You no longer follow Linda

You will no longer see updates from this user when they write new reviews, or suggestions based on their library or recommendations.

You can re-follow a user if you change your mind.

You now follow Linda

You will receive updates from this user when they write new reviews, or suggestions based on their library or recommendations.

You can unfollow a user if you change your mind.

Linda

Eagar, Az, United States | Member Since 2011

HELPFUL VOTES

14 reviews
20 ratings
135 titles in library
17 purchased in 2013

FOLLOWING

FOLLOWERS

The Ark: A Novel

UNABRIDGED
- by Boyd Morrison
- Narrated by Boyd Gaines
The Ark: A Novel

UNABRIDGED (14 hrs and 13 mins)

By Boyd Morrison

Narrated By Boyd Gaines

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(180)
Performance
(97)
Story
(98)

When brilliant archaeologist Dilara Kenner is contacted by Sam Watson, an old family friend who says that he has crucial information about her missing father, Dilara abandons her Peruvian dig and rushes to Los Angeles to meet him. But at the airport, Sam speaks instead of Noah’s Ark—the artifact her father had long been searching for—and the possible death of billions. Before Sam can explain, he collapses. With his dying breath, he urges Dilara to find Tyler Locke—a man she’s never heard of.
Veneda says: "great summer read"
"OK, but not great"

Overall
Performance
Story

This book was entertaining and good to pass the time, but not one that I would consider a great listen. It just didn't catch my undivided attention. The story board was good, but kind of fizzled at the end.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Black Mountain: Alex Hunter, Book 4

UNABRIDGED
- by Greig Beck
- Narrated by Sean Mangan
Black Mountain: Alex Hunter, Book 4

UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 51 mins)

By Greig Beck

Narrated By Sean Mangan

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(38)
Performance
(35)
Story
(34)

Alex Hunter, code named Arcadian, wakes up with no knowledge of who he is, in the care of a woman he doesn't recognize, in a country not his own. But there is a calling deep within him, to return home to Black Mountain. Formed a billion years ago, the Appalachian's Black Mountain hosts a terrible legend. Only one elder remains to guard its long-forgotten, deadly secret and there is a fear that there is evil lurking again. Some hikers have gone missing, and the rescue team sent to search for them has not returned.
Michele says: "Scary has never been so much fun!!"
"Language"

Overall
Performance
Story

I am getting so tired of listening to the sample and decide that the book will be good, then 3-4 chapters in the language gets really trashy. Why does authors do that? Do thay think that they have us snagged and will listen to the end? No more for me! I think that books without bad language would get mild listerners as well as the hard-core listeners. Trashy books only get trashy listeners.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Four Fires

UNABRIDGED
- by Bryce Courtenay
- Narrated by Humphrey Bower
Four Fires

UNABRIDGED (29 hrs and 5 mins)

By Bryce Courtenay

Narrated By Humphrey Bower

Overall
(729)
Performance
(419)
Story
(416)

The four fires in this story are passion, religion, warfare, and fire itself. While there are many more fires that drive the human spirit, love being perhaps the brightest flame of all, it is these four that have moulded us most as Australian people. The four fires give us our sense of place and, for better or for worse, shape our national character.
Robert says: "Hit in the solar plexus"
"Loved the story - hated the bad language"

Overall
Performance
Story

Had to keep listening because the story is really good, but probably won't listen to any more by this author because the language ruined the listening experience. Great performance by the reader.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Criminal

UNABRIDGED
- by Karin Slaughter
- Narrated by Kathleen Early
Criminal

UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 35 mins)

By Karin Slaughter

Narrated By Kathleen Early

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(930)
Performance
(774)
Story
(769)

Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and he is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation, until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before - when Will's father was imprisoned for murder - this was his home....
Pamela says: "Put your big girl pants on for this one!"
"Just OK"

Overall
Performance
Story

The story was worth listening to, but I got tired of the language and trashy parts. I fast forward to hear the end, because of the parts that had no relevance to the story.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Speaks the Nightbird

UNABRIDGED
- by Robert McCammon
- Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Speaks the Nightbird

UNABRIDGED (30 hrs and 46 mins)

By Robert McCammon

Narrated By Edoardo Ballerini

Overall
(1081)
Performance
(931)
Story
(925)

The Carolinas, 1699: The citizens of Fount Royal believe a witch has cursed their town with inexplicable tragedies -- and they demand that beautiful widow Rachel Howarth be tried and executed for witchcraft. Presiding over the trial is traveling magistrate Issac Woodward, aided by his astute young clerk, Matthew Corbett. Believing in Rachel's innocence, Matthew will soon confront the true evil at work in Fount Royal....
aaron says: "Dark, Twisted Period Piece with GREAT Characters!"
"I couldn't believe it was so good."

