Anyone have good recs for audiobooks? Preferably sci-fi/fantasy, horror, or thriller. We've had success with Hail Mary, one of Stephen King's Holly Gibney books, and Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak, but the current book that we have powered through is Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. I've liked the couple other books of his that I've read, but this one is not good for an audiobook, and the audiobook narrator is...very much not my taste.
She emotes her way through EVERYTHING, which is okay for dialogue, but when the whole narration is like that, it slows everything way down. Instead of "They were alone" with a narrative perspective, she says "They...WERE........ALONE." There's also a lot of chanting nonsense words and yelling, and those parts of the book are so painful I've skipped through a couple.
I just finished listening to Starling House and it was really good, both the book and the narrator
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Oh, that reminds me! My mom wants another book she can read with Aeryn similar to The Locked Tomb books, and wanted to know how age-inappropriate this one would be. Most sites say "older teen," and Aeryn is 14. I'm fairly permissive about what I let them read, but there's a difference between "I won't stop you from borrowing it from the library" and "I'm going to recommend your grandmother buy this for you so you can read and discuss it together."
(At that age I was sneakily reading Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty porn but I certainly wasn't
in a book club about it with my grandmother.
)
So, folks who have read it, where does it land on the spice/gore scale?
The first 20 pages are pretty tame...
Unrelated to anything: BookBub just pitched me a murder mystery as "Dan Brown meets
Murder, She Wrote
"
If I just saw the title and cover I would have been interested but with that description...
Note: I have read and enjoyed MSW tie-in novels, they are fine! Dan Brown, though
::shudder::
Half the time I don't recognize the titles BookBub compares the new book to. And they never include enough info about the setting, the characters, what kind of mystery it is ... to help me decide whether to click on the link. Very annoying. And also really not good publicity for the book.
I rarely am tempted by anything that I wasn't already aware of that they send me. I will sometimes take a flyer on something that's exceptionally cheap. This I did like the title enough to wonder what it was about but, ugh
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
Read this when it came out. It was...fine? Not bad, but also nothing I really got into.
My annual “first lines” challenge is here: [link]
I have faith you all will be able to guess a few of these.
