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The Relentless Moon
- Lady Astronaut, Book 3
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program. The IAC's goal of getting as many people as possible off Earth before it becomes uninhabitable is being threatened.
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Another great read
- By Petra on 16-08-2020
- The Relentless Moon
- Lady Astronaut, Book 3
- By: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Another great read
Reviewed: 16-08-2020
I love the way Kowal writes and her narration is excellent too, I even like the way she reads the male characters because she does it in a way that isn’t a put on voice, yet you forget it’s a woman’s voice some how. The characters real very real and I love the focus on strong women. Kowal somehow gives them deep flaws without making them look weak, which is so much more common for female characters. I hope this series has several more books to come.
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The End of October
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In this riveting thriller - from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author - Dr Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees. At an internment camp in Indonesia, 47 people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons - microbiologist, epidemiologist - travels there on behalf of the World Health Organization to investigate, what he finds will soon have staggering repercussions across the globe.
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A Frightening Reality
- By Blue Mercedes on 09-10-2020
- The End of October
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Should be depressing but it had the opposite effect
Reviewed: 31-07-2020
You would think that reading about a virus that kills so many people would be a depressing read given the current Covid situation but really, this made me feel like we’re getting off lightly at the moment! I liked listening to this guy’s voice
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The Natural Way of Things
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in an abandoned property in the middle of a desert. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. But most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage.
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Great story. .unexpected and intriguing
- By Liz on 06-01-2017
- The Natural Way of Things
- By: Charlotte Wood
- Narrated by: Ailsa Piper
Not really sure what this was about
Reviewed: 18-07-2020
If you ignore the fact that this story just doesn’t make any sense, it has good characters and a nice weaving of friendship and struggles through adversity. But, it is hard to ignore the implausibility of it all.
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The Girl and Her Ren
- Ribbon Duet, Book 2
- By: Pepper Winters
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop, Will M Watt
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Ren didn't know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own. To begin with, he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything. Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly. But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.
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Gut wrenching story
- By Petra on 12-07-2020
- The Girl and Her Ren
- Ribbon Duet, Book 2
- By: Pepper Winters
- Narrated by: Hayden Bishop, Will M Watt
Gut wrenching story
Reviewed: 12-07-2020
I cried a lot during this book. They do warn you in advance but the performances are so good that it really wringes you out
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The Persimmon Tree
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 27 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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The Persimmon Tree opens in Indonesia in 1942 on the cusp of Japanese invasion and the evacuation of Batavia (Jakarta) by the Dutch. Seventeen-year-old Nicholas Duncan is on holiday there, in pursuit of an exotic butterfly known as the Magpie Crow. It's an uncertain, dangerous time to be in Indonesia, and Nick's options of getting out are fast dwindling. Amidst the fear and chaos he falls in love with Anna, the beautiful daughter of a Dutch acquaintance, and she nicknames him 'Mr Butterfly'.
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Perhaps one of the best novels I have read
- By Philip on 02-09-2018
- The Persimmon Tree
- By: Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
I wanted it to be true
Reviewed: 03-07-2020
The book was great. Great story line and interesting characters. The narration was exceptional, with a great variety of accents and clear pronunciation of foreign words. Very likable all around
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The Boy and His Ribbon
- Ribbon Duet, Book 1
- By: Pepper Winters
- Narrated by: Will M Watt, Hayden Bishop
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
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From New York Times best seller Pepper Winters comes one of her best tales yet... "What do you do when you meet your soul mate? No wait...that's too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret? I'll tell you what you do. You lie." Ren was eight when he learned that love doesn't exist - that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth. His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror. But then...he ran.
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Pure love
- By Petra on 01-03-2020
- The Boy and His Ribbon
- Ribbon Duet, Book 1
- By: Pepper Winters
- Narrated by: Will M Watt, Hayden Bishop
Pure love
Reviewed: 01-03-2020
This is the sort of book where you feel like you should clutch your chest when you hear about love so fierce and pure and sweet. I nearly quit listening after 5 minutes of listening to that guy’s voice but it kind of grows on you.
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The End of the World Running Club
- By: Adrian J. Walker
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Do the impossible or lose your family forever.... Edgar Hill, unsympathetic husband and halfhearted father, finds himself in a hopeless situation. Despite all his best efforts, he hasn't managed to keep his family together. In fact they are further from him than ever - 550 miles, to be precise. And in a world near annihilated by a terrible disaster, leaving the UK harsh and brutal, uncrossable by car or bike, his journey to find his loved ones will be fraught with challenges.
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Looking for more from this author
- By Petra on 24-02-2020
- The End of the World Running Club
- By: Adrian J. Walker
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
Looking for more from this author
Reviewed: 24-02-2020
What great characters this guy writes. The main character is everything a lazy father and rubbish husband should be and he takes forever to wake up to himself. Loved the Harvey character too. Typical Aussie bloke and acts just the way I’d expect. The narrator does a brilliant job too, from Aussie accent to whining child. Loved him!
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Surviving the Fall Box Set
- The Complete Surviving the Fall Series, Books 1-12
- By: Mike Kraus
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 29 hrs and 46 mins
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This complete edition of Surviving the Fall features all 12 books in the series, each one full of action, suspense, and drama, as Rick and Dianne struggle to survive the end of days.
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Best series I’ve read
- By Anonymous User on 13-07-2020
- Surviving the Fall Box Set
- The Complete Surviving the Fall Series, Books 1-12
- By: Mike Kraus
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
Enjoyable series
Reviewed: 24-01-2020
Good series of books. I found some parts a little pointless, like the inclusion of the astronauts but I suppose people do wonder what happens to people stuck in space during such an event. Good range of characters involved and the narrator was pretty good except for the whining children’s voices.
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The Dry
- By: Jane Harper
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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A story of desperation, resolution and small-town prejudice played out against the blistering extremes of life on the land. Amid the worst drought to ravage Australia in a century, a farmer turns his gun on his family and then himself. As questions mount and suspicion casts a long shadow over the parched town, specialist investigator Aaron Falk is forced to confront the community that rejected him 20 years earlier.
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Gripping Aussie crime thriller
- By Jane S on 11-01-2017
- The Dry
- By: Jane Harper
- Narrated by: Steve Shanahan
Nice to read something Australian
Reviewed: 21-12-2019
I get bored with American fiction that is overly-dramatic. This book is well written and it makes a nice change to hear an Australian accent and hear about the Australian landscape. Well thought out storyline
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As the Ash Fell
- By: AJ Powers
- Narrated by: Aaron Cleveland
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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It's been seven years since the ash billowed into the atmosphere, triggering some of the harshest winters in recorded history. Populations are thinning. Food is scarce. Despair overwhelming. With no way to sustain order, societies collapsed, leaving people to fend for themselves. Clay and his sister Megan have taken a handful of orphaned children into their home -- a home soaring 16 stories into the sky.
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Good story but not a massive fan of the narrator
- By Petra on 13-12-2019
- As the Ash Fell
- By: AJ Powers
- Narrated by: Aaron Cleveland
Good story but not a massive fan of the narrator
Reviewed: 13-12-2019
Good characters in this story, though I did just finish listening to Sarah Fleming’s series so I found it hard to love these characters as much as the ones that Fleming writes. I liked the narrator’s voice for the main character - Clayton but I loathed all the other voices he does. The women all sound like whinging children and Jake Watson’s accent is really aggravating. I also like stories that explain more about how things happen, where as this author skips most of the details of the way the world has collapsed.