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bargainsleuthbooks · 7 months

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The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria's Goddaughter by Denny S. Bryce #ARCReview #BookReview #NewBooks #WilliamMorrow #NetGalley

"A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in #QueenVictoria’s court and adapting to life in #VictorianEngland". Excellent #historicalfiction book! #TheOtherPrincess #DennySBryce #bookreview #ARCReview #NetGalley #WilliamMorrow #NewBooks

A stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta. With a brilliant mind and a fierce will to survive, Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a kidnapped African princess, is rescued from enslavement at seven years old and presented to Queen Victoria…

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#ARC Review #Book Review #Denny S. Bryce #Harper Audio #Historical Fiction #Lagos Colony #NetGalley #New Books #October 2023 Books #Queen Victoria #Royal Family #Sarah Forbes Bonetta #Sierra Leone #St. James&039;s Palace #The Other Princess #West Africa #William Morrow #Windsor Castle

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readingwithwrin · 1 year

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A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar | ARC Book Review

Title: A Million to One Author: Adiba Jaigirdar Publisher: Harper Collins Published Date: December 13th, 2022 Genre: Historical Fiction, YA, Contemporary, LGBTQIA Source: Netgalley & Harper Audio Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ Goodreads Summary: Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time‘s Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 makeover in a heist for a treasure aboard the infamous ship that…

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#4 stars #a million to one #adiba jaigirdar #blogmas 2022 #contemporary #getting my netgalley under control #harper audio #harper collins #Heist #historical fiction #LGBTQIA #netgalley #YA

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whimsicaldragonette · 1 year

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ARC Review: A Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar

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Publication Date: December 13, 2022

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Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 makeover in a heist for a treasure aboard the infamous ship that sank in the Atlantic many years ago. A thief. An artist. A acrobat. An actress. While Josefa, Emilie, Hinnah, and Violet seemingly don’t have anything in common, they’re united in one goal: stealing the Rubaiyat, a jewel-encrusted book aboard the RMS Titanic that just might be the golden ticket to solving their problems. But careless mistakes, old grudges, and new romance threaten to jeopardize everything they’ve worked for and put them in incredible danger when tragedy strikes. While the odds of pulling off the heist are slim, the odds of survival are even slimmer . . . Perfect for fans of Stalking Jack the Ripper and Girl in the Blue Coat, this high-seas heist from the author of The Henna Wars is an immersive story that makes readers forget one important detail— the ship sinks.

My Rating: ★★★★

*My Review below the cut.

My Review:

I was SO excited for this one. I really enjoyed Adiba Jaigirdar's other books, and 'sapphic heist on the Titanic' ticks like, ALL the boxes for me.

And for the most part, it lived up to expectations.

The plot progressed smoothly without any hiccups and without stalling, which I appreciated.

The heist itself was a bit underwhelming, and they gave up on the initial objective pretty quickly, making the whole endeavor seem a bit pointless. However, it was written quite well and it kept my interest and had the appropriate amount of things kept back from the reader and reveals and such.

The part after the heist was actually more intense and kept my interest more. At first I didn't pay much attention to the dates and times at the beginning of each chapter, but towards the end the chapters got shorter and the timestamps sped up until it became a pretty intense countdown. Equally intense was the fact that the reader knows first that the Titanic is sinking (not a spoiler - we all knew it going in but we didn't KNOW know it. Or at least I didn't) and the tension builds quickly as we watch the girls separate and each have to discover that fact on their own.

I was confused about which character was which at first, but as the story progressed they each got more time to shine and I grew to appreciate each of them. Violet and Hinnah were maybe not as well-developed as Josefa and Emilie, but I still appreciated getting their POVs.

I liked the romance, and I also liked that it was very mild and was very much not the focus of the book. It was there in the small things if you looked for it, but it didn't overpower the heist storyline.

The ending was a bit of a shock as I didn't know to look up content warnings on the author's website, but upon reflection I feel like it was fitting and more realistic than the ending I was expecting. The final epilogue-like section took away some of the drama and tension of the ending and I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one had I like it and it feels necessary, but on the other hand it leaves everything feeling a bit anti-climactic.

