It’s not often I find a book that totally engrosses me, makes me smile, makes me tear up… and is free. I found all this and more with the series of four audiobooks from Nathan Lowell. All four books are available for free download from Podiobooks. The four books are Quarter Share, Half Share, Full Share, and Double Share.

I just finished listening to the whole series and they are some of the best audiobooks/stories I have ever heard. I’ll try not to give away too much, but they are about an average young man who loses his mother and has to enlist in “the fleet”. Despite the story occurring on ships in space, it’s really not about space – it’s much more about the characters and their interactions on-board ship. It’s so NOT about space, even my wife is listening to them and enjoying them – and she hates sci-fi.

I’m not sure why the series sucked me in so easily and so completely, but it did. Nathan Lowell’s reading of the stories could not be any better. I encourage you to give the first one, Quarter Share, a go and see if you enjoy it as much as I did. If not, you’ve lost nothing since it’s free to download and try.

Now I just have to figure out how much money to donate to the author/podiobooks.com.

Reference links:

• Quarter Share
• Half Share
• Full Share
• Double Share

Other audiobook reviews:

• The Pocket and the Pendant review
• Singularity review
• Lots of audiobooks reviewed

Since I have listened to and reviewed quite a few audiobooks, I thought I’d just put them all in one post for easy reference. All of the audiobooks below are highly recommended by me.

• The Crown Conspiracy by Michael J. Sullivan [download] [review]
• The Share Series by Nathan Lowell [download] [review]
• Noggle Stones by Wil Radcliffe [download] [review]
• Singularity by Bill DeSmedt [download] [review]
• Earthcore by Scott Sigler [download] [review]
• Ancestor by Scott Sigler [download] [review]
• The Pocket and the Pendant by Mark Jeffrey [download] [review]
• AmerIndian 2192 by J. Scott Garibay [download] [review]