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The Shape of Water
- By: Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The Shape of Water is set in Cold War-era Baltimore at the Occam Aerospace Research Center, which has recently received its most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon. What unfolds is a stirring romance between the asset and one of the janitors on staff, a mute woman who uses sign language to communicate with the creature.
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Loved this one!
- By jodie on 27-03-2018
- The Shape of Water
- By: Guillermo del Toro, Daniel Kraus
- Narrated by: Jenna Lamia
Wonderfully performed
Reviewed: 31-10-2018
One of those you will struggle to put down. The performed helped create a wonderful picture of the characters
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Frog Music
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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San Francisco, 1876: A stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything - and leaving one of them dead. Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder: Elegant, erotic and witty.
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Heart breaking
- By Amanda on 30-06-2017
- Frog Music
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
Heart breaking
Reviewed: 30-06-2017
Emma Donoghue does such a good job at developing the characters and I found myself caught up on their tragic and compelling lives. A great production with overall good performance.
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Santa Olivia
- By: Jacqueline Carey
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
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Loup Garron was born and raised in Santa Olivia, an isolated, disenfranchised town next to a U.S. military base inside a demilitarized buffer zone between Texas and Mexico. A fugitive "Wolf-Man" who had a love affair with a local woman, Loup's father was one of a group of men genetically manipulated and used by the U.S. government as a weapon. The "Wolf-Men" were engineered to have superhuman strength, speed, sensory capability, stamina, and a total lack of fear.
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Not keen
- By Rachael McGowan on 15-04-2019
- Santa Olivia
- By: Jacqueline Carey
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
Didn't like it
Reviewed: 07-06-2017
To be fair, I didn't finish the book but I could get passed the overly descriptive beginning and the outrageous decisions the main character makes. It gave me the impression the author wanted to demonstrate how the hardship of their setting motivated certain decisions but because neither the characters or the setting was well develop it left one perplexed and skeptical about it. It won't involve you, put it that way
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Life Mask
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 25 hrs and 37 mins
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In a time of looming war, glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the Whig Party work to topple a tyrannical prime minister and a lunatic king. Marriages and friendships stretch or break; political liaisons prove as dangerous as erotic ones; and everyone wears a mask. Will Eliza Farren, England's leading comedic actress, gain entry to that elite circle that calls itself the World?
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Enjoyed it
- By Amanda on 10-03-2017
- Life Mask
- By: Emma Donoghue
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
Enjoyed it
Reviewed: 10-03-2017
Characters are well developed and historically very interesting. I love the intertwined fiction and reality. Not an action packed story and a bit slow at times but a happy ending
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The Girl Before
- By: JP Delaney
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Jane stumbles on the rental opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to live in a beautiful ultraminimalist house designed by an enigmatic architect, on condition she abides by a long list of exacting rules. After moving in she discovers that a previous tenant, Emma, met a mysterious death there - and starts to wonder if her own story will be a rerun of the girl before. As twist after twist catches the listener off guard, Emma's past and Jane's present become inexorably entwined in this tense portrayal of psychological obsession.
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Another book about 'the girl...'
- By Sally-Ann on 05-10-2017
- The Girl Before
- By: JP Delaney
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox, Finty Williams, Lise Aagaard Knudsen
Deja vu
Reviewed: 10-03-2017
This one left me with the impression I had already read the story. It was the Girl on the Train all over again.