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Pretty Fucking Badass: Dave Reviews Ancillary Sword
Posted on 2015-02-09 at 15:46 by Dave
Ancillary Sword By Ann Leckie, performed by Adjoh Andoh Length: 11 hours, 44 minutes
There's a scene somewhere toward the middle of Ancillary Sword that I can't get out of my head, despite having listened to the audiobook a couple months ago. Visiting a space station, newly appointed fleet commander Breq comes across a station guard with a civilian in an illegal choke hold, rebukes the guard, and orders him to stand down or face immediate consequences. It turns out that this is standard procedure for the
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Review: The Shining Girls
Posted on 2014-07-07 at 04:36 by Dave
The Shining Girls
By Lauren Beukes, read by Khristine Hvam, Peter Ganim, Jay Snyder, Joshua Boone, Dani Cervone, and Jenna Hellmuth
Length 10 hours, 36 minutes
The Shining Girls is like the Magic Tree House from hell, where we trade a magical portal of benevolent discovery for the sinister house Harper Curtis discovers - house that feeds him with the names of victims he's destined to brutally murder. A Prohibition-era drifter all too ready to except his fate, Harper skips through 20th century Chicago
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Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Posted on 2013-12-09 at 06:38 by Dave
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown By Holly Black, Read by Christine Lakin for Hachette Audio Length: 12 hours, 6 minutes
Vampires are all the rage these days. Whether it’s True Blood or The Vampire Diaries or Twilight, vampires are everywhere in pop culture – even Dracula’s back – and it’s easy to see why some people are so bored with them.
I am not one of those people. For me, vampires are the most fascinating monsters. They can be terrifying, seductive, sickening – mirror images of ourselves we try and cover
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Dave Reviews: Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan, read by Christian Rodska
Posted on 2013-06-26 at 19:40 by Dave
Promise of Blood, Book 1 in the Powder Mage Trilogy By Brian McClellan, Read by Christian Rodska Length: 17 hours
What is it you want from Epic Fantasy these days? To get a sense of what life was like in some fantastical medieval time period? Maybe just the opposite - escapism? A sense of adventure and wonder? If it's a cool system of magic, Brian McClellan's Promise of Blood has you covered. It kicks off a new fantasy trilogy featuring Powder Mages - magicians who consume or ingest gunpowder that makes
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Audiobook release day: Daniel O'Malley's The Rook and Gail Carriger's Timeless: The Parasol Protectorate, the Fifth
Posted on 2012-03-02 at 02:58 by Sam
March 1 brings with it two much-anticipated audiobooks, though also sees the print publication of a few books I’d love to see/hear in audio.
First up among those anticipated audiobooks is The Rook: A Novel By Narrated by O’Malley’s debut was published in hardcover and e-book by Little, Brown and Company on January 11, and it was on both my radar and my “where’s the audio?” list, put onto the former by TIME magazine book editor (and author of T
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