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Title: Darkling

Author: K. M. Rice

Narrator: Gail Shalan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-11-17

Publisher: Wildling Spirit

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

How far would you go to save your family?

Midsummer used to be a day of feasts and bonfires. A day when cares were set aside for the joy of grass between our toes, warm hands in our palms, laughter in our hearts. Our celebrations dimmed with the light. Something upset the balance of our woods. Something so deep that even our bonfires can't lure the sun back. And he has something to do with it. Of that we're sure, which is why I'm being given to him.

K. M. Rice is a national award-winning screenwriter and author who has worked for both Magic Leap and Weta Workshop. Her first novel, Darkling, is a young adult dark fantasy that now has a companion novel titled The Watcher. Her upcoming Afterworld series is set to debut with the first book, Ophelia. Over the years, her love of storytelling has led to producing and geeking out in various webshows and short films. When not writing or filming, she can be found hiking in the woods, baking, running and enjoying the company of the many animals on her family ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California.

Members Reviews:

A Fabulous Work!!

K.M. Rice weaves a thrilling dark fantastical story, bringing to mind the gothic and mysterious folklore feel of 'Uprooted', alongside the creeping atmospheric chills of 'The Woman In Black', and the heart-rending anguish of 'Wintersong'. As thematically dense as its forest setting, this is a tale we step into and experience as the viewpoint character, a fascinating heroine; gifted, flawed, determined, vulnerable. I firmly connected with her, bearing the emotion of her struggle and its outcome. Love, passion, fear and suffering are fuels for the story, which is an immersive mystery of many layers, brought wonderfully to life through Gail Shalan's perfect voice. It's a must listen title. With great poetry and descriptive power, author and narrator take the familiar haunted house genre and accomplish with it something vividly unique which captivates.

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Title: Sip

Author: Brian Allen Carr

Narrator: Rudy Sanda

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-29-17

Publisher: HighBridge, a Division of Recorded Books

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

It started with a single child and quickly spread: you could get high by drinking your own shadow. At night, lights were destroyed so that addicts could sip shadow in the pure light of the moon.

Gangs of shadow addicts chased down children on playgrounds, rounded up old ladies from retirement homes. Cities were destroyed and governments fell. And if your shadow was sipped entirely, you became one of them, had to find more shadow, at any cost, or go mad.

One hundred and fifty years later, what's left of the world is divided between the highly regimented life of those inside dome-cities that are protected from natural light (and natural shadows), and those forced to the dangerous, hardscrabble life in the wilds outside. In rural Texas, Mira, her shadow-addicted friend Murk, and an ex-Domer named Bale search for a possible mythological cure to the shadow sickness - but they must do so, it is said, before the return of Halley's Comet, which is only days away.

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Title: The Vale of Ghosts

Subtitle: The Archaust Saga, Book 1

Author: Jeffrey Aaron Miller

Narrator: R. Paul Matty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-24-17

Publisher: Jeffrey Aaron Miller

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

A malevolent presence dwells in the vale below the town of Siliven, and only the relic wall of the prophet Cabrien keeps it at bay. When a local girl, Annella Fenn, learns that her cousin has crossed the relic wall and entered the vale, her curiosity compels her to investigate. In the process, she inadvertently sets in motion events that put the whole town in danger. Now, she works feverishly to undo the damage, but she is dealing with an ancient magic that is far more powerful than she realizes, and the fate of the whole kingdom hangs in the balance.

The first book of an epic new fantasy saga by author Jeffrey Aaron Miller!

Members Reviews:

Kept me interested!

This audio performance was really good! It kept me captivated and want to hear what would happen next. The characters came alive right away and I wanted to identify with them. The story itself was a little darker than I expected. I had to pause at those times and listen to music or something else for a bit. Then I wanted to hear what Annella does next so I hit play again. I don't know how R. Paul Matty did all those voices but they all sounded real to me!

