A big pile of audiobooks

[firecat]

Earlier this year I was asking for audiobook recs because I had a metric shit-ton of credits expiring at audible.com. It occurs to me that some of you might be amused to see what I got.

The Memoirs of Cleopatra
By: Margaret George

The Cold, Cold Ground
By: Adrian McKinty
(I've finished this; I really liked it)

The Crystal Cave
By: Mary Stewart

The Black Moth
By: Georgette Heyer

Midnight Riot
By: Ben Aaronovitch

Victoria
By: Stanley Weintraub

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
By: Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland - translator

The Mermaids Singing
By: Val McDermid

Rose Daughter
By: Robin McKinley

The Priory of the Orange Tree
By: Samantha Shannon

This Is How You Lose the Time War
By: Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone

Raven Black
By: Ann Cleeves

Scales of Justice
By: Ngaio Marsh

A Clubbable Woman
By: Reginald Hill

Good Omens
By: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett

Uprooted
By: Naomi Novik

Catfishing on CatNet
By: Naomi Kritzer

Network Effect
By: Martha Wells

Queen Mab
By: Kate Danley, William Shakespeare

The Half-Drowned King
By: Linnea Hartsuyker

House of Names
By: Colm Tóibín

The Magpie Lord
By: KJ Charles
(Almost finished with this; liking it a lot)

Argonautika
By: Apollonius Rhodius

The Religious Body
By: Catherine Aird

The Body
By: Bill Bryson

Gideon the Ninth
By: Tamsyn Muir
(Finished—liked it, but found it hard to follow, plan to re-read as an ebook)

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That is a very big haul of audiobooks! I hope you enjoy them. I read Gideon the Ninth as a physical book but did not finish the audiobook version. I found the narrator's voice grating though I give her full props for pronouncing all those names!

[firecat]

She's not my favorite but her narration worked well enough for me.

[jesse_the_k]

That's a very tall tower indeed. I'd love to know what you thought of the books (and/or the narrators).

[firecat]

KJ Charles, The Magpie Lord: The way the magic works is interesting. The sex is hot. I am not crazy about Collins as a narrator; he uses a light, slightly playful voice throughout, doesn't lean into emotional passages, so it feels like he takes some of the potential emotion out of it. But he does lean into the sex passages. I will be reading more of this series.

Adrian McKinty, The Cold, Cold Ground (Sean Duffy #1)
Won an award (Spinetingler Award for Best Crime Novel). Mystery/police procedural. I liked this a lot. It's set in the early 80s, in Ireland, during the troubles, and the runup to Charles's and Di's wedding. I remember that era. The protagonist really goes through the wringer. It's hard to see how future books in the series are going to sustain the intensity. One reviewer called McKinty a "master craftsman of violence and redemption." Yeah. That. The narrator, Gerard Doyle, uses a very enjoyable Irish accent.

Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth (Locked Tomb #1)
Narrated by Moira Quirk. Narration worked for me; didn't stand out as great or bad. Necromancy, spaceships, love/hate relationships, delightfully snarky assholes, loyalty, scarygore galore, magic murderous skeletons. If those tags appeal to you, you will like it.

[selki]

Oh yeah, the whole Magpie series by K.J. Charles is great. But I like almost everything she's written. Read, not listened.

[firecat]

*takes cigarette out of corner of my mouth*
"Charles, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

[selki]

:-)

[lirazel]

Some favorites in there! I love the range! (Also now I want to reread Mary Stewart's Merlin trilogy...)

[selki]

So sad in parts, but so good.