Dorothy Bradford

worse narrator ever

Revisado: 10-27-23

Was this book really written by Connie Willis author of what about the dog?

The narrator has only one, maybe 2 voices. Both made me scream

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Another female narrator who can't do male voices

Revisado: 01-28-22

This is a case of a female narrator ruining a good story. She simply can not do male voices. In fact, she can only do one or two different female voices. She attempts male voices by growling, lowering her pitch or raising her volume. She seems unable to change her voice.

The story itself is excellent with interesting sentient aliens and planets. It was only the interesting story that made me endure the narrator.

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Classic Barack Obama

Revisado: 11-28-20

Perfect in every way except it ends after his second year of presidency. Takes us behind the scenes of major happenings during his campaign and early presidency. Apparently there will be a volume 2.

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I liked the narrator

Revisado: 11-28-20

Follows the lives of two people who made a deal with the devil. Addie wishes for freedom. She can't die, heals instantly, stays young. But no once can remember her the second they stop looking at her. She can't say her, write, draw, type, use a cell phone or do anything that might leave a mark. But she's free.

Henry wishes to be loved. Everyone loves him at first sight. But he's only going to live months.

I didn't like any character in the book except the Devil (the Darkness). I had no sympathy Addie or Henry and didn't care what happened to them.

The prose is good and so is the narrator. The story is cliche. Predictable. Uninspiring. Provokes no thoughts.

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Author as narrator

Revisado: 07-30-20

I generally steer away from author narrated books because they are often bad. It's like arguing your own case in court. Doesn't usually work out well. This time it worked out very, very well. He's Australian (I googled him) so likely has that accent. He does a wide range of voices in varying accents to perfection.

Mankind (humans, dogs, cats, horses) causes magic to suddenly disappear from the world. The world becomes ugly. The gnomes, elves, wizards, and all creatures with magic suddenly suffer dire consequences from its loss. Fetch Phillips is an alcoholic depressed human detective looking for a missing vampire and siren. (yes, that kind). He is the first person narrator. He's brutally honest.

I loved Black Sails. I loved/hated John Silver, a main character. I didn't connect the author/narrator with his role as John Silver until halfway through the book.

My one criticism is the narrator speaks too fast. I slowed the narration to 0.9 speed.

Luke Arnold is a superb actor, writer and narrator. Looking forward to more from this talented young man.

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Love This Series

Revisado: 05-20-20

This is the second book in the Her Instrument series. I absolutely love this series and have listened to it over and over. It has spaceships and romance and aliens and fighting and diversity of characters. The captain of the merchant spaceship Earthwise is a blue-eyed chocolate skinned female human Martian. Set in the Pelted universe where animals have been blended with humans and dominate the universe. The reclusive Eldritch are white-skinned long-lived beautiful aliens. l enjoyed all of the narrations except the captain's voice which was a bit gravely for a woman's voice. These books would make a great movie or TV series.

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Every Character Sounds the Same

Revisado: 04-10-20

Many of the characters are introduced in first person. The narrator seems to use the same voice for each character. I gave up after a few chapters of this. Too hard to distinguish who's speaking when everyone sounds the same.

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Every Character Sounds the Same

Revisado: 04-10-20

Many of the characters are introduced in first person. The narrator seems to use the same voice for each character. I gave up after a few chapters of this. Too hard to distinguish who's speaking when everyone sounds the same.

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I Screamed

Revisado: 10-04-19

While driving. And pounded the steering wheel. I so wanted the author to get on with the story. But no, she has to wax poetic. Not worth a car accident. I stopped listening.

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Zachary Quinto, Please narrate more books.

Revisado: 04-07-19

There are certain narrators that make even a bad book sound good. Fortunately, this is a great story by a great narrator. The story opens in an OR scrub room where an insurance company has placed an observer.Quinto's polite, soothing, calm, trustworthy, intelligent voice immediately draws me in. I like that he does the many women voices without resorting to falsetto. He changes cadence, tempo, timber, volume seemingly effortlessly. I immediately did a search for anything else he's narrated. Meanwhile the story builds into something I never saw coming.

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