Hope for the Best (The Chronicles of St Mary’s #10) Author: Jodi Taylor; Genre: Time travel fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Zara Ramm; Publisher: Audible Studios (2019); Rating: . If you haven’t read any of this series, I would strongly suggest you give it a try. Very British, very funny, great characters, and fascinating premise. Wow, […]
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An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) Author: Charlaine Harris; Genre: Alternate History/Western Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Eva Kaminsky; Publisher: Recorded Books (2018); Rating: . Yes, that Charlaine Harris. I’ve only read the first of her famous Sookie Stackhouse series, a contemporary urban fantasy. I much prefer a historical theme, and this one looked like a
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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book 1) Author: Patrick Ness, Genre: Fantasy/Science-fiction/Thriller (yes, all those), Format: Ebook, Publisher: Candlewick Press (2010), Rating: . This is one of those books when the protagonist goes through so many trials that I kept asking myself, “What, again?!” Just when things are looking up, here comes
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Spinning Silver Author: Naomi Novik; Genre: Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Lisa Flanagan; Publisher: Random House Audio (2018); Rating: . There are many reviews that laud the storytelling and rave about the plot of this fantasy. It’s a massive mashup of Eastern European fairy tales, with some twists. Perhaps reading it would have been a better
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You’re Going to Mars! Author: Rob Dircks; Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Khristine Hvan; Publisher: Audible Studios (2018); Rating: . I’ve already read several of Rob Dirck’s books and loved them, so I jumped at the chance to read this one. It’s a fun underdog story set in a future U.S. where a huge
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow Author: Jessica Townsend; Genre: YA Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Gemma Whelan; Publisher: Hachette Audio; Rating: . This is a delightful fantasy of a misfit 11-year-old in an alternate England who has to prove herself. Morrigan grows up being told she is unlucky and cursed, and believes it. Then a mysterious
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Mountain Man: Prequel (Book 0, Mountain Man series) Author: Keith C. Blackmore; Genre: Fantasy/Horror; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: R. C. Bray; Publisher: Podium Publishing (2018); Rating: . I saw the great ratings for this series and wanted to start at the VERY beginning; this is a prequel for the Mountain Man series. Wow, what a ride!
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Warbreaker Author: Brandon Sanderson; Genre: Epic Fantasy; Format: Audiobook; Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan; Publisher: Recorded Book; Rating: . Perhaps I need to take a break from epic fantasy for a while. Or maybe just Sanderson’s work. This is a drawn-out story with lots of repetition. I think it could have told with many fewer words and
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