Some of my issues with the story could have stemmed from the fact that I listened to a 'digital voice galley' which is not the actual audiobook and is not read by a real person. So it is necessarily a bit robotic and it can make it hard to differentiate between characters. In the actual audiobook, I imagine they will have the four main characters either read by different people or read by a skilled voice actor who can give each girl her own 'voice.'

Overall I enjoyed this a lot and I would recommend it to readers who enjoy historical novels and heists and sapphic characters. I would however caution that it does not reach the intricacy or depth of heist novels like Six of Crows (not many do - perhaps it's not the best benchmark by which to judge this genre).

*Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Audio for providing a digital voice galley to review.

#adiba jaigirdar #a million to one #sapphic #heist #titanic #sapphic heist on the titanic #shilo reads #arc review #netgalley #harper audio #sapphic romance #lgbt+ books

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kkecreads · 1 year

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The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan (Audiobook)

Harper Audio Audible Release: September 10, 2019 Listening Length: 11 hours 6 minutes Narrators: Clare Corbett, Patience Tomlinson, & Ben Eliot Genre: Thriller KKECReads Overall Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ KKECReads Rating for Performance: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ KKECReads Rating for Story: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I purchased this audiobook on Amazon, and I leave my review voluntarily. Gilly Macmillan grew up in Swindon,…

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whatsheread · 2 years

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Novel Nuggets - All About Audiobooks (Part I)

Novel Nuggets – All About Audiobooks (Part I)

One of the ways I discovered that I might not be handling the stress of the past few months is that no matter how often I tried, I could never summon the energy or desire to sit down and write reviews. At first, I didn’t think anything of it, knowing I would eventually write them. Then a week became a month. A month became five months. One overdue review became five. Five outstanding reviews…

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teslapunk3327 · 15 days

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"You wear suits and don't think I don't know why? You don't need a suit to make coffee!"

Jack, in 'Broken' implying that he knows Ianto only wears the suits because Jack is into them. And Ianto agrees.

Except... 'Blind Summit'' suggests that Ianto was indoctrinated and retconned repeatedly, and didn't understand where his fondness of suits came from. Tortured to the point he didn't understand why he was so good at making coffee. Because Torchwood One were molding him. Into the perfect, loyal, obedient operative.

And that just kills me.

We never knew the real Ianto. And neither did he.

#torchwood #ianto jones #big finish #jack harkness #captain jack harkness #gwen cooper #owen harper #toshiko sato #big finish audios #janto #torchwood one #yvonne hartman

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meta-squash · 22 days

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Some random maybe rambling thoughts about Jack and his feelings towards his team:

I think Jack's love for, relationship with, and treatment of each individual member of his team is really interesting.

Owen and Tosh are the two team members he truly hand-picked. He followed Owen and recruited him. He literally tracked Tosh down and made a deal to get her out of a UNIT prison. He did his research finding them, making sure they were right, convincing them to join him. He did, essentially, save them and allow them a space to remake themselves.

And for the most part he treats the two of them in a sort of paternal way. Owen, especially, but both of them. He's firm when he needs to be, and gentle when he needs to be, but there's this sort of distant yet intense protectiveness of them. Like the way a parent still sees their child as a vulnerable thing that needs caring for, even after their child is a fully grown adult. His love for them is extremely protective, but he's not close with them, he doesn't confess his thoughts or feelings to them except in dire circumstances like in Dead Man Walking when he's with Owen in the jail.

So his loss of them is a loss of a father because, in a sense, he created who they were in Torchwood. He found them, worked to recruit them. He gave them a space to grow and learn and change and hone their talents, and he supported and taught and molded them. They were part of his earliest hand-picked team, too, so they were there for long enough that they saw the growing pains, and they were his, in a way that I think he was sort of convinced they'd be with him for a long time, which is why he was so desperate to bring Owen back the first time. He loved them so much he kind of forgot Torchwood has a high mortality rate, sort of in the way a parent assumes they won't bury their child.

