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Mind Games
- Kaely Quinn Profiler, Book 1
- De: Nancy Mehl
- Narrado por: Traci Odom
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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Kaely Quinn's talents as an FBI behavior analyst are impossible to ignore, no matter how unorthodox her methods. But when a reporter outs her as the daughter of an infamous serial killer, she's demoted to field agent and transferred to St. Louis. When the same reporter who ruined her career claims to have received an anonymous poem predicting a string of murders, ending with Kaely's, the reporter's ulterior motives bring his claim into question. But when a body is found that fits the poem's predictions, the threat is undeniable.
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Could easily have been a 5 star book but...
- De shelley en 12-16-18
- Mind Games
- Kaely Quinn Profiler, Book 1
- De: Nancy Mehl
- Narrado por: Traci Odom
Ehhhh.
Revisado: 10-14-23
I have mixed feelings about this one.
Narration was decent but not great (and one particular pronunciation/accent quirk where many words starting with th being said like they start with d really wore on me). I'm also assuming that the person reading is an older woman while the characters were mostly in their 30s so it gave a weird "Grandma is telling me a story about her past" vibe.
Story was... interesting. it definitely kept me guessing and had some twists but it almost felt like it was trying too hard. There were a lot of things left unexplained. Seemed prime to show major character development because it discussed struggles... but nobody really progressed. There's a weird romance/not a romance/love triangle but not actually. There were quite a few things that made me wonder why they were included at all or never explained or just weren't realistic, which is jarring in this kind of book. For example, there are multiple mentions of a character's dead wife and tension around it but we get zero actual back story or explanation or anything. Why mention it repeatedly when it has nothing to do with the story?
The religion was a huge turn off and slap in the face for me. I listened to this book because my husband listened to it so I never checked reviews. I saw no indication in the summary or categories saying it's a Christian book and it absolutely is. I'm agnostic, raised Catholic with nuns in my family, so casual religious references don't bother me, but this was too much to not be mentioned as a big part of the book. It was shoved in pretty aggressively and in places that really killed the action that was happening otherwise and included a lot of gross "You'll believe in God one day, don't worry" narrative. I don't need a sermon about God in the middle of the final showdown scene when it has absolutely nothing to do with the storyline. There's also a pivotal plot point that makes no sense and is simply explained away by "It was God."
All in all, I finished it. I will not be reading the next one in the series. I would not recommend it to a friend.
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Rebel Angels
- De: Libba Bray
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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Ah, Christmas! Gemma Doyle is looking forward to a holiday from Spence Academy, spending time with her friends in the city, attending ritzy balls, and on a somber note, tending to her ailing father. As she prepares to ring in the New Year, 1896, a handsome young man, Lord Denby, has set his sights on Gemma, or so it seems. Yet amidst the distractions of London, Gemma's visions intensify, visions of three girls dressed in white, to whom something horrific has happened, something only the realms can explain.
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- De Ari en 02-10-17
- Rebel Angels
- De: Libba Bray
- Narrado por: Josephine Bailey
Excellent
Revisado: 12-20-20
Excellent writing and story. Could not ask for a better reader. Very happy with this audiobook. It's like an adventure into fantasy.
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King's Cage
- De: Victoria Aveyard
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan, Adenrele Ojo, Erin Spencer
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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Mare Barrow is a prisoner, powerless without her lightning, tormented by her lethal mistakes. She lives at the mercy of a boy she once loved, a boy made of lies and betrayal. Now a king, Maven Calore continues weaving his dead mother's web in an attempt to maintain control over his country - and his prisoner. As Mare bears the weight of Silent Stone in the palace, her once-ragtag band of newbloods and Reds continue organizing, training, and expanding. They prepare for war, no longer able to linger in the shadows.
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stay away!
- De Emily en 03-17-17
- King's Cage
- De: Victoria Aveyard
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan, Adenrele Ojo, Erin Spencer
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Revisado: 11-09-20
I returned this book by the 4th chapter. The narration is horrendous. I read the negative reviews and ignored them because I got through Glass Sword even though it wasn't my favorite. Amanda was still not my favorite and made chapters 1-3 painful, but the narrator for Kamryn? No. She's a fiesty 15 year old and this makes her sound like a granny in her rocker telling stories of the past. I can't do it. I'll be buying the book to read as intended.
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Glass Sword
- De: Victoria Aveyard
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
- Duración: 14 h y 39 m
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Mare Barrow's blood is red - the color of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince - the friend - who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: She is not the only one of her kind.
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Depressing and Slow
- De Bonnie en 03-21-16
- Glass Sword
- De: Victoria Aveyard
- Narrado por: Amanda Dolan
Enjoyed the story, not the reader!
Revisado: 10-26-20
I enjoyed the story as a casual "escape" read and went in expecting it to be kind of an action story, given the end of the previous book, which it was. I definitely noticed a lot of re-explaining of the story but found it appropriate for anyone who isn't binging the stories consecutively and was not bothered. The reader, however, almost ruined it for me. Not a fan. A lot of inaccurate representation that pulled me out of the story. For example, there were moments she would practically yell a quote that was followed by "she whispered" or "he mumbled," accents shifted, or the emotional representations didn't make sense for the story. Would have preferred to read the book myself to fully enjoy it, but it was tolerable.
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