My Top 5 Audiobooks!

To being with, I am not a great lover of audiobooks. I tend to zone out whenever I’m listening to something because I’m so used to doing something else while I’m listening to music that whenever I put my headphones in, I automatically start to zone out.

Which means that for every single one of these books I had to sit there and concentrate and let me tell you, IT WAS HARD! but I did manage to do it. Repeatedly. So….

While it’s still not my favorite way to digest a book, it’s not terrible like I thought before. That being said, I do have some favorites.

These are the ones I loved and two that weren’t my cup of tea. It’s a little bit of a combination of YA, NA, Romance/General Lit, and Youth.

The first one is the first audiobook I ever listened to.

The Spies that Bind

by Ally Carter

In this Audible Original prequel to Ally Carter’s New York Times best-selling Gallagher Girls series, narrator Rebecca Soler brings her charm, enthusiasm, and impeccable accent work to the world of teen spies and boarding school drama, making for a perfect introduction to the series—or a new favorite for long-time listeners.
The first day at a new school is tough for any kid, but it’s especially scary when you’re going to a school for spies. Cammie Morgan has spent her whole life dreaming of becoming a Gallagher Girl, but she has no idea what she’ll face when she arrives at The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women. Secret passages? Check. Lab experiments that might make you lose your eyebrows (and other body parts)? Check. Classmates who are the smartest, strongest, most intimidating girls in the world? Double check.
Cammie might be a Gallagher legacy, but she’s about to learn that the most intimidating part about the Gallagher Academy are the Gallagher Girls themselves. Soon Cammie and her clumsy-but-genius roommate Liz, and the glamorous Bex have to learn the most important lesson of the seventh grade: getting into spy school is hard. Surviving spy school is harder.

I loved this book. The Narrator tried to do different voices and it was just… I mean I love this series so there’s that.

This one I’m a little conflicted with. It’s graphic, which normally that doesn’t bother me but I was not feeling that being whispered into my ear…

The Ticket

by Aidee Jaimes

Her husband’s affair won her a golden ticket for a night with anyone, but what happens when the man she chooses wants more than her body?
Cris didn’t believe in forgiving a cheat, but when her own husband betrays her, she is faced with the hardest decision of her life. Does she stay or does she leave him?
She doesn’t know which way to go, but she does know one thing. The only way she will stay is if they can level the playing field. And now armed with a ticket and a tall dark and sexy as hell prospect, she can do just that.

It’s got cheating and stuff. If that’s a hard limit for you then this book is not for you.

Stealing Fire

by Susan Sloate

In glittery 1980s Los Angeles, once-celebrated Broadway lyricist Beau Kellogg is disillusioned, unhappily married and yearning for one last musical hit, while he writes advertising jingles for quick money. Meanwhile, in New York, idealistic young singer, Amanda Harary, works a demanding day job at a charming West Side hotel. From their first fiery phone conversation, sparks fly, and when they begin to talk late at night, miracles begin to happen.
They weren’t looking for each other but what they find together is a once-in-a-lifetime understanding, impossible joy, and piercing heartache…until they learn that some connections, however improbable, are meant to last forever.
Stealing Fire is a story for romantics everywhere, who believe in the transformative power of love.

There’s cheating in this one too and the age gap…I just couldn’t get over it. It’s like myself and my dad. Literally. The age gap is that big…. I couldn’t.

Girl, Serpent, Thorn

by Melissa Bashardoust

Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” (Kirkus Reviews) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.
There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it’s not just a story.
As the day of her twin brother’s wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she’s willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isn’t afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison.
Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who she is and who she is becoming…human or demon. Princess or monster.

I adore this one so much!

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry

by Joya Goffney

Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry by debut author Joya Goffney is a story of an overly enthusiastic list maker who is blackmailed into completing a to-do list of all her worst fears. It’s a heartfelt, tortured, contemporary YA high school romance. Fans of Jenny Han’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and Kristina Forest’s I Wanna Be Where You Are will love the juicy secrets and leap-off-the-page sexual tension.
“A hilarious and swoonworthy story.” (Kristina Forest, author of Now That I’ve Found You)
“A fun, emotionally rich romance with a sweet, imperfect character who will win your heart.” (Liara Tamani, author of All the Things We Never Knew)
Quinn keeps lists of everything – from the days she’s ugly cried, to “Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud” and all the boys she’d like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing….
Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her entire journal will go public. Quinn doesn’t know who to trust. Desperate, she teams up with Carter Bennett – the last known person to have her journal – in a race against time to track down the blackmailer.
Together, they journey through everything Quinn’s been too afraid to face, and along the way, Quinn finds the courage to be honest, to live in the moment, and to fall in love.
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
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