Simply The Best Audiobooks in Fiction, Contemporary to Download

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Title: London Underground

Author: Chris Angus

Narrator: John Lee

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Beneath the streets of London lie many secrets. Subterranean rivers carve channels through darkened caverns. Hidden laboratories and government offices from WWII offer a maze of corridors and abandoned medical experiments. Lost in the depths of this underground are the contents of a looted Spanish galleon from the days of Henry VIII and a Nazi V-2 rocket that contains the most horrible secret of all. Carmen Kingsley, in charge of London projects for the British Museum, and Scotland Yard Inspector Sherwood Peets race to unravel the mysteries behind these contents before the great city succumbs to a frightening disease not seen since the age of the Henrys - the English Sweat. It all comes to a climax beneath London with the discovery of a horrifying species of genetically altered "super rats" that threaten to invade London and the British Isles.

Members Reviews:

Not for me, far to typical story

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

Not really, the research is weak, the story is ok, but not great. This book is set mainly in London, and was about underground London. I disliked the american terms in what I thought was book about London. Terms such as Subway not tune, gum boots, coveralls.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Taken out the typical love angle, why do people write books where the hero and heroin fall in love at first sight and risk everything to save that person because they love them so much after three days

Would you listen to another book narrated by John Lee?

yes, he was fine, not bad with voices, however the woman character was not great voice

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

no way, its not me. However think others may like it

Amazing

Well you go in expecting one thing and come out with something else ! What a brilliant book and well worth

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Title: Let's Kill Uncle

Author: Rohan O'Grady

Narrator: Rama Vallury

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-05-13

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

When recently orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except there is one small problem: His uncle is trying to kill him.

Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way for Barnaby to stop his demonic uncle: He will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a foolproof plan.

Playful, dark, and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.

Members Reviews:

Memory Lane

This was my favorite book as a 5th grader. it was a gift to me from my grandmother. I remember reading it with a friend and the end being so suspenseful! The story has stayed with me and I have looked for it in bookstores. Finding it as a kindle book I bought it right away. It is still a very enjoyable story! it definitely has the elements of a children's book with the two youthful main characters and an animal that reasons like a human but the book still maintained my interest at age 60. I'm glad I found it again- Grandma picked well!

The interesting location and supporting characters (including a love-sick Canadian Mountie and an elderly cougar) made this a fu

The plot centers around an evil uncle plotting to kill the rich nephew for his fortune. The interesting location and supporting characters (including a love-sick Canadian Mountie and an elderly cougar) made this a fun read right to the end. There's the suspense of who-kills-who but also the transformation of two spoiled but needy children put on a small island for the summer.

Did not disappoint the second time around

I read this book when it first came out and I was a teen. Thought about it recently and thought it would be fun to revisit the island and the quirky characters. Enjoyed it again!

For Love of Sergeant Coulter and a Cougar: A Gothic Story of Two Unsung Heroes

Published in the 1960s, not only is this the most enchanting Gothic story I have ever read, it is certainly the most original. There are singular and wicked laughs to be found on nearly every page while the plot darkens and takes a progressively sinister turn.

Two children who have never met, a boy and a girl of ten, Barnaby and Christie, are sent together for different reasons to a remote island in Canada, inhabited only by elderly residents for the summer. The portrayal of Uncle Sylvester, the monstrous villain in the title story, harboring macabre and hideous secrets, is brilliant. In the meantime, he is planning to make short shift of Barnaby, his rich orphaned nephew and ward, and the frightened boy has every good reason to believe that his days are numbered.

When the two unhappy youngsters quarreling fiercely on the ship arrive for their stay, Sergeant Alfred Coulter, the disgraced Canadian Mountie and the youngest adult on the island, finds his hands full and receives a rude awakening.

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Title: Lonewolf's Woman

Author: Deborah Camp

Narrator: Romy Nordlinger

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Orphaned, penniless, and determined to keep her family together, Elise St. John hastily arranges to marry the half-Apache Missouri landowner Blade Lonewolf, who has agreed to adopt her younger sister. It is a marriage in name only, intended to make the unconventional adoption acceptable.

But as they try to form a family - a Baltimore debutante who cant even cook and an outcast Indian whose heart is closed to love - they are beset by needs and desires they never anticipated. Living with Blade becomes a sweet torment. His vitality awakens Elise in a desire thats too dangerous to acknowledge - but just as impossible to ignore. For Blade, true love becomes a tantalizing promise held just out of reach. It is only when they are in greatest danger of losing everything that they find the fulfillment of their most splendid dreams.

Editorial Reviews:

Embodying each character with unique voicing, Romy Nordlinger's performances in Lonewolf's Woman are engrossing - in addition to sensual. The close attention to the development of the lead characters - especially in regard their hesitant but wildly flourishing love affair - make this audiobook an even more gripping romance.

