Reviews for all audiobooks.
After months of planning and hard fought battles Eragon, the Varden, and their allies have entered the final battle to take down King Galbitorix. This was a long and battle heavy book filled with a lot of heartache, pain, and hope. From the very beginning of this book we see battle after battle of the … More Review: Inheritance by Christopher Paolini
This book continues Eragon’s journey and starts a few days after the end of the previous book. Unlike the previous books, this book gives us multiple characters’ perspectives and we jump all around Alagaësia as the story takes us back to the dwarves and elves and also into Galbatorix’s territory. Some of the main things … More Review: Brisingr by Christopher Paolini
This was a wonderful look at Mary Anning and her life discovering dinosaurs. At twelve, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton, an ichthyosaur, and then spent the rest of her life hunting fossils and making many incredible finds. She found the first complete plesiosaurus skeleton, found the first fossil of a dimorphodon (a pterodactyl), and … More Review: The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling
This book picks up shortly after the end of the previous book and just like in the first book, a lot happens. This book switches mainly between Eragon and Roran’s POV and provides us with a wider look at what is happening around the world. For Eragon, we see him swear fealty to the new … More Review: Eldest by Christopher Paolini
It has been twelve years since I last read this series and it was one that I read a lot as a teenager. This was one of the first series that I remember being excited for the new releases and getting them on/near release day because I needed to know what would happen next in … More Review: Eragon by Christopher Paolini
CW: antisemitism, genocide, violence, gun violence, gore I picked this book up because of the title, and I am very glad I did. This was a heavy topic, but a very important and powerful read. First, I am not Jewish but I try to read books on this topic to better understand Jewish history and … More Review: People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present by Dara Horn
It’s 1907 and Amelia Peabody is participating in the Suffrage movement and preparing for another season in Egypt. While Amelia thinks this season in Egypt will be a boring one, fate decides to change that by bringing back an old enemy, the Master Criminal. I really enjoyed this adventure in Egypt. When the book starts … More Review: The Ape Who Guards the Balance by Elizabeth Peters
Amelia and the family are back in Egypt preparing to tackle a new archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings. Unfortunately, the tomb they find is not of an ancient Egyptian but a murdered woman who’s murderer seems to be back. The more I read of this series, the more I fell in love … More Review: Seeing a Large Cat by Elizabeth Peters
Trigger Warnings: graphic death; genocide; torture; physical abuse; starvation; PTSD; survivor’s guilt; infanticide; cheating; alcohol use; paranoia; abusive relationship; suicide of a child; cancer; “Information is necessary, to be sure, but it is never sufficient. Information must also be believed…Only when information is combined with belief does it become knowledge, and only knowledge leads to … More Review: The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
Amelia and Emerson return to Egypt with Ramses and Nefret in tow for another year of excavating. This time to find an undisturbed royal tomb that is irresistible to tomb robbers and thieves. This was another enjoyable adventure in Egypt with Amelia and her family. Like always, I really like Amelia and Emerson. These two … More Review: The Hippopotamus Pool by Elizabeth Peters
I really enjoyed this one. Riley was a woman who has spent her life trying to find a place to belong. She comes to Starfall Point to get away from her father and deal with the grief of her mothers unexpected passing. Instead she finds herself inheriting a haunted house and finding out she can … More Review: Witches Get Stuff Done by Molly Harper
Well this was a wonderful ending for this series! This is the final book of the series which means the prophecy is finally fulfilled and Olympus is in danger. This book started with a bang and never slowed down! Percy and the gang go from one dangerous situation to another and it all leads to … More Review: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
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