My Favorite Audiobooks

Hello fellow bookworms! I hope you're all having a great day. A few days ago I realized that by now I've read my fair share of audiobooks so I thought it would be fun to share my favorites with you all today, in no certain order.

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Amanda Noble, #zoolife by Lesa Boutin

I listened to this audiobook when I was just getting into them but it's easily one of my faves. The story will make you wish you lived in a zoo so if you're an animal lover (who isn't?) you'll adore this book just as I did.

My review

The Pawnee Indians: Proud Yet Peaceful People of the Stars by in60Learning

I always enjoy books by in60Learning. You can read them in less than an hour and they're always super fascinating. It was the same with this audiobook and I definitely hope to listen to more in the future. This one is especially great if you want to learn more about Native American history + the narrator was a really good one.

My review

Humanism: The Untold Tale by Chirag Patel & Rishabh Prasad

Another nonfiction audiobooks. I don't think anyone will be surprised by this. If you're like me and only know the basic things about humanism I think you will enjoy learning more about it. I certainly did. It's a really interesting topic and the authors taught me a lot. It's a short audiobook so that's pretty nice as well.

My review

Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa

This was probably the most surprising audiobook I've ever read. I hadn't read a book by Julie Kagawa since the Iron Fey says and I never finished that series so I was pretty sure I wouldn't like this book so much. But oh was I wrong! I ended up really enjoying it. It was funny, action-packed and made my heart hurt. Also, I'm currently listening to the sequel which I am enjoying just as much.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Of course Artemis Fowl has to be on this list. I've listened to the audiobook a few times already and it's definitely one of the best audiobooks out there. Mayeb I'm biased since this book is my number one favorite of all time but I really do think it's highly entertaining and I love the accent of the narrator. So fun!

A Heart So Fierce and Broken by Brigid Kemmerer

Now this one requires a little backstory. When I read the first book of this series, A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I didn't like it at all. I'm not gonna go into the reasons why but I just wasn't impressed by it. So when the sequel was released  last month I decided to give it a try on audiobook instead of buying a physical copy and I fucking loved it. So you see you should never give up on a series after one book you didn't like. It's my favorite book of the year so far. 

My review

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So what are your favorite audiobooks?

ARC Review: Once a Myth by Pepper Winters

Title: Once a Myth
Author: Pepper Winters
Series: Goddess Isles #1
Publication: February 25th 2020
Genre: Dark Romance
Purchase it on: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Google Play | Kobo
Rating: 4/5★

“There was a boy once. A boy who wasn’t strong enough to save me when I was taken.”
“There was a girl once. A girl called Tess Snow who sat with me in the dark waiting to be sold.”
“There was an owner once. An owner who bought me, entrapped me, and made me his unwilling goddess.”

Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes her book-loving boyfriend can save her when her freedom is snatched and sold. Squirreled away to an island at midnight, delivered to a man even darkness won’t touch, she’s bound by a contract.

Five men.
Five fantasies.
Five pieces of her soul.

Sullivan Sinclair is the giver of fantasies. Any wish, any desire—he is the master at quenching even the filthiest appetites. His private paradise and perfectly trained goddesses are there for one purpose: to ensure every guest is extremely well satisfied.

He bought her.
He trapped her.
She belongs to him.

Most of you know how much I love this author's dark romance stories but even so I always have to wait and see after I read it to really know how I feel about her latest new book like with any other. Luckily I ended up loving Once a Myth. And actually I didn't have any doubt that I would do anything less than enjoy it.

When Pepper Winters publishes a new series like this with one book a month to be released, the first book is often a prelude to what will come in the rest of the series and Once a Myth was very much the same. This wasn't a bad thing, of course, because I enjoyed getting to know Eleanor and Sullivan. 

The story starts with Eleanor being traficked when she is in Mexico and Sully ends up buying her and letting her be brought to his island of goddesses. I know this is incredibly vague but that's all I'm going to say because I don't want to give too much away and really it's a book you just have to read for yourself to grasp it.

These two characters were, to say the least, intense. There was a real intensity about them together as well as seperately. Eleanor surprised me with her spunk and wanting to fight for her life. Sully definitely beats any other male character that the author has created. Yes he buys girls so he can employ them on his sex island and give the guests their ultimate fantasies so he's definitely not a hero and I don't think he'll ever be but that's part of what makes him so mysterious and wicked. I can't wait to see what's in store for them in the next installment. I'm sure there's much more wickedness to come.

Once a Myth by Pepper Winters will be unlike anything you've ever read. Sinful and dark, absolutely not for the faint of heart. It's dark romance at its, well... darkest. And I know this is just the beginning so I say bring it on!

About the author:
Pepper Winters is a multiple New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today International Bestseller.

After chasing her dreams to become a full-time writer, Pepper has earned recognition with awards for best Dark Romance, best BDSM Series, and best Hero. She’s an multiple #1 iBooks bestseller, along with #1 in Erotic Romance, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary, and Erotica Thriller. With 20 books currently published, she has hit the bestseller charts twenty-nine times in three years.

Pepper is a Hybrid Author of both Traditional and Self-published work. Her Pure Corruption Series was released by Grand Central, Hachette.

Her books have garnered foreign interest and are currently being translated into numerous languages, including already released titles in Italian, French, Hebrew, German, and Turkish. Audio Books for her entire back-list will be available in 2018.
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Can't-Wait Wednesday: Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read.

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Beauty Tempts the Beast by Lorraine Heath
Sins for All Seasons Series #6
Expected publication: September 29th 2020 by Avon

Lorraine Heath ends her bestselling Sins for All Seasons series with the hero readers have been waiting for!

She wants lessons in seduction

Althea Stanwick was a perfect lady destined to marry a wealthy lord, until betrayal left her family penniless. Though she’s lost friends, fortune, and respectability, Althea has gained a scandalous plan. If she can learn to seduce, she can obtain power over men and return to Society on her terms. She even has the perfect teacher in mind, a man whose sense of honor and dark good looks belie his nickname: Beast.

But desire like this can’t be taught

Benedict Trewlove may not know his parentage but he knows where he belongs—on the dark side of London, offering protection wherever it’s needed. Yet no woman has ever made such an outrageous request as this mysterious beauty. Althea is out of place amongst vice and sin, even if she offers a wicked temptation he can’t resist. But as the truth of his origin emerges at last, it will take a fierce, wild love to overcome their pasts.

I'm sad this is the last book in the series *sobs* but I'm very exicited to read Beast's story at last. And look at that cover! It's so powerful! I really can't wait to get my hands on the book.