In this touching fish-out-of-water romance, author Deborah Camp explores Elise St. John's movement from debutant, to farmer's wife. Occurring from a desperate attempt to keep her family together, by marrying the titular hero - a gorgeous, but recently widowed half Apache man - who was slated to adopt her little sister. Though a marriage in name only, their lust spurs on to become much more.

Members Reviews:

Love Those Hunky Indian Men

This is one of my favorite books. The Hero is a hunk, committed to keeping his deceased wife's wishes about adopting an orphan, hardworking, responsible, patient, and loving to his newly adopted daughter. I loved the secondary characters of the elderly cousins. One assists the heroine in her ruse of being married to the H in order to be able to secure her younger sister's adoption and the other teaches the h how to cook. Both of them want the H to find love again with this new wife. The young wife, formerly wealthy until her parents death, was determined to learn all the things that she needed to know as a farmer's wife to make their arrangement work. The story had a steady progression in the development of the relationship between the two protagonists. The evil "judge" was an ever present sinister element who got what he deserved in the end. I enjoyed this book so much that I bought more of this author's books. I highly recommend it.

Not exactly a mail order bride.

Very good story that again demonstrates how love conquers all. Half Apache, Blade, adopts little girl from Orphan Train, as he promised his dying wife. Finds out her older sister is also on the train to keep an eye on the little one. When Blade is told he can't adopt without a wife, the older sister is only too agreeable to a quick wedding. Sparks fly.

Nice Read

Heartbreaking but funny fish out of water story.

Elise St. John was the eldest of the three St. John children. After their well to do parents died, all three were left penniless and homeless. Elise was determined to keep them together. She did this by convincing our hero to marry her and adopt her younger sister.

Our hero, Blade was a widow. He and his wife had signed up to adopt a young girl before her death.

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Title: From the Teeth of Angels

Author: Jonathan Carroll

Narrator: Henry Leyva

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Four strangers lives are turned upside down when death comes for a visit.

At first it seems like an ordinary dream. Talkative Englishman Ian McGann meets a long-dead acquaintance and asks him questions about the afterlife. But when he awakes, a thick pink scar stretches across his chest. Each subsequent night, as he dreams of death, he asks more questions, understands less, and awakens with increasingly gruesome injuries. When he meets an American traveler in Sardinia and tells him of his experience, the stranger begins having matching dreams - with the same painful results.

Across the globe, a former TV icon struggles with leukemia, and a movie star falls in love with an HIV-positive photographer. All are flirting with death, and the more they struggle to understand the mysteries of the afterlife, the more they realize the world is not nearly as simple as they once believed.

Members Reviews:

"This book really makes you think about really living life"

From the Teeth of Angels is one of those books that makes you think a lot about the life you live and death. It brought up a great discussion in our book club with most of us liking the book with one lone dissenter, who didn't like the way the story ended, feeling it was too pat. I agree somewhat with that but I think it would be hard for it to go any other way.

The story starts with an Englishman Ian McGann, who meets Death in a dream. When he asks questions, if Death likes them, things go smoothly. If he doesn't, there are mysterious scars and wounds on Ian's body. He meets up with a young couple and Jessie, the husband, starts having the same dreams. His wife sends a letter off to his sister Sophie, who enlists the help of her best friend Wyatt. Wyatt is dying from leukemia. He doesn't want to head off to Austria with her but does so because of a favor that was asked from him before. What he finds there is that he is needed to sort out everyone's dreams of Death and sort out his own life.

We also follow Arlen, an actress who has spent the most of her recent past in Austria, cooking and cleaning and staying out of the limelight. When she meets up with Leland, a war correspondent, she discovers happiness and pain. I won't go into just what goes on with Leland. I don't want to give too much away.

The feeling that I got from the author is that we all have to die at some point. It's the one true thing in life. People die in many ways and the more you fight it, the less of a life you live. It's a wonderfully written book. There were a few passages that made us all have a-ha moments. I got confused a few times but it does eventually all work together and make a lot of sense.

A thinking person's guide to why bad things happen to good people

This book punches you in the heart, unrelentingly, and yet you go along with it, because you feel a connection with the characters and want to know what happens to them.

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Title: A Child Across the Sky

Author: Jonathan Carroll

Narrator: Daniel Goldstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Weber Gregston and Philip Strayhorn are best friends. They were at college together; they struggle as nobodies in Hollywood together. Weber soon becomes the most acclaimed director of his generation. Phil is unrecognized for years, and then makes a series of notorious horror films. He has everything; love, fame, money.

