{"id":20913,"date":"2022-10-30T11:38:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=20913"},"modified":"2024-03-01T19:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T00:30:23","slug":"waiting-for-the-flood-audio-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/20913","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the Flood, Audio Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Waiting for the Flood<\/em>, Audio Edition (2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Hall_Alexis.php\">Alexis Hall<\/a> narrated by Alexander Doddy (Spires)<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite Alexis Hall stories. I primarily listen to Fantasy and Mystery, but thought I&#8217;d see how I felt about this.<\/p>\n<p>I still love the story, but I think romance isn&#8217;t a genre that is particularly going to work for me in audio.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And, of course, adventure gets me too. Not quite in the same way as ravish, but it gets me. It makes me fizz a little. I don\u2019t know how or even when Mrs. P. worked it out, but she\u2019s been exploiting it ever since. Weeding her lawn is an adventure. Replacing a lightbulb is an adventure. Taking her bin out is an adventure. Or perhaps it\u2019s just easier for both of us than admitting she struggles to do these things herself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is still one of my favorite novellas, and I&#8217;m a bit said the audio doesn&#8217;t work for me, but that&#8217;s ok.<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Riptide Publishing<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 7\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for the Flood, Audio Edition (2016) Alexis Hall narrated by Alexander Doddy (Spires) This is one of my favorite Alexis Hall stories. I primarily listen to Fantasy and Mystery, but thought I&#8217;d see how I felt about this. I still love the story, but I think romance isn&#8217;t a genre that is particularly going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[193,37,30,196,510,148,41,26],"tags":[627,227,544],"class_list":["post-20913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7-10","category-audio-book","category-british","category-novella","category-own-voices","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","tag-alexander-doddy","tag-alexis-hall","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5rj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14138,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14138","url_meta":{"origin":20913,"position":0},"title":"Waiting for the Flood","author":"Michelle","date":"March 22, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Waiting for the Flood (2018) Alexis Hall (Spires) If you've read Alexis Hall, you may think you know what to expect from this story. 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