Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Posted on 2025-02-18 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

MORE SCI-FI and FANTASY:

My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher, read by Kirsten Leigh for Recorded Books -- "Clearly, for Ash, a career as a musician isn't exactly an option. Plus, he's cursed. Sick of playing by the rules, Ash and his three brothers escape Hell in search of freedom on Earth. But it's harder than they thought to keep their enemies off their tail. The four rogues quickly become the Underworld's Most Wanted, and if they're caught, the consequences will be dire. Yet everything changes for

Release Week: 11 February 2025

Posted on 2025-02-11 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Brother Brontë By: Fernando A. Flores, read by Victoria Villarreal for Recorded Books -- "The year is 2038, and the formerly bustling town of Three Rivers, Texas, is a surreal wasteland. Under the authoritarian thumb of its tech industrialist mayor, Pablo Henry Crick, the town has outlawed reading and forced most of the town’s mothers to work as indentured laborers at the Big Tex Fish Cannery, which poisons the atmosphere and lines Crick’s pockets. Scraping by in this godforsaken landscape are best

Release Week: 28 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-28 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Old Soul By: Susan Barker, read by George Blagden, Jill Winternitz, and Olivia Vinall for Penguin -- "The Historian meets Under the Skin in this searingly provocative literary horror novel about one woman’s determination to stay alive at any terrifying cost."
The Vanishing Point: Stories By: Paul Theroux, read by Joe Knezevich for Harper -- "The stories are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points—a moment when

Release Week: 21 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-21 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Mask of the Deer Woman By: Laurie L. Dove, read by Isabella Star Lablanc for Penguin -- "At rock bottom following her daughter’s death, ex-Chicago detective Carrie Starr has nowhere to go but back to her roots. Starr’s father never talked much about the reservation where he was raised, but the tribe needs a new marshal as much as Starr needs a place to call home. In the past decade, too many young women have disappeared from the rez. Some have ended up dead, others just…gone. Now local college

Release Week: 14 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-14 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

FEATURED PICK:

Death of the Author: A Novel By: Nnedi Okorafor, read by Liz Femi, Anthony Oseyemi, Jason Culp, and Chris Djuma for Harper -- "In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative—a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. This is a

The Most Missing Audiobooks of 2024

Posted on 2025-01-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Another year has come and gone, bringing so many books and audiobooks that already, of course, one can't get to them all in a lifetime, let alone 12 months. Still, some of the titles I most anticipated -- or was most surprised by! -- last year did not come out in audio editions, and as I used to do years ago, I'm going to survey some of these for you, and hopefully some audio publishers (Podium? Tantor? Scribd?) will take notice.

First, yes, let's get it out of the way that the new Dungeon Crawler Carl

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Release Week: 7 January 2025

Posted on 2025-01-07 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

Happy New Year! The big publishers are back with a vengeance after a couple of quiet weeks to close out 2024. Let's see what's in store...

FEATURED PICK:

Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear: Wayward Children, Book 10 By: Seanan McGuire, read by Barrie Kreinik for Macmillan -- Continuing a lovely run of beginning each year with a Wayward Children book is just what I needed: "Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family."

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In the Distance By: Hernan

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Release Week: 31 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-31 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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Beyond Those Gilded Walls By: Jessica S. Taylor, read by Stefanie Kay for Dreamscape -- "The kingdom of Veressia has been forsaken by its prince, who has chosen instead to drown out the screams of the dying. Trapped in a kingdom without a leader and blamed by her brothers for her mother’s death, Odyssa has little hope of ever succeeding at honoring her mother’s dying wish. Driven by desperation, Odyssa ventures into the heart of the barricaded castle, masquerading as a servant amidst the prince's

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Release Week: 24 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-24 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

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The Third Temple By: Yishai Sarid, translated by Yardenne Greenspan, read by Josh Bloomberg for Tantor -- "In a near-future Jerusalem, harrowing omens plague the city: a desecrated altar, an unbearable stench, a rampant famine. Shaken but devout, Jonathan, the royal family's third son, continues to hold services and offer animal sacrifices at the prophesied Third Temple, built to consecrate the founding of the new Kingdom of Judah. His father, Israel's self-appointed king, has abolished the Supreme

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Release Week: 17 December 2024

Posted on 2024-12-17 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

So, yeah, it's awfully close to crickets this time of year as far as the big publishers. Still, here's what I see this week:

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North Is the Night: The Tuonela Duet, Book 1 By: Emily Rath, read by Khaya Fraites, Emily Lawrence for Recorded Books -- "In the depths of the Finnish wilderness, more than wolves roam the dark woods. When a death goddess attacks their village, best friends Siiri and Aina prove helpless to stop her from dragging Aina into Tuonela, the mythical underworld. Determined to save

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