Saturday, November 19, 2022

Myth Protector-Jamie Hawke

Book 1
Narrated Teddy Hamilton
Length 6 hours 54 min

Book 2 
No Idea and don't care

"We work hard so we play hard" 🚩🚩🙄

So I only decided to listen to this cause Teddy Hamilton had narrated other books I enjoyed, He was the only good thing I can say about this book.

I only managed 11/2 hours before the line "we work hard so we play hard" was stated right after sex, my eyes rolled so hard  I was  surprised my eyes didn't get stuck there.

Its a geek gamer fantasy, video game and story book characters turning out to be real so of course he must now have sex with them. the sex scenes made me cringe.

I tried to give it a chance but just couldn't finish it. 







Saturday, October 29, 2022

The Last Magician - Lisa Maxwell

Book 1
The Last Magician
Length 16 hours 7 min

Book 2
The Devils Thief
Length 22 hours 19min

Book 3
The Serpents curse
Length 22 hours 38 min

The Shattered City 
yet to be released

Narrated by
Candace Thaxton

Magic and Time travel, Stop the Magician, Steal the book and save the future.

Enjoyable story but really confusing at times, time travel is always confusing though. you can tell that Lisa Maxwell did a lot of research on the history of the USA including actually historical events and mixed them in well with the fictious story. 
Lisa not only include these events but also the feelings of the different communities in the early 1900's, when new immigrants to the US were viewed with distrust and hatred, forcing them to fear others from different races or religion. Lisa addresses racism directly doesn't sugar coated it and even has some of the main characters to face and question their own racist views. the story also covers gender inequality and some rights or atlest  acknowledgement of the LGBTQ+  perhaps there will be more in the next book?
Candace Thaxton was a good narrator good pacing my only issue that had with it was the editing as some times when changing chapters it jumped in to the first world like it was cut in half it it was a little off putting but a very minor thing.
definitely recommend this book.

In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives. goodreads.com/book



Personal Note: this is my first blog in about 5 months I have been in alot of pain due to an illness and which has often left me housebound if not bed bound, you would think id make the most of this time listing to audiobooks. however its difficult to concentrate on new story's and find myself returning to ones I've listen to a hundred times, it also brings me comfort knowing what is going to happen the predictability is calming. I've often done this with tv and movies. I'm along way for recovered as I need a surgery I will still continue to listen to stories new and old alike and post when I can
xxx
kat 

Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Tempris- Stephanie Fisher

Book 1
Shardless
Length 19 hours 10 min

Book 2 
Acolyte
length 17 hours 39 min

Narrated by Elizabeth Evans

Love and Hate this series.

Love the books amazing story with so much surprising action, never know whats going to happen next. the relationship between Sky and Taly is fantastic and funny.

 'On Tempris, time magic is outlawed, and suspected time mages are hunted. Humans are second-class citizens, shunned by the immortal fey that live on the island. They even have a name for their kind: Shardless.'Goodreads

Elizabeth Evans is a fantastic narrator I have listen to many books of her's and is one of my top favs 

what I hate about this series.....there are meant to be 7 books and I have no idea on when the next one is due. I am not a patient women.

I smile to myself every time I hear Taly nickname 'Little One' as thats the name of one of my cats lol





Friday, June 3, 2022

Good to the last Death - Robyn Peterman

Book 1
It's a wonderful midlife crisis
Length 9hours 10min

Book 2 
Who's midlife crisis is it anyway
length 6 Hours 43 min

Narrated by Jessica Almasy

"Whoever said life begins at forty must have been heavily medicated, drunk or delusional" 

LOVED IT!

So funny, I was laughing within 60 seconds! 

"Thirty-nine was a fantastic year. I was married to the man I loved. I had a body that worked without creaking. My grandma, who raised me, was still healthy, and life was pretty damned good. But as they say, all good things come to an end. I’d honestly love to know who ’they’ are and rip them a new one" goodreads

How would you feel at 40 suddenly seeing, talking and gluing body parts onto ghosts? think you might be going mad? maybe just a little

I loved this book for Daisy relationship with her best girlfriends, the are BFF goals! hilarious to hangout with and always know that they have your back. I also enjoyed that the main character Daisy is 40 I'm 41 so I can relate to her abit about getting older and not knowing what to expect from it.

Jessica Almasy is a great narrator funny with seriously good pacing, she narrates all the books in this series which makes me very happy. I'm going to add her to my favorite narrators list and see what else she's done.

There are 7 books in this series 6 of them are currently free on Audible plus catalog, I am defiantly going to be listing to the rest of them.



 


Monday, May 9, 2022

Indie Saint- VK Fox

Indie Saint
Book 1 The words of power
Length 7 hours 52 min
Narrated by Chelsea Stephens


Confused, so very confused  

"Jane Davis has modest new-adult goals: pay the bills, keep her job, and - oh yeah - control her raging saint-like superpowers before they kill her"

I really struggled to understand the storyline, its weird and they way its way its written it makes it difficult to follow and quite boring. I will say its an interesting concept that a person can obtain power by reading a book infused with magic, just didn't like they way this one was written.

Wont be listing to others in the series 
 
Chelsea Stephen needs more practice at narration I feel she has potential and I will listen to her other readings. 





Thursday, May 5, 2022

The Invisible life of Addie Larue- V.E Schwab

The Invisible life of Addie Larue
Length 17 hours 10
Narrated by Julia Whelan


"Never pray to the Gods after dark"

"France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets."

My greatest fear is not the dark or spiders it is to be forgotten, this book was amazing and upsetting. imagine meeting people over and over again and them never remembering but you remember EVERYTHING and everyone. Being unable to leave a mark on the world not even being able to use your own name for 300 years! For Addie you will only remember her while she is there as soon as the door closes behind you you forget she ever existed.

This is don't make a deal with the devil story, the story often jumps around in time to learn how and why she made a deal for freedom.

so worth a listen, I was engrossed from start to finish.
It is a story I wont forget in a hurry.

Narration was really good and suited the characters with good pacing 

its currently free in the Audible plus catalog 



 

Sunday, May 1, 2022

The Unconventional Heroes Series - L.G. Estrella

 

Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat and an Elf

Two Necromancers, an Army of Golems and a Demon Lord

Length 13 hours 5 min (Publishers Pack)

Narrated by Fred Berman

LOVE IT! so funny!

“People often said that the only certainties in life were death and taxes. As a necromancer, Timmy knew better. Taxes were the only certainty in life, especially when they were collected by an agency that was remarkably bloodthirsty and well organised.”
― L.G. Estrella, Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf


After nearly being eaten by his latest creations, a zombie hydra-dragon-bear, wanted criminal Evil Master Necromancer Timmy and his scheming dark shadow welding adorable 10 year old apprentice Kaite decide its time for a less dangerous career path.

I love the characters in this book  

  • Timmy a shovel welding master necromancer
  • Katie a 10 year old adorably evil necromancer apprentice with plans to over throw her master
  • Gerald a bumbling bureaucrat terrified of his own shadow and enjoys meticulous paperwork
  • Avraniel a pyromaniac elf  with love of killer plants
  • Invisible Nija Rats!
I feel like this is a DnD campaign thats been written down with how surprising it can be

Fred Berman does a fantastic job at the narration, his pacing and sense of humor plays so well for theses books. He narrates the other 4 books and I cant wait to listen to them.

You can find the Publisher pack for free on audible plus right now! 






Myth Protector-Jamie Hawke

Book 1 Narrated Teddy Hamilton Length 6 hours 54 min Book 2  No Idea and don't care "We work hard so we play hard" 🚩🚩🙄 So I...