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Title: Damnation

Subtitle: Empty Bodies Series, Book 5

Author: Zach Bohannon

Narrator: Andrew Tell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-21-17

Publisher: Zach Bohannon

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

A new threat is rising....

The campground was supposed to be safe. Now, Will, Holly, and Charlie are left scrambling to save Dylan after he is bit by an Empty. After performing a field amputation, they're forced to leave the campground and seek out medical attention for the boy, before it's too late.

Home seems closer than ever for Gabriel Alexander, and the path before him is clear. At least until a routine stop at a gas station brings forth a new threat far worse than the undead creatures roaming the highways.

Damnation is the penultimate volume in the Empty Bodies saga.

Members Reviews:

Zach does it again

Zach does a wonderful job telling this story! Empty Bodies is one of my favorite series and they only get better each time. It's an extremley easy read and can cause you to lose track of time. Sad that the series will end with the next book but I have total faith Mr. Bohannon will put it to rest in the best way possible.

Turned up to 11.

Zach has really cranked up the action in this latest installment of the empties series, I loved it, easy to read and I felt the characters are really developing.

With a more supernatural spin on the genre, it's refreshing to see, I can't wait for 6.

Epic, Awesome, and cool.

loved it cant wait for the next book It was ...

loved it cant wait for the next book It was a zombie book that actually had a story not just gobble gobble your dead

This is a really good read!

This is a really good read! It keeps you interested in what happens next. I can't wait to buy the next book in the series.

Great storyline. It kept me wanting more

Great storyline. It kept me wanting more. I do not want the series to end. To me you are the next Stephen King.

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Title: Doctor Who and the Web of Fear

Subtitle: 2nd Doctor Novelisation

Author: Terrance Dicks

Narrator: David Troughton

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-17-17

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Doctor Who

Publisher's Summary:

An unabridged reading of this classic novelisation of a 1968 TV adventure featuring the Second Doctor, as played on screen by Patrick Troughton.

For 40 years the Yeti had been quiet, a collector's item in a museum. Then, without warning, it awoke and savagely murdered. At about the same time, patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down, penetrating the Underground System. Slowly it spread....

When the Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive, they find not just one Yeti but hordes, roaming the misty streets and cobwebbed tunnels, killing everyone in their path. London has been gripped tight in a Web of Fear....

Members Reviews:

Beware the Web !!

Another great audio book from the original Target adaptations of the classic era of Dr Who and you don't get more classic than Web of Fear! brilliantly read by Patrick Troughtons's son David who as you might imagine captures his dads characterisation spot on as well as all the other players in what I consider one of the better novelisation's by Terrance Dicks. Atmospheric and really captures the creepy dark dank feeling of being trapped underground with lumbering monsters around every bend of the tunnels. 5 stars

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Title: Cursed Magic

Subtitle: Clearwater Witches, Volume 5

Author: Madeline Freeman

Narrator: Carrie Royce Fisk

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Laurealinde Publishing LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Who can resist the pull of darkness? Since the night of the influence spell, Krissa has changed. She's doing her best to live a normal life, but it gets more difficult every day as the energy inside her grows, and becomes harder to control. Will she win the fight against the darkness within her? Or will it overwhelm her and turn her into someone she's not?

Members Reviews:

I've read this entire series several times...

Waiting for the final book! I absolutely love it! In Cursed Magic, Krissa has to fight against the darkness within her to not only save herself, but her friends as well. This book will have you reeling, at the edge of your seat and hanging on every word! It's an emotional rollercoaster. Will Krissa be able to fight the darkness or will it consume her? You have to read it and find out! Believe me, you won't be disappointed!

I highly recommend the entire series. Each book has earned a well-deserved 5 stars in my book! Madeline never disappoints!

loved

First in a series of five. loved it

Five Stars

fast paced read

Four Stars

Good read

Four Stars

Great story

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Title: Goddess of the Rose

Subtitle: The Goddess Summoning Series, Book 4

Author: P. C. Cast

Narrator: Caitlin Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-15-17

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times best-selling author P. C. Cast's Goddess Summoning series continues as a modern woman attempts to tame a wild beast with the power of love.

