B. Hartman

Where is the editor?!

Revisado: 02-02-25

Such odd pronunciation of certain words. The narrator ms. Zanzarella is generally very good. So when a focus of the story is an ANTENNA array, she calls it an “antenny” over and over. Singular! Now, I know an acceptable pronunciation of the plural might be close to this, but antenny for the angular is like “ol’ timey music.” Likewise “schematic”. The e should be a short I or e, but she says scheematic, a long e. Distracting.

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Sloppy writing/Poor narration.

Revisado: 12-31-24

1. Author Louise Penny’s intro to the audiobook welcomes the new narrator without any explanation. I’m guessing a contract dispute. Only on Amazon did she thank the previous narrator. He was great. His French accent was pretty good and if he made the occasional mistake, the editor should have caught it. (Lord knows other series have botched the pronunciation of even the main character’s name when changing narrators!!! Think Jo nesbo’s Harry Hole, Angie Sage’s Septimus Heap series, )
2. Completely irrational jumps to conclusions based on one scrap of evidence.
3. Unresearched areas where flaws are elementary. Google it for heavens sake. One example is a satellite phone whose “line was down?!?!” Another was the 1940’s movie-like breathless flight of the single engine plane flight through a thunderstorm. This just does not happen and have people live through it! It certainly wouldn’t change the speed of the engine as if it had been sputtering. Did I say GOOGLE IT?!

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Doubly disappointing

Revisado: 10-11-21

Huge fan of Louise Penny and eagerly await her new books, so this was doubly disappointing. It seemed that at least 2/3rds of the book was a heavy-handed diatribe against eugenics (is that a serious concern in Canada?) and the timeline was completely messed up from the beginning with the pandemic safely behind. The “mystery” was over midway through the book and then it became a preachy soapbox for Ms. Penny’s irrational fears over forced euthanasia. What happened to one of the best mystery writers today? Too much TikTok?

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The blatant Mercedes product placement was cheap.

Revisado: 04-07-21

Mercedes must have paid for their r350 placement in this novel and the next. He goes out of his way to describe features. So embarrassing. “ I really loved the 45 square feet of storage…”. Worse, this was during the Chrysler years. Patterson was plugging a mostly Chrysler product. I felt used.

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Are there copy editors anymore?

Revisado: 07-29-20

“5k flat screen TVs” should be 4K. No such thing as 5k.
A few obvious embarrassing mispronouncing. I mean, they credit a director/editor, so they failed in their 1 job. There are more. (I spend more than $1,000 per year on audible books. So I think I have bone fides. )

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Narrator review

Revisado: 03-08-19

Todd has a great voice and style. But I found his mispronunciations jarring. Where was the editor?!?! Every few minutes. ‘Termite grenades’ (thermite) made me laugh. The rest were annoying.

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Nitpicking translation use of Imperial measurement

Revisado: 01-04-19

I just find it jarring to hear Finnish characters speaking in miles, feet and pounds. Ya think we can’t figure out the units used in Finland?

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Cringe-worthy reader

Revisado: 06-15-16

The story is great. The reader's accents are good but pronunciations awful. I'm not talking erudite, but awful.

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