Audiobook Reviews

This Inevitable Ruin

18 February 2025

Definitely one of my most eagerly anticipated listens for this year, book seven of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series landed and my preorder sent it straight to my phone. After the buildup to floor nine of the dungeon that has […]

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A Lich in Time

13 February 2025

It’s always bittersweet when a series wraps up, especially one as fun as Liches Get Stiches. This is the fifth and final book in the series and I was pleasantly satisfied with how it all ended. I’ll keep this review

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Review LitRPG

Emberstone Farm

9 February 2025

If you’ve ever played the cozy farming simulator game “Stardew Valley” then you’ll see many similarities between that game and this cozy slice-of-life story. Violet, an eighteen-year-old girl from Earth was studying for her college entrance exams when she decided

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Review Science Fiction

Stellar Heir

3 February 2025

Some rough edges, but Stellar Heir is a reasonably well-paced and action-filled space opera that I think lands well in the young adult market for science fiction. It doesn’t have an overly complicated plot, but it was easy to listen

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Review Contemporary

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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Review Science Fiction

ShipCore 3.0

17 January 2025

The third book in the ShipCore series is a bit of a mixed bag. Following on from the action-packed finale of book two, a banged-up Alex watches over her friend Ellis as she recovers in the med-bay. Foregoing any interaction

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Review Fantasy

Courier Quest

13 January 2025

So wholesome it’ll make your teeth ache. Well maybe not that dramatic but this slice-of-life isekai book is filled with great fiends and low stakes and is just a generally overall wholesome family-friendly story. Summoned into a new world after

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Review Science Fiction

BuyMort: Closing Time

9 January 2025

Tyson Dawes, CEO of Silken Sands and bane of the old “powers that be” in the BuyMort universe continues to ratchet up his response to the threats against his affiliate. Not only to his life and those of the people

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Review Mystery

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

31 December 2024

I stumbled upon this tale because of the narrator, Ari Fliakos who I quite enjoyed listening to recently. Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore blends new technology, a centuries-old secret society of codebreakers and quirky old bookshops into an entertaining and satisfying

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Review Humor

I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

27 December 2024

A cross-country road trip and man hunt fuelled by Reddit conspiracy lunatics lead to ever-increasing insanity in “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. Generally speaking, this was a fun and entertaining adventure of

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Review Fantasy

Beware of Chicken 4

24 December 2024

I came into Beware of Chicken 4 with one big question, after Book 3’s ramped-up action and the reveal of Jin’s power, how much would the story slow down again? Turns out the answer is it slows, but mostly to

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Review Science Fiction

Constituent Service

22 December 2024

John Scalzi’s “Constituent Service” is a short and humorous take on interspecies politics and the quirks of local bureaucracy. I’ve enjoyed some of Scalzi’s other short stories and this was no exception. Essentially, it’s a few days in the life

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