Reviews for all audiobooks.
After Sally and Jack get married, Sally quickly realizes she isn’t prepared to be queen and doesn’t like how her role has changed. She struggles with the attention that comes with being queen. When Sally and Zero uncover a long lost doorway to Dream Town, she sets into motion a chain of sinister events for … More Review: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shae Ernshaw
In Women in the Valley of the Kings, Sheppard tells the untold story of eleven women who changed the landscape of Egyptology in different ways. This book covers the life and careers of Amelia Edwards, Marianne Brocklehurst, Maggie Benson, Nettie Gourley, Emma Andrews, Margaret Alice Murray, Kate Griffith, Emily Paterson, Myrtle Broome, Amice Calverley, and … More Review: Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard
After following James’ Kinky History videos on Instagram, I knew I needed to read this book. She always presents the kinky facts from history in a fun and easy to understand manner. This book is just a longer version of that. James uses a mixture of history, science, and personal anecdote to tell the history … More Review: Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esmé Louise James
As someone who lived through this event and watched it happen on television, this was a hard book to listen to. This attack happened when I was in the fourth grade (9 years old). A teacher came into our class to notify us that an attack had a happened and told us to turn on … More Review: The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff
This was a well researched look of the lives of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. While I found aspects of this book to be fascinating and engaging, other parts of this book felt a bit dense and some of the created scenes felt a bit unnecessary since there is no evidence to back them up. The Darnell’s … More Review: Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were God on Earth by Josh Darnell and Colleen Darnell
Holy hell was this a hell of an ending! I don’t even know where to start with this except that it was a fantastic and emotional ending to this epic story and I am really going to miss it. This book starts about a year-ish after the previous book ended. The war is in full … More Review: The Queen’s Starfire Throne by Hailey Turner
“A heart was a dangerous weapon, after all.” At the end of the previous book we were left with Soren protecting the princess, Hanovi injured, Nathaniel being turned into rionetka, and the others running from a horde of revenants that had been set loose on the city and avoiding capture. This book picks up right … More Review: The Emperor’s Bone Palace by Hailey Turner
Holy crap this book! This epic fantasy was filled with nonstop action and romance that spanned 20 years and about 15 different POVs. I don’t usually read epic fantasy books but since it was Hailey Turner I knew I had to give it a chance, and I am amazed at the world she is creating. … More Review: The Prince’s Poisoned Vow by Hailey Turner
Prequel takes a look at the rise of fascist tendencies in the US today and how it was also prevalent in the past. In the 40s the pro-fascist, pro-Hitler, antisemitic movement was large and it was funded by Germany’s, who sent out millions of leaflets and letters with the help of Congressional frank mail. This … More Review: Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow
Librarian Sylvia Ashe is trying to seek the truth about her heritage but instead finds herself thrust in the middle of a case involving stolen magical paintings. While helping the war hero Gabe who is working as a consultant to Scotland Yard, she finds herself finding her dream job, fighting off attackers, and helping to … More Review: The Librarian of Crooked Lane by C.J. Archer
The Wrath to Come shows how one of the most popular stories of all time, Gone With the Wind, can be used to explain the current division in the United States. Churchwell explains how the history of mythmaking has influenced America’s politics and how Gone with the Wind influenced that mythmaking. “The United States is, … More Review: The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
TW: Graphic excerpts from Endurance’s crews journals that discuss animal deaths, death of their dogs and a cat, threat of starvation, bullying, harsh living conditions and the expectation of dying. After reading Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage a few years ago, I was very excited when it was announced that they had found the ship in … More Review: The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton’s Endurance by Mensun Bound
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