Contemporary – The Audiobook Review

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

16 May 2025

I love a fun book title, so when I saw “The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches” by Sangu Mandanna, one quick skim of the blurb later and I knew I wanted to give it a try! It was a […]

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I Hope This Finds You Well

7 May 2025

Jolene Smith, a 33-year-old administrative assistant at Supershops Incorporated, has mastered the art of workplace invisibility. She has pretty much faded into the office wallpaper. Her days are a blend of passive-aggressive email threads, awkward break room encounters, and complete

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I See You’ve Called in Dead

20 April 2025

I See You’ve Called in Dead is a dryly funny, oddly uplifting slice-of-life tale that hits somewhere between existential crisis and offbeat workplace comedy. It follows Bud Stanley, an obituary writer who is barely scraping by emotionally when he accidentally

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The Evil Inclination

26 January 2025

I am not a religious person by any stretch of the imagination, so it’s always interesting to me when I listen to a story where the central characters are. In The Evil Inclination, Daniel Victor explores the meshing of two

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The States

1 October 2024

Tildy Sullivan is an emotionally broken young woman, and doormat to her more vocal and overbearing family in this interesting look into the psyche and soul of an heiress with regrets. Part romance mixed with soft science fiction and a

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Hannah – The Soldier Diaries

25 July 2024

I love a well-written short story. Crisp and to the point, and this one hit the mark. Unsurprising as I have since found out it’s based on a stage musical, so when you only have a limited amount of time

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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

12 September 2022

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, written by V. E. Schwab, is another of those books I’ve seen for ages but never got around to grabbing. So, while at a bit of a loose end on what I wanted to

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Lost Gods

24 August 2022

I’m not sure what compelled me to pick up Lost Gods, written by Brom, but I am rather glad that I did. I soon realised that I hadn’t even read the blurb that closely, as I thought “A young man

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The Midnight Library

16 August 2022

The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig, is one that has intrigued me for a while, and I finally got around to dropping a credit on it and giving it a go. The concept is interesting – when the main character,

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