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Someone Else's Shoes
- A Novel
- De: Jojo Moyes
- Narrado por: Daisy Ridley
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in the meantime, she must scramble to cope--she doesn’t even have the shoes she was, until a moment ago, standing in. That’s because Sam Kemp—in the bleakest point of her life—has accidentally taken Nisha’s gym bag. But Sam hardly has time to worry about a lost gym bag—she’s struggling to keep herself and her family afloat.
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Bad language
- De Kerbear en 02-25-23
- Someone Else's Shoes
- A Novel
- De: Jojo Moyes
- Narrado por: Daisy Ridley
F.U.N.
Revisado: 03-06-23
As in, Full of Utter Nonsense, but also genuinely fun.
So many absurd plot points. So many implausible twists. So many one- and two-dimensional characters. So many lucky breaks. Such frictionless friendships. And, somehow, Daisy Ridley's narration keeps it all up in the air until it bursts like a piñata of happy endings for everyone who's deserving.
So yes, it's ridiculous, but I will say that listening to it has made two weeks of being down with flu go by just a little faster.
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Solace House
- Jackman and Evans, Book 9
- De: Joy Ellis
- Narrado por: Richard Armitage
- Duración: 11 h y 56 m
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Holly Stewart moved into Solace House thinking it would be a fresh start for her and her family. She knew a tragic murder had taken place there, but she didn’t know the full ghastly history of the house. Now, her husband has lost his job, the children are bullied at school, and someone is prowling around the garden at night. Someone who wants them gone. Detective Jackman wants to help. Instead he’s been pulled into a 20-year-old cold case.
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Yawn!
- De Ms. en 01-01-23
- Solace House
- Jackman and Evans, Book 9
- De: Joy Ellis
- Narrado por: Richard Armitage
Odd one out
Revisado: 12-28-22
This is the only book in the series that I just lost patience with and decided my time was worth more. Armitage is great, but this story failed to grab me so I'm moving on.
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Black Heart
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 1
- De: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrado por: James Lailey
- Duración: 9 h y 4 m
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When Nigel Baxter, a middle-aged married banker with an unremarkable past, is found dead in the bath of a plush hotel suite, his wrists slit, it looks as if he's taken his own life. At first. But when Detective Inspector Daniel Riley is assigned to the case, he soon realises all isn't as it first appears to be. When a postmortem shows Baxter was poisoned, Riley suspects foul play. And then there's the odd addition of a teddy bear left at the crime scene....
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Difficult to Love
- De Lynn en 06-06-20
- Black Heart
- Detective Dan Riley, Book 1
- De: Anna-Lou Weatherley
- Narrado por: James Lailey
A cut above the genre
Revisado: 12-26-22
Better than the usual thriller for certain. Excellent narrator. Looking forward to Book 2.
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The Maid
- A Novel
- De: Nita Prose
- Narrado por: Lauren Ambrose
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Molly Gray is not like everyone else. She struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others. Her gran used to interpret the world for her, codifying it into simple rules that Molly could live by. Since Gran died a few months ago, twenty-five-year-old Molly has been navigating life’s complexities all by herself. No matter—she throws herself with gusto into her work as a hotel maid. Her unique character, along with her obsessive love of cleaning and proper etiquette, make her an ideal fit for the job.
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Great narration. Dumb story.
- De Anne Bonny en 01-16-22
- The Maid
- A Novel
- De: Nita Prose
- Narrado por: Lauren Ambrose
Speaking of cleaning things up...
Revisado: 12-18-22
... this story needed better editong. An original premise, but tooooo long. Could have effectively told the story in half the time.
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The Housemaid
- De: Sarah A. Denzil
- Narrado por: Sophie Rundle
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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It seems like the perfect job. Great wages, accommodation provided and all located within the walls of Highwood Hall, a stunning stately home owned by the Howard family. Not many little girls dream of becoming a maid, but this is an opportunity for me to get back on my feet. And for me to revisit my past....
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FANTASTIC@@@!
- De Kelly en 12-23-21
- The Housemaid
- De: Sarah A. Denzil
- Narrado por: Sophie Rundle
Good for a laugh
Revisado: 12-07-22
This wannabe dark fairy tale is sooo ridiculous that I listened all the way through out of spite. Now I feel the way you do after eating circus peanuts... like, why???
