adventure.

An innocent werewolf child has been murdered. Local FBI investigators have discovered that slavery still exists in the modern world. The new team must combat deceit and corruption in their pursuit of justice and salvation for the paranormals of the Midwestern United States.

What happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

Listen to the series that fans call a great listen with lots of humor!

Members Reviews:

Narrator

Where on earth did you find the narrator for this series. She has to be on of the worst Ive ever heard. Many lines are repeated and the overall narration is just bad

Not a terrible book still a bad performance

So the audio audio levels are better, less jerking, smoother volume from one word to the next but absolutely no proofing and very little editing. At one point there is a man's voice correcting her. She still re reads a line about once or twice a chapter sometimes more.

The dialogue is often unnaturally formal. Honestly a good editor for the book and a proper recording studio would do wonders for this series. Alas while it seems like simple fixes the truth is the whole thing screams budget basement affair. Something found dusty on a shelf in a remote truck stop. It's a descent destruction w when the radio is out...

Last thing Fergus seems to have taken a back seat on this book and that's definitely a detriment in my opinion.

A good story

while I am enjoying the story, I am have serious reservations about the production quality. The recording is tinny and you can hear sections of inserted dialog. it is very distracting and takes away from the performance

Great series

What made the experience of listening to Special Agent in Charge the most enjoyable?

I really enjoyed this book. The narrator does a wonderfull job. The only down side is not all the series books are on audio.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Chuck; he is the nerd who always get pick on. Yetbis still a big lovable teddy cat.

Have you listened to any of Francis Alaiss other performances before? How does this one compare?

Yes. This is her best work yet.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Could not sleep till I listen to the whole book.

Any additional comments?

Need the rest of the series on audio.

best book group i read

t can't wait for the next book to come out. I keep reading them on my off day. from the the first book to the last . your books make me look for any thing i mist the first time.

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Title: Spectacle

Author: Rachel Vincent

Narrator: Gabra Zackman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-30-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 174 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In this riveting sequel to New York Times best-selling author Rachel Vincent's acclaimed novel Menagerie, Delilah Marlow will discover that there is no crueler cage than the confines of the human mind.

When their coup of Metzger's Menagerie is discovered, Delilah and her fellow cryptids find their newly won freedom brutally stripped away as they are sold into The Savage Spectacle, a private collection of "exotic wildlife". Specializing in ruthless cryptid cage matches, safari-style creature hunts, and living party favors, the Spectacle's owner, Willem Vandekamp, caters to the forbidden fetishes of the wealthy and powerful. At the Spectacle any wish can be granted - for the right price.

But Vandekamp's closely guarded client list isn't the only secret being kept at the Spectacle. Beneath the beauty and brutality of life in the collection lie much darker truths, and no one is more determined than Delilah to strip the masks from the human monsters and drag all dark things into the light.

Members Reviews:

alright

The first book was pretty cool and this ones story was decent, but I found myself getting very irritated at how helpless/stupid the characters were when confronted, making assanin decisions which somehow made a great character easy to take down with little to know effort until later when all of a sudden everyone can dodge and fight.

So good--spoiler free review

Was worried that it wouldn't live up to Menagerie, but damn. I was sucked in so hard that I wore headphones all day and ignored my husband as he played video games just to finish it. I stayed up late 2 nights in a row listening to it just to finish it. Probably would have finished it sooner had I not to sleep, shower and leave the house for a previously scheduled engagement. These books would make amazing graphic novels or a Starz/HBO series if done right. Can't wait for the next one to come out. May go buy a hard copy just to own for collection sake.

Spoiler, Book is Sad, Sad, Sad

THAT'S NOT HUMAN NATURE, IT'S JUST NATURE

Three and a half hours in and I am so depressed, I can't continue. This is nothing like Menagerie. This book has no awe and wonder. If you have not read book one, you will be lost. Rachel fails to make me feel or care about the main character.

Production

For some reason the book is recorded at a very low level. I had to turn my radio and my mp3 player up as high as they would go. I listen to four or five books a week, every week, and it is rare for me to have to turn my devices up to the max.

Menagerie

Menagerie is a great book. Don't let my sad review of this book keep you from getting that book, it is a masterpiece, but evidently lightning does not strike the same place twice.

WHATEVER I WANT FROM YOU, I'LL JUST TAKE

Too much like the first

Menagerie was a great book and ended in a way that looked like the second was going to be different and possibly ever better. Sadly *small spoiler* by the end of the first chapter, it becomes very much the same book as the first. The plot is not identical, but the situation is nearly the same... but missing much of the character interaction and development that made the first book a great listen.

