Katherine Redsall

Abysmal narration makes this unlistenable

Revisado: 02-13-24

The stories are meh and worst of all the “talent” reading this makes for an excruciating listen. She reads every line with the exact same tone of detached ennui and irony and her attempts at male voices are just beyond the pale terrible.

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Natasha Soudek should not do audio books!

Revisado: 02-14-22

Cline’s writing is sharply observed at times but the stories feel cold and lifeless – they strive for clever and knowing but ultimately miss the mark and suffer from a lack of warmth and profundity. There’s no heart here. Nor is there much of an arc or character development, the stories just end.

Most noticeably though, this audio version is almost painful to listen to, thanks to the truly TERRIBLE reading by Natasha Soudek. Someone needs to tell her that not *every single word* should be stressed, and how to pronounce words like ‘minutiae’. She reads every sentence with the exact same amount of over-emotion, making for an overly dramatic, deeply annoying listen with a tinge of valley girl. She isn't able to gauge where to slow down or speed up, where to pause, what words to emphasize, basically she can't track story. She really ruins the prose and it's almost impossible to get through this audio book as a result.

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