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

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.

 

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"

Good reads

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. 

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."

Good reads

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 

 

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! 

Dead in the Water- Hailey Edwards

 Dead in the Water

Gemini Book 1

Length 7 hours 10 min

Narrated by Stephanie Edwards

"Camille Ellis is the Earthen Conclave’s golden girl. Her peculiar talent solves cases with a touch. She isn’t afraid of getting her hands dirty, but every bright star casts a shadow, and her deepest scars lurk just beneath the skin"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27409891-dead-in-the-water

Bored, so bored 

Managed an hour but almost feel asleep listing, not the writing the narration is just so dull lacking all emotion. they where fighting a frinkin  kraken and I was zoning out from boredom. 

Needs a better narrator before I will return to this book 

Spell Weaver Series - Annette Marie

The Night Realm

Length 11 hours 33 min

The Shadow Weave

Length 9 hours 43 min

The Blood Curse

Length 10 hours 55 min

Narrated by Jorjena Marie, Melissa Moran, Greg Tremblay

"Clio would love nothing more than to go home. But as the illegitimate daughter of the nymph king, she's stuck in the human world, exiled until she can earn a place in the royal family. Then her half-brother offers her a chance to prove herself. All she has to do is acquire some magic … by stealing it from the most dangerous spell weavers in the Underworld"

Goodreads.com

I enjoyed this series and the character development was great, I did struggle with the world descriptions. Understanding how the days and nights work in the underworld confused me. I also feel that Annette Marie defiantly likes the male body, she followed The Guild Codex series style by spending alot of time describing the male form I mean the main male character is a freaken  INCUBUS a literal sex demon! its interesting having him use his power to turn people on during a fight, being able to arouse the person while trying to kill them is quite unique. 

I wasn't keen on Melissa Moran at first but by the second book The Shadow Weaver she found her pacing and enthusiasm for the character, i wonder how she might be in other books.

Greg Tremblay played the incubus well and defiantly suited the character and worked well with Melissa and Jorjena

Jorjena Marie takes over for Melissa part way through The Blood Curse, she did really well continuing on with Clio, I didn't even notice when it happened.

the series continues with the Steel and Stone trilogy narrated by Jorjena Marie i tried to listen but I think Jorjena had a bad cold or something I just kept wanting to hand her a tissue and a hot lemon drink, the fact that I'm recovering from covid I don't need to hear that.