looking for a new book series currently out of books to listen to on audiobook.

don't care if the main actor is male or female as long as its a good series with the same cast of players.

interested in books like Eragon and Night Angel trilogy where you can see the characters grow up during the books.

also okay with elfs, dwarf, magic, dragons, vampires, shape shifters and anything else that comes with fantasy theme books.

but not any boring narrators like the person who narrates The hobbit and Lord of the ring where it sounds so scripted and no emotion in the story nomatter what is happening.

also into books with corruption like the The girl with the Dragon tattoo and stuff like that. but more into the fantasy stuff. will listen to many different genres since I got around 7 hours a day I can listen.

I have listen to probly 150-200 different audio books so whatever ones you can list will be much appreciate incase you have some good ones I haven't listen to yet.

I primarily listen to female narrators. i've only read 20-30 books, most of which were on sale to get some variety.

Dunno if you like divergent. I thought the first book was ok (needs a better ending), but the other two weren't very good. same with hunger games.

Books i thought were ok:
Immortal Rules (newly made vampire, post-apoc)
11/22/1963 (guy goes back in time to save kennedy)
silence of the lambs (serial killer)
Blood Wager (newly made cookie-baking vampire vs werewolves)
Croak (girl becomes a grim reaper; ending wasn't expected at all, in a good/violent way)
Steelheart (supervillains take over the world, and a team of humans try to stop the leader)
Timebound (girl travels through time to stop a man who created his own religion. ending was meh)
Stonefather (orson scott card, was ok but nothing special)

Books i'd avoid:
Bunnicula
Deviants: Dust Chronicles, book 1 (YMMV, but i won't buy book 2)
Firelight (human/dragon romance, narrator over-emphasises)
Succubus Revealed: Georgina Kincaid, book 6 (nothing happened the whole time)
Before I fall (time loop, but was crap with silly romance)
Shadow and Bone, grisha book 1 (kinda boring... fights weren't satisfying)
Fledgling (newly made vampire, non-violent, pedo vibe)
Lady of Devices (i thought it was cyberpunk when i bought it, but it was actually steampunk...)
Bel Canto (only this author can make a hostage situation this boring)

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I had a very difficult time getting into The Stand and Game of Thrones, so i dropped them. I'm about to start Godfather (full cast)

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have you read dresden files? Spike @ btvs reads it. outlander is also on my todo list

this is my audible to do list that i've bought on sale over the past few months:

Brilliance: The Brilliance Saga, book 1
Persuader, Jack Reacher book 7
Hyperion
Alas, Babylon
Hard Magic: Grimnoir Chronicles, book 1
Hounded: Iron Druid Chronicles, book 1
Lightning (dean koontz)
Storm Front: dresden files, book 1
Throne of Fire: Kane Chronicles, book 2
Warbound: Grimnoir Chronicles, book 3
Cinder: Lunar Chronicles, book 1
Touch of Frost: Mythos Academy, book 1
Silent Blade: Legend of Drizzt: Paths of Darkness, book 1
The Godfather
Name of the Wind: Kingkiller Chronicles, day 1
Moon Called: Mercy Thompson, book 1
Cast in Shadow: Chronicles of Elantra, book 1
Cat o' Nine Tales: Jane Yellowrock Stories
Cryoburn: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure
Daughter of Smoke and Bone
Discount Armageddon: InCryptid, book 1
Magic Rises
The Second Ship: The Rho Agenda, book 1
All Our Yesterdays
Outlander, book 1
Monster Hunter Vendetta
Mark of the Demon: Kara Gillian, book 1
Darkness Dawns: Immortal Guardians, book 1
Skinwalker: Jane Yellowrock, book 1
A Beautiful Friendship: Star Kingdom, book 1
Off to Be the Wizard
Airel: The Airel Saga, Book 1
Monster Hunter International
Kissed by Fire: A Sunwalker Saga Novel, Book 2
Kissed by Darkness: A Sunwalker Saga Novel, Book 1
The Last Bastion of the Living: A Futuristic Zombie Novel
Frost Moon: Skindancer, Book 1
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer: Mara Dyer, Book 1
The Blight of Muirwood: Legends of Muirwood, Book 2
The Wretched of Muirwood: Legends of Muirwood, Book 1
Prized: Birthmarked Trilogy Series, Book 2
Birthmarked: Birthmarked Trilogy Series, Book 1
twice dead: a novel of haven
Hex Appeal
Edge of Oblivion: A Night Prowler Novel, Book 2
Shadow's Edge: Night Prowler, Book 1
Impulse
Throne of Glass: A Throne of Glass Novel
The Killer: Victor the Assassin Series, book 1
A Reckless Witch, A Modern Witch book 3
Spellbound: Grimnoir Chronicles, book 2
Feast of Souls: Magister Trilogy, book 1
The Bone Season
Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel, book 1
Bayou Moon: The Edge, book 2
Magic Slays: Kate Daniels, Book 5
Splintered
The Didymus Contingency
Thirteenth Child
Loki's Daughters
The Line: Witching Savannah, book 1
Wool
Game of Thrones, book 1
Importance of Being Earnest
Girl with Dragon Tattoo, book 1