Empousai family roses have bloomed for centuries, thanks to the drops of blood their women sacrifice for their gardens. But Mikki would rather forget this family quirk and lead a normal life. Until she unwittingly performs a ritual, ending up in the strangely familiar Realm of the Rose. As its goddess Hecate reveals, Mikki is a priestess - and the Realm's been waiting for her.

Long ago, an enraged Hecate cursed her guardian beast and the entire Realm with a slumber only a priestess can undo - and she's counting on Mikki to set things right. The beast at first terrifies Mikki, but soon intrigues her more than any man ever has. Now, the only way he and the Realm can be saved is for Mikki to sacrifice her life-giving blood - and herself.

Members Reviews:

Love the series

This book was a wonderful listen. I loved this book as much as I had books 1 and 2 in the series. I was a little disappointed in the 3rd book but this one gave me the same emotional roller coaster I had with the first two and I loved it. Written very well and nothing is quite what you expect or how you envision it should go which to me makes it even more enjoyable. The series is unlike any other Ive read or listened too and I would suggest it to anyone looking for a twist on a romance novel.

I feel as if its being narrated by a machine

Unfortunately I cant tell you how the actual story progresses even though I have been a fan of this author for a while... I will buy the hard copy of this book to read in the future however I am unable to stand the uncomfortable unhuman like tone of the narration a moment longer... it is as if it was being read by the speaking clock. My mistake for not listening to the sample before buying the audio book (a mistake I will not make again). Utterly disappointed.

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Title: Minotaur

Author: J.A. Rock

Narrator: J.A. Rock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-17

Publisher: Riptide Publishing

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Know this: I am not a warrior. I am a disease.

When I was six, my parents died.

When I was 16, I was locked away in Rock Point Girls' Home. Nobody wants to deal with a liar. An addict. A thief.

Nobody except Alle. She is pure, and she's my friend, in spite of all the rotten things I am.

There was once another girl like me - long ago. A cast-off daughter. A lying little beast who left a red stain across the land with her terrible magic. She's imprisoned now in a maze high up on the cliffs. They say she's half woman, half bull. They say she dines on human tributes, and guards a vast treasure. They say she was born wicked.

But I know her better than the history books or stories do. She and I dream together. Our destinies are twisted up like vines.

Except I'm not going to turn out wicked like she is. I can save myself by destroying her. I'm going to break out of this place, and I'm going to enter the labyrinth and take her heart.

And once I'm redeemed, maybe Alle will love me.

Members Reviews:

Freakish Fantasy With Coming of Age and Romance

Macabre, dark, and complex along the twisting path of a story structured much like the labyrinth of legend. It was definitely a right person and mood type of story and I happened to be just such a listener for this unique, introspective tale.

Ever have one of those books come along that makes you scratch your head about what to say? Not that it was a bad read/listen, but that it was so far outside the usual and that it crosses so many genre lines that... loss for words. I've got just such a one here. But I will try.

First of all, this is YA in age of characters, but not really YA in scope of readership. Secondly, its coming of age and getting past abuse, loss, grief, and anger so it might seem fiction, but then again, there are relationships and romance. Oh and much of the book seems a contemporary setting of a girl's orphanage home, but then there was the labyrinth and the tumble into Wonderland territory mashed with mythology. And that is just the dilemma of what genre it falls in. I'm going with fantasy romance.

Secondly, I said it was a coming of age and romance and it is, but this girl has some pretty dark, tortured thoughts and she's not likeable and sort of wears that badge proudly so there are musings of unreliable narration going on for me when it comes to Thera, but really, she's just seeing things through the lens of her own hard experiences. I enjoy that sort of thing at times- getting inside a disturbed person's mind, but I will admit that it made it a slower-paced piece because reflection and not a lot of action take up nearly half the book.

