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I felt the novel had authenticity as well as thrills and chills!

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Revisado: 04-24-24

The main protagonists are very likeable despite that they can shoot bad guys dead. I enjoyed the sparring between Jo, the small-town police chief, and Maggie, the ex-CIA spy, familiar with international travel and cities, who didn’t have a home until she retired her suitcases and from her job. The story is not a fast read because the author takes her time to introduce her characters and their backstories to the reader, but there are mysteries, violent attacks, and loving relationships from the start. I was very reluctant to stop listening when I had to, and very eager to pick it up again the next day. Tess Gerritsen is a great thriller and mystery writer, and the audiobook voice-readers are excellent.

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One of the hosts is uniquely funny.

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Revisado: 10-22-23

The radio shows are good, but one of the two male hosts has an extremely funny gothic sense of humor. His voice is also more flexible than the other host.The other man who replaced him has a more pedestrian delivery of his jokes and not so funny. I don't know why the really excellent host left or was replaced, but he alone is worth listening to this podcast old-time show.

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Hilarious, gloriously engaging, and the most fun I have had listening to an audiobook in twenty years of listening

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Revisado: 06-23-23

I am not a fan of the Romance genre, and I have spent 70 years avoiding most reads (and listens) and TV shows, especially Hallmark movies, that proudly proclaimed that the subject was a romance of some sort. The only romance that touched my heart at all was Romeo and Juliet, and we all know how that turned out.

However, I was curious about gay romances since I only recently have been able to access them. I read a lot, but books with gay main characters have only lately become mainstream and accessible to the general reader. I have always been insatiably curious and I read everything in every genre at least once because that is what I do.

This will not be my last gay romance, nor will I automatically walk away from any romance novel, I suspect, if the book is one by Alexis Hall or one that is as much fun as this book. Although I am not gay, and I have always despised Romance genres of any stripe, I loved this novel! The author has written a delightful and a hilarious romantic romp! Every page was silly, witty and incredibly fun!

I am also adding the narrator Nicholas Boulton to my list of ‘following’! I plan to buy anything Boulton narrates! Omg, but he got it all so right! Tone, inflection, timing - he is PERFECT!

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‘Hollow Kingdom’ is bittersweet, a madcap comedy and a lovely elegy all together.

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Revisado: 05-24-23

My hometown is Seattle, so I recognized all of the places where action happens as well as the regional jokes. The writing is full of literary insight. The story is heartrending and fun and silly. ‘Hollow Kingdom’ is a high-end love story for human and animal culture, told with a tongue planted firmly in cheek. I often had both tears of sadness and laughter while listening. Highly recommend! I loved this wonderful fantasy!

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I am ROTF at the utter ridiculousness in this novel!

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Revisado: 03-10-23

The voice reader was very good, although she does have sort of a hiccup style of delivering sentences. It was a little distracting. However, the book itelf eventually became all I noticed. I cannot believe this novel has become canon of a sort! As literature, it is the silliest melodrama I’ve ever read. As porn, I guess a case could be made for that in some circles. In any case, I couldn’t stop laughing once I reached the halfway point. I was expecting a love story, or else something insightful, literary. But instead, for me this book was pure inadvertant silliness, more like a middle-school girl’s diary of the dramas going on with her and her middle-school peers, all with literary pretensions. I laughed and laughed.

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Brilliant short stories!

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Revisado: 03-05-23

‘Stories of Your Life and Others’ by Ted Chiang includes eight short stories which provoke and surprise! I detected either humor-inflected drama, or drama-inflected humor, in every story, tongue firmly inside the cheek even as the story was accurately representing the Human Condition of angst and existential anxieties.

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The Goodbye Party Audiolibro Por Louis Nowra arte de portada

Voice actors and script - all excellent drama!

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Revisado: 03-02-23

I enjoyed the many hours I listened to this great mystery! The characters were myriad and interesting.

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Clever, smart, relevant

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Revisado: 02-24-23

I enjoyed this collection of interconnected short stories! The intersection between new technology, robot AI, and people is explored in an intelligent and humorous manner which is very entertaining while doing so.

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A delightful 19th-century domestic novel!

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Revisado: 02-16-23

I enjoyed the novel very much for its psychological insights into relationships. The village dramas of class-based social wars and young would-be lovers kept me listening for hours. The narrator, Maureen O’Brien, was fantastic! She nailed the emotions perfectly throughout, which most decidedly added depth to George Eliot’s book.

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Superb book, superb narrator!

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Revisado: 01-29-23

The book is packed with fascinating information. I suggest buying the book as well as the audiobook to fully grok and unpack the density of the material. Either way, this is a wonderful science book!

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