This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 1 2014 07:15pm

Damn by to do list you bought i hope you meant downloaded off net lol. Thats alot of $$ worth right there lol

i have a job, lol. i use audible. MSRP is 9.57$ each, but i buy most of em on sale, varies from 2.95 (deal of the day) to 4.79$ each (BOGO). a few i got in a buy-2-get-1 sale.

i listen on 1.5-3x speed depending on the book / where i am. average book is maybe 12h, so it amounts to less than 1$/hr. if you listen to 1x speed, it's like 41c/hr. especially if you're listening at work, just imagine that you're getting a 50c/hr paycut in order to make your job much more enjoyable.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 1 2014 10:10pm

Lol oh. Theres one websitr you can pay like $100 for the year and unlimited downloads. I get all mine off pirat*** n kick ass torrents unless its like some series where cant get book 3 out of a 6 book series lol. Hard to find good series sometimes. Some authors think more about quantity of books they publish not quality. The elemental assassin series author had a awesome story line but throughout the whole series she is constantly explaining everything you already know because she explained it 15mins ago. Not like most authors that will do a brief explanation at starting of book or whatever.

Its a shame because some authors think of really good story line they screw it up and make it hard to listen. Couldn't even imagine reading it.

if that's a site i can use at work / on work laptop / work phone without the legal dept contacting me, let me know. i spend more than that lol

cant remember right now.

This post was edited by spartacus6 on Sep 2 2014 06:12pm

The Wheel of Time perhaps? Not really growing up, but you follow the MC for a period of years

The Deed of Paksenarrion.

I listen to audio books when working, and for the past few months I've been working on the Dresden Files.
The first book is pretty slow, and the narrator is kind of monotone (though it fits the character). However, later books really pick up the action and the narrator gets much better.

chronicles of the necromancer (6 books- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronicles_of_the_Necromancer )
The Ascendant Kingdoms Saga(2 out so far, 3rd comes out next year)(this author pumps out books about once a year so dont have to wait to long if reading her current works)
lightbringer series(3 books so far, 3rd just came out) & night angle trilogy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent_Weeks
Kingmaker, Kingbreaker series
fishermans children(takes place after kingmaker/kingbraker)
blight of mages (backstory of the 2 above of how it all started)
godspeaker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Miller
karen miller is a slow pace book but very detailed
King Rolen's Kin (4 books) by rowena cory daniells
Outcast Chronicles(3 so far, i've yet to read past book 1 -jsut learned more were out-)

here is a list of books ive read and personally love...some more than others. all are fantasy and some are darker than others in the story line but definitely worth looking into if like a good story and love fantasy books

e/ i just copied and pasted from another post i did

This post was edited by ishkahide on Sep 8 2014 07:32pm