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Regretfully bad

Revisado: 10-28-23

This is the first audiobook I listened to where I just couldn’t get over the narrators voice. Not her natural voice, necessarily, but the acting voice she puts on for the men and women characters.

When men speak, they get a super deep gravely tone, almost sounds like they gargled rocks. The women, on the other hand, (except Ursula, who is LITERALLY not like other girls) get a bit of a Minnie Mouse treatment. They are practically squeak toys. Non-binary, feminine characters for some reason generally speak in a neutral tone. The infantile, cartoonish piping thus feels almost like a commentary, however unintentional, on women specifically as a gender. Women don’t sound like that. They just don’t. So why the voice?

The story was also unfortunately 2-star for me. 14 hours and most of it is fluff developing the relationship between Vlad and Nathan. I like a slow burn, don’t get me wrong. I can wait 4 books for the love interests to even kiss and still be happy. But I’m also interested in mystery- what was the deal with the former captain of the guard? What is the Count scheming? Does it have to do with the mines on Eyrie? The Litch wars? Elizabeth? How did the ancestral trees get poisoned? Surely it wasn’t a coincidence.

But not only do these questions, and more, not get answered. Our POV characters don’t even think about them. Nathan is content not knowing what happened to the previous Captain. Ursula doesn’t so much as wonder aloud at the improbability of what’s happening to the ancestral trees. Vlad is completely, entirely, frustratingly uncritical of the Count’s potential machinations. There’s a lot going on for sure, but in my subjective experience this book is… not good. I am very sorry. I will probably read the next one though because my Bookclub loved Hunger Pangs (except me, I am mortified).

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