I'm still not sure what to make of the last portions. The labyrinth was incredible in its craziness, but for that reason, it was perfectly drawn. The ending was wistful and distant so that I felt I was being pulled back from the intimacy I had felt with the sole narrator, the heroine.

This is a coming of age piece and it was more of an exploration into physical intimacy by the two roommates, Thera and Alle. They become intimate, but it is not a lengthy description. Theirs was something almost sweet and a little innocent mixed in with the budding passion.

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Title: Sapient Salvation 1: The Selection

Author: Jayne Faith

Narrator: Laurel Schroeder

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-09-17

Publisher: Jayne Faith

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Twice a year, the alien, Lord Toric demands a selection of human women between the ages of 18 and 20, to compete for a place in his harem. Maya must get through just one more selection, and then she can marry the man of her dreams. She should have been safe, but when a young woman who was supposed to compete dies the day of the selection, Maya is forced into the competition. Thrown into the fight of her life with no preparation, Maya must shed her innocence, and win Lord Toric's favor. And there is only one winner in the competition. The losers will be sacrificed. Will she survive the first round, or will she pay the ultimate price for her inexperience?

Members Reviews:

This selection is a life changer

I didn't know what to expect when I first started to read this book. I figured it would be similar to the YA series The Selection with a dash of Hunger Games with a sci-fi setting but it's it own league. Maya starts out with dreams of starting a life once the selection that happens twice a year is over. She has nothing to fear as she won't be picked because another girl has been offered instead. When the pre selected girl has been found dead and Maya is chosen as one of the representative for her clan. This is the only the start of the book and it gets even more interesting once she arrives on the other planet. Great start to a new series and going to read the next book right away.

Amazing and different.

This book had my complete full attention!! I delayed sleep, restroom needs, and barely ate. Just to keep reading this magnificent other worldly story. My eyes were just glued to it!! I'm definitely buying the next book to the series.

This series reminds me of other books I've previously read. But, yet it's so different. I was truly heartbroken at the last page of this book. I wanted to just keep on reading!

Well, I rated this book 5 stars for the wonderful story. I rate a book on how how many emotions it makes me experience throughout reading the book. I was in a big box of emotions. Definitely pissed. I wonder what will happen!!

This book is subtle and HOT at the same time.

I am hooked in this series. Lord Toric is such a mystery even at the end of the book. The passion between Toric and Maya vibrates and pulses off the pages. Looking forward to book two.

Exciting

Loved this book. The whole book brought on a challenge vibe. Loved Lord Torin and Maya. They seem to have a deep draw to each other. They belong together.

It is very much like hunger games

This series has me intrigued. It is very much like hunger games. The story, right around the halfway mark started getting boring, but right at the end it got my interest again so I will read the second one

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Title: Infernal Father of Mine

Subtitle: Book Seven of the Overworld Chronicles, Volume 7

Author: John Corwin

Narrator: Austin Rising

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-07-17

Publisher: John Corwin

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Dark Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Everybody has daddy issues.

Justin's reunion with his father starts with a punch to the face, and their capture by Exorcists, a cult branch of the Templars supposedly disbanded centuries ago. The Exorcists banish Justin and his father David, to the Gloom. Fighting to escape exile, Justin discovers everything he knows about his father is a lie. Even worse, the man is a complete jackass who won't give a straight answer to the simplest of questions.

But when they stumble upon a secret army being grown by one of Daelissa's minions, they realize much more than a healthy father-son relationship is at stake. Justin and his father will have to escape the Gloom, bring back reinforcements, and crush the enemy, before Daelissa marches her forces into the real world. Unfortunately, the army stands between them and freedom. Daddy issues will have to wait. The war starts now.

Members Reviews:

Austin Rising you are too good to be true

I love all of John Corwin stories. no author deserves five stars more than him. Corwin has been waiting a long time to be an overnight sensation. Teaming up with Rising is exactly what he needed to get everyone's attrn. Better late than never . five stars for both of you! again!