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Title: Paying the Price

Subtitle: The Empire of Bones Saga, Book 5

Author: Terry Mixon

Narrator: Veronica Giguere

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-17

Publisher: Yowling Cat Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 61 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Admiral Jared Mertz returns to the New Terran Empire a conquering hero. But not everyone cheers his success.

Crown Prince Ethan Bandar tried to kill Jared once. Paranoia and ambition demands he succeed this time.

Only Jareds sister and their battle-hardened allies stand between him and death.

If you love military science fiction and grand adventure on a galaxy-spanning scale, grab Paying the Price and the rest of The Empire of Bones Saga today!

Members Reviews:

YES!

By far my favorite Empire of Bones novel so far! This book paid off some of the things I've been looking forward to from book 1, and it delivered in a big way. I was pleased to see some of the secondary and tertiary characters we've seen come closer to the forefront in this book, and just... wow. The ending was awesome!

I am pumped for book 6!

Love a good space opera and I love this series

Would you consider the audio edition of Paying the Price to be better than the print version?

Yes Very much so

Who was your favorite character and why?

Princess Kelsey Bandar. She is always coming to Jared's rescue

Which scene was your favorite?

When Princess Kelsey Bandar let her twin brother go thru the worm hole

Any additional comments?

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review

Good military action Sci Fy

I listen to audio books while I am driving almost exclusively, sometimes a few days between listens. Therefore I judge a book, whether it is print, e-book or audio based on whether it keeps my interest, has continuity, and if I can remember the story after being away from it for a period of time.

This book did all those things and more, it is book 5 in the series and I will admit that I had not read any of the previous books. This one is full of action and the characters are well developed even the ones that you want to hate.

I liked this book so much that I am going to get the first 4 books and listen to them to find out more of the back story and I expect that I will enjoy them as much.

I received this book for free as part of a promotion buy the author in exchange for an honest review.

A well executed continuation to this space opera

If you have read or listened to any of the previous books in the Empire of Bones Saga, you'll enjoy this installment as well. The series, and this book, is a fun well crafted story, with characters that are well formed. However; this is not a story with gritty characters and a deep dive into what drives them. It is much more surfacy than that. But because it is, it can move quickly from success to success that is satisfying and lends to the charm of the series.

I left a rating of 4 on narration because while the narrator is very good, the differentiation in voice and characters could be improved and in my opinion, was a distraction from the story.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

The price of ones actions is faced.

What about Veronica Gigueres performance did you like?

Veronica is a favorite narrator for me. She speaks clear with possession of each word. She voices each character with different tones, sounds, and even accents to differentiate each one for us. This is a blessing in audio with a larger cast of characters. Even to give an AI feel to some voices is an addition to the many talents Veronica has.

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Title: Terradox

Author: Craig A. Falconer

Narrator: Dina Pearlman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-27-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 212 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

They were heading for Venus. Somewhere else found them first....

When a sudden impact sends a spacecraft bound for a distant research station hurtling toward a previously unseen and inexplicable planet, responsibility for the safety of its passengers immediately falls on Ivy 'Holly' Wood, a former poster child of the public space program now fleeing Earth's tyrannical leadership.

The mysterious planet's startlingly Earth-like atmosphere initially breeds optimism among Holly's group of stranded survivors, but before long it becomes clear that Earth's rules don't apply and that nothing can be taken for granted.

With all hopes of escape dependent on discovering the true nature of this increasingly hostile planet, Holly and the rest of the desperate survivors know only one thing for sure: Their newly discovered world will not give up its secrets without a fight.

Terradox is a sci-fi thriller/adventure novel from the author of the breakout best seller Not Alone, an Audible.com 'Best of 2016' finalist.

Members Reviews:

twisty story line

a very enjoyable story. Narrator Dina Pearlman did did an outstanding job her voice range was amazing. Also her command of dialects was extraordinary to say the least. It was very easy to get fully emersed in the tale.

The author Craig A Falconer brought forth an excellent story concept. this was for me well worth listening to.