On the other hand, both Ianto and Gwen kind of recruited themselves. Ianto harassed Jack into a job, and Gwen unintentionally brute-forced herself out of Retcon in such a spectacularly dramatic way that it got her a job. They found him, not the other way around.

Jack's relationship with them is different. He's closer to them, less paternal, more confessional, more romantic. It's interesting that he sees them both as potential (and in Ianto's case, eventual) love interests. It seems like he doesn't feel quite as responsible for them, or at least he feels responsible in a different way. He's able to open up to them about himself in a way that he doesn't do with Tosh and Owen. And he's not as put off when they question him. It's almost as if because they independently forced themselves into the job, they're more like equals, or rivals, or something. There's a different sort of potential relationship there from Owen and Tosh.

But it also means that he doesn't or can't love them in the same way. I think somehow he subconsciously thinks he can stop himself from falling in love romantically, but he doesn't seem to think about that parental type of love. So he tries to keep his distance from Gwen and Ianto a bit, knowing he'll hurt them and they'll hurt him. But he doesn't take Owen and Tosh into account. But it does mean that Ianto's loss is different one. It's a grief of a romantic type, the loss of a lover, but it's also this awful "what if" that hangs there, what if Jack had been willing to be closer, had been willing to have a proper relationship with Ianto while it lasted instead of this sort of weird undefined thing, what if Ianto had lived, etc. And Gwen, too, becomes a "what if," in a living sense, once she's married to Rhys. That frisson is always there between them, but once she and Rhys are married it becomes a sort of hypothetical between them, what if she'd chosen Jack, what if they took it past the abstraction of yearning into something real, what if what if, etc. Only it's not mourning, it's something else entirely because she's still there with him.

I just find it so interesting that the two hand-picked members Jack seems to see as his children and the two who forced their way into to Torchwood he seems to see as potential romantic interests.

#torchwood #jack harkness #ianto jones #owen harper #toshiko sato #i'm talking only re: the original 3 series and not extended canon of audio/novels/etc

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r3verse-the-polarity · 23 days

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Truly inspired bit of writing there.

#big finish audios #torchwood #ianto jones #janto #toshiko sato #owen harper #torchwood fic #doctor who #john hart #gwen cooper

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benevolenterrancy · 1 year

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relistened to Last Beacon, aka Ianto And Owen's No Good Very Bad Hiking Trip

#torchwood #ianto jones #owen harper #the last beacon #big finish audio #i honestly love their dynamic they are SUCH a pair of dumb bitchy idiots #though all the opportunities they take to take potshots about the welsh rain makes me laugh #i live somewhere that gets twice the annual rainfall that cardiff does -- those are some baby numbers they're complaining about #man i haven't drawn for torchwood in years and i had never quite figured out character design the first time around either #i hate the first bit of time spent drawing for a fandom you have to get all the ugly out before you can start making any nice art #and live action shows are a pain in the butt trying to figure out functional cartoon short hand is the worst #i don't suppose anyone can point me at someone else's art who's figured out a good way to stylize them?#i would be much obliged for the help #my art

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luthqrs · 2 months

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torchwood big finish audio stories

sharing is caring >:)

also up for grabs: new and classic who big finish (x) and doctor who novelisations (x)

a list of what’s there + how to play below the cut x

things you’ll find here

torchwood main range (stories 1-68)

the story continues (series 1-2)

torchwood soho (series 1-2)

the lives of captain jack (series 1-3)

the sins of captain john (series 1)

and how to access them

press play!!

if you like to listen at 1.5x speed like me, you can use an independent media player. on ios, press the 3 dots -> open with: [audio player of choice] (i use evermusic)

make and save copies to ensure your favs stay safe!

want something you can't have?

its probably here. if it's not, pop it in the comments/tags and maybe i can perform some kind of magic

happy listening! x

#tumblr please don't hurt me i'm just being friendly and doing a public service >:)#looking for the classic who audios?#you can find the classic files that used to be here in my master post (linked multiple times above)#share literally however you like i don't care i promise i won't bite #tumblr might bite me eventually though so i'd save ur favs to ur own device #torchwood #gwen cooper #captain jack harkness #ianto jones #toshiko sato #owen harper #big finish #luthqrsdw #luthqrs

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vincentaureliuslin · 2 days

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BEST QUEER POC TRIO SAY WHAT ??!?!?!?!

