Katy Quinn

Yet another terrible effort by this narrator

Revisado: 08-03-21

parsimonious = pär″sə-mō′nē-əs
The words are available, WITH a pronunciation guide, in any standard dictionary. It seems
“Charlotte Anne Dore”
clearly cannot be bothered to look up the words she doesn’t know how to pronounce.
The only way I can listen to any of Ms. Dore’s narrations is at 1.3 speed otherwise the
constant abrupt pauses
become onerous.

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Preachy Story That DRAGS

Revisado: 06-15-21

Moralizing, preaching, and a mediocre story. Not worth buying and barely tolerable for free. It’s as if the writer was phoning it in and couldn’t be bothered to write a coherent story with actual depth.

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Terrible narrator ruins the mood

Revisado: 06-02-21

Decent performance but the narrator has NO idea how to pronounce certain words and she clearly has never bothered to look them up. So irritating that production didn’t bother to hire a competent narrator.

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Great story / Narration is spotty

Revisado: 05-28-21

Great story in the series and the narrator is quite talented. However, she’s got a “Benedict Cumberbatch can’t say penguin” going on. The protagonist’s name is “Ottilia” but she says A-tillia in all the books. The word and name are “Coffee” but it’s “Cuffy” in this version of reality. Clearly there was no producer reviewing the voice work. Distracting but not fatal. Meh on the production values.

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Returned due to terrible narration

Revisado: 05-14-21

Such fantastic books that it seems impossible that a bad performance could suck the life out of the text. Yet that is exactly the problem here. Flat, emotionless tone a la Prozac. And Maurice is NOT pronounced Morris. 🙄

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Great Courses except for this one

Revisado: 05-10-21

Academic has a strange dislike of Shakespeare that is CONSTANTLY front & center during all lectures. As a life-long Shakespearean performer, his dismissal and denigration is puzzling, sad, and an excellent argument for arts-based education. I’ve known high school performers who had a far superior grasp of The Tempest. Clearly a smart man who just does not get The Bard. Too bad.

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TW: Christian Fiction

Revisado: 04-21-21

Main character spends 1/3 of the book talking to God. Most decisions are made by praying.

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Badly narrated

Revisado: 04-08-21

A 20th century Jamaican white women with a “lilting Jamaican accent” voiced like an average Mid-Coast American circa 1930. Who produced this? Did no one in production READ the book and check that accents were voiced as described? Or you went with the regular narrator and she can’t learn a Jamaican accent? Seriously disappointed given the quality of the series to date. I guess only the UK accents deserve accurate reproduction?

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Classic Ngaio Marsh

Revisado: 03-17-21

As usual, excellent narration by Nadia May! The country house party as a setting for murder and Marsh makes it fresh and fascinating.

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MC Beaton AGAIN. Too bad.

Revisado: 03-05-21

Another morbid obsession with an inaccessible male character aggrandized beyond BELIEF! I wondered why this series seemed so ... pedantic, pathetic, and familiar. Having just been disappointed by her Agatha Raisin series, I’m not surprised to be disappointed by the same flaws in this one. Sloppy & can’t be bothered to keep the story straight book-to-book plus a narcissistic and absurdly coddled male lead. Don’t bother to pay attention, she certainly didn’t while writing the book.

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