Yes by all means purchase this Audible book, it's really great Sci-fi.

Skip it.

The plot is dumb, the characters are so unrelatable, that I couldn't tell who was whom and this didn't really matter because every line made about as much sense if it was delivered by the little boy. The only way to enjoy this book is to pretend that the whole thing takes place in the kid's imagination.

I spent most of the book trying to figure out if the narrator was horrible, or if the writing was just so horrible that it was impossible for a narrator to salvage it. I'm pretty sure it was equal parts of each.

Also, it's incredibly jarring when someone doesn't know how to pronounce the word 'habitable.'

I could go on, but the bottom line is that I wish I hadn't ever listened to this book. It's too late for me, but you can still save yourself.

GREAT, BUT TINNY

I loved the story and finished it in one day, but it did take me a little bit to get used to the sound quality of the book. Was this recorded inside a pop can? If they fixed this, Terradox would be damn near perfect.

Great

I really enjoyed this book very much and sometime in the near future I want to hear book two . The story was awesome I liked the people in the book

Terradox

Terradox Narrated by Dina Peraltman Authored by Craig A Falconer are a duo that can not be resisted. A perfect setting for today's of; oh so blind , ignorant, and sleeping masses. They would not even be required to read just lock them in a closed room and tell them to listen. Ah, well even old half blind women have dreams once in a while!

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Title: Asbaran Solutions

Subtitle: The Revelations Cycle, Book 2

Author: Chris Kennedy

Narrator: E. M. Carberry

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-17

Publisher: Chris Kennedy Publishing

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 261 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Nigel Shirazi was first in line for the chairmanship of Asbaran Solutions, one of the prominent "Four Horsemen" mercenary companies. First in line...until his drinking and temper caused him to fail out of college and get disinherited by the family.

Now he leads the life of a playboy, enjoying a stipend from the family to stay out of the way. But someone is out to get his family, and Nigel is all that stands between the hidden enemy and the destruction of Asbaran Solutions and the Shirazi family.

Nigel will have to learn to control himself if he's going to take the reins of the company, figure out who's behind the vendetta against Asbaran, and work out a way to stop them. But they've taken his sister hostage, and that makes him a very, very angry man!

Members Reviews:

Story was like a 10 year old wrote it

Don't get me started on the performance, there was almost no inflection in his voice. The story itself was just... Bad. No comparison to the previous story. The characters made few decisions that make sense and they didn't feel developed at all. They make the same exact mistakes throughout the story. The story itself repeats itself, many of the scenes feel recycled. I'll never read a book by this author or read by the this narrator again.

Why?

change the narrator. change the author. story fixed.

This book comes off as if the author was given a homework assignment and did the minimum work possible. additionally he pretty much just took the first story and moved some words around and made it terrible.

p.s.

I will be getting my credit back

acceptable military sci fi

Without spoilers, the story itself was good enough. Hopeless battles, sacrifice, stompy power armor, that good stuff is all here.

I feel, however, that the experience was hampered by a mediocre narrator; characters all speak with one of two voices, neither of which is describably "female", and no attempt at all is made to portray characters who are stated to have accents, with accents. Some words are mispronounced, and the performance is simply lacklustre.

I tried to like it. Seriously, I want to like it..

Any additional comments?

I made it 1/4th through the book and gave up. The story might be worth reading a few times like I did with the first book but the performance was awful. The narrator was mostly monotone with all the characters, There wasn't enough variance in the reading to distinguish male from female or alien from human. It was not an enjoyable experience.

An acceptable story with a horrible narrator

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

No. To be honest, I would have been better off reading it and having the voices in my head narrate it.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Asbaran Solutions?

For a second novel in a series, the tone changes very much from the first. It seems the lack of personal deaths in the first novel has been made up in the second.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The narrator was dull, monotone and lacked skill. Many times I was confused by who was supposed to be speaking in the story.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

No.

Any additional comments?

Please, do not let this narrator ruin any more books until he has improved his range and skill.

