Category: Listen Up!

Listen Up! Alpha & Omega ..

Posted February 12, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating A, Rating B, Reviews, Urban Fantasy
Listen Up! Alpha & Omega Series, part 1

Welcome to my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… Audiobook reviews: Alpha & Omega Series Books 0.5-1 After picking up and blazing through the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs on audiobook, someone encouraged me to listen to the spinoff series, Alpha & Omega. I was more than a little frustrated with the Mercy series […]

Listen Up! The Night Huntress ..

Posted February 5, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating B, Reviews
Listen Up! The Night Huntress series

Welcome to my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… Audiobook reviews: The Night Huntress Series Books 1-3 One thing I love about audiobooks, is the opportunity to finally “read” some of those books that have been on my TRB list for a while now. One such series is The Night Huntress series by Jeaniene […]

Listen Up! Audiobook Review: M..

Posted January 29, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating B, Reviews, Urban Fantasy
Listen Up! Audiobook Review: Murder of Crows

Welcome to my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… Getting used to a narrator Last week I shared by audiobook review of Written in Red, and I gave narrator Alexandra Harris a C+ for her performance. This week, I bring to you my review of the second book in The Others series, Murder […]

Listen Up! Listening Speed + R..

Posted January 22, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating B, Reviews, Urban Fantasy
Listen Up! Listening Speed + Review of Written in Red

Welcome to my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… Listening Speed When I first began my journey into and eventual love affair with audiobooks, I was a little put off by how slow that first book was for me. It felt like I was being read to, rather than feeling immersed in the story. […]

Listen Up! The Grendel Affair ..

Posted January 15, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating B, Reviews, Urban Fantasy
Listen Up! The Grendel Affair by Lisa Shearin

Welcome to my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… Audiobook review: The Grendel Affair Author: Lisa Shearin Narrator: Johanna Parker Audio Speed: 1x Series: SPI Files #1 Makenna Fraser is a newbie at SPI New York and the only seer in the U.S. Although she is human, she has the ability to see […]

Listen Up! The Re-Read + Burn ..

Posted January 8, 2015 by Jen in Listen Up!, Rating A, Reviews, Urban Fantasy
Listen Up! The Re-Read + Burn for Me by Ilona Andrews

Welcome to the first post of my new weekly feature that focuses on audiobooks. It’s time to… THE RE-READ: For many, to include myself, audiobooks are a learned pleasure. Figuring out how to listen attentively and appreciate the nuances of the narration can take a newbie some time. Listening to a book you’ve read previously […]

What’s Coming in 2015

Posted December 28, 2014 by Jen in #FitReaders, Listen Up!, Sunday Snippet
What’s Coming in 2015

I am super excited about 2015! I’ve joined some reading/listening challenges, added some new weekly features, and will be co-hosting #FitReaders with The Geeky Blogger. I’m in the process of organizing my blog to showcase the new features. You’ll see new titles in the top menu and new buttons on the sidebar. Here’s more about […]