Look for these exciting audiobook versions coming in 2024:
The Accidental Detective Series, by Kris Bock:
Not even Arizona’s sunshine can bring light to these misdeeds—but recovering foreign war correspondent Kate Tessler is up to the job, because the stakes are personal.
Something Shady at Sunshine Haven
Something Deadly on Desert Drive
Someone Cruel in Coyote Creek
It's true! You can get the brand-new audiobook edition of "Shards" for just $4. That's over seven hours of spine-tingling speculative fiction for way less than a dollar per-hour. Grab it now before I come to my senses and start charging what it's actually worth! 🎧🙂👍
Something a little different this week: after finishing Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin, I'm pivoting hard to The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean. I didn't love Tales of the City, and I think a large part of that had to do with Maupin's narration: for me, his North Carolina accent didn't translate well to a character driven story set in 1970s San Francisco. Hoping the next book will taste better (pun intended). 😂
Rakesfall, a new novel by Vajra Chandrasekera, author of the excellent, nebula award winning: The Saint of Bright Doors, is about to be published on the 18th of June.
It is now available for preorder on audible for $8.80.
This sale price is available until the 17th of June.
It's written for a very novice sci-fi reading audience. Every concept is explained in exhaustive detail and in first person, which turns out to be a very convoluted form for exposition.
It deals with an inefficient system that is breaking down. Think about a buggy computer. but now your being told in detail what happens when you send an e-mail. How it bounces off of all kinds of legacy code, restrictions and convoluted routines before it reaches it's destination.
He is exploring a form of intelligence. but in a very tedious manner. This is not the Adrian Tchaikovsky you know and love from Children of Time, Shards of Earth or City of Last Chances.
So, this has happened: the audiobook for my scifi cozy read is LIVE!
Also on Audible, Overdrive (ask your library to get it for you!) Libro.fm, Google Play for sure. Ther will be more, timing is in the distributor’s hands.
Please do share this news with anyone you know who enjoys reading in audio format & likes their hopeful future fictions with dark crunchy edges.
I've finished: Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
The sequel to: The Space Between Worlds
This is the story of Ashtown, of the runners, of the emperor, of Cheeks and of scales.
This is the story of their violence, of their grace, of their love, of their hate.
Scott Brick, the audiobook performer, pisses me off.
He has a commanding, sonorous, soothing voice, and can read without sounding like he's reading, but his cadence irks.
He speaks in an American WASPy preacher. Add this to his commanding audio-presence and it comes off...dictatorial.
No more Brick. Enderverse, Foundation, the list goes on. No more Brick! Give me queer, gender non-conforming black people. And pay them properly, dangit!
Jagannath by Karen Tidbeck is on the Audible Plus catalog at the moment.
This is a great introduction to Tidbeck's work. Usually I pause between short stories in a collection by the same author, the same way I pause between books by the same author, so the reading doesn't get monotonous.
Karen Tidbeck's work is different enough to keep me excited at every twist and turn.
Weird, Dark, thought provoking, familiar enough yet different.
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I can attest that if one becomes addicted to #kdrama it slightly reduces the yearning for all of the books! Excited to be heading off on a 4-week #camping#roadtrip though. I suspect I'll get through some nice long #audiobooks as well as some print and ebooks. My k-drama watching will definitely be less. #AmReading
I've finished: House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky
House of Open Wounds wasn't what I expected.
It's not a middle book in a trilogy, it has an ending. It's not about the mysterious Woods at the edge of Ilmar that were so promenant at the end of City of Last Chances.
It's about my favorite characters from that novel, Yasnic and his God. It's about the healers that are allowed to work their miracles at the periphery of the Pall war camp because they are useful. It dangles the promise of healing in return for pacifism at a humanity that can't stop fighting.
Like City of Last Chances, it's about the people stuck in the gears of the Palleseen Empire's ambitions. Not about kings and emperors.
Tchaikovsky has grown allot at a writer since the Shadow of the Apt series and has written a very compelling story that concentrates on engaging characters.
I couldn't put it down, I listened at every opportunity. It did sometimes feel repetitive and perhaps could have been shorter. But the ending clinched it all and most of it payed off brilliantly.
A friend of mine told me that the characters in this series remind him of Pratchett characters and that House of Open Wounds reminds him of Monstrous Regiment. Now that he has brought my attention to it, I can't unsee it.
Tchaikovsky isn't Pratchett and isn't trying to be Pratchett. He is not trying to be funny, but the social commentary, humanism and satire are reminiscent of Pratchett.
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – from the civil rights frontline
Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year
THE CAULDRON by Amber Collins is a fun little story about a frisky witch who throws herself a party where the refreshment are the guests! Light, fun, sexy, campy & never too serious.
"The Gang Got Her" was my best-selling erotica audiobook of 2022.
At the request of the author, the main character Celine narrates the story in an outrageous French accent about which some gentlemen have reported very positive feedback. 😉
If you like some Ooh-La-La in your erotica, check it out.