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Title: Reckoning

Subtitle: The Ixan Prophecies Trilogy, Book 3

Author: Scott Bartlett

Narrator: Mark Boyett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-17

Publisher: Mirth Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 282 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The UHS Providence is restored to her former glory, with a fully reconstituted Air Group ready for war. But the Ixan fleet has grown far larger than anyone anticipated, and the onslaught has begun. As system after system is consumed, the Ixan Prophecies' terrifying nature is revealed.

Even so, Captain Keyes's obsession with vengeance is starting to fracture already-shaky alliances. If he cannot overcome his demons and reclaim his honor, the entire galaxy will burn.

Experience the final novel in a trilogy fans are calling "an action-packed military thrill ride". Get Reckoning today and learn the shocking truth about the Ixan Prophecies.

Members Reviews:

nice

very good book. loved the entire trilogy.

entertainment at its finest you will enjoy it

great story. the narratio could be a little better

I loved it's book as I did the previous 2 but again, I thought the narration could be a little better. while it was good, at times it seemed to lack the needed feeling that would give you the visual the author wanted.

I highly recommend the series though

good work book

love the books so much Goosebumps and all that just made for great time listening

Good story, but too dark...

Overall I liked the story, but it was too dark for me. Plot was sad.

loved this series. well written and well performed

This series encompassed real world problems in a non overbearing manner. The story had sufficient character development amongst the main Corp. The story was clever and elaborative. I highly recommend for a space book.

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Title: Juggernaut

Subtitle: The Ixan Prophecies Trilogy, Book 2

Author: Scott Bartlett

Narrator: Mark Boyett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-02-17

Publisher: Mirth Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 311 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Captain Keyes has succeeded in forging an uneasy alliance - at the cost of making some powerful enemies.

Now, he's wanted throughout the galaxy. Even worse: they're after his ship. His enemies inside the UHF have realized that only the Providence stands even a slight chance of stopping them.

The Ixan Prophecies continue to come true, and humanity's doom is taking shape. The UHF ignores the mounting public panic, obsessed instead with waging prolonged war against a species that was recently an ally.

While the UHF attacks its allies, the real enemy is approaching. For Captain Keyes, there remains only one way to make sure there's something left of humanity to fight the coming Ixan onslaught: he must take down the UHF.

The juggernaut is coming.

Members Reviews:

"The Ixan Prophecies - Parables of Pogroms"

At the start of this book we are treated to newly-elected President Sonja Hurst putting on display her propensity for outrageous campiness. First, when informed that Ochrim's explanation of the universe's destruction with the continued use for wormhole creation and that it could happen in as little as 40 years and should be stopped being used, she muses, "Ill be dead by then anyway. Or near enough." and ignores the danger. Soon thereafter, she upset with a crowd of demonstrators who are blocking a direct path to a meeting, she angrily says, "Why do the guards and police have guns if they arent going to use them? and then orders the officers and guards to "gun them down" which they then obligingly do.

The story moves on from the comedic outrageousness to the more conventional kind where the human space fleet proceeds on its quest to eliminate pesky alien species and the Providence and its crew desperately attempting to prevent it. During the battles, while several marines are killed, as would be expected, regrettably, the Providence loses one of its finest, which took me by surprise and added a poignant pause to all of the death and destruction be waged.

There was one section where the author mentioned that since humans had ruined Earth's environment to sustain life, Mars had been terraformed to now have an ecosystem not dissimilar to old Earth. I found this confusing, for if technology had advanced such that they could terraform Mars, why could they not do the same to Earth?

Even so, the story continues with a multitude of story arcs, sub-plots, intrigue and betrayals to keep book 2 quite enjoyable.

liked the 1st, loved the 2nd!

i honestly thought i wouldn't like this series, so far i have been totally wrong! not a fan of some of the names, but whatever, this is a great story! if u like sci-fi, political intrigue, and raging against the machine u won't be disappointed!

Birds and fish?

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

It got a little stupid with all of the bird and fish references.

Which scene was your favorite?

I didn't have one.

