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Hidden Bodies
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
- Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 153
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Story4 out of 5 stars 152
Can't wait for the next series of You? Then don't miss this, the sequel, now a major Netflix series. You was a word of mouth best-seller around the world - and now Joe Goldberg is back! Joe Goldberg came to Los Angeles to start over, to forget about what happened in New York. But in a darkened room in Soho House everything suddenly changed. She is like no one he's ever met before. She doesn't know about his past and never can. The problem is, hidden bodies don't always stay that way.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No redeemable characters
- By julia on 14-05-2020
- Hidden Bodies
- By: Caroline Kepnes
- Narrated by: Santino Fontana
Female characters read with barbie dolls voices?!
Reviewed: 31-05-2019
I can’t stand listening to male narrators reading female characters in typical dumb, sexy-Barbie doll voices. It grates on my nerves and totally affects my ability to relate to the characters. Seriously, in this day and age, how does does this sort of performance get through? I know the story is told from a rather misogynistic narrator but without the balance of actually being able to see the women as people, the whole story falls flat. We deserve better than this, Audible.
1 person found this helpful
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Station Eleven
- By: Emily St John Mandel
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 444
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 396
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 398
Day one: The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the Earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two: Civilization has crumbled. Year Twenty: A band of actors and musicians called the Travelling Symphony move through their territories performing concerts and Shakespeare to the settlements that have grown up there. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and it threatens the hopeful world every survivor has tried to rebuild.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book if you dont think about it too much
- By Denison on 02-06-2015
- Station Eleven
- By: Emily St John Mandel
- Narrated by: Jack Hawkins
This story draws you in.
Reviewed: 04-05-2018
I read this book first and then downloaded the audio book a few months later. The narrator’s Canadian accent changed my perception of characters and events for the better and I was able to appreciate the story in a different way. I love the understated nature of the writer’s post apocalyptic world. The threats and dangers are there, but there’s a sense of hope that if civilisation ended, we might just find enough common humanity to form communities and reasons to live. I also loved the time jumps back and forth to slowly reveal stories. The interconnected plots felt realistic and never too contrived. I’d recommend this book to anyone.
2 people found this helpful
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Sarah Thornhill
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 50
Sarah Thornhill is the youngest child of William Thornhill, convict-turned-landowner on the Hawkesbury River. Her stepmother calls her wilful, but handsome Jack Langland loves her and she loves him. 'Me and Jack', she thinks. 'How could it go wrong?' But there's an ugly secret in Sarah's family. That secret takes her into the darkness of the past, and across the ocean to the wild coasts of New Zealand.
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3 out of 5 stars
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OK follow up
- By alison on 01-07-2015
- Sarah Thornhill
- By: Kate Grenville
- Narrated by: Emma Fielding
Worthy sequel
Reviewed: 04-05-2018
I enjoyed The Secret River and was left wondering what happened in the years that followed these characters. I enjoyed the focus on a daughter and the switch to first person narration. Some parts were a little hurried and I’m not sure quite matched up in terms of believeability but it was a sweet coming of age story that explored first love. The journey to New Zealand felt rushed and distracted from the issues of racism and the horrific treatment of indigenous Australians. But overall, the narrator was good and I couldn’t stop listening to this and finished it quickly. A few days later and I’m still thinking of these characters and Grenville’s message about the importance telling our ancestors’ stories.
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The Golden Age
- By: Joan London
- Narrated by: Daniel Koek
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 67
Perth, 1954. Thirteen-year-old Frank, a refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. At The Golden Age Children's Convalescent Home, he meets Elsa, and the two patients form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects the larger one, where everything occurs: love, desire, music, death and poetry.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Shame about the narration
- By Anonymous User on 08-12-2019
- The Golden Age
- By: Joan London
- Narrated by: Daniel Koek
Shame about the narration
Reviewed: 18-04-2018
If you could sum up The Golden Age in three words, what would they be?
Understated, poetic, bittersweet
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Golden Age?
The ending
How could the performance have been better?
The narrator was monotonous and wooden, not to mention almost downright insulting to women when trying to adopt a female voice at times. Apparently older female characters sound like shrieking pantomime dames.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It was a poignant ending that gave me a lump in my throat.