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Story4 out of 5 stars 229
Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates - literally - he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that 21st-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn - who’s just trying to pass his college midterms. Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance....
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5 out of 5 stars
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not what i was expecting
- By n.brumm 4 on 02-09-15
By: Kelly McCullough
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The Mad Scientist's Guide to World Domination
- Original Short Fiction for the Modern Evil Genius
- By: John Joseph Adams - editor
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Mary Robinette Kowal, Justine Eyre
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 107
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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3 out of 5 stars
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HAND DANCING
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-30-15
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The Eternal World
- A Novel
- By: Christopher Farnsworth
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Story4 out of 5 stars 106
It is 500 years ago. A group of Spanish conquistadors searching for gold, led by a young and brilliant commander named Simon De Oliveras, land in the New World. What they find in this uncharted land is a treasure far more valuable: the Fountain of Youth. The Spaniards slaughter the Uzita, the Native American tribe who guard the precious waters that will keep the conquistadors young for centuries. But one escapes: Shako, the chief's fierce and beautiful daughter, who swears to avenge her people - a blood oath that spans more than five centuries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected
- By cristina on 09-10-15
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The Epic Crush of Genie Lo
- By: F. C. Yee
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 83
The struggle to get into a top-tier college consumes 16-year-old Genie's every waking thought. But when she discovers she's a celestial spirit who's powerful enough to bash through the gates of heaven with her fists, her perfectionist existence is shattered. Enter Quentin, a transfer student from China whose tone-deaf assertiveness beguiles Genie to the brink of madness. Quentin nurtures Genie's bodacious transformation - sometimes gently, sometimes aggressively - as her sleepy suburb in the Bay Area comes under siege from hell spawn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyed it more than I expected.
- By kevin on 07-27-21
By: F. C. Yee
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
- Mara Dyer, Book 1
- By: Michelle Hodkin
- Narrated by: Christy Romano
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 891
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 789
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Story4 out of 5 stars 796
Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Sure About Mara Dyer
- By C. Betts on 07-30-14
By: Michelle Hodkin
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Necropolis
- By: Michael Dempsey
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 174
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 159
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 159
NYPD detective Paul Donner and his wife Elise were killed in a hold-up gone wrong. Fifty years later, Donner is back: revived courtesy of the Shift. Supposedly the unintended side-effect of a botched biological terrorist attack and carried by a ubiquitous retrovirus, the Shift jump-starts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse, so reborns like Donner must cope with the fact that they are not only slowly youthing toward a new childhood, but have become New York's most hated minority.
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5 out of 5 stars
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'Necropolis' Rocked My World
- By HEIDI on 01-19-12
By: Michael Dempsey
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The Collectors' Society
- The Collectors' Society, Book 1
- By: Heather Lyons
- Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 89
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 89
After years in Wonderland, Alice has returned to England as an adult, desperate to reclaim sanity and control over her life. An enigmatic gentleman with an intriguing job offer too tempting to resist changes her plans for a calm existence. Soon, she's whisked to New York and initiated into the Collectors' Society, a secret organization whose members confirm that famous stories are anything but straightforward and that what she knows about the world is only a fraction of the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A true adventure full of the classics!
- By evelyn torres on 06-17-17
By: Heather Lyons
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Discount Armageddon
- InCryptid, Book 1
- By: Seanan McGuire
- Narrated by: Emily Bauer
- Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,972
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,814
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,813
The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity - and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I love this book!
- By a on 11-21-12
By: Seanan McGuire
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The Punch Escrow
- By: Tal M. Klein
- Narrated by: Matthew Mercer
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,373
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,194
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,192
Joel Byram is an everyday 22nd century guy. He spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to act more human, jamming out to 1980s new wave - an extremely obscure genre - and trying to salvage his deteriorating marriage. Joel is pretty much an everyday guy with everyday problems - until he's accidentally duplicated while teleporting. Now Joel must outsmart the shadowy organization that controls teleportation, outrun the religious sect out to destroy it, and find a way to get back to the woman he loves.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great Premise, terrible execution
- By Perfect Tommy on 09-25-17
By: Tal M. Klein
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Omens
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Carine Montbertrand, Mozhan Marnò
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,430
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1,306
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,310
Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions. But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great start to a new series, but... CRINGE!
- By BookMama on 12-22-13
By: Kelley Armstrong
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A Thousand Pieces of You
- Firebird, Book 1
- By: Claudia Gray
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 607
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Story4 out of 5 stars 609
Marguerite Caine grew up surrounded by cutting-edge scientific theories, thanks to her brilliant physicist parents. Yet nothing is more astounding than her mother's latest invention - a device called the Firebird, which allows people to leap into alternate dimensions.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not Sci-Fi. Mostly Rory Gilmore introspection.
- By Peter Hudson on 01-25-17
By: Claudia Gray
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Libriomancer
- Magic ex Libris, Book 1
- By: Jim C. Hines
- Narrated by: David DeVries
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 918
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 833
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Story4 out of 5 stars 835
Isaac Vainio is a Libriomancer, a member of the secret organization founded five centuries ago by Johannes Gutenberg. Libriomancers are gifted with the ability to magically reach into books and draw forth objects. When Isaac is attacked by vampires that leaked from the pages of books into our world, he barely manages to escape. To his horror he discovers that vampires have been attacking other magic-users as well, and Gutenberg has been kidnapped.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A reasonable start
- By Simon on 04-08-13
By: Jim C. Hines
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Indexing
- Indexing, Book 1
- By: Seanan McGuire
- Narrated by: Mary Robinette Kowal
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,442
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,319
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,314
For most people, the story of their lives is just that: the accumulation of time, encounters, and actions into a cohesive whole. But for an unfortunate few, that day-to-day existence is affected - perhaps infected is a better word - by memetic incursion: where fairy tale narratives become reality, often with disastrous results.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 01-23-18
By: Seanan McGuire
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The Becoming of Noah Shaw
- By: Michelle Hodkin
- Narrated by: Joe Jameson
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 67
In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times best-selling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after. Everyone thinks 17-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string. They're wrong. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future. He shouldn't. And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. They're right.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fans will be torn on this one
- By kimbacaffeinate on 12-08-17
By: Michelle Hodkin
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The Lucidites Boxed Set
- By: Sarah Noffke
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 35 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 122
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Meet Roya Stark. She drowns every night in her dreams, spends her hours reading classic literature to avoid her family's ridicule, and is prone to premonitions - which are becoming more frequent. And now her dreams are filled with strangers offering to reveal what she has always wanted to know: Who is she? That's the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. But will Roya live to regret learning the truth?
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4 out of 5 stars
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it was ok
- By Michael klemm on 02-07-21
By: Sarah Noffke
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Impulse
- By: Ellen Hopkins
- Narrated by: Laura Flanagan, Jeremy Guskin, Steve Coombs
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 417
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 340
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 345
The handsome son of wealthy parents, Connor has everything anyone could want...except his family's love and affection. Jailed for years after killing his mother's child-molesting boyfriend, Tony is confused about his sexuality. Manic-depressive Vanessa cuts herself. All three stories intertwine in a brutally honest story about pain and resilience.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything to want in a book❤️
- By Jazmine on 07-04-15
By: Ellen Hopkins