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Title: The First City

Subtitle: The Dominion Trilogy, Book 3

Author: Joe Hart

Narrator: Dara Rosenberg

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 276 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

In the thrilling conclusion to Joe Hart's Dominion Trilogy, Zoey discovers who she truly is - and who she must become.

Zoey has only ever known a world with few women and a society capable of unimaginable evil. Now she's about to learn she may be the only hope it has for salvation.

After she and her companions flee a vicious attack, barely escaping with their lives, Zoey finds herself faced with a new threat: video evidence suggesting she is the mother of an unborn baby girl - and the key to mankind's survival. Knowing that her former captors will stop at nothing to control the power that lies within her, Zoey sets out on her own for the last American city, Seattle, in search of answers. But a new enemy awaits her there, and the truth she seeks may lead to her destruction as well as that of all humankind.

This stunning finale, hailed by best-selling author Blake Crouch as a "rapturous, thought-provoking, [and] impossible-to-put-down thriller," begs us all to consider what we would do when asked to choose between humanity's survival - and our own.

Members Reviews:

It's hard to put down

Found this book to be a wonderful read, and terribly hard to put down. Is in keeping with the two preceding books. Thrilling with a gentleness in its more interment moments, of its rag tag make shift family.

Decent ending. Loved the series

It ended in a good note. I would recommend for a good action/adventure Maze runner type book...but better

Best Book I've Ever Read

I can't say enough good things about this book. So very well written - gripping, heart wrenching, joyful, hopeful, gritty, real. And a wonderful performance too.

Don't know why I kept going

The story moves slowly and from book one I found myself skipping a lot, and yet... I wanted to know what happened to the characters and was satisfied by the ending. I just wish the books overall were more interesting, maybe a little less detailed setting.

Dara & Joe

Dara your voice is so soothing it warms my heart I went through the ups and downs of the emotions of these books & I am craving more!

Joe pleases please tell me you are going to write another book or at least make a tv or movie series out of these amazing stories! I need to know more I am so full of wonder & amazed at how wonderful these were!!! I will be sending an email out to you very soon!! Thank you so much for your wonderful mind Joe & your beautiful voice Dara!!

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Title: TFS Navajo

Subtitle: The Terran Fleet Command Saga, Book 3

Author: Tori L. Harris

Narrator: Jeffrey Kafer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Podium Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 399 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Only a few short months after humanity's first interstellar flights, the first shots have been fired in what will eventually become known as the Alliance Wars.

Terran Fleet Command teeters on the edge of chaos in the aftermath of Chairwoman Crull's removal from power, while in space, Earth's defense falls squarely on the shoulders of Admiral Kevin Patterson. With only a small number of ships capable of bringing the fight to the enemy, he makes the bold decision to divide his forces, meeting the Resistance task force head-on at two separate locations.

Captain Tom Prescott and crew aboard the destroyer Theseus meet with initial success on the battlefield, only to be faced with the arrival of a warship completely out of her class - armed with weapons for which she is not prepared.

As the Resistance task force makes its final approach to Earth, a new ally warns of the horrors that will be visited on our homeworld if the coming attack succeeds. In the meantime, the enigmatic Guardian watches and waits, noncommittal as to its role as a protector or a mere observer.

Yet hope remains - as a friend of humanity finally comes to grips with his destiny.

Members Reviews:

Love It

I love this series and can't wait for book 4. Great story from both sides of the conflict. The narrator did a fantastic job. Would definitely buy more from this author so Audible please produce quickly after book 4 is complete!!!

amazing , I hope there is another !

So far the author has demonstrated an uncanning ability to entice the reader. Hopefully the story doesn't end here.

This auther is amazing

I have to say that this author is amazing I really enjoy this story and I'm looking so forward to next book.

Harris, fanstastic series! Kafer, you the man!

Such a great series! tons of action, amazing technology, and cool alien races. Can't wait for book 5!!

Can't wait for the next in the series

What made the experience of listening to TFS Navajo the most enjoyable?

Truly enjoyed this space navy yarn. Gripping battle scenes, engaging universe-building

What about Jeffrey Kafers performance did you like?

