Audiobook Reviews

Inappropriately Human

19 August 2023

I took a bit of a chance with Inappropriately Human, 21 Short Stories by Andrew Heaton and I am very glad that I did so. Short stories can be hit-and-miss at the best of times, and without knowing anything about […]

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

14 August 2023

I’m seemingly on a bit of a science fiction kick at the moment, having gone through a number of audiobooks and audio drama podcasts, all with a sci-fi bent. This is another of those books that has languished in my

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Review Science Fiction

Cosmic Delivery Boy

11 August 2023

I went into this thinking it would be a slam dunk. I’d enjoyed books by LG Estrella previously, and a humorous sci-fi sounded like a done deal, but multiple times throughout, I was tempted to give up and press the

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Review Science Fiction

Beacon 23

1 August 2023

I read this book on my Kindle some years ago now and remember enjoying it immensely, though, for the life of me, I could remember very little beyond what is mentioned in the blurb. In some far-off future mankind has

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Review Science Fiction

Broome Street Nine

29 July 2023

From the summary, this book sounded like something I’d like. Dystopian science fiction which, I’ll admit, I can be rather picky about but do enjoy. I based my decision this time just on the description, and I’ve got a mild

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Review LitRPG

Big Sneaky Barbarian 2

27 July 2023

Book 2 of Big Sneaky Barbarian felt rather disconnected from the first book> Sure, we still have Loon, the supposedly sneaky barbarian with anger issues and snark for days, and some of our friends from the first book eventually show

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Review Humor

The Silas Kane Scrolls

22 July 2023

This was an entirely unexpected origin story. Like the Brandon Thighmaster tale, this is the origin story of Silas Kane, paladin of the Authors and Dragons podcast as played by Rick Gualtieri. I wasn’t expecting to feel sorry for the

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Review LitRPG

The Dark Lord Bert

14 July 2023

Short, silly and very easy to get into, The Dark Lord Bert is LitRPG but only in a very loose sense. Set inside a game world where the players know they’re in a game but also seem to have some

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Review Fantasy

Monster Menu

10 July 2023

After serving the perfect revenge dish with ingredients of dubious origins, Renee (Nay) is on the hunt for more. She gets more than she bargained for when she’s pulled into a new world. Stark naked and stranded in the middle

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Review Science Fiction

The Galactic Zookeeper’s Guide to Heists and Husbandry

5 July 2023

Saffron Savage, red-haired animal shit-shoveler extraordinaire, lives with her crushed dreams of looking after exotic animals on a backwater world at the ass-end of the galaxy. The zoo owners don’t care for the animals and would rather let them die

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Review LitRPG

The Prince Has Been Outclassed

1 July 2023

The Prince Has Been Outclassed, book 2 of Ben’s Damn Adventure by Matthew Howry, continues mostly in the same theme of the first book; a funny, fun apocalypse adventure. While it has its strengths, the plot progression and character growth

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Review Science Fiction

Vicarious

26 June 2023

Vicarious, by Rhett C Bruno, is kind of like The Truman Show if it were set a few hundred years in the future, and everybody on the show had no idea. The blurb for the book says it’s like The

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