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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- Auteur(s): Suzanne Collins
- Narrateur(s): Santino Fontana
- Durée: 16 h et 16 min
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It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the 10th annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to out charm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low.
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great book, bad editing.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-07-30
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- A Hunger Games Novel
- Auteur(s): Suzanne Collins
- Narrateur(s): Santino Fontana
A Protagonist You Hate to Like
Évalué le: 2020-05-30
In The Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow was evil incarnate ... he was the living, breathing embodiment of what was really bad about Panem, a grise eminence who based all of his decisions on what was good for himself, and only secondarily good for his nearest and dearest, and just not giving a damn for anyone else at all. He was a powerful parasite who was destined to go to hell, but in the meantime would never take his hand off the tiller. So why on earth would we want to read his origin story ... surely he sprang from the womb exactly as he died, with poison on his lips and in his treacherous heart. Well, as this book sets out, that presumption was sorta kinda right ... and wrong. But this says more about us than it does about Snow. We want to like him. We want him to make the right decisions. We admire his cunning and his logic and, most of all, his dumb luck What's wrong with us that we can kinda like this snake? That we are sorta rooting for him. That somehow he doesn't turn out to be so loathsome? I think we've been Snowed! If you've every read the Ripley books by Patricia Highsmith or Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, you have met Snow. So suspend your belief in goodness, step off your moral high ground, and try to enjoy the ride. My final critique is -- read it, love it or hate it, and then take a shower to clean off all the slime. A couple of nits about the book -- I never, ever got that Lucy Grey was anything other then boring. Grey was a pretty good name for her, as there was no real spark ... it was all lip service, with very little depth. Maybe it was that she was being seen through the egoist Snow's eyes, but then why did he fall so hard for her? Anyway, I preferred Maude Ivory. And the narrator was very underwhelming and disappointing. All of his females sounded like mush-mouthed morons, and the men were very one-note. I couldn't tell if it was Snow or Sejanus talking half the time. So a very reserved thumbs up on this one.
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What's Left of My World
- A Story of a Family's Survival
- Auteur(s): C. A. Rudolph
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Pierce
- Durée: 10 h et 14 min
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Lauren Russell often wondered why her father had been so adamant about teaching her skills that most other fathers wouldn't even consider teaching their daughters. Ever since she was little, she had been taught how to live and survive outdoors, and how to use firearms to protect herself and those around her. Some of the training had been a bit extreme. Or had it been? Many of her questions were answered the day the world as she knew it ended.
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Very credible for those who know what will happen.
- Écrit par Mervyn Byron le 2021-01-13
- What's Left of My World
- A Story of a Family's Survival
- Auteur(s): C. A. Rudolph
- Narrateur(s): Kevin Pierce
Awful ... don't waste your credit or your money
Évalué le: 2020-01-13
A wish fulfillment for hard core preppers ... no believable characters ... just a joke.
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Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
- Auteur(s): Rhys Bowen
- Narrateur(s): Jasmine Blackborow
- Durée: 9 h et 7 min
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I was so excited when Darcy announced out of the blue that we were flying to Kenya for our extended honeymoon. Now that we are here, I suspect he has actually been sent to fulfill another secret mission. I am trying very hard not to pick a fight about it, because after all, we are in paradise! Darcy finally confides that there have been robberies in London and Paris. It seems the thief was a member of the aristocracy and may have fled to Kenya. Since we are staying in the Happy Valley, we are well positioned to hunt for clues and ferret out possible suspects.
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Loving death among the cheatas
- Écrit par Sandra Massey le 2020-03-04
- Love and Death Among the Cheetahs
- Auteur(s): Rhys Bowen
- Narrateur(s): Jasmine Blackborow
Definitely not up to Rhys's usual standard!
Évalué le: 2020-01-09
This whole novel sounds rushed and poorly planned out. And all the characters were so one note that they all ran together in my head. So re-read the earlier books and wait for the next one ... don't bother with this one.

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Zombie Fallout
- Zombie Fallout, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Mark Tufo
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
- Durée: 10 h et 28 min
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This is the story of Michael Talbot, his family, and his friends: a band of ordinary people trying to get by in extraordinary times. When disaster strikes, Mike, a self-proclaimed survivalist, does his best to ensure the safety and security of those he cares for. Book one of the Zombie Fallout Trilogy follows our lead character at his self-deprecating, sarcastic best. What he encounters along the way leads him down a long dark road, always skirting the edge of insanity.
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Refreshing Zombie book
- Écrit par Leslie le 2020-10-07
- Zombie Fallout
- Zombie Fallout, Book 1
- Auteur(s): Mark Tufo
- Narrateur(s): Sean Runnette
Great story, but lose the Circumlocution!
Évalué le: 2019-11-05
I love zombie books and anything to do with the end of the world, and this is a pretty darned good entry into both. It's got a good narrator, a cracking good story and the characters are terrific -- but it reaches a point that our intrepid author's ineptitude in using big words becomes downright laughable. At some points the verbiage is so tortuous and so woefully misguided, that for me it stopped the narrative cold. Somebody should tell Mr. Tufo that when something is penultimate, it is the second to last occurrence of something, not a last occurrence that is somehow better than ultimate. And does it have to be a visage every single time? What's wrong with just talking about someone's face? So my suggestion to Mr. Tufo is, throw away the thesaurus, and use everyday words that blend in with the story to help it along. Stop trying to impress with English Lit 1.0 blather. In short, get an editor!
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The Deep, Deep Snow
- Auteur(s): Brian Freeman
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
- Durée: 10 h et 6 min
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Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child. The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After a desperate search fails to locate him, the close bonds of Shelby’s hometown begin to fray under the weight of accusations and suspicion. Everyone around her is keeping secrets.
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Great book, easy read, narrator was amazing
- Écrit par Manny le 2019-11-14
- The Deep, Deep Snow
- Auteur(s): Brian Freeman
- Narrateur(s): January LaVoy
Did not like the main character.
Évalué le: 2019-07-20
I think this story would have been improved if the story was told by an omniscient narrator. Then we might have had a more 360 degree view of things instead of Shelby's self-centered tunnel vision The only character I really wanted to get to know was Tom, but he didn't seem to exist outside Shelby's sensibilities. I almost envied him losing his grasp on reality because what was going on inside his head had to be more interesting than what I was reading on the page. This is one of those books where everything and everyone seems to be in a ten-foot square social bubble. The only characters at all in this small town are involved in the drama somehow or other, and there's not so much as a shopkeeper or bus driver to give the place any colour. I was underwhelmed with the story itself and when it became really far-fetched towards the end, I totally lost interest. I read through to the end, but by that time it was just meh.
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Johnny
- Auteur(s): D. J. Molles
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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Aubrey St. James is in trouble. She's locked in a cell at a government black site. She doesn't know where that site is or how the hell she got there. But she knows that it has something to do with the stranger she rescued from the river. Someone - or some thing - called Johnny.
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Surprisingly good!
- Écrit par Leah Sass le 2019-04-24
- Johnny
- Auteur(s): D. J. Molles
- Narrateur(s): Marc Vietor
Good story, bad writing
Évalué le: 2019-05-20
This was a pretty good story written by a pretty poor wordsmith. And although the characters were well drawn I didn't really like anyone but Johnny. I was singularly unimpressed with the actual writing ... when the only adjective or adverb used is f*** it is so egregious that its shock value is totally muted and the going becomes just plain tedious. Use your imagination and our marvellous English language to draw a picture, to define a character, to flesh out a situation ... that will give us something worth reading! In other words, work on the craft!
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