As always Mr. Kafer is awesome and the story is engrossing

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes, almost did listen to it in one setting

Any additional comments?

Waiting on the next book

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Title: Revenger

Author: Alastair Reynolds

Narrator: Clare Corbett

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 647 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

A superb science fiction adventure set in the rubble of a ruined universe, this is a deep space heist story of kidnap, betrayal, alien artifacts, and revenge.

The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Among the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives.

And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them....

Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds that have been hidden away, booby-trapped, surrounded by layers of protection - and to crack them open for the ancient relics and barely remembered technologies inside. But while they ply their risky trade with integrity, not everyone is so scrupulous.

Adrana and Fura Ness are the newest members of Rackamore's crew, signed on to save their family from bankruptcy. Only Rackamore has enemies, and there might be more waiting for them in space than adventure and fortune: the fabled and feared Bosa Sennen in particular.

Revenger is a science fiction adventure story set in the rubble of our solar system in the dark, distant future - a tale of space pirates, buried treasure, and phantom weapons, of unspeakable hazards and single-minded heroism...and of vengeance.

Members Reviews:

Great story, crap Mastering/Post work

What did you like best about this story?

A departure from Reynolds work. 1st person perspective that took me quite a while to get into. At first I thought I was going to be giving this a very poor review, but after getting into the book (after a binge of hearing John Lee narrate some space marine books) I started to really like it. A bit of a steampunk/Victorian feel to it, but still a lot of fun.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Clare Corbett?

Clare was fine.

Any additional comments?

Whoever mastered/edited this needs a freaking slap and if I see you at APAC I will. Shame on you! As a narrator myself, under another name, I was shocked at the quality of this. Whoever edited this did not bother to listen through after they ran it through a fairly aggressive noise-gate. When Clare is being quiet, which is quite often, the db drops dramatically where the processor lowers the volume to the point that whole words are barely audible at times. More often the end of soft words are cut off/reduced to near inaudibility. If Clare had been louder in her reading it may not have been a problem, but with her habit of half whispering at times it was extremely annoying and IMO the book should be pulled and re-edited.

warning headphone users: volume needs normalizing

The story is fast-paced and much more dialogue-heavy compared to the author's other books. The audio volume is troublesome for me, however. There are sections when the narrator is whispering quietly followed by much louder exclamations that hurt my ears. I recommend ripping the audio and renormalizing it so you don't have to strain yourself to understand what is being said.

Too bad about the sound production- Great book!!

Loved the book. A great pirate story with some steam punk to boot. The audio had way too much bass and almost ruined it, but turn the bass down and the treble up and enjoy!!

terrible reading, decent story

recording is terrible. reader whispers too often, and is hard to hear and understand.

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Title: Blackout

Subtitle: Breakers, Book 8

Author: Edward W. Robertson

Narrator: Ray Chase

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-27-16

Publisher: Podium Publishing

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 544 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The final book in the postapocalyptic Breakers series.

Members Reviews:

I love everything about this series

Breakers stays as an outbreak story, then becomes a post-apocalyptic survival story, then an alien invasion story, then a war story. I'm a sucker for several of those story archetypes, so this is right up my alley, but Breakers transcends all that by being something more. Breakers is about people, both human and alien people, finding a way to keep going despite the odds against them. It starts with discrete groups of people in different places, but Robertson weaves their stories together, so that it keeps coming back to some of the key players. It was like meeting up with old friends every time he'd come back to folks I hadn't heard from in a novel or two. The characters are whole, flawed beings, and Robertson spent enough time on them to make them real, something that some authors don't do.

I didn't love the narrator at first. A little too gruff and dramatic, but he grew on me, probably because I loved the story so much that I started associating his voice with something I loved.

The series ends beautifully, with wistfulness and hope, and it left me in tears. Thank you, Mr. Robertson.

A riveting finale for the Breakers series

As this book concludes, one can only be fascinated by the possible centuries-later sequels that might be ahead. As an avid reader, I'm enthralled by the thought.