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Title: Just One Damned Thing After Another

Subtitle: An Audible Original Drama

Author: Marty Ross

Narrator: Gemma Whelan, Ben Miles, Jonathan Bailey, Zara Ramm

Format: Original Recording

Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-18-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 93 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Time travel meets history in this new drama adaptation by Marty Ross.

'So tell me, Dr Maxwell, if the whole of history lay before you...where would you go? What would you like to witness?'

When Max, a recent ancient history graduate, is offered a mysterious job at St Mary's Historical Research Institute, she quickly comes to realise this isn't any old stuffy research library. At St Mary's the historians don't just study the past - they revisit it.

What begins as an academic exploration of events, such as the Peterloo Massacre, takes a dark and dangerous turn, and the historians of St Mary's soon learn that it's not just history they're fighting....

Follow the tea-soaked disaster magnets of St Mary's as they rattle around history. Because wherever these historians go, chaos is sure to follow.

Starring Gemma Whelan (SAG nominated, Game of Thrones, Gulliver's Travels), Ben Miles (SAG nominated, The Crown, V for Vendetta), Jonathan Bailey (Broadchurch, Leonardo, The Mercy) and Zara Ramm (narrator of the original Chronicles of St Mary's audiobooks), this Audible Original production will transport you to iconic moments throughout history, from the Cretaceous period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria.

Critic Reviews:

"A Terry Pratchett- and Neil Gaiman-inspired adventure." (NME)

"If youre already a fan of the series, this is a no-brainer." (Starburst)

"Once you've started listening, you'll find it hard to stop until the story is complete." (Sci-Fi Online)

"What begins as an academic exploration of events such as the Peterloo Massacre, takes a dark and dangerous turn...." (Daily Mirror)

Members Reviews:

Might be tough for longtime series fans

Any additional comments?

I am frustrated by this audioplay... I love this St. Mary's universe and want nothing but continued success and fame for author Jodi Taylor, including expansion to other forms of media if possible. I am never the person to snobbishly complain about book-to-video adaptations and actually prefer the opportunity to see a different creative take on great stories. But the script of this adaptation just doesn't sit right when compared to the book series.

While the vocal performances are quite good (especially the always brilliant Zara Ramm), and some details from the books are beautifully incorporated in this audioplay (Bairstow's ticking clock, Kleio's musical tones), there are many distracting changes to some seminal St. Mary's themes and details.

Some of the main cast of characters are essentially ignored (Peterson, Foster, Dowson, Mack), and some have quite different personalities (Leon is melodramatic, publicly flirtatious, and classically charming instead of painfully stoic, romantically awkward, and flawed). Many elements from the book are included, but in a different order or under different circumstances that feel shoe-horned for no reason instead of out of necessity for the change in storytelling format.

I must give credit to the way the scenes at the WWI hospital at the Somme were recorded...

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Title: The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

Author: Kij Johnson

Narrator: Kij Johnson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: TalkingBook

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 98 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

One of NPR's Best Books of 2016 and a 2016 Nebula Award finalist for Best Novella

Professor Vellitt Boe teaches at the prestigious Ulthar Women's College. When one of her most gifted students elopes with a dreamer from the waking world, Vellitt must retrieve her.

Critic Reviews:

"Kij Johnson's haunting novella

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe is both a commentary on a classic H.P. Lovecraft tale and a profound reflection on a woman's life. Vellitt's quest to find a former student who may be the only person who can save her community takes her through a world governed by a seemingly arbitrary dream logic in which she occasionally glimpses an underlying but mysterious order, a world ruled by capricious gods and populated by the creatures of dreams and nightmares. Those familiar with Lovecraft's work will travel through a fantasy landscape infused with Lovecraftian images viewed from another perspective, but even readers unfamiliar with his work will be enthralled by Vellitt's quest. A remarkable accomplishment that repays rereading." (Pamela Sargent, winner of the Nebula Award)

Members Reviews:

Great Science Fiction!

Any additional comments?

So good! I can see why it was up for so many awards. Can't wait to listen again!

wonderful story written and read by a real talent!

Wonderful story written and read by a real talented author! Can't wait for more from this author.

Awesome Scifi!

Any additional comments?

It's so awesome a book like this gets so much love. Great story and great narration from the author!

Sci Fi fantasy at its best

I can see why Kij Johnson was nominated for a Hugo award. This book is so wonderfully imaginative and it feels like I've been there. Definitely one of the good ones.

Excellent audiobook!

Would you listen to The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe again? Why?

Absolutely! This is a brilliant take on Lovecraft's "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath." With Vellitt Boe, Kij Johnson was able to recreate the expansive wonder of the tale that inspired it. Absorbing and enjoyable.