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Female Sherlock

Total
3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 03-22-24

First book started out strong. I'm a sucker for overcoming setback stories. Patricia is one of my all time favorite voice actors. However, it's clear she gets austrayaccents better than Queen's English. It's distracting to hear Brit coppers speak in australian accent rather than a rather than say, a Cockney accent, for example.

Second book was unforgivably sloppy, lacking basic geopolitical knowledge. Taiwan is NOT officially recognized as a country by either the UK or the US. There's no Britih embassy in Taiwan! It's called British Office Taiwan. Therefore, there's NO Britih ambassador to Taiwan. So cringe to hear it repeated throughout the book.

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"Sexy AF" repeated a thousand times

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-31-23

New, awkward girl in school? Check. Hot weather to cold weather transplant? Check. New flavor of the school year being stared at by everybody? Check. Brooding, self-loathing, and "sexy AF" vampire? Check. A clique/tight-knit tribe of good-looking vampires? Check. Shakespear references? Check. Vampire vs. Shifter rival? Check. Is this the Twilight Saga? You wish.

Unlike Stephenie Meyer, whose English lit training was apparent in her writings and whose grappling with religious philosophy provided some substance, at least at the time, even though Meyer's writing mostly appealed to teens; Tracy Wollf's writing really does read like a Middle schooler or high schooler's diary. In other words, it's almost entirely consisted of repetitive, not-quite-so-clever vernaculars and melodramatic angst.

Bad writing coupled with a very mediocre narrator who is incapable of accents or convincing character differentiations and who is not endowed with an attractive voice. Well, it's a copycat mess without much originality or true imagination.

And unlike Edward's blood attraction to Bella, there's no reason whatsoever for the Crave vampire's obsession with the new girl.

The only reason I picked this up is the backdrop of Alaska, which I wish Wolff had done more research on.

Substandard clone, at least in this first installment.

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Tedious Mystery + Terrible Male Narrator

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
2 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-21-23

Confession: I listened to this book because (1) I love Patricia Santomasso, a masterful voice actress, and (2) it's in the Plus catalog and I'm short on credits.

The story is annoying because it's unnecessarily lengthy. You could just listen to the last hour of this story and you got the whole thing. I couldn't care less about the male character's various psychological grappling. I found his thoughts intolerably tedious exacerbated by perhaps the worst male voice and narration I've ever listened to. The male voice is unattractive to start with and it just became a nail dragging across a chalkboard when Mr. Heyborne narrated the female characters. Ms. Santomasso could've narrated this entire book and made it more tolerable because her male voices are amazing. I would've abandoned this story in the first half an hour if I didn't expect her to save the performance later on.

Also, the psychologist-patient privilege should not exist in this story at all. I wonder how the author got away with such an obvious mistake on a well-known legal rule (the slightest research should've revealed it. You need not have graduated from Harvard Law School). I mean, the only reason this is a mystery at all is because the author pretended that such privilege existed and the cops haven't bothered to approach the shrink.

Yeah, I must agree with some other reviews: BORING. Very little of it was either believable or entertaining.

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Great second installment + MUCH Improved narration

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-12-23

Continuing from the Campire Wish series, this one is the story about the shifters. I was weary if Santomasso would narrate with the same weird downward cadence for 30hrs. To my relief, she really improved her voice acting in the span of 2 yrs. Excellent character texturization.

Enjoyable, easy listen.

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Great imagination

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-21-23

It's getting harder to write original stories about vampires, fae, shifters, but Madow has managed it. I enjoyed the ride. Easy listen and it went fast.

Narrator was pretty good overall. I liked her ability to texturize different charcters' voices. But her downward cadence throughout most of the 20+hr narration in random places in the various dialogues drove me crazy. I wish she just put in a natural cadence rather than putting a downward tonation on verbs or random words. Otherwise, amazing job.

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A Bit Draggy

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-15-23

Mead's stories are typically addictive. I finished one series every couple of weeks for Vampire Academy, Bloodlines, Age of X, Dark Swan, and Georgina Kincaid. Emily Shaffer was my favorite narrator, and Jennifer Van Dyck my least favorite (mature voice too old for character). But each series went at a fast clip and was hard to put down.
The Glittering Court is the only series without a supernatural element and I admire Mead's semi-historic endeavor without the low-hanging fruit of erotica or the escape through the supernatural. The first book in Glittering Court was fascinating enough as I tried to figure out the world constructed within. Kristen Sieh did a decent job narrating as her accent variations covered mostly white English speakers within the UK region. Her narrator's accent also stayed consistent with her protagonist's accent.
Midnight Jewel, on the other hand, is about the most mysterious character of the 3, Mira, who is supposed to have inimitable linguistic talent. The problem here with this sequel is 2-fold:
1. the emotional tone does not ring true: the sisterhood thickness felt more genuine in the first book and much more of a stretch in this book. Mira's attachment to Tamsin feels unwarranted and forced. More importantly, Mira's love development with Grant feels melodramatic and tedious. Grant's avoidant behavioral pattern and anxious attachment mode seem worthy of a psychology seminar but is painfully annoying when Mira obsesses over his every withdrawal and/or advance. Mira seems a rather incongruous character with her simultaneous inexperience in sexual love and experience in sexual abuse. Overall, I feel disinterested in her romance.
2. Narrator's accent: yes, Mira is supposed to sound a bit Caribbean Creole and Kyla Garcia's interpretation of that accent is OK. The problem is that Garcia's narrator's accent is flat American, which is very jarring and does feel inconsistent. I'm assuming that narrating everything in a Caribbean accent is more difficult than just performing Mira's dialogue in a Caribbean accent. I think Garcia did fine in her performance of the various English accents, including the supposedly Belgium accent.
Overall: tedious and emotionally forced, makes me not want to purchase book 3.

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Good Story, Mismatched Narrator

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4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
3 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 08-13-23

A more sexual one out of Mead's series. Interesting worlds and creatures. Engaging. But the narrator's voice is far too mature for the protagonist. Not bad, per se, but a serious mismatch: a 45-55 voice for a 20-30 character. Very distracting.

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Smart and Funny Series and Brilliant Narrator

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 07-04-23

I enjoyed the Academy series and loved Emily Shaffer as a narrator. When I saw this series with Emily as the narrator, I purchased it without hesitation. I couldn't put it down. To my delight, I love this series much more than the Academy series. It's more brainy, witty, and delectably funny. I laughed out loud more times than I thought one would reading a YA fantasy.

The characters are quirky and lovable, The discussions between characters are intelligent and interesting. Even the pets and creatures are vividly entertaining.
I love the Adrian portrayed by Emily Shaffer: both his accent and tenor were rendered with just the right amount of smoky sexiness. I wish the later books were consistent in the portrayal of Adrian. They should've just kept Emily as the sole narrator. Her interpretation of the characters makes this series go alive.
Pay attention to little gems like "Silver Tooth Sally" and "Hopper the Rabbit."

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Best Narrator out of the 3 for this series

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5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 06-30-23

Finally, a narrator who rendered all the characters in the right accents and persona. Helped the story a great deal.
I really enjoyed Sydney's character and loved Adian's renewed accent. The story keeps a good pace and suspense.

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Terrible Narrator

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3 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
1 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 09-11-20

Okay story. Overly dramatic narration, really bad accents. Torturous to listen to. Please change narrator.

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