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Title: Gates of Rome

Subtitle: TimeRiders, Book 5

Author: Alex Scarrow

Narrator: Trevor White

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-14

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of TimeRiders: Gates of Rome, the fifth book in the TimeRiders series. Read by the actor Trevor White.

Liam O'Connor should have died at sea in 1912. Maddy Carter should have died on a plane in 2010. Sal Vikram should have died in a fire in 2026. But all three have been given a second chance to work for an agency that no one knows exists.

Its purpose: To prevent time travel destroying history...

Project Exodus: A mission to transport 300 Americans from 2070 to 54AD to overthrow the Roman Empire has gone catastrophically wrong. Half have arrived 17 years earlier, during the reign of Caligula.

Liam goes to investigate, but when Maddy and Sal attempt to flee a kill-squad sent to hunt down their field office, all of the TimeRiders become trapped in the Roman past.

Armed with knowledge of the future, Caligula is now more powerful than ever. But with the office unmanned - and under threat - how will the TimeRiders make it back to 2001 and put history right?

Book five in the bestselling TimeRiders series by Alex Scarrow. Ancient Rome gets a time travel makeover!

Members Reviews:

Not My Favorite in the Series but a Great Listen

When I read the printed edition of this book, I skimmed a lot. I am not a big fan of Roman history and I couldn't stay interested in it, but LISTENING to the story was so much better! Trevor White is such a great actor/reader that I was ready to hear the story and was able to catch many clues about the past and future books that I missed in the first read.

Lighter on plot but a fascinating entry for fans!

I honestly don't know how Alex Scarrow manages to keep each new Time Riders book so fresh!

Once again we have a fascinating period of history being disturbed with catastrophic consequences to our present. This time it is the age of Caesars and gladiators - Ancient Rome 57AD. Historical fact and clever fiction are combined as always to give a fascinating glimpse into the time period with dire stakes imagined for the whole world if Emperor Caligula's reign had continued unabated!

The Time Riders face their toughest challenge yet as a new, terrifying enemy leaves them cut off from their equipment with no way home!

Now if I'm being completely honest, the central Rome story does fall a little flat especially in its resolution.

The real magic of this entry, the fifth of eight so far, is what it contributes to the overall plot of the series that has been slowly unravelling.

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Title: Traitor

Subtitle: The Lost Girls

Author: Jason Halstead

Narrator: Kate Udall

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-24-13

Publisher: Novel Concept Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lieutenant Katalina Wimple ran out of bad guys to chase. She found love and peace and nothing seemed impossible...until the one-that-got-away showed up in need of help. Her new case takes her through the portal to Dark Earth where she's expected to save a man with a shady past. She'll face not only mythology and folklore in the flesh, but a relationship strained to the point of no return by an old flame.

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Title: The Call of the Stone

Subtitle: Stonewiser, Book 2

Author: Dora Machado

Narrator: Melissa Reizian Frank

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-13

Publisher: Mermaid Publishing, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Sariah's reward for revealing the stone truth: a death sentence.

In the second novel of her award winning Stonewiser Series, Machado continues the extraordinary saga of Sariah, the reluctant heroine forced into a desperate search for the only truth that can change her rotting world's fate.

Banished and on the run, Sariah must find a way to carry out the stone's mystifying legacy, before the executioners ruin her kin, her enemies slaughter her lover, and the mysterious bracelet she has been forced to wear kills her.

Stonewiser: The Call of the Stone, winner of the 2010 IPPY Gold Medal for SFF and a finalist in SFF for the 2010 Book of the Year Award.

Members Reviews:

Fanatstic follow-up to Heart of the Stone

Any additional comments?

Melissa did a wonderful job in the second installment of the Stonewiser series. You can easily get lost in the story and the time passes quickly, before you know it, it is time for the next book and who can ask for more than that! I highly recommend this book and series for anyone who is a fan of fantasy.

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Title: Dragon Attack

Subtitle: The Lost Dragonslayer Trilogy: Book Two

Author: Scott Moon

Narrator: Reece Allan Morse

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-13

Publisher: Scott E. Moon

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After defeating the demons and hellhounds of Travass Isegurad, Michael Prim races toward another confrontation with the sorcerer. Nicole's curse drives her into isolation. Her friends fight to save her. The Rift between Blue Point and the magic world disintegrates, taking innocent lives during the chaos and releasing deadly creatures into a modern world unprepared for dragon war.

