Fans von Kult-Reihen wie „Die drei ???“ oder „Die fünf Freude“ wissen es seit Jahr(zehnt)en und auch bei der breiten Masse setzt sich immer mehr die Erkenntnis durch: Hörspiele sind nicht nur „was für Kinder“, sondern können mit spannenden Geschichten und tollen Produktionen auch erwachsenen Hörern ein beeindruckendes Kopfkino bieten. Dies hat auch der Hörbuchanbieter […]
When Mara wakes up she finds herself surrounded by thick mist, lying in a field of dead grass and having no idea where she is or how she got there. All she can remember is her name and she isn’t even sure if she’s still alive or if she’s wandering through some kind of weird afterlife. […]
When it comes to my trusted bookish friends there seem to be three authors that can easily create a mass hysteria whenever they have a new book coming out (and also every time in between^^): Patrick Ness (of whom I’ve read only three books so far but can definitely already see why everybody loves him/his […]
Brandon Sanderson’s „Calamity“, the final installment in the Reckoners trilogy, has been one of my most anticipated 2016 releases since I read the final page of „Firefight“ and I have been looking forward to reading it for a whole year. I was not only excited about how David and his Reckoners team would deal with […]
Like most of the orphans who lost their parents much too early Locke Lamora has spent his childhood in the streets of Camorr and survived on his own by quickly learning how to trick people who had more luck (and money) than himself. But his special talents didn’t stay unnoticed for long and so he soon […]
In 1944, when she was only 6 years old, Yael was deported to one of the Nazis‘ death camps where she not only had to watch her family and friends die but also was abused as a research object by a mad Nazi scientist whose experiments made her suffer even more. But Yael survived torture […]
It’s only been a few months since Abigail Rook barely survived her first criminal case together with her employer Mr. Jackaby but the assistant of New Fiddleham’s weirdest detective is already seeking adventure again and gets more and more bored by the comparatively unspectacular cases that followed their encounter with a supernatural serial killer. What’s […]
Percy Jackson would rather spend some worry-free days with his friend Rachel but with the great battle against the Titans coming closer it’s impossible for him to even think of going on vacation in these days of almost open war. Instead he is called to join the surprise attack on the enemy cruise ship „Princess […]
November 2019: Das Antlitz der Welt hat sich in den letzten Jahren radikal verändert, seit im Jahr 2012 völlig überraschend die Götter wieder auf die Erde zurückgekehrt sind. Ob Odin, Zeus, Shiva oder Anubis – überall sind die seit Jahrhunderten verehrten Entitäten urplötzlich wieder aufgetaucht, haben ihre Anhänger um sich versammelt und diese schon kurz darauf in erbitterte Religionskriege […]
Auch mit ihren inzwischen 25 Jahren hat Celia West es immer noch nicht geschafft, aus dem Schatten ihrer Eltern hinauszutreten – allerdings hat es die junge Frau auch nicht leicht, schließlich zählen Warren und Suzanne West nicht nur zu den einflussreichsten Geschäftsleuten in Commerce City, sondern sind als „Captain Olympus“ und „Spark“ auch die berühmtesten […]
