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Narrated by Amy Rubinate and Kirby Heybourne Derek Fitzpatrick is the seventeen-year-old hero of Wild Cards. As the story starts, he is expelled from his expensive prep school for a (relatively harmless but quite disruptive) prank he takes full responsibility for to save his friends from getting into trouble. His father is in the Navy,…
The plot of Charming the Shrew certainly wouldn’t win any prizes for originality, but that didn’t prevent me from enjoying the audiobook about a hero-in-disguise and the intelligent and sharp-tongued woman with whom he is forced to undertake a wintry journey. Tayg Munro is the heir to the chiefdom of his clan of Culrain. Having…
I had no interest in Eat, Pray, Love in either book or movie form; it just sounded self-indulgent to me. But a novel about a female naturalist in the nineteenth century stumbling on ideas similar to Darwin’s? Sign me up! I loved The Signature of All Things – it’s an excellent reminder of why I…
Narrated by Anne Flosnik Anyone who knows me can tell you two things. First, they’ll tell you that I go nuts for any kind of historical fiction. Second, you’d learn I’m nothing, if not a feminist. Bearing these two things in mind, it won’t be hard for you to understand why I was so pleased…
Narrated by Nicholas Boulton Ok, be honest. If I said, this is the Baltimore Business Phone book narrated by Nicholas Boulton, at least half of you would continue reading. The man has some serious narrating chops – his straight narrative voice alone is enough to carry me to the heights of ecstasy and beyond. Add…
Narrated by Elizabeth Wiley Second (and my favorite) in Elisabeth Naughton’s Stolen series, Stolen Heat delivers an ultimately sweet reunion in a thrilling romantic adventure/suspense. This was a keeper read for me (published in 2009), so I was excited to re-experience it in audio. Antiquities dealer Peter Kauffman was introduced in Stolen Fury as that hero’s loyal…
When a book is the length that many of Karen Rose’s novels are, the writing has to be spectacular to keep the work from getting bogged down by sheer longitude. It works better in some novels than in others and I am happy to report that this is one of the ones where it really…
Molly McAdams’ book Forgiving Lies was my first foray into the New Adult genre. I hope it will not be my last because this book, while not entirely awful, did not make me want to venture any further into the New Adult world. Rachel Masters was in high school in California when her parents were…
I love stories about aliens. I have ever since childhood when I discovered authors like Andre Norton and Isaac Asimov. While sci-fi novels have been out of style and fantasy and paranormal books have reached ascendancy recent publishing trends have me hoping we are about to see that change. Senior Cara Sweeney hasn’t reached Valedictorian…
There is a trick to combining romance with other genres like mystery and suspense. You need to have more than a romance novel with a mystery tacked on, or a mystery novel that has a relationship – there has to be an actual blend of the two, in my mind. Unfortunately, I’ve read far too…
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