Overall
Performance
Story

When I first started listening, I thought that this was one I probably wouldn't get very far into. Before I knew it I had listened to the the first part and couldn't quit listening. Great story and great performace.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Don't Look Twice

UNABRIDGED
- by Andrew Gross
- Narrated by Christian Hoff
Don't Look Twice

UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 9 mins)

By Andrew Gross

Narrated By Christian Hoff

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(102)
Performance
(39)
Story
(40)

In this dramatic new novel following the best-selling The Dark Tide, a drive-by shooting rocks the posh suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut, and an innocent bystander is left dead. Detective Ty Hauck plunges into what seems like a vicious case of retribution and follows the trail to a sinister gambling scheme at an upstate casino. Until Annie Fletcher, a young restaurateur in the midst of rebuilding her life, witnesses something she shouldn't have....and immediately runs to him with what she knows.
richard says: "Fluffy summer reading."
"Filthy"

Overall
Performance
Story

Couldn't get past the first chapter. Too trashy for me. The sample didn't have anything that indicated that this would be so graphic. Wasted my money on this one.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Wonderland Creek

UNABRIDGED
- by Lynn Austin
- Narrated by Kate Forbes
Wonderland Creek

UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 13 mins)

By Lynn Austin

Narrated By Kate Forbes

Overall
(90)
Performance
(75)
Story
(75)

Six-time Christy Award winner Lynn Austin has won a loyal following for her inspiring historical fiction. In Wonderland Creek, young Chicago-area librarian Alice Grace Ripley is left heartbroken when her fiancé breaks up with her just as the Great Depression forces her out of a job. To escape the local gossip, Alice volunteers to deliver donated books to a library in rural Kentucky. There she discovers that God still has a plan for her after all.
franki says: "Should be called Wonderful Creek!"
"Great Story"

Overall
Performance
Story

I loved the insight into the Kentucky mountain culture through the eyes of an outsider. Great Story and well read.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

UNABRIDGED
- by Jamie Ford
- Narrated by Feodor Chin
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel

UNABRIDGED (10 hrs and 51 mins)

By Jamie Ford

Narrated By Feodor Chin

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(1611)
Performance
(575)
Story
(567)

In the opening pages of Jamie Ford's stunning debut, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle's Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.
Christopher says: "Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet"
"So Sweet!"

Overall
Performance
Story

I really enjoyed this book. Normally I don't care for books that go back and forth between times, but this one was easy to follow and made the story better. The reader was perfect. The author keeps you guessing (and hoping) what the end will be and gives a better understanding of that part of history. Great Book!

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Ice Cold

UNABRIDGED
- by Tess Gerritsen
- Narrated by Tanya Eby
Ice Cold

UNABRIDGED (9 hrs and 51 mins)

By Tess Gerritsen

Narrated By Tanya Eby

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(1303)
Performance
(685)
Story
(674)

Something terrible has happened in the snowbound village of Kingdom Come, Wyoming, where 12 eerily identical houses stand dark and abandoned. Meals remain untouched on dining room tables, cars are still in garages, and the town's residents have vanished into thin air. This is the disturbing setting where vacationing medical examiner Maura Isles and her traveling companions find themselves trapped during a ferocious snowstorm.
Babs says: "Intelligent people behaving stupidly"
"Marginal Read"

Overall
Performance
Story

This book did keep me listening to see what happened next and was somewhat intertainng, but dragged out too long just to increase the length. Same story could have been told in a lot less time.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful
Brimstone: Pendergast, Book 5

UNABRIDGED
- by Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
- Narrated by Scott Brick
Brimstone: Pendergast, Book 5

UNABRIDGED (19 hrs and 42 mins)

By Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

Narrated By Scott Brick

Whispersync for Voice-ready

Overall
(762)
Performance
(664)
Story
(654)

Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely high; he is discovered in a room barricaded from the inside; the smell of brimstone is everywhere... and the unmistakable imprint of a claw is burned into the wall. As more bodies are discovered - their only connection the bizarre but identical manner of death - the world begins to wonder if the Devil has, in fact, come to collect his due.
Lannette says: "Simply another great Pendergast novel."
"Language"

Overall
Performance
Story

It sounded like this would be a good story, but I finally gave up because the language was so trashy. I wish there was ratings for books like for movies so I could avoid foul language. Really wasted my money on this one.

3 of 15 people found this review helpful