Jen Weston

Mispronunciations

Revisado: 06-30-22

This is one of my favorite series, the only one I have also listened to (in addition to reading it through several times). That being said, I think you should read this, not listen to it. While the narrator has a great voice, he doesn’t pronounce a lot of things correctly. I won’t even begin to tell you how frustrated I am that he doesn’t get the military words right. I know the author is aware and working to fix that going forward (such as the narrator saying M-R-A-P instead of Em-Rap). But, he gets many other words, and even names, wrong. At one point, I actually yelled at the speaker, “For f&@$$’s sake, it’s BYron, not Brian!!!”

Also, the narrator is terrible at accents, he shouldn’t even try. Especially when he reads a second generation American with Japanese ancestry as a sort-of-almost Hispanic accent. Tandi might have some sort of regional American accent, but not one that sounds as if he’s from a Spanish speaking country!

I will continue to listen, because I love these books, but I will also continue to hope that they get a better narrator!

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