Can a helicopter chain gun take down a dragon? Can the SWAT team survive an ambush set by sorcerers? Does Michael's Dragonborn girlfriend resist the magic that will make them enemies?

If you want to see what happens to the characters in Dragon Badge, buy Dragon Attack today!

Members Reviews:

Gritty, inventive urban fantasy

Scott Moon writes fantasy with wit, confidence, assurance, and authority. As a police officer with counter drug, counter gang, and SWAT experience, he writes about the environment he writes about the environment he knows best. He weaves urban settings, strong characters, and high fantasy adventure into a seamless and entertaining romp. If you're looking for a "clean read," be advised that this ain't it. This is raw, gritty stuff. But if you'd like an original take on dragon lore, and if you'd like to see what it would be like if dragons crossed the portal into our own world, you'll enjoy the entire Dragon Badge series.

Innovative fantasy

Well-done fusion of a police story with heavy fantasy. Definitely not run-of-the-mill! While types of characters are familiar from other fantasy, and from earlier genres, Scott Moon gives very interesting new takes on the concepts surrounding them and what they do.

Interesting series

Interesting premise for the series. Lots of characters to follow. I am looking forward to the next book. It should be good

Loved the characters and the plot twists

I read the entire series because I could not wait to see how it ended. Loved the characters and the plot twists. I look forward to more books from this author

Five Stars

Great read I would recommend it

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Title: The Crown

Subtitle: The Pearls and the Crown Duology, Book 2

Author: Deborah Chester

Narrator: A. Savalas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Lady Lea - beloved sister of the Emperor Caelan - is gifted with the ability to see into others' hearts and when she is moved to tears, those tears become pearls. When the hardened warrior Lord Shadrael kidnaps her and takes her through the fearsome Hidden Ways of the shadow world, Lea can foresee her destiny in him. For if she is to save Shadrael from his own darkness, she will ultimately have to choose between her brother and her abductor.

Editorial Reviews:

Emperor Caelan's beloved sister Lady Lea has the ability to communicate with elemental spirits and see into others' hearts. When she is kidnapped by the harsh, aristocratic warrior Shadrael, she foresees her destiny in him. Narrator A. Savalas gives a breathy, emphatic performance as Lea attempts to understand the man she is fated to be with. Savalas brings drama to the growing passion between the princess and her captor even as Lea wrestles with the knowledge that to save Shadrael from his darkness, she will have to choose between her brother and her destiny.

Members Reviews:

but light reading with a feel good ending that leaves the reader satisfied a good story ...

A creative read in a well built, believable world. The hero is just the right amount of light and dark, fierce and soft. The heroine gentle and strong. Not heavy ready or break the mold fantasy, but light reading with a feel good ending that leaves the reader satisfied a good story has been told.

Man of Darkness falls for a Good Hearted Woman

I found the first book in a Dollar General, and became interested in it because it says "Gault" in it, and Gault is my married name, lol. Plus I've been looking for a good fantasy light read and this delivers. Ladies, if you like the fantasy setting, with a physically tense romance, this one's for you. The price adds to it too lol.!

I think it was a decent read, and if you're looking for a good fantasy reading for the weekend, this one and the first book are good.

Five Stars

Very good author!

Five Stars

Great

I liked it.

Surprising. I liked it.

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Title: Hereafter

Author: C. K. Crigger

Narrator: Rebecca Cook

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-26-13

Publisher: Books in Motion

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Border Patrol agent Lily Turnbow is fighting a terrorist for her life when everything around her dissolves into a maelstrom of light and thunder. Awakening 100 years later, she finds a ruined world in which bands of mutants are at war with normal humans, and discovers she is as changed as her surroundings. Resurrected into a society only now beginning to recover from the Event that almost wiped out humanity, she has become a Cross-up, acquiring magical powers she never had before. Driven by a bewildering set of circumstances, she uses these powers for the good of the OQuinn clan, a sword and horse society who have, against their better judgment, taken her in. But with few exceptions these people are not as appreciative of her help as one might expect. Even after killing one of her "own kind", the serial killer Philip Barnes - a Cross-up known in this time as Screenmaster - the OQuinns view her with fear and suspicion. With the exception of OQuinn cousin Nate Quick who is her most vocal advocate, the clan cant wait to get rid of her. Sent before the clan elders, her alternatives are banishment into a lonely, friendless world where no one trusts anybody - or death. But Lily isnt willing to die - again.

