Erratic

Painful narration

Revisado: 06-20-24

Look, I try to give narrators a pass. Their job is something I could never do. This guy does a passable job at emotions, and there aren't any noticeable mistakes.
But.
The voices are almost all the same. Thankfully he reads the dialogue tags, or I might have missed a couple changes.
That's nothing, however, when compared to the...
...
...almost full-second pauses...
...
...at the end of every sentence.
Like, this is Georgette Heyer.
We've got people cutting each other off, which sounds like:
"But I told you I was-"
(full-second pause)
"I don't care where you were!" (Full-second pause.) "I asked you to come right away!"
And then we've got a character whose whole THING is talking quickly and smoothly, stream-of-consciousness style, so no one suspects he has a thought in his head which isn't said out loud.
That effect is ruined and kinda painful to hear...
When every couple of words...
There's a full break...
In the narration.
Seriously, this is the first time I've considered stopping a book halfway through and demanding my money back, it was so bad.
I'd bet a solid hour of the runtime is blank space.
If there is ANY other audio version of this book out there, get that one instead. I bet versions where someone's reading it into their phone mic to put on YouTube are less painful to hear than this.

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One flaw

Revisado: 03-29-24

Narrator does a good job on everyone... except the teenage girl. Dear lord is that voice annoying.
Other than that it's all 10/10

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Beer!

Revisado: 02-03-24

I now know enough about beer to start my own brewery. And enough about dwarves to avoid getting into a brawl with one. Great book!

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Better to read than listen

Revisado: 03-24-23

Look, the performance is fine. The story is good. If you want a murder mystery with some historical aspects, this one is as good as any other. If you’re familiar with Jane Austen, there are tons of references scattered around that are fun to pick out.
But those footnotes.
I know there are plenty of Jane Austen books out there with footnotes explaining things to modern audiences, but then there are plenty without them. This book shouldn’t have had them. There are less as the book goes on, but that kinda confused me, too. Like, the author found it necessary to explain what Whites was (when it was only mentioned in passing), but thought everyone already knows what happens at Gretna Green? No footnote about why going there would be good/bad? Really? Come on, all or nothing here.
So yeah, I’d recommend you physically read this one. It’s worth reading, but the footnotes are a bit intrusive when you’re listening.

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A good dramatization!

Revisado: 12-17-19

Starts out a bit slow, but becomes 1000% better once Hook shows up. Worth the listen.

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Hard to hear.

Revisado: 11-05-19

For some reason the narrator is whispering through about 3/4 of the book. It’s not just “speaking lowly”, it’s that particular tone of voice which makes it impossible to hear if there is any sound in the background. If you listen in a car it’d probably be ok, but listening on a subway was... annoying.

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