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Read by Noah Galvin who has the perfect voice for teenage Jake who helps out at his dad’s zoo, which just happens to hold about 200 of the world’s remaining Dragons in a large protected wilderness. When he finds a dying dragon and a defenceless baby, he takes care of the tiny creature, thereby breaking a number of laws. The style is chatty and engaging. The narrator is brilliant, bringing Jake to life.
Jul. 17th, 2024
A Frogmorton Farm short story featuring Jenny and Russell Checkland and an invisible golden horse called Thomas, who smells of warm ginger biscuits, and who helped Jenny over a rough period in her growing-up years. The Checkland kids are off on a school trip, so Jenny and Russell are looking forward to some couple-time. Unfortunately a storm front is moving in and the power is out. When Jenny's dangerous cousin Christopher shows up, things aren't looking good for Jenny. Her aunt is in trouble and fear (as well as rain) is in the air.
Sam Anderson, one of the inventors of time travel, is subject to his own invention as a punishment for murdering his girlfriend. He’s innocent, but he does it to save his daughter from being accused. He’s sent back to the time of dinosaurs with no hope of getting back. There’s a twist. Interesting story and good narration.
A fantasy gumshoe novel. Eddie LaCrosse has left his former life and become a private investigator. He’s drawn back to his former life where he was a baron and good friend of the king until his lover (the princess) was killed. The queen has been accused of killing and eating her own child, and the king is wracked with grief. Eddie has to solve the mystery of what really happened, but there’s a twist. There’s an added complication because he recognises the queen from an earlier time.
Set in the Elizabethan era, Isabelle is working as an apothecary's assistant in London, having run from her husband, Nicholas, six years earlier. An attempt to poison the queen sets an investigation in motion which brings Nicholas (part of Walsingham's spy-ring) to investigate and in doing so find his wife again. There's a romance and a mystery, an evil mother-in-law, and witchcraft. The narration is decent, but not spectacular.