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- Tsarina
- 08-15-22
I loved this book when I read it
... and the audiobook isn't bad, but why the need for the odd 30-second musical interludes between chapters? Very odd. I do love this story though -- my favourite Joanne Harris! -- which, given the other reviews, shows you can't please everybody all of the time.
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- Fidi
- 04-13-14
Weird story
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I read most of Joanne Harris' books and enjoyed it throughout. This time I was disappointed by a boring implausible slow motion story in a medieval setting.
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- Diane A.
- 03-12-22
Disappointed
I wish I hadn't wasted my credit on this one. It's not what I was expecting from the author and the narrators voice didn't help in making me want to continue with the book.
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The Birth of Venus
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Dunant
- Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 569
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 301
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Story4 out of 5 stars 299
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter's abilities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Listen
- By Emese on 04-09-04
By: Sarah Dunant
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The Passion of Dolssa
- By: Julie Berry
- Narrated by: Jayne Entwistle, Fiona Hardingham, Julie Berry, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 165
I must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder, and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift. Branded a heretic, she’s on the run from the friar who condemned her mother to death by fire, and wants Dolssa executed, too. Botille is a matchmaker and a tavern-keeper, struggling to keep herself and her sisters on the right side of the law in their seaside town of Bajas.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Remarkable historical fiction
- By C White on 02-13-17
By: Julie Berry
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Pope Joan
- By: Donna Woolfolk Cross
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 843
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 677
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 670
For a thousand years her existence has been denied. She is the legend that will not die - Pope Joan, the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Now in this riveting novel, Donna Woolfolk Cross paints a sweeping portrait of an unforgettable heroine who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Silly Woman!
- By S. Lev-Ami on 05-25-10
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Mirror Mirror
- By: Gregory Maguire
- Narrated by: John McDonough, Kate Forbes, Barbara Rosenblat, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 288
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 190
It is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives at Montefiore, the farm of her father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up to the farm. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia, no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a quest, he leaves Bianca under the care of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but salvation can be found in the dark forest as well.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting re-telling of the fairy tale.
- By Patricia on 03-04-10
By: Gregory Maguire
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I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
- Ravenloft: Strahd, Book 1
- By: P. N. Elrod
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,960
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,962
Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for 300 years. No table of contents, but from the dates it looked to be some kind of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it...just one complaint....
- By Ryan Conrad on 03-15-14
By: P. N. Elrod
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The Witch's Daughter
- By: Paula Brackston
- Narrated by: Marisa Calin
- Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,650
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,103
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,079
In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn’t know she had and making her immortal. She couldn't have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he would be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lots of potential...
- By Paisley on 03-09-13
By: Paula Brackston
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Imajica
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 37 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,054
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,854
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,859
Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie "oh" pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Full Imajica
- By Mimi-chan on 05-23-15
By: Clive Barker
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The Illuminator
- By: Brenda Rickman Vantrease
- Narrated by: Simon Jones
- Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
It is England, in the 14th century, a time of plague, political unrest, and the earliest stirrings of the Reformation. The printing press had yet to be invented, and books were rare and costly, painstakingly lettered by hand and illuminated with exquisite paintings. Finn is a master illuminator who works not only for the Church but also, in secret, for John Wycliffe of Oxford, who professes the radical idea that the Bible should be translated into English for everyone to read.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Historical Disaster
- By Katie Roe on 10-25-06
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The Architect's Apprentice
- By: Elif Shafak
- Narrated by: Piter Marek
- Length: 16 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 332
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 293
In 1540, 12-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. As an animal tamer in the sultan's menagerie, he looks after the exceptionally smart elephant Chota and befriends (and falls for) the sultan's beautiful daughter Princess Mihrimah. A palace education leads Jahan to Mimar Sinan, the empire's chief architect, who takes Jahan under his wing as they construct (with Chota's help) some of the most magnificent buildings in history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I feel like I should like it more than I do