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Dead Before Dark
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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The Night Watchman is ready to kill - again. After 35 years in prison, he is free to commit the same twisted atrocities that once made him as notorious as the Zodiac Killer and Jack the Ripper. Now, at last, his moment has come. Through her television appearances, renowned clairvoyant Lucinda Sloan helps police capture America's most wanted. Unfortunately, she's also captured the eye of the Night Watchman. Once he learns that Sloan "sees" his crimes, it's time to play.
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Good Book With Some Issues
- De Lia en 05-19-19
- Dead Before Dark
- De: Wendy Corsi Staub
- Narrado por: Emily Sutton-Smith
Paid by the word?
Revisado: 11-11-22
I don't think I've ever heard a more uneven book.
The bulk of the narrative goes into painfully excessive detail (e.g. instead of "She checked her phone," it's "She picked up her iPhone and looked at the screen." Really?), and yet, when the big resolution comes -- the one you've been waiting what, 12 hours for? -- the action falls off the cliff and you're left with a quick recap and then a ridiculous romance-novel epilogue. I find that a romantic sideline in a murder mystery is like, I don't know, frosting on charred brisket. It's meant to make the violence go down easier, but it just makes me want to spit.
In sum, it's a champion time-waster, which, if you've got a lot of chores and you can overlook a *lot* -- including a heroine with little to no life skills / emotional intelligence, a glaring lack of editing, and a dropoff ending, have at it!
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Evil Eye
- De: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrado por: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, y otros
- Duración: 1 h y 38 m
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Pallavi is an aspiring writer living in California. Her mother, Usha, is thousands of miles away in Delhi - and obsessed with finding her daughter a husband. In Madhuri Shekar’s ingenious Evil Eye, hilarious back-and-forth via phone and social media takes a shocking, supernatural twist when Pallavi meets the perfect man - leading to a climactic showdown that will leave listeners on the edges of their seats.
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Holy Crap!
- De Avid Reader en 05-03-19
- Evil Eye
- De: Madhuri Shekar
- Narrado por: Nick Choksi, Harsh Nayyar, Annapurna Sriram, Bernard White, Rita Wolf
"Acting!" "Genius!" "Thank you."
Revisado: 10-13-22
(Anyone else remember that Jon Lovitz bit?)
The mother who is played (I assume) by Rita Wolf is just fantastic. She levels up everyone's game and makes a dubious plot totally riveting.
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The Visit
- Black Stars
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Nyambi Nyambi
- Duración: 50 m
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One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.
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Poignant story, great performance
- De J Linton en 09-14-21
- The Visit
- Black Stars
- De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Narrado por: Nyambi Nyambi
Great start...
Revisado: 09-25-22
...would love to see it continue as a more complex story. I trust this author and know she would take the premise where it ought to go.
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Find Her Alive
- De: Diane Saxon
- Narrado por: Katy Sobey
- Duración: 10 h y 38 m
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Responding to reports of deadly screams in the Ironbridge Gorge, Detective Sergeant Jenna Morgan is first on the scene to investigate. As the search intensifies, Jenna soon discovers her sister Fliss’ severely injured Dalmatian, Domino, and the naked, tortured body of an unknown woman.
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Painfully awful
- De MamaBear en 12-30-21
- Find Her Alive
- De: Diane Saxon
- Narrado por: Katy Sobey
Couldn't make it through.
Revisado: 09-23-22
I stopped listening midway through chapter 3. I was put off by the microscopic detailing of fear and violence. I really don't relish the vicarious experience of threat and terror, but I suppose others might.
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Stripped Bare
- Kate Fox, Book 1
- De: Shannon Baker
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
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When Kate Fox receives a late-night phone call, her seemingly perfect life on the Nebraska prairie shatters in an instant. Eldon, shirt-tail relative and owner of one of the largest cattle ranches in Grand County, has been killed. Kate's husband, Ted, the Grand County sheriff, has been shot and may never walk again. And worst of all, Ted is the prime suspect in Eldon’s murder. Desperate to clear Ted's name, Kate throws herself headlong into the hunt for the real killer. When she finds herself the victim of several mysterious “accidents”, she knows she’s running out of time.
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Wtf?
- De Ann en 09-20-22
- Stripped Bare
- Kate Fox, Book 1
- De: Shannon Baker
- Narrado por: Megan Tusing
Better'n most
Revisado: 08-17-22
A smart, strong, scrappy woman in the driver's seat all the way. She's not idealized, but she's so engaging and engaged that even though there's no time for describing or dwelling on her character, it's all of a piece. A fast-paced yet not frenetic procedural that gets personal but never precious, it flies by like a pickup on an empty highway. Already downloading the next in the series.
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