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    Marked
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    Marked
    Audiobook9 hours

    Marked

    Written by Bridget E. Baker

    Narrated by Devon Sorvari

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    About this audiobook

    If one touch can infect . . . then a kiss is deadly.

    All Ruby Behl wants for her seventeenth birthday is a good career path match, and to kiss her best friend and longtime crush, Wesley Fairchild. Unfortunately, the simplicity of teenage wishes evaporated a decade ago when the Tercera virus nearly wiped out the human race. Transmitted through touch, the slightest contact is prohibited in the safe haven community of Port Gibson.

    An innocent game of Spin the Bottle, a rite of passage for Port Gibson's teens, provides the opportunity Ruby's been waiting for, but when Wesley winds up Marked, Ruby realizes her first kiss may also be her last. Ruby races the viral clock to uncover long buried secrets about her dead parents, and her once cloudy future becomes clear. She's the key to finding the cure, but is she willing to pay the price?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 16, 2019
    ISBN9781515941088
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    • 2/5
      There are several key portions of the book missing from the audiobook! I was so lost until
      I downloaded the actual book to read the missing sections.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Some of the reviews don’t sound like it’s for this book. Ruby is the main character. I have no idea who Casey and Theron are.

      Reading/Listening to this during covid times makes it a bit surreal as you can imagine how things could be if the majority of the population were to succumb to Covid-19. I loved the whole series which, by the way, is good clean fiction. Bridget E Baker is fast becoming one of my favorite authors

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    • 4/5
      This is the third series of this author and they all have the same main issue. Always a girl juggling two men and this always makes the heroine low in character. But other than that the rest of the books are good
    • 4/5
      AUTHOR: First time reading a book by Elisabeth Naughton. She started slow talking in what I consider "boring baby talk" and all of sudden revved up the engine. She's good. Has great timing on how to go from adventure to romance, adventure to romance. She knows how to tease you with the romance (it builds and builds and builds and then BOOM).SYNOPSIS** Six levels of people: (top to bottom): gods, Argoleans; Argonauts (Argolean warriors) ; Misos (half Argolean/half human); Humans; Daemons (the bad guys controlled by a bad female) **The typical male falls in love with female. SEX SCALE: Of the following (5) : (NOT very descriptive and requires imagination); (WILL make you wiggle a little); (WISH it was me); (OH boy, do not have to use my imagination at all); (EROTICA and well over the top) ****** this book gets a WISH IT WAS ME rating******LEAST FAVORITE PART: Reading about how weak Isadora is considered.to be.FAVORITE PART: Discovery of a group of people no one knew aboutYOU WILL LIKE THIS BOOK IF YOU LIKE: Mythology. Bad guys chasing and trying to capture a good guy. True love threatened by a forced loveless relationship. Is it passion or is it love? Oh, gotta' love His body. She's strong and won't take any crap. Mystery behind what will really happen if 2 females meet each other eye to eye. Leaves you with a feeling of....."Hurry, get me to the next book"WHY DIDN'T THIS BOOK GET FIVE STARS? Love the book but I have read other books by other authors that totally captured me and sent me off the deep end.
    • 3/5
      Took me awhile to get into this, but once I did I was really glad. Great characters and a nice world set up. Now that it's all set up, I expect the next one will be amazing.
    • 5/5
      Wow, I loved this book. What a great start to a new series.
    • 4/5
      Listened for Review/Read for Fun (Tantor/Kindle)Overall Rating: 4.25Story Rating: 4.25Character Rating: 4.25Audio Rating: 4.00 (not part of the overall rating)Note: Things I might have done while reading this book:1) Made sure that a certain couple were going to get a book (not saying who as it would be spoilerish--even if I am the last person to read this series): Book 32) Made sure a certain hot biker dude got a story --- not yet but Elisabeth said he is the next book.3) Made sure that she wasn't ending the series soon--it was just so darn funFirst Thought when Finished: Marked has me hooked on this series. I can't wait to continue!Story Thoughts: Argonauts! Demons! Halflings! This was a deliciously great read for a fan of mythology. I love how the Greek characters from stories we all know/love were woven into this world. Theron, leader of the Argonauts, was stuck between a rock and hard place, as all good heroes need to be. Casey (his rock) was not only the women who intrigued him but the one he surely was leading back home to die. I loved the push/pull that went on between them where the story was concerned. There was only one thing that really bugged me (him not being honest with her about why they needed to go to his home) but it all worked out in the end.Character Thoughts: I really liked Theron and Casey! I think they had good chemistry and despite the lack of honesty from Theron, I believed in his intention to do the best by her that he could. What really sold me on the series is the side characters. I can already tell that I want book 3! Let's just say the chemistry between that couple is already off the charts in this story. I really want Nick's book and I might have cried when another character died (can't give that away either). Nick was my favorite character overall so I am hoping we get to see him in the books to come since he doesn't have his own yet! Side characters are what sold me again. Darn IT!Audio Thoughts: Narrated By Elizabeth Wiley / Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins Overall I really liked Elizabeth's narration. Her voice was so familiar that I had to go look up if I had heard before but I had not. I think she sounds a bit like Tonya Eby. So if you like her narration, I think Elizabeth will work for you. She has great pacing, emotion, and character tendencies (you could tell the characters thoughts from the way she was reading the dialogue). Her male voices are pretty good and I think she was pretty good at Casey. The reason the rating is not higher actually has to do with production. The CDs just immediately went to the next part when switching disks. It often made me feel like I missed something so I would pick up my kindle copy to make sure I had not. That was distracting during the listening process for me.Final Thoughts: This is going on my Seriously Series reads for 2014!
    • 4/5
      Still love this series, but it's falling into patterns, as the politics repeat and repeat. I feel as though this one indicates some serious character growth that may lead to new things in the future, and I'm excited to see where it leads.
    • 4/5
      Alex has to help the sceptical Light Council negotiate with the Dark Mages to help find the missing artefacts. He also has to deal with events from previous books and deal with problems from previous adventures. He's also having to ask some questions about his own motivations and emotions.Some of the details are messy but it does across as realistic, the politics is well thought-out and messy and the magicians come across as very human.
    • 4/5

      I usually pick up the annual Alex Verus novel as soon as it comes out. They're a cut above the average urban fantasy out there.

      As with all the Alex Verus novels, this is a fun, quick read with deft characterisation and a self-contained plot which also feeds into a larger story arc.

      Jacka has talked about the series up to now having been mainly about getting the players in place for the core series arc; there's one critical change in this novel, and some minor blurred lines are made a little clearer.

      As a stand-alone, it essentially is a caper novel - a failed caper novel, much as many spy novels are about failed operations. This isn't much of a spoiler: Verus expects it will fail, the perspective of the reader suggests it will fail: the interest lies in seeing how it fails and what the aftereffects are.

      Up to the standards of the rest of the series.