Members Reviews:

To many unanswered

What did you like best about Hereafter? What did you like least?

Story was ok as far as it went, a few more explanation be nice. I can see if they want to save something for another book but hate it when there many unanswered questions and this book had whole mountain range of them. Without more input I couldn't really get more then a general feel for the for the story world.

Would you recommend Hereafter to your friends? Why or why not?

No, maybe it this becomes a series and the story world gets a bit deeper but as it stands I can't recommend it.

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

Maybe not in a theater possibility on DVD release

Any additional comments?

The plot is kind of ruined by the publisher's summary, the first 8hrs is summed up in the summary so even though you don't know exactly how it happens you know how it ends up.

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Title: The Shattered Oath

Subtitle: Prince of the Sidhe, Book 1

Author: Josepha Sherman

Narrator: A. C. Fellner

Format: Unabridged

Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-24-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Eirithan, ruler of Sidhe, is paranoid about threats to his throne, even when none exist. Swayed by political intriguers, he is convinced that his younger brother, Ardagh, is guilty of treason. His honor falsely destroyed, Ardagh suffers the worst of all possible fates -- banishment to the land of humans. He is lost and alone in a world of Christian kings and Viking raiders.

Members Reviews:

Prince Out of Faerie; Duck Our of Water

First off, I don't like the cover as much as "King's Son, Magic's Son" or "A Strange and Ancient Name" and that put me off for awhile, (especially w/Book I written there, thought it'd be an epic, don't have time to get immersed in one of THOSE right now), but the same writing style and great plots are in this book as in her others. Actually this is a really good book, with characters you like. Ardagh is kind and fair, but not mushy enough too make him wussy, he IS, after all, a Sidhe prince. The trials and confusion he faces in the human realm are funny and the problems in human politics are engaging. Try it out.

Unusual premise, believable characters

Cast out of the Kingdom of the Faery on the unfounded accusation of treason, Prince Ardagh finds himself in dirty, smelly 7th Century Ireland. Totally unprepared, hardly able to survive and incapable of lying, he is accepted as a guest by the local High King. At first all he wants to do is return home and regain his honour but gradually he becomes more and more involved with these humans and their affairs. A very interesting novel, with some strong characters. The author brings this period of Irish history to life and at the same time tells a wonderful fantasy.

Good Strong Characters with enough history to feel like fact

The story was well written and moved along very well. The story line shifted from Ardagh's personal trauma as a falsely accused traitor to the the very traitorous atmosphere of an early Irish king and his court. The end left the possibility of a reconciliation with his Sidhe brother (very small possibility!) and also was open ended enough with political struggles to envision more books following. The magic was not overblown or out of place. Overall a very good story with plenty of action and thought put into it.

Absolutely Wonderful

I love this series, and it's a real shame that there's no book 3... the plot is interesting and takes place at a point in history that doesn't get much attention. The characters are very well written and I don't think you'll be able to find many fantasy readers that would give either book in the series anything below 4 stars.

The story of a Prince who stands to his sworn comrades.

To be the younger brother of a very suspicious Sidhe king is not a good thing. A young Sidhe prince must learn this on the hard way. Exiled from his rightful place he must learn to find his way in the realms of men. I really enjoyed reading this book because it`s the kind of book you can't stop reading.

