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Hot Catharsis

Revisado: 09-02-23

How does Harley Laroux write such hot steam as part of the fabric of intense, real, unflinching drama? This story reminded me so much of the self destructive, wounded conflicts and lives between kids from different sides of the tracks that made up my youth, and gave me a lot more healing than I was expecting.

Oh yeah also wowowow that one spicy scene destroyed me.

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Tense and fresh

Revisado: 03-29-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

I really enjoyed this story of a gore and true crime obsessed woman killing someone for [reasons] and then exploring how that story and the stories others wrote about her, change her life.

I just wanted it to go even further and weirder. She starts the weirdest she ever gets, and if she’s have gone off the rails this would be an instant fave.

Narration was excellent but definitely narrator style vs performance, and I prefer the latter. This creepy freak of a protagonist would have been great with a character actor style read rather than the flawless, but maybe too polished, read here, but that’s just my taste in weird audiobooks.

I got a free code for this from audiobooksunleashed

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Genre-bending body exploration

Revisado: 02-20-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

A difficult book to categorize or describe, but not to appreciate and enjoy.

Essays, stories, documents about voluntary amputation, dysmorphia, and body image. The tone is effectively flat and clinical, but unflinching, straddling a fictional Mary Roach mashed up with Chuck P.

I love how the narrative never really opines on its subjects. Is this horror, erotica, documentary, case study? That’s up to you. These people simply are, except of course that most of them are made up. Fascinating and fun. The narrator was perfect for the job - flat affect, pleasant but clinical, and almost unnoticeable.

I received a free copy of this book on audiobooksunleashed and have given my honest thoughts.

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Folk Grief Horror to savor and mourn

Revisado: 02-15-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Incredible folk horror, that captures grief and the longing for answers, context, and control, like little else I've read. Devastating from beginning to end.

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Thrilling meta-suspense

Revisado: 02-09-23

Look, as a narrator this was a shoo-in, and Mr. Brick's narration was impeccable as always. The denouement didn't quite work for me, but I was still rapt the whole time.

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Bloody Fun With Masks

Revisado: 02-09-23

Turns out this k!nkis not my particular bag, but it was very well written, with a lot of variety of spicy scenes, some exciting revenge, and lots of playfulness between the danger and the erotica.

Both narrators were outstanding, I'm immediately seeking out more by them.

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Heavy metal hell

Revisado: 12-26-22

A band full of jerks, burnouts, and freaks finds itself in a unique and fresh version of hell.

Great creatures, kills, and rock and roll, with really outstanding narration

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Vivid poetic gore draped over deep loss

Revisado: 12-16-22 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Beautiful stories with gorgeous prose describing both deeply sad emotions and wet, welcoming gore. Amanda Lyons is a new favorite.

I found the audiobook layout confusing, and wasn’t sure when one story began and another started. Part of that was chapter titling and part was a narration that stayed at a constant dynamic throughout. I like the narrator very much - his steady, warm voice would be an asset to many horror tales. I think I might have liked a little more dynamic, poetic read for this work, though. I would have liked a little more theater or poetry-reading energy. Still, I would ask out work by him again, and the overall production was outstanding.

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A sleazy lawyer sniffs out the truth

Revisado: 12-14-22 El oyente recibió este título gratis

This was a fun story, with the perfect narrator. The protagonist is a divorce lawyer with a nose for BS but a moral code that is, let’s say, flexible. When he is arbitrating a seemingly amicable divorce, one member of the couple turns up dead, and he must get to the bottom of it and how much he cares about doing “the right thing”

I’d listen to more by both this author and narrator for sure.

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Possibly the best audiobook I have heard

Revisado: 12-13-22

Nothing to say about the text that hasn't been said a thousand times, and better.

Ms. Newton's narration, however, deserves so much praise. She slips into the characters while providing that intimate, "one good friend telling you a story" experience that is truly rare, and is the hardest part of audiobook narration in my experience. This is the model for me as a narrator, now, and I can't recommend this enough as "the" version of Jane Eyre.

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