#ignore that it fades out i didn't wanna screenrecord so i took the audio off tiktok instead #i wanted the clips to match the actual meaning of the lyrics as best i could #adamandi #adamandi musical #quincy cynthius martin #vincent aurelius lin #beatrix valeria campbell #ambrose wellington bassford #portia elizabeth harper #quincy martin #vincent lin #beatrix campbell #ambrose bassford #portia harper #mitski #your best american girl

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bargainsleuthbooks · 5 months

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Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey #BookReview #AvonBooks #HarperAudio #ContemporaryRomance #SpicyRomance #ChristmasRomance

...a sexy, hilarious standalone holiday rom-com about the adult children of two former rock stars who team up to convince their estranged mothers to play a Christmas Eve concert. #WrecktheHalls #AvonBooks #bookreview #christmasromance #spicyromance

Melody Gallard may be the daughter of music royalty, but her world is far from glamorous. She spends her days restoring old books and avoiding the limelight (one awkward tabloid photo was enough, thanks). But when a producer offers her a lot of money to reunite her mother’s band on live tv, Mel begins to wonder if it’s time to rattle the cage, shake up her quiet life… and see him again. The only…

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#Audiobook Review #Avon Books #Book Review #Chick Lit #Christmas #Christmas Romance #Contemporary Romance #Harper Audio #Holiday Fiction #Spicy Romance #Tessa Bailey #Wreck the Halls

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readingwithwrin · 2 years

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Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwall | ARC Book Review

Title: Reader, I Murdered Him Author: Betsy Cornwall Publisher: Harper Audio Published Date: October 11,th 2022 Genre: Historical Fiction, LGBTQIA, YA, Mystery Source: Netgalley and Harper Audio Rating: ★ ★ ★ .75 Goodreads Summary: My Plain Jane meets The Gentlemen’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this daring tale of female agency and revenge about a queer teenage vigilante in Victorian…

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#3.75 stars #betsy cornwall #book review #getting my netgalley under control #harper audio #harper collins #historical fiction #LGBTQIA #my plain janes #mystery #netgalley #reader I murdered him #received for review #YA

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theflowersaremine · 2 months

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home from the hospital hopefully for good tonight! got to mess around with finishing this to some degree during my stay.

close ups below the cut!

#my art #redacted audio #redacted david #david shaw #redacted angel #harper #redacted fanart #redacted fandom

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witchofthemidlands · 2 months

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myfanwy had not yet been acquired like a rare pokemon until ianto emerged so jack didn't even have her to blame the noise of the literal tardis landing on their roof on so i have often wondered what he did blame that very distinctive noise on or what sounds jack himself created to cover it up seeing as suzie, tosh & owen were confined to the hub during the events of boom town.

#if he didnt retcon them at least once during those few days then i am guessing he unleashed a weevil in the hub #i know how suzie handled margaret because of their audio but #i am guessing jack had to cover up a LOT of questionable vibes surrounding the mayor leading up so he didn't wreck his own timeline #you can tell that i havent slept in twenty four hours #captain jack harkness #✨javic piotr thane✨#suzie costello #toshiko sato #owen harper #boom town #torchwood #whoniverse

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twingeof-cosmic-angst · 3 months

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Big Finish writers every single time they write an audio for Owen Harper:

#its fucking insane how good they are.#theres just somethinf about that pathetic man thag make people write banger after banger about him #i just finished iceberg and im shaking in my boots. the way they layer that boy. bonkers. the foreshadowing. ough. so sosososososo good.#and dont get me started on The Hope because it has one of my favorite moments in any big finish audio ive listened to. ever.#owen harper #torchwood #big finish #torchwood audios #torchwood big finish #rusty goes on a dw rant

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