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Title: Blood Heat

Subtitle: Blood Lines, Book 4

Author: Maria Lima

Narrator: Maria Lima

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-13

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Texas is heating up. . . .The summer heat wave that's hit Rio Seco, Texas, has even the vampires complaining, but now that Keira-the Kelly Heir-is home from Vancouver, the weather isn't the only thing too hot to handle. Keira should be setting up her court and planning the big reception at which she and her consort, vampire ruler Adam Walker, will receive the magical leaders from the local area, but pomp and circumstance just aren't Keira's thing, especially not with trouble smoldering in her domain. A werewolf couple has mysteriously gone missing from a local pack, and when Keira is asked by their leader to investigate, she finds that some dissatisfied neighbors may have been taking, well, strong action against the wer community-action that could be repeated and could involve Keira and those she loves. With the reception looming and danger fast blazing out of control, the pressure is on Keira to keep Texas safe for supernaturals. Sometimes, it's just not that great to be Heir. . . .

Members Reviews:

Excited to Read the Next One

If you could sum up Blood Heat in three words, what would they be?

Jaw Dropping Excitement

What was one of the most memorable moments of Blood Heat?

There were several moments but I have to say the end of the book and can't wait to get my hands on book five. I hope we don't have to wait as long for it.

Any additional comments?

I think these books are great. I love the story and setting for the area the books are written about.

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Title: Learn English with Short Stories: Fantasy - Section 4 (Inspired By English)

Author: Zhanna Hamilton

Narrator: Blake Waterford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-06-13

Publisher: InspiredByEnglish.com

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Join the adventure with Inspired By English's fourth section of the Learn English with Short Stories series. In this section, both stories are in the fantasy genre and are sure to entertain you while you learn new vocabulary.

Each story includes highlighted terms and idioms that are defined before the story. There is also a vocabulary exercise after each tale to help you interactively learn the new terms.

Between the Shadows: When given a powerful ability, will you use it for good - or for greed? Follow the tale of Zack, Felix and Jazabelle as they learn what greed can do to the human spirit. Watch as a promising love story walks a tight rope between having it all and staying true to what really matters.

The Pilot and the Underwater Beauty Queen: Humanity and compassion doesn't just happen within the human species, as Adam learns when he is rescued by an enchanting mermaid from a plane crash. Dive into a young mermaid's struggle as she breaks all the rules of the underwater world.

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Title: The Shambling Guide to New York City

Author: Mur Lafferty

Narrator: Mur Lafferty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-28-13

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Could you find a hotel for a harpy? Or a bar for a Bigfoot?Following the disaster that was her last job, Zoë is searching for a fresh start as a travel writer in New York City.

After stumbling across a seemingly perfect position, though, Zoë is blocked at every turn because of the one thing she can't take off her résumé - human. Not to be put off by anything - especially not her blood-drinking boss or death goddess co-worker - Zoë delves deep into the monster world. But her assignments turn deadly when the careful balance between humans and monsters starts to crumble with Zoë right in the middle.

Members Reviews:

Buy this book!

Well done Mur Lafferty! I was well impressed with this book that was written and read by Mur. She did great with both. Support new authors and pay for this book. She has given us enough for free!! Great story and narration

Fresh, fun and different.

I really enjoyed this book. It had new ideas and a fresh take on monsters in the big city.

The author is very good as an narrator. She doesn't have an actors perfect trained voice but that just gives the main character a feeling of being real.

I really love it when authors read their own work. I actually originally found the book as a paper back and liked it. Then I saw that the audio book was read by the author , immediately bought it and loved it.

Can't wait for Mur Lafferty's next book.

mur at her best

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I've been a fan of mur for years now and she only seems to get better,

shambling is a side ways look at an alternative ny city where every conceivable type of being is out there somewhere, its intelligent witty and even pretty hot and steamy in places, mur! who knew!

a sure fire hit would definitely recommend 5*

So funny and so entertaining

I loved it thank you murr. So entertaining and refreshing to see the usual take on this kind of story turned on its head. I love it's "everyday" attitude to the fantastical. It works so well in listened to both story's more than twice already I am waiting with baited breath for the next book.

Fun and fluffy

Would you listen to The Shambling Guide to New York City again? Why?

Probably not - it was a junk food kind of book, something you veg out with rather than savour. I'm also not the biggest fan of urban fantasy, which I always forget until I read some, but it held up well.

Did Mur Lafferty do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

Yes she did, with her varied voices. I will say that her accent is quite jarring, however, especially for a British audience.

Any additional comments?

The romance was obviously predictable, but the zombie problem took some interesting turns, as did the Big Bad. Overall, it surprised me by subverting my expectations.