Publisher: Podium Audio

🎧 Space Academy Graduates by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

🎧 Space Academy Graduates by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

It’s bittersweet sitting down to write this review, because Space Academy Graduates is the last book in the series, and it has been such a fun ride from the beginning. Vance Turbo, Hero of Spaaace, and his crew are back at Space Academy, the place where it all started, to investigate the murder of Earth’s […]

Posted July 10, 2026 by Melanie in Book Review / 4 Comments

🎧 Space Academy Vagrants by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

🎧 Space Academy Vagrants by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

I’ll be upfront that I wrote this review way too long after listening, so I’m a little light on details, but I’m confident I got the important part right, which is that I really enjoyed it. I’m always happy to spend more time with Vance Turbo, and this time I’m glad I didn’t wait as […]

Posted June 12, 2026 by Melanie in Book Review / 4 Comments

Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer @zanzjan.bsky.social @dawbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social #TraciOdom #PodiumAudio @zanzjan @DAWBooks @BerkleyPub

Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer @zanzjan.bsky.social @dawbooks.bsky.social @berkleypub.bsky.social #TraciOdom #PodiumAudio @zanzjan @DAWBooks @BerkleyPub

I loved Suzanne Palmer‘s Finder Chronicles so I was eager to read her newest work. Ode to the Half-Broken is a dystopian story about a sentient robot, Be.  It didn’t feel too similar to Becky Chamber‘s books which is good for me because I didn’t enjoy those too much. I found the pace and technology […]

🎧 Space Academy Miscreants by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

🎧 Space Academy Miscreants by C.T. Phipps and Michael Suttkus @ctphipps.bsky.social @CT_Phipps @JeffreyKafer @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks @audiobookmel.bsky.social @AudiobookMel

It’s been two years since I listened to Space Academy Washouts (I didn’t realize I had gotten so far behind on it), and I’ll be honest, I wish I had refreshed my memory a bit before diving into this one. Going in without remembering where things stood didn’t do me any favors. I also think […]

Posted April 10, 2026 by Melanie in Book Review / 4 Comments

🎧World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming @SLyonsFleming @justjuliawhelan @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited ‪@audiobookmel.bsky.social‬ @AudiobookMel

🎧World Departed by Sarah Lyons Fleming @SLyonsFleming @justjuliawhelan @PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited ‪@audiobookmel.bsky.social‬ @AudiobookMel

I picked up this book during an Audible 2-for-1 credit sale. I had already read Sarah Lyons Fleming’s Until the End of the World series, and since the cover and description for World Departed looked similar, I figured it might be set in the same world. I’m glad I gave it a chance. This story […]

Posted August 8, 2025 by Melanie in Book Review / 6 Comments

🎧 Wind and Wildfire by JD Evans #JDEvans ‪@timcampbellvo.bsky.social‬ ‪@carenoutloud.bsky.social‬ #PodiumAudio‬‬ #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @4saintjude

🎧 Wind and Wildfire by JD Evans #JDEvans ‪@timcampbellvo.bsky.social‬ ‪@carenoutloud.bsky.social‬ #PodiumAudio‬‬ #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @4saintjude

I learned a new word this week.  A friend was talking about this Romantasy that she had discovered on Reddit and that I absolutely had to read as soon as possible.  Romantasy isn’t actually a new term (or so my daughter informs me); and while I am sure it hasn’t earned its entry into the […]

Posted August 1, 2025 by KC in Book Review / 1 Comment

🎧 The Wraith King by Juliette Cross @Juliette__Cross @troyduran @MegSylvan #PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @RobinBridgeFour‏

🎧 The Wraith King by Juliette Cross @Juliette__Cross @troyduran @MegSylvan #PodiumAudio #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @RobinBridgeFour‏

The Wraith King, the first book of the Rise of Northgall, is a romantasy that is more heavily invested in the romance than the fantasy.  I think this is important to mention as I will let romances get away with some things that I would never let fantasy get away with.  The Wraith King is sort […]

Posted February 10, 2025 by Robin in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming @SLyonsFleming @justjuliawhelan @PodiumAudio @audible_com #LoveAudiobooks @AudiobookMel

🎧All the Stars in the Sky by Sarah Lyons Fleming @SLyonsFleming @justjuliawhelan @PodiumAudio @audible_com #LoveAudiobooks @AudiobookMel

This one is bittersweet. I found this series fairly recently, even though it has been around almost a decade. This is a really good zombie series that starts with a group of friends in New York City who try to escape the city to get to Cassie’s deceased parents off grid/prepper home. Then they meet […]

Posted May 10, 2024 by Melanie in Book Review / 4 Comments