Michael J. Sullivan Boooo! Award
Here’s the thing: I’m a delicate orchid, and I haaaate it when an audiobook is going along, all tra-la-la neato speedo, and then WHAM!
Compleeeete 180-degree turn, right at the Very END, leaving a stupid cliffhanger that leaves sooo many new (AND OLD) loose ends… aaaallll designed by an author to wheedle the poor Listener into picking up The Next Audiobook in a series…
I’m looking at YOU, Michael J. Sullivan!!!
Michael J. Sullivan Boooo! Award Winners:
A Novel
By: Sarah Addison Allen / Narrated By: Rebecca Lowman
Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
Lovely writing, sweet characters, a touch of magic thrown into a touch of Southern Gothic… ho-hum…
Series: We Set the Dark on Fire, Book 1
By: Tehlor Kay Mejia / Narrated By: Kyla Garcia
Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
Kinda on the fence about this one—has its pluses, has its minuses…
Michael J. Sullivan Boooo! Award Mentions:
Oh soooo close, but doesn’t quite stoop to the depths of… Michael J. Sullivan…
Phew! to these audiobooks!
Series: Verity Lark Mystery, Book 1
By: Lynn Messina / Narrated By: Jill Smith
Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
Not exACTly a train wreck, but…
Series: The Quantum Curators, Book 1
By: Eva St. John / Narrated By: Lucy Rayner, Alex Wyndham
Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
Dude! but of COURSE this isn’t Jodi Taylor… but it IS Fun! …and then there’s Alex Wyndham…
Michael J. Sullivan - You Wish Award:
Ahem, dude!
THISSSSS is HOW you write in a series, completing a story, leaving new and wide vistas to explore, making the Listener HUNGRY to get to The Next Story.
It CAN be done, and dude! You Wish!!!!
By: Donna Barba Higuera / Narrated By: Frankie Corzo / Cover Illustration By: Raxenne Maniquiz
Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
What a surprise! What a delight! Intricate, thoughtful… heartrending and heartwarming!!!
Series: Between Earth and Sky, Book 1
By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated By: Cara Gee, Nicole Lewis, Kaipo Schwab, Shaun Taylor-Corbett
Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
Another winner! Not-quite 13-hours, and a LOT o’ time spent on the edge of one’s seat…!
Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 3
By: Gail Carriger / Narrated By: Emily Gray
Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
Now THIS is how you craft an engaging series…!!!
Series: Parasol Protectorate, Book 2
By: Gail Carriger / Narrated By: Emily Gray
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Book 2 Blues? Not on your life!!! SUCH FUN!
Series: The Sixth World, Book 2
By: Rebecca Roanhorse / Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
Wherein a Book 2 exceeeeds expectations…!!!
Series: The Luck Uglies, Book 1
By: Paul Durham / Narrated By: Fiona Hardingham
Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
Just how it should be! Forget about the kids who’ll LOVE this cuz it’s all about meeeeee!!! I LOVED it too!
Series: The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe, Book 1
By: Gordon McAlpine / Narrated By: Arte Johnson
Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
Li’l charmer, this was!
A Dog in King Arthur's Court
Series: Cavall in Camelot, Book 1
By: Audrey Mackaman / Narrated By: Derek Perkins
Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
Introduces the seamier side of Camelot but with SUCH an innocent hero… Arthur’s deerhound!
Series: The Merliss Tales, Book 2; Into the Witch Lands, Book 1
By: Jeff Chapman / Narrated By: Jannie Meisberger
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
An enchanting Mid-Evil Medieval Tale!
Mr. Darcy's Dragon
A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Series: Jane Austen's Dragons, Book 1
By: Maria Grace / Narrated By: Benjamin Fife
Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
Ahhhhh, the sequels to this series are a MUST—Listener beware of getting hooked… or getting peeved…!
Series: Seasons of Man, Book 1
By: S.M. Anderson / Narrated By: Jay Snyder
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Cuz the current pandemic makes me hanker for even more pandemic schtuff… It’s the end of the woooooorld!!! :)
By: W. C. Ryan / Narrated By: Esther Wane
Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
Not as Gothic or as creep-ridden as I’d hoped, but a solid whodunnit instead