Reviews by Andrew

Name: Andrew (Nantwich, Cheshire, United Kingdom)
Reviews Written: 17
Titles Rated: 30

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  • We Need to Talk About Kevin
    By Lionel Shriver
    Narrated By Lorelei King
    Overall
    (141)
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    (4)
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    (4)
    Kevin Khatchadourian killed several of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker, and a teacher, shortly before his 16th birthday. He is visited in prison by his mother, Eva, who narrates in a series of letters to her estranged husband, Franklin, the story of Kevin's upbringing. A successsful career woman, Eva is reluctant to forgo her independence and the life she shares with Franklin to become a mother.
    ABRIDGED 6 hrs and 23 mins
    We Need to Talk About Kevin | [Lionel Shriver]
    We Need to Talk About Kevin
    ABRIDGED
    "Try it - worth a read!!"
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    Something I'd never normally go for, glad I did.

    4 of 5 people found this review helpful
  • The Snowman: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 7
    By Jo Nesbo
    Narrated By Sean Barrett
    Overall
    (616)
    Performance
    (14)
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    (14)
    The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his mother's pink scarf.Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received some months earlier.
    UNABRIDGED 14 hrs and 36 mins
    The Snowman: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 7 | [Jo Nesbo]
    The Snowman: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 7
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    "great first audion book"
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    This is an excellent book by Jo Nesbo, brilliant first audio contribution from the Author and found the narrator Shaun Barrett to be very easy on the ear and able to slip easily from one character to the next. Looking forward to future installments from this author, keep the coming.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Leopard: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 8
    By Jo Nesbo
    Narrated By Sean Barrett
    Overall
    (484)
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    (10)
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    (10)
    In the depths of winter, a killer stalks the city streets. His victims are two young women, both found with twenty-four inexplicable puncture wounds, both drowned in their own blood. The crime scenes offer no clues, the media is reaching fever pitch, and the police are running out of options. There is only one man who can help them, and he doesn't want to be found.
    UNABRIDGED 19 hrs and 26 mins
    The Leopard: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 8 | [Jo Nesbo]
    The Leopard: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 8
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    "brilliant"
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    Another complex but brilliant story by Jo Nesbo. These books keep getting better well done Jo.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Prefect
    By Alastair Reynolds
    Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (149)
    Performance
    (1)
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    (1)
    Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multifaceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that left 900 people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus.
    UNABRIDGED 19 hrs and 43 mins
    The Prefect | [Alastair Reynolds]
    The Prefect
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    "keep them coming"
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    A.R. keeps writing these excellent books with very imaginative storylines which enables the reader to conjure up fantastic images of the characters and vistas used in his stories. Keep them coming Alastair.

    9 of 10 people found this review helpful
  • The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 6
    By Jo Nesbo
    Narrated By Sean Barrett
    Overall
    (448)
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    (14)
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    (14)
    One freezing night in Oslo Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, and a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range.Harry Hole and his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon and no motive. But when the assassin discovers he has shot the wrong man, Harry Hole's troubles have only just begun.
    UNABRIDGED 14 hrs and 51 mins
    The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 6 | [Jo Nesbo]
    The Redeemer: A Harry Hole Thriller, Book 6
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    "more please"
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    Another good story by Jo Nesbo. Great characters and narration is excellent. Wish they had brought the books out in correct order on audio though.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
  • The Player of Games: Culture Series, Book 2
    By Iain M. Banks
    Narrated By Peter Kenny
    Overall
    (257)
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    (11)
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    (11)
    The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh: Jernau Morat Gurgeh, The Player of Games, master of every board, computer, and strategy. Bored with success, Gurgeh travels to the Empire of Azad, cruel and incredibly wealthy, to try their fabulous game... a game so complex, so like life itself, that the winner becomes emperor.
    UNABRIDGED 11 hrs and 26 mins
    The Player of Games: Culture Series, Book 2 | [Iain M. Banks]
    The Player of Games: Culture Series, Book 2
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    "superb"
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    Another brilliant book in the culture series, fantastic settings and characters and brilliantly read. Can't wait for the next books in the series.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Full Dark, No Stars
    By Stephen King
    Narrated By Craig Wasson, Jessica Hecht
    Overall
    (167)
    Performance
    (4)
    Story
    (5)
    'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger....' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.
    UNABRIDGED 14 hrs and 52 mins
    Full Dark, No Stars | [Stephen King]
    Full Dark, No Stars
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    "poor"
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    Probably one of the worst SK series of short stories. frustrated at lack of ending for these stories and the characters were humdrum and uninteresting.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • House of Suns
    By Alastair Reynolds
    Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (183)
    Performance
    (2)
    Story
    (3)
    Six million years ago, at the very dawn of the starfaring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones: the shatterlings. Sent out into the galaxy, these shatterlings have stood aloof as they document the rise and fall of countless human empires. They meet every 200,000 years to exchange news and memories of their travels with their siblings.
    UNABRIDGED 18 hrs and 16 mins
    House of Suns | [Alastair Reynolds]
    House of Suns
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    "house of sons"
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    Another good book by the author. lots of good characters and plot. John Lee brings out the best of the book in his narration.

    2 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • Revelation Space
    By Alastair Reynolds
    Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (264)
    Performance
    (7)
    Story
    (6)
    Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason.
    UNABRIDGED 22 hrs and 12 mins
    Revelation Space | [Alastair Reynolds]
    Revelation Space
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    "rev space"
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    great story and characters can't wait to hear next bit of the story. narration very good too.

    1 of 1 people found this review helpful
  • Chasm City
    By Alastair Reynolds
    Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (136)
    Performance
    (3)
    Story
    (3)
    The once-utopian Chasm City - a domed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet---has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted - from the people to the very buildings they inhabit---only the most wretched sort of existence remains. The stakes are raised when Tanner Mirabel's search brings him face to face with a centuries-old atrocity that history would rather forget.
    UNABRIDGED 23 hrs and 8 mins
    Chasm City | [Alastair Reynolds]
    Chasm City
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    "chasm city"
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    great book and loved the variety of characters. hope more in the future.

    3 of 3 people found this review helpful
  • Redemption Ark
    By Alastair Reynolds
    Narrated By John Lee
    Overall
    (166)
    Performance
    (4)
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    (4)
    Late in the 26th century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors---alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons---and a renegade named Clavain who is determined to find them. But other factions want the weapons for their own purposes---and the weapons themselves have another agenda altogether.
    UNABRIDGED 27 hrs and 18 mins
    Redemption Ark | [Alastair Reynolds]
    Redemption Ark
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    "redemption arc"
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    very good follow on from rev space however end seemed a little rushed and a bit weak.

    0 of 0 people found this review helpful
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