I’m over at AudioGals with a review of The Witch King by Martha Wells, narrated by Erik Mok. Sadly, a DNF.
I’m over at AudioGals with a review of The Witch King by Martha Wells, narrated by Erik Mok. Sadly, a DNF.
Why I read it: I bought this one on the recommendation of Melissa K. It turns out our Venn diagram isn’t in total agreement.
What it’s about: (from Goodreads) What happens when:
• your brother rashly goes to Vegas and is going to marry a stranger?
• you meet a beautiful woman on your way to stop him and have thoughts of following in his footsteps?
• she happens to be the daughter of your brother’s bride?
What happens when:
• you meet the hottest man around and he’s your new uncle?
• you can’t resist him?
• he dares you to ‘Say Uncle, again?’
A taste:
“Angel, you’re so perfect,” I breathed. My eyes never left hers as she came up behind me, wrapping her arms around my waist and placed her cheek on my spine. The feelings of completion engulfed me.
“Thank you, Uncle Dean,” she said sweetly.
“Did you just say uncle?” I asked menacingly, and I felt her smile on my back. This woman was too much.
What worked for me (and what didn’t): According to my reader, the novelette is 49 pages. I made it to page 29. It wasn’t the uncle thing which bothered me – if it had, I wouldn’t have bought it. After all, it’s right there in the title. The way the technical familial relationship was structured didn’t bother me in the least. In fact, I thought it was kinda funny and it was one of the factors that had me one-clicking.
I needed to share my pain. If Brie can do it, so can I.
Book fail
Unleashed by Cherrie Lynn
“She says just tell him to go slow this time, be good.” she whispered.“He is hers to command.”
There are almost no vocal pauses between sentences – which makes distinguishing the voices even harder because there is no cue in the timing/delivery. It is the audio equivalent of everything in the whole chapter being one giant paragraph. Not enