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Impyrium
- De: Henry H. Neff
- Narrado por: Kim Mai Guest
- Duración: 19 h y 4 m
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For over 3,000 years, the Faeregine dynasty has ruled Impyrium. But the family's magic has been fading, and with it their power over the empire. Whether it's treachery from a rival house, the demon Lirlanders, or rebel forces, many believe the Faeregines are ripe to fall. Hazel, the youngest member of the royal family, is happy to leave ruling to her sisters so that she can study her magic. But the empress has other plans for her granddaughter, dark and dangerous plans to exploit Hazel's talents and rekindle the Faeregine mystique.
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Amazing! Can't wait for the next book in the series.
- De Reddings en 03-11-17
De: Henry H. Neff
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The Monstrumologist
- De: Rick Yancey
- Narrado por: Steven Boyer
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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Dr. Warthrop is a scientist who tracks and studies real-life monsters. Assisted by his 12-year-old apprentice, Will Henry, Dr. Warthrop discovers a pod of Anthropophagi and launches a hunt to destroy the foul beasts.
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Reader Be Warned
- De Eddie en 01-25-15
De: Rick Yancey
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Bloodleaf
- De: Crystal Smith
- Narrado por: Nicola Barber
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her.
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Not Understanding All the Praise
- De GPChlorine en 08-23-19
De: Crystal Smith
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The Spirit Thief
- The Legend of Eli Monpress, Book 1
- De: Rachel Aaron
- Narrado por: Luke Daniels
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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He's not just any thief. He’s the greatest thief of the age - and he’s also a wizard. And with the help of his partners - a swordsman with the most powerful magic sword in the world but no magical ability of his own, and a demonseed who can step through shadows and punch through walls - he’s going to put his plan into effect. The first step is to increase the size of the bounty on his head, so he’ll need to steal some big things. But he’ll start with somethingsmall. Something like a king....
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Entertaining light fantasy
- De Kindle Customer en 02-16-12
De: Rachel Aaron
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- De: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Duración: 15 h y 38 m
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Mad scientists have never had it so tough. In super-hero comics, graphic novels, films, TV series, video games, and even works of what may be fiction, they are besieged by those who stand against them, devoid of sympathy for their irrational, megalomaniacal impulses to rule, destroy, or otherwise dominate the world as we know it. It’s just not fair. So those of us who are so twisted and sick that we love mad scientists have created this guide.
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HAND DANCING
- De Jim "The Impatient" en 05-30-15
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Stations of the Tide
- De: Michael Swanwick
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 8 h y 54 m
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The Jubilee Tides will drown the continents of the planet Miranda beneath the weight of her own oceans. But as the once-in-two-centuries cataclysm approaches, an even greater catastrophe threatens this dark and dangerous planet of tale-spinners, conjurers, and shapechangers. From author Michael Swanwick—one of the most brilliantly assured and darkly inventive writers of contemporary fiction—comes a masterwork of radically altered realities and world-shattering seductions.
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Hard to categorize, hard to put down
- De Robert L. en 03-25-12
De: Michael Swanwick
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The Oversight
- De: Charlie Fletcher
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 14 h y 49 m
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Once there were hundreds of members of the Oversight, the brave souls who guard the borders between the mundane and the magic. Now there are only five. When a vagabond brings a screaming girl to the Oversight's London headquarters, she could answer their hopes for new recruit, or she could be the instrument of their downfall.
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Fantastic start to a fantasy series
- De jessica en 06-01-14
De: Charlie Fletcher
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Steeplejack
- De: A. J. Hartley
- Narrado por: Noma Dumezweni
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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Seventeen-year-old Anglet Sutonga lives repairing the chimneys, towers, and spires of the city of Bar-Selehm. Dramatically different communities live and work alongside each other. The white Feldish command the nation's higher echelons of society. The native Mahweni are divided between city life and the savannah. And then there's Ang, part of the Lani community who immigrated over generations ago as servants and now mostly live in poverty on Bar-Selehm's edges.
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Steeplejack Audio Climbs the Tops of Storytelling
- De Kerra Bolton en 12-08-16
De: A. J. Hartley
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A Shadow on the Glass
- The View From the Mirror Quartet, Book 1
- De: Ian Irvine
- Narrado por: Grant Cartwright
- Duración: 21 h y 26 m
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Once there were three worlds, each with their own human species. Then, fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charon. Desperate, on the edge of extinction, they changed the balance between the worlds forever. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled heritage, is forced to steal an ancient relic in repayment of a debt. It turns out to be the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has ever seen.
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Not quite good enough.
- De Scott S. en 03-13-12
De: Ian Irvine
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes
- De: Jonathan Auxier
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 9 h y 42 m
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Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes is the utterly beguiling tale of a ten-year-old blind orphan who has been forced into a life of crime. One fateful afternoon, Peter steals a mysterious box that contains three magical pairs of eyes. When he tries the first pair, he is instantly transported to a hidden island where he is presented with a special quest: to travel beyond the known world and rescue a lost kingdom from its treacherous ruler....
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Enjoyable listen but not for the youngest kids
- De Marie en 12-10-15
De: Jonathan Auxier
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The Thousand Names
- De: Django Wexler
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 22 h y 13 m
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With this stunning series opener, Django Wexler leaps to the upper echelon of today’s best fantasy authors. The Thousand Names opens his Shadow Campaigns series with a tale of bloody rebellion that will reshape an empire -- and a world. Captain Marcus d’Ivoire and Winter Ihernglass see their fortunes rise under the command of military genius Janus bet Vhalnich. But Janus’ obsession with the supernatural portends a dire fate for the realm.
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90% battles and 10% character development
- De Kathleen en 11-15-14
De: Django Wexler
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Three Parts Dead
- De: Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Claudia Alick
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- De John en 07-27-14
De: Max Gladstone
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The Troupe
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.
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Not worth the effort!
- De Howard en 08-12-13
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The Company Man
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A trolley car pulls into the station. Four minutes before, the inhabitants were seen boarding at the previous station. All are dead. And all of them are union. The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built airships that cross the seas. Guns that won the Great War. And above all, the city of Evesden. But something is rotten at the heart of Evesden. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must find the truth behind the city before it kills him.
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Steampunk Noir - Puts the Punk Back in Steampunk
- De Dave en 12-05-12
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American Elsewhere
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 22 h y 24 m
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Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....
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You are entering the twighlight zone
- De Lisa en 07-29-13
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The Tainted Cup
- A Novel
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Andrew Fallaize
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible. Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.
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Really fun fantasy whodunnit
- De Jay Turton en 03-11-24
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Vigilance
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces "Vigilance", a reality game show designed to make sure American citizens stay alert to foreign and domestic threats. Shooters are introduced into a "game environment", and the survivors get a cash prize. The TV audience is not the only one that's watching though, and McDean soon finds out what it's like to be on the other side of the camera.
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Old white men bring down America
- De Tango en 02-07-24
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Three Parts Dead
- De: Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Claudia Alick
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- De John en 07-27-14
De: Max Gladstone
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The Troupe
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Luis Moreno
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
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Best-selling author Robert Jackson Bennett has won widespread critical acclaim for his unique brand of darkly inventive fiction. In The Troupe, 16-year-old George Carole joins vaudeville in search of Heironomo Silenus, the man he believes to be his father. But what he discovers casts a dark pall over his world: Silenus' troupe hides a dangerous secret - one that invites death to all in its vicinity.
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Not worth the effort!
- De Howard en 08-12-13
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The Company Man
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A trolley car pulls into the station. Four minutes before, the inhabitants were seen boarding at the previous station. All are dead. And all of them are union. The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built airships that cross the seas. Guns that won the Great War. And above all, the city of Evesden. But something is rotten at the heart of Evesden. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must find the truth behind the city before it kills him.
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Steampunk Noir - Puts the Punk Back in Steampunk
- De Dave en 12-05-12
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American Elsewhere
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 22 h y 24 m
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Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....
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You are entering the twighlight zone
- De Lisa en 07-29-13
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The Tainted Cup
- A Novel
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Andrew Fallaize
- Duración: 13 h y 51 m
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In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible. Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.
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Really fun fantasy whodunnit
- De Jay Turton en 03-11-24
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Vigilance
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 3 h y 53 m
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The United States. 2030. John McDean executive produces "Vigilance", a reality game show designed to make sure American citizens stay alert to foreign and domestic threats. Shooters are introduced into a "game environment", and the survivors get a cash prize. The TV audience is not the only one that's watching though, and McDean soon finds out what it's like to be on the other side of the camera.
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Old white men bring down America
- De Tango en 02-07-24
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Three Parts Dead
- De: Max Gladstone
- Narrado por: Claudia Alick
- Duración: 13 h y 7 m
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A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, a first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethras, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring him back to life before his city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Without him, the metropolis’ steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot. Tara’s job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in.
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Great story, but the narrator was off
- De John en 07-27-14
De: Max Gladstone
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The Stone in the Skull
- The Lotus Kingdoms, Book 1
- De: Elizabeth Bear
- Narrado por: Rendah Heywood, Firdous Bamji
- Duración: 12 h y 57 m
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The Gage was an artist, once, and a lover. To avenge his murdered beloved, he allowed a sorcerer to sheathe his body in mirrored bronze. His vengeance is complete now; the sorcerer has long since perished. But the Gage endures. The Dead Man had a purpose once as well: he was raised to be the protector of a Caliph. The Caliph died; the Dead Man did not. Now the Dead Man and the Gage have become companions of the sword, itinerant mercenaries. They bear a message to the besieged young queen of one of the Lotus Kingdoms.
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I have the digital print book and love it
- De E. Dent en 04-13-19
De: Elizabeth Bear
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American elsewhere
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Lila Tamazit
- Duración: 24 h y 25 m
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Wink, au Nouveau-Mexique, est une petite ville idéale. À un détail près : elle ne figure sur aucune carte. Après deux ans d’errance, Mona Bright, ex-flic, vient d’y hériter de la maison de sa mère, qui s’est suicidée trente ans plus tôt. Très vite, Mona s’attache au calme des rues, aux jolis petits pavillons, aux habitants qui semblent encore vivre dans l utopique douceur des années cinquante.
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Mr. Shivers
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: T. Ryder Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 49 m
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Robert Jackson Bennett makes a stunning debut with this deliciously dark tale sure to hold readers in its menacing thrall. The grinding poverty brought on by the Great Depression is nowhere more apparent than in the untold thousands looking for work along America’s railroad system. But one man haunting the rail camps has been moved by an entirely different brand of desperation: revenge.
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From the Cormac McCarthy Playbook
- De J. Cons en 08-09-10
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The Judging Eye
- The Aspect-Emperor, Book 1
- De: R. Scott Bakker
- Narrado por: Kevin Orton
- Duración: 19 h
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A luminary in the fantasy genre firmament, R. Scott Bakker returns fans to his acclaimed Prince of Nothing universe with The Judging Eye. Aspect-Emperor Kellhus is waging a terrifying war, subjugating all nations in his path. There are those willing to stand together against him, but these rebellious souls must act quickly and decisively to thwart his mad schemes of power and domination.
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Terrible narrator
- De TRT en 05-25-19
De: R. Scott Bakker
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Tigana
- De: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 24 h y 51 m
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Eight of the nine Palm provinces of the Peninsula have been overcome by warrior sorcerers Brandin and Alberico. But the sorcerers don't know that a small band of survivors is plotting their removal. With tensions mounting, the sorcerers become increasingly at odds as each decides where his own path - and that of the land - should truly lie.
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A little self-indulgent
- De Diana M. en 05-31-20
De: Guy Gavriel Kay
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The Helm of Midnight
- The Five Penalties, Book 1
- De: Marina Lostetter
- Narrado por: Nicholas Khan, Shala Nyx, Vera Chok
- Duración: 22 h y 15 m
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In a daring and deadly heist, thieves have made away with an artifact of terrible power - the death mask of Louis Charbon. Made by a master craftsman, it is imbued with the spirit of a monster from history, a serial murderer who terrorized the city. Now Charbon is loose once more, killing from beyond the grave. But these murders are different from before, not simply random but the work of a deliberate mind probing for answers to a sinister question.
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Slow and convoluted
- De G. Redavid en 04-28-21
De: Marina Lostetter
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Sorcerer to the Crown
- A Sorcerer Royal Novel
- De: Zen Cho
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 13 h y 9 m
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The Royal Society of Unnatural Philosophers, one of the most respected organizations throughout all of England, has long been tasked with maintaining magic within His Majesty's lands. But lately the once proper institute has fallen into disgrace, naming an altogether unsuitable gentleman - a freed slave who doesn't even have a familiar - as their Sorcerer Royal and allowing England's once profuse stores of magic to slowly bleed dry. At least they haven't stooped so low as to allow women to practice....
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So. Much. Fun!
- De Eliza en 10-05-15
De: Zen Cho
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Under Heaven
- De: Guy Gavriel Kay
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 19 h y 32 m
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Under Heaven takes listeners to Tang dynasty China, where the son of an honored general has received an unheard of gift: 250 Sardian horses. But this is a prize men would, and will, kill for.
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One of my favorite by my favorite historical fantasy author
- De KBergin en 10-03-20
De: Guy Gavriel Kay
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City of Masks
- Stravaganza, Book 1
- De: Mary Hoffman
- Narrado por: Kathe Mazur
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
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This is a fantastic first novel in a trilogy. Set in a parallel world, in an Italy that in this world is called Talia and in a Venice that in this world is called Bellezza, the narrative follows Lucien, who in this world is ill with cancer. Given a marbled notebook to help him communicate when his throat hurts too much to speak, this notebook is the means that transports Lucien to this magical, dangerous new world. This is a world which is set in the C16, and thrills to the delight of political intrigue, including assassination attempts both foiled and successful.
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I loved this audiobook!
- De Jennifer C. en 08-21-22
De: Mary Hoffman
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The Forgetting Moon
- De: Brian Lee Durfee
- Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Duración: 30 h y 44 m
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Welcome to the Five Isles, where war has come in the name of the invading army of Sor Sevier, a merciless host driven by the prophetic fervor of the Angel Prince, Aeros, toward the last unconquered kingdom of Gul Kana. Yet Gault, one of the elite Knights Archaic of Sor Sevier, is growing disillusioned by the crusade he is at the vanguard of just as it embarks on his Lord Aeros' greatest triumph. While the eldest son of the fallen king of Gul Kana now reigns in ever increasing paranoid isolationism, his two sisters seek their own paths.
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alright-ish
- De Matthew en 05-10-19
De: Brian Lee Durfee
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The Marnie Baranuik Files
- Marnie Baranuik Files Series, Omnibus One
- De: A.J. Aalto
- Narrado por: Amy McFadden
- Duración: 56 h y 18 m
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For decades, Marnie Baranuik has been the vigilant but often frustrated daytime guardian for Lord Harry Dreppenstedt, undead aristocrat and all around sass-mouth. As a DaySitter, witch, and psychic detective working closely with the Preternatural Crimes Unit of the FBI, Marnie battles a wild assortment of crimes and monsters, but none so formidable as her own flaws and the poor judgement of her heart.
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Read & Listened & Love them All!
- De Ms. Wallace en 03-03-22
De: A.J. Aalto
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Phoenix Extravagant
- De: Yoon Ha Lee
- Narrado por: Emily Woo Zeller
- Duración: 10 h y 7 m
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Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint. One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint the mystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers. But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes - and the awful source of the magical pigments they use - they find they can no longer stay out of politics.
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Wonderful read!
- De storm baughman en 09-27-23
De: Yoon Ha Lee
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Everything You Didn't Know You Wanted in Fantasy
I don't know why it took me so long to listen to Robert Jackson Bennett's City of Stairs -- I've loved everything I've read or listened to by him -- particularly the Troupe and American Elsewhere. Whatever the case, I'm glad I got around to it at last. City of Stairs is everything I didn't realize I wanted from fantasy fiction -- espionage, magic, murder, dead gods (and maybe not-so-dead gods), sheer WTF-ery, and even a criticism of cultural appropriation (without losing sight of telling a rollicking a story).
The story unfolds when a diplomat is found murdered in his office in the occupied colonial city of Bullikov. A spy, an aging military general, and a bodyguard come together to investigate not only a murder, but a conspiracy that leads back to the city's brutal origins, when gods once ruled and enslaved humanity. Now, Bullikov is occupied by the forces that killed the gods, and has done their best to confiscate and destroy as much of the city's religious artifacts, books, and arts as they can. As you can imagine, not everyone's happy about the way things are going, and the author does an excellent job of weaving uneasiness and tension into every character's perspective.
One of the things I've always appreciated about Robert Jackson Bennett's books is that they stand alone -- and up until now, he hasn't dabbled in series and trilogies which have come to dominate fantasy and science fiction. This book marks the first in the Divine Cities Trilogy, and maybe that's part of what put me off some. I'm happy to report that while it's the first in a trilogy (or series), and I can imagine some places it might go -- it's a complete story on its own, and doesn't feel like a set-up for whatever is coming next. If this was the end of the story, I would be completely satisfied. As it is, I'm very curious to see where RJB goes next with City of Blades.
Alma Alexander's narration isn't too flashy, but it is perfection. She captures the different characters perfectly. Shara, the protagonist, is a very complex character and Alexander nails her hard edges as well as her vulnerability and since of longing. SIgurd, her bodyguard, is something of a monster, and it's a delight to see him unleashed. But my favorite character was the jaded, sarcastic military general Mulaghesh -- mainly because her dry tone reminds me of my podcasting friend M.K. Hobson.
If agents Mulder and Scully had become spies and were sent to different countries to investigate the deaths and possible resurrection of god, with Hellboy as their assistant and accidentally stumbled over warehouse containing the ark of the covenant -- well, we'd be lucky if it was as good as this book is. City of Stairs is one of the best fantasy books I've listened to in recent memory. Just writing this review makes me want to return to the mysterious streets and alleys of Bullikov on the next train ride.
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- CJRoark
- 11-15-16
Different
Slow start, odd ending not sure if I will order the second in this series.
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- Joseph Gray
- 10-17-19
4.5 overall, rounded up to 5
Great, well written, very original Fantasy book.
The narration was ok, but a lot of the voices sounded the same.
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- R. Maines
- 09-28-15
Bloody brilliant
Great world building and a plot that rattles along.
Good narration and Alma Cuervo has a voice that is understandable at x2 playback speed.
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- Uriel Dana
- 02-29-24
Bad narrator, good book
Good story but the reader was very distracting. I like this authors other books better; recommend The Tainted Cup. The narrator sounded disengaged and like she didn’t care about the book which may have colored my feelings about it.
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- Laura McNamara
- 08-11-15
Complicated and mesmerizing
This book turned me into a Robert Jackson Bennett fan. It's a great story, well translated into an audiobook - Alma Cuervo's voice captures the Shara Thivani so perfectly. I won't try to explain the plot; suffice to say that City of Stairs is a complicated story of politics, inequality, subjugation, religion, gods and goddesses, love and death and sex; with beautifully rendered, unpredictable characters. I might listen to it again if only to fall in love with Shara Thivani all over again. Can't wait for the next installment!
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- Robert B.
- 05-17-18
Really enyoayable
Took some getting used to some of the narrators pauses, but by the end I count her reading as one of my favorites.
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- shweenz
- 08-08-18
A fantasy that in so many ways merges two world
Industrialization of a world that was until-recently built and ruled by Gods and their miracles. When the Saypuri colonies rebelled and killed the Continent's Gods, much of the capital's buildings -- created by the Gods -- vanished and the inhabitants lost much of their infrastructure. As they adjust to concepts of engineering, rather than being gifted all their needs by the Gods, people are torn between embracing the new or wanting to restore the old ways (how it was under the Gods). Tensions are high as Saypur outlaws any mention or recognition of the Gods, and restricts all knowledge of the Continent's history.
When a Saypuri professor sent to study the Divinities and the Continental history is murdered, a Saypuri spy named Shara arrives to the City of Stairs to investigate. Shara soon uncovers many mysteries and plots that go far beyond Dr. Pangyui's murder.
This is a world where magic carpets and cars coexist, and while the magic of the Gods' miracles fades, it still exists, hidden. The world is incredibly interesting, but this book also has some great characters (esp. the main three), and hits some very well-disguised cultural and political themes.
Narration is weird at times -- the narrator gave a character a Bostonian accent for one scene in the final act, but nowhere else -- but overall it is pretty good. The inconsistencies stand out, but are not frequent enough to distract from the story.
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- Marianne H Dean
- 02-15-16
A mystery until it takes a crazy right turn
A mystery until it takes a crazy right turn and it only gets better and better. Strong female lead along with fully filled out characters, robust and full of life! Love it! The reader Alma is great too. One of the best female narrators I've heard.
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- Ceedeedee
- 02-27-15
The author loves language, the reader just as much
Would you consider the audio edition of City of Stairs to be better than the print version?
Absolutely! This fabulous reader loves reading this writer. Totally deserves the "performance" characterization
What other book might you compare City of Stairs to and why?
Shadow Country's writing/reading combo is also splendid. Both are unmatched, furst class experiences.
Which character – as performed by Alma Cuervo – was your favorite?
Just one? and I can't spell the names anyway. Shara?
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Sigred and monster Oola's valiant struggle to the death
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