Then he takes a gun and blows his head off. Why? Weber hopes the answer is on the video tapes that Phil has left him. But when he plays them, he finds messages from beyond the grave. Step by step, Weber learns that the evil Phil portrayed in his last film is not just slasher gore. He has created something which threatens his friends' lives. And if Weber doesn't put it right, and fast, that evil will extend far beyond a handful of people in Hollywood.

Exploring love and cruelty, creation and ambition, A Child Across the Sky is a brilliant tale of wonder and fear. It is also one of the most important novels of fantastic fiction in recent years.

Members Reviews:

A moral tale without a moral

This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

Male readers who enjoy unpleasant quirks.

Would you ever listen to anything by Jonathan Carroll again?

No.

Which character as performed by Daniel Goldstein was your favorite?

They all seemed equally unlikeable.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger and disappointment.

Any additional comments?

It's a shame review boxes are so narrowly set out I can't easily say what I felt about this odd, jumbled work. The writer clearly knows how to write. The buildup of tension is generally quite strong. However I felt no connection with the main characters, and didn't really like any of them none stood out from the background of self-obsessed insularity and smothering middle-classness. The fetish for film work didn't appeal to me and would, I think, put off many general readers, while the moral links the novel seems to want to make (despite its obsession with amorality) between violent depiction and 'evil' are, I think, merely mundane. The punchline to this meandering, under-structured novel seems to indicate that the purpose of the book isn't to explore a moral viewpoint but to illustrate an amoral one. If narratives exist to give shape and meaning, it makes sense that the illustration of shapeless meaninglessness can be justified as a counterpoint. Alas, it doesn't make for a worthwhile novel.

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Title: The Monkey Grammarian

Author: Octavio Paz

Narrator: Daniel May

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-08-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Hanuman, the red-faced monkey chief and ninth grammarian of Hindu mythology, is the protagonist of this dazzling narrative - a mind-journey to the temple of Galta in India and the occasion for Octavio Paz to explore the nature of naming and knowing, time and reality, and fixity and decay.

Editorial Reviews:

A poetic and deeply surrealistic work, Octavio Pazs The Monkey Grammarian - translated for this audiobook by Helen Lane - is an intricately woven tapestry of rich language and description, a whole world unto itself, in which you may, thanks to Daniel Mays lyrical performance of the text, linger for a while, fully immersed.

May has a wonderful sense of timing, and his voice ebbs and flows in perfect tune with Pazs dense prose, which, in simplest terms, follows Hindu mythological figure Hanuman, the Monkey Chief, on a spiritual journey to the abandoned Indian town of Galta. The Monkey Grammarian requires careful attention; but it will prove an immensely rewarding work for the devoted listener.

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Title: Paperback Hero

Author: Antony J. Bowman

Narrator: Humphrey Bower

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-19-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Jack Willis seems like any ordinary outback trucker - but in secret he's a romance novelist. And he's about to become very successful. But real men don't write romance novels, and so Jack's been writing under the name of his friend, Ruby Vale. The only problem is, Ruby doesn't know. When glamorous publisher Ziggy Keane arrives to do business with 'Ruby Vale', Jack must do some fancy footwork in order to keep his writing career afloat. Jack hatches a scheme, but will he be able to get Ruby to go along with it? What about her plans to marry the local vet? And, more importantly, what about Jack's growing attraction to Ziggy? In this entertaining comedy of errors, does Jack have what it takes to be a true romantic hero?

Members Reviews:

Digging in downunder

After seeing the film on which the book was based I had expected to enjoy this reading. But Humphrey Bower nailed it. Accents aren't always an easy go for

listeners even when they are face to face. Bower manages to being the characters to life and you don't need to have a single line repeated. A fun love story within in a story of an unlikely writer and two friends that took a lot of time coming to admit they care. The wry sense of humor which creeps in unexpectedly is the cream in the cake.

A captivating book

Great book, very entertaining, captivating setting, lo t s of colour, phenomenal and dramatic reader.

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Title: The Butler Did It

Subtitle: A Love & Laughter Romance

Author: Deborah Camp

Narrator: Luci Christian Bell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Ruben Crosscroft is not your typical butler, a proper old gent in black tails. The awesome Aussie arrives sporting athletic shorts and a T-shirt. Blue-eyed, virile, tanned - he is no sexless wooden servant.... Which comes as a shock to divorcee Blaire Thomlin, who'd won Ruben's services in a contest for two whole weekends.

Having a man around the house again made Blaire nervous, but Ruben cooks, cleans, and caters to Blaire's ever desire...including a few not in his job description. He turns Blaire's life around and makes her start to believe in love once more. Until ugly rumors surface about his past.... With so much to sort out, suddenly two weeks doesnt seem like so long to Blaire after all.

