Book description
In the gondola's gentle sway between worlds, Jo Walton has crafted something luminous-less a story than a whispered incantation that settles into your bones like morning mist on ancient canals.
Everybody's Perfect unfolds like origami made of dreams, each careful fold revealing new dimensions within the familiar. The Serenissima breathes with impossible beauty, that mythical sister to Venice where belief itself becomes architecture, where nine worlds converge in labyrinthine waterways that mirror the human heart's meandering passages.
Walton's prose moves like seasoned silk, each sentence perfectly weighted yet effortlessly flowing. When Tiry's dream of a doge marrying the sea ripples outward through Khadsha's fortune-telling parlor to Taddeo's gondola to Gom's precinct desk, we witness something magical: how stories propagate through a community like light through prisms, splitting into spectrum yet remaining pure essence.
This isn't fantasy as escapism-it's fantasy as revelation. Walton strips away the genre's typical armor to reveal something tender and true underneath. Her structurally inventive narrative shifts like tides, carrying readers gently through layers of meaning while never losing that essential warmth that makes the impossible feel inevitable.
Listen to this audiobook slowly, like fine wine. Let Walton's careful craftsmanship wash over you in waves, each chapter a new canal to navigate, each character a bridge between what is and what could be. Here, in this mist-born city where everybody's perfect because nobody's ordinary, fantasy finds its beating heart.
Jigsaw
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NoiseCake
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Scuffs
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Pitfall
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RiddleRanger
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Bambi Wings
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Hemingway Mirmillone
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Scare Stone
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Sassy Muffin
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Dangle
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Palomino Cake
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience