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Narrator change - Bud character change

Revisado: 09-30-21

I fell in love with the narrator's voice for the Bud Shumway books 1-7. His voice made you feel like you knew Bud. Every character's voice was distinctive. He was surprisingly good at doing a variety of believable, "real" women's voices. Also, the voices and conversations were notably easy to hear clearly if you listened to the audiobook in the car.

The switch to a new narrator in Book 8 is disappointing. Almost every character has the same wavering, quivering "really old person" voice. It's hard to tell them apart, even the women from the men. I kept having to rewind The Beartooth Cafe to figure out who was talking. And sometimes they get low-volume, deep and whispery, and are hard to pick out from any background noise. I guess if a narrator switch was absolutely necessary, I would try to get used to a new one. But I don't think I can with this new narrator; the voices are distracting and they really turn me off from wanting to order any more Bud Shumway audiobooks. I like the stories and characters and I'm invested in their world, so I might buy them to read on the Kindle going forward. (I've switched back to Longmire and other audiobooks for now.)

Aside from the narrator switch, Book 8's plot disappointed a little in that it seemed to have Bud act out of character - it just wasn't in character that Bud would leave the lunch lady in danger and hand it off to others. He's not a "not my department" kind of guy.

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