Editorial Reviews:

In The Butler Did It, narrated with amusing good cheer by Luci Christian Bell, recent divorcee Blaire Thomlin just won the "Butler for a Fortnight" contest, its prize being exactly what it sounds like. Sure enough, who shows up at Blaires door the very next day to cater to her every housecleaning whim and perhaps - other womanly desires? Just the sexiest Australian manservant Thomlin has ever seen and one "first-class hunk". Things get more neat and orderly in the Thomlin household and a lot more steamy from there.

Members Reviews:

The Butler Did It

This book was mediocre. It never held my attention. The characters were not deep enough and the story line was not a believable one or one I could relate to. It just left me wanting much more.

A perfect summer read

If you like a book that keeps you smiling all the way through, you'll love THE BUTLER DID IT, by Deborah Camp. This charming tale about Blaire Thomlin and her daughter Molly is delightful. Molly wins a butler in the Silent Butler Silver Co. Contest, and the fun starts. The butler, Rueben Crosscroft, is the perfect servant...too perfect. Tall, handsome and charming, as well as efficient and handy around the house, this man disrupts the perfect life that Blaire thought she had arranged for her and Molly. A manless life. Download this book and prepare for a fun read.

Different, but really good

This is a very sweet romance with an unconventional hero, but I think any romance fan would enjoy it.

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Title: Bride of a Stranger

Author: Jennifer Blake

Narrator: Robin Miles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-03-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Claire is too innocent to suspect that her marriage is a cruel farce, believing instead that the dangerous accidents that keep appearing in her path are just that - accidents. She wedded Justin Leroux suddenly and silently. He was the tall dark stranger of her girlhood dreams, and had finally come to take her away. She returns with him to Sans Songe, the Leroux family plantation in Louisiana. A near-fatal accident on the road to the plantation does not bode well for her future there.

Members Reviews:

Romance with little romance

This was more a suspense/mystery story than a romance story. Narrator did an excellent job though!

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Title: Vlad All Over

Author: Beth Orsoff

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-20-12

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

Most schoolteachers count the days until summer vacation, but not Gwen. Sure, she loves her job, but it doesnt exactly pay well. So when a students father asks her to fill in for his nanny for the summer, Gwen should be thrilled. After all, Alexander Romanescu is insanely wealthy, and she adores his daughter, Isabella. And yet And yet she cant shake the nagging feeling that saying yes to this man could lead to much more than she bargained for. Not to mention that the gig isnt even in Los Angeles - its at the Romanescus isolated estate in Transylvania, the land of Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. But creepy bloodsuckers will be the least of her worries if her bank account balance drops any lower. And so Gwen says yes: yes to the job, yes to a European excursionand yes to a summer that will change her life forever.

Members Reviews:

Not a Vampire story!

This book reminded me of a Lifetime movie. That's not necessarily a bad thing. I like the Lifetime channel and occasionally enjoy watching a marathon of movies on a lazy or rainy weekend. Vlad All Over was a SUPER fast and easy read. I liked where it was going until the last third or quarter of the book. The female lead was really annoying me and I was feeling as much frustration as the male lead. I was not really happy with the way it ended and somehow felt cheated. But not everybody agrees with my way of thinking and I can see how somebody would like what the characters had coming to them. Perhaps that's what the author was hoping to accomplish. Because, when I finished the book and my Kindle alerted me to the sequel, I immediately downloaded it and started reading again. Maybe I will get the ending I hoped for afterall.

booring

What disappointed you about Vlad All Over?

the tediousness of the story

Has Vlad All Over turned you off from other books in this genre?

no but i wont read any more by this author

What didnt you like about Tanya Ebys performance?

she was slow

You didnt love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

no

Any additional comments?

i hate books that dont end this book leaves you hanging

Book sounds promising

Can't finish listening the audio book only goes up to chapter two. How can I fix it

Thoroughly Disappointed

**Spoilers**

I am so disappointed. Was it a book about vampires, romance, what? The book started out all right, but midway through lost steam and fell into a pit of repetition. Page after page, chapter after chapter, the couple had the same argument: I love youwell, I dont love you, and so on over and over again until I was sick of the two of them. The characters were totally unlikable and had no qualities that made you want to root for them to be happy. There was pay off for the reader, no wonderful final moments that make you say, awww, this was good. No, it was not. There was no resolve to several situations in the book and no happy ending. It was almost as if the author tired of it herself and just gave up.

Good book, bad heroine

I did like the book, I do think that it could have been a bit more developed there are some things that need more detail and explanations . I hated the female lead character. In the later half of the book she came off as a spoiled child. I would like to read book two, and hope her character matures but I am not sure if i will yet.