As for this finale, it pulls together all the surviving lead characters of the series and weaves their lives, their adventures and their conflicts into a can't-put-it-down tale.

As always, Raina is a fascinating mix of cunning animal and an increasingly perceptive young woman. Walt remains Mr. Grit and incredibly also Mr. Luck. Mauser stands fast as an ineloquent but wise second and Ness and Sebastian remain the most unlikely but loyal pair of friends I've encountered in 6+decades or reading science fiction.

An ending that sets a new standard for sci-fi...

What a terrific series ending finale! Loss, redemption, resilience, forgiveness, regret, hope, encouragement, love, and acceptance from front to back.All the major characters are brought together for one last battle to outshine the others! In Nt he slight chance that this series is ever brought to tv (I think the production team behind Walking Dead would be perfect..definitely AMC) then fans worldwide would drop all other plans and geek out while sharing the love of the mythos. Ray Chase delivers again (his Mauser is reminds me of Hugh Jackman for some reason), if theres a Noblel for audio books then he's a shoo-in...Im spreading the word of this series everywhere, I LOOOVE IT.

Love it.

Definitely my favorite book of the series since the first one. Absolutely loved the whole thing.

Every book was worth the read.

I loved the narrator. The story line kept me intrigued. Don't let the amount of books in the series scare you away.

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Title: My Name is Markham

Subtitle: The Chronicles of St Mary's

Author: Jodi Taylor

Narrator: Piers Wehner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 563 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Best-selling author Jodi Taylor returns with a brand-new Chronicles of St Mary's short story.

Like a smaller and much scruffier Greta Garbo - finally - Markham speaks!

It's Christmas and time for the first (and almost certainly last) St Mary's Annual Children's Christmas Party - attendance compulsory, by order of Dr Bairstow. Discovered practising his illegal reindeer dance and poo-dropping routine, our hero, along with fellow disaster magnets Peterson and Maxwell, is dispatched to Anglo-Saxon England to discover the truth about Alfred and the cakes. In his own words, our hero reveals Major Guthrie's six-point guide to a successful assignment and the Security Section's true opinion of the History Department. And of historians in general. And of one historian in particular.

And, just to be clear, it is time travel, for God's sake. Forget all that pretentious 'investigating major historical events in contemporary time' rubbish. This is history without the capital H. Because this is the way the Security Section rolls!

Members Reviews:

Missing Zara Ramm

If you could sum up My Name is Markham in three words, what would they be?

Not. The. Best.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Markham, but really, he's the only character.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Not really - I am used to Markham being a bit more lively.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did, but it's so short, it would be difficult not to.

Any additional comments?

Since I have all the other St Mary's books in audible format, it was a given I was going to purchase this one too, but I have to admit to being a bit disappointed in it. Frankly, if this was my first "experience" of St Mary's, I wouldn't be looking another one.

It's not that the book or narration is bad, per se, it's just that the others are so very, very good. I can understand the selection of Piers Wehner to narrate, after all, Markham is a man and it appears the intention is Markham speaks! in his own voice!, and Mr Wehner certainly has a very nice voice ... but Zara Ramm has already given Markham a *very* distinctive voice - amusing, interesting and not the slightest bit boring. The accent she has chosen for Markham is understandable and unmistakable. Even without Max saying so, you always know when he enters the conversation.

Mr Wehner gives him little emotion, except at the end when Markham is whining, (and for goodness sake, what was *that* all about? Markham does. not. whine.) and it gets a bit droning on to be honest.

I have just now finished listening, and sadly, I can't really review the plot of this short story, because I don't remember it. It was raining, Arthur didn't burn the cakes and something about a dog in heat. (?) I think. I'm knitting a mindless project while listening, so I'm certainly not distracted, but I found myself drifting off into my own thoughts.The other books have had me laughing out loud at Markham's antics and quips, I would so love to hear what Ms Ramm would do with this. I have a feeling it could be very funny indeed.

I rated it four stars overall, so as to not "downgrade" it, but really, three stars is more in line with my opinion.