Timothy C. Ward's Blog, page 9
May 20, 2017
New Audiobook Lovers’ Newsletter
If you scroll down the recent posts on this website, you’ll see how much I love audiobooks. With two young children and a writing hobby, I don’t have a lot of time to sit and read books. Audiobooks have become my go-to for consuming as many books as I can a year. I don’t have a lot of time to curate a frequent newsletter, but I can send out a monthly summary of reviews and include sales, giveaways and special content from the author and publisher contacts I have.
If this sounds like fun to yo...
Audiobook Review – GOOD BEHAVIOR by Blake Crouch (Narr. Julia Whelan)
Good Behavior
Publisher’s Summary
Now a television series starring Michelle Dockery, coming to TNT this fall.
Fresh out of prison and fighting to keep afloat, Letty Dobesh returns to her old tricks burglarizing suites at a luxury hotel. While on the job, she overhears a man hiring a hit man to kill his wife...
Audiobook Review – FOR WE ARE MANY by Dennis E. Taylor (Bobiverse #2) (Narr. Ray Porter)
The highly anticipated sequel to Audible’s Best of 2016 – Science Fiction winner, We Are Legion (We Are Bob); a book listeners are calling “so much fun”, “what science fiction was meant to be”, and w...
May 4, 2017
Audiobook Review – ALIEN: RIVER OF PAIN (Audible Original Drama)
Alien: River of Pain: An Audible Original Drama
Written by: Christopher Golden , Dirk Maggs
Narrated by: Anna Friel , Philip Glenister , Colin Salmon , Alexander Siddig , Marc Warren , Michelle Ryan , William Hope
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
Series: Alien, Book 3
Performance
Release Date:04-26-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Review:
For fans of Alien and space horror in general, this will be a great experience. The audio production by Audible studios and the narrator cast is top notch, from the...
April 26, 2017
Audiobook Review – WE ARE LEGION (WE ARE BOB) by Dennies E. Taylor (Narr. Ray Porter)
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 (Amazon)
Written by: Dennis E. Taylor
Narrated by: Ray Porter
Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
Series: Bobiverse, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:09-20-16
Publisher: Audible Studios
Publisher’s Summary:
Winner: Audible’s Best of 2016 – Science Fiction
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it’s a little unfair when he gets him...
April 16, 2017
Audiobook Review – THE REMAINING: REFUGEES by D.J. Molles (Narr. Christian Rummel)
The Remaining: Refugees (Audible link)
Written by: D. J. Molles
Narrated by: Christian Rummel
Length: 14 hrs and 3 mins
Series: The Remaining, Book 3
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:08-27-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Publisher’s Summary
He has fought the fight, and run the race. But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line. It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the verge of establishing Ca...
Audiobook Review – JOYLAND by Stephen King (Narr. Michael Kelly)
Joyland
Written by: Stephen King
Narrated by: Michael Kelly
Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:06-04-13
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Publisher’s Summary
“Joyland is a breathtaking, beautiful, heartbreaking book…. Even the most hardboiled readers will find themselves moved.”
—Charles Ardai, Edgar- and Shamus Award-winning editor of Hard Case Crime.
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college...
Audiobook Review – CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON by C.T. Phipps (Narr. Jeffrey Kafer)
Cthulhu Armageddon
Written by: C. T. Phipps
Narrated by: Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
Series: Cthulhu Armageddon, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:10-10-16
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Publisher’s Summary
Cthulhu Armageddon is the story of a world 100 years past the rise of the Old Ones which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other “talking” monsters).
John Henry Booth is a ranger of one of th...
Audiobook Review: AGENT G: INFILTRATOR by C.T. Phipps (Narr. Jeffrey Kafer)
Agent G: Infiltrator UNABRIDGED
By C. T. Phipps
Narrated By Jeffrey Kafer
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Release Date: 03-29-17
Publisher’s Summary
In a world where virtually any death can be bought for the right price, follow the path of a high-tech assassin searching for answers to questions he shouldn’t be asking along with his next target. Agent G is a Letter, one of the Society’s 26 weapons for hire.
Unfortunately for the Society, G is starting to think for himself.
Unfortunately for G, he’s...
Audiobook Review – AGE OF MYTH by Michael J. Sullivan (Narr. Tim Gerard Reynolds)
Age of Myth: Book One of The Legends of the First Empire
Written by: Michael J. Sullivan
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
Length: 16 hrs and 55 mins
Series: Legends of the First Empire, Book 1
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:06-28-16
Publisher: Recorded Books
Publisher’s Summary:
Since time immemorial, humans have worshipped the gods they call Fhrey, truly a race apart: invincible in battle, masters of magic, and seemingly immortal. But when a god falls to a human blade, the balance of po...
