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Poor narration damages a solid story.

Revisado: 09-01-19

I love the Nine Kingdoms books, and those with Miach and Acair (not yet available in audiobook format) are my favorites. So, I know THE MAGE'S DAUGHTER well and have read it many times. That said, the narrator nearly ruins the book. There are two main problems with Laura Jenning's reading. One is that she over-emphasizes the weepiness of the heroine, so that instead of coming across as a strong women dealing with tough emotional issues, she instead comes across as a total cry baby and wimp, which is NOT how the character was written. Her voice for Morgan is weak and whispery and sounds either tearful or like a shrew. This is probably why other reviewers speak about the narration often being difficult to hear. My other main objection to the narrator has to do with Laura's extremely limited ability to create distinguishable voices and accents. Other than the whispery tearful sound for Morgan, and her more normal voice for Miach, she only does an Irish accent that came across the same for nearly EVERY other character. This made it difficult to figure out which of the other characters were speaking and created unnecessary confusion. Maybe I've been spoiled by James Marsters who reads Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books with an astonishing range of voices and accents, but if narrators can't make it clear which character is speaking then they're not doing their job. I hope that Lynn Kurland finds a better narrator for her other books, as her stories deserve more skillful narration.

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