- By nyog on 04-19-17
By: Elif Shafak
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The Poison Keeper
- An Enthralling Historical Novel of Renaissance Italy (Italian Renaissance Series)
- By: Deborah Swift
- Narrated by: Diana Croft
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
Giulia Tofana longs for more responsibility in her mother’s apothecary business, but Mamma has always been secretive and refuses to tell her the hidden keys to her success. But the day Mamma is arrested for the poisoning of the powerful Duke de Verdi, Giulia is shocked to uncover the darker side of her trade. Giulia must run for her life and escapes to Naples, under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, to the home of her aunt Isabetta, a famous courtesan.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Too religious
- By Anonymous User on 06-06-22
By: Deborah Swift
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Weaveworld
- By: Clive Barker
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 21 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,960
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,789
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,796
Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world - and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror - a tour de force from one of today's most forceful and imaginative artists.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Chore I Gave Up On
- By Michael V. on 09-30-18
By: Clive Barker
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Prince of Shadows
- A Novel of Romeo and Juliet
- By: Rachel Caine
- Narrated by: Kyle McCarley
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 55
In the Houses of Montague and Capulet, there is only one goal: power. The boys are born to fight and die for honor and-if they survive-marry for influence and money, not love. The girls are assets, to be spent wisely. Their wishes are of no import. Their fates are written on the day they are born.Benvolio Montague, cousin to Romeo, knows all this. He expects to die for his cousin, for his house, but a spark of rebellion still lives inside him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Tour de Force
- By Marcheta on 03-19-14
By: Rachel Caine
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A Shadow in Summer
- Long Price Quartet, Book 1
- By: Daniel Abraham
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 257
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 254
The powerful city-state of Saraykeht is a bastion of peace and culture, a major center of commerce and trade. Its economy depends on the power of the captive spirit Seedless, an and at bound to the poet-sorcerer Heshai for life. Enter the Galts, an empire committed to laying waste to all lands with their ferocious army. Saraykeht has always been too strong for the Galts to attack, but now they see an opportunity.
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4 out of 5 stars
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REALLY Hard to Rate!
- By Trip Williams on 04-27-15
By: Daniel Abraham
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The Ragged Edge of Night
- By: Olivia Hawker
- Narrated by: Nick Sandys, Olivia Hawker
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,829
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,398
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,391
Germany, 1942. Franciscan friar Anton Starzmann is stripped of his place in the world when his school is seized by the Nazis. He relocates to a small German hamlet to wed Elisabeth Herter, a widow who seeks a marriage - in name only - to a man who can help raise her three children. Anton seeks something too - atonement for failing to protect his young students from the wrath of the Nazis. But neither he nor Elisabeth expects their lives to be shaken once again by the inescapable rumble of war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Ragged Edge of Night must be made into a movie
- By M. King on 10-04-18
By: Olivia Hawker
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The Midnight Sea
- Fourth Element Series, Book 1
- By: Kat Ross
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4 out of 5 stars 49
Nazafareen lives for revenge. A girl of the isolated Four-Legs Clan, all she knows about the King's elite Water Dogs is that they bind wicked creatures called daevas to protect the empire from the Undead. But when scouts arrive to recruit young people with the gift, she leaps at the chance to join their ranks. To hunt the monsters that killed her sister. Scarred by grief, she's willing to pay any price, even if it requires linking with a daeva named Darius.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great ballad of superheroes
- By Griffin on 06-11-21
By: Kat Ross
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Interview with the Vampire
- By: Anne Rice
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 11,051
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9,831
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9,824
We are in a small room with the vampire, face-to-face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first 200 years as one of the living dead...He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently...carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir - young, romantic, cultivated - to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into the other, the "endless", life...
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5 out of 5 stars
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New Editions!
- By A. Sentoni on 06-04-11
By: Anne Rice
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The Scar
- By: Sergey Dyachenko, Marina Dyachenko, Elinor Huntington - translator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 971
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 859
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Story4 out of 5 stars 858
Sergey and Marina Dyachenko mix dramatic scenes with romance, action and wit, in a style both direct and lyrical. Written with a sure artistic hand, The Scar is the story of a man driven by his own feverish demons to find redemption and the woman who just might save him. Egert is a brash, confident member of the elite guards and an egotistical philanderer. But after he kills an innocent student in a duel, a mysterious man known as “The Wanderer” challenges Egert and slashes his face with his sword, leaving Egert with a scar that comes to symbolize his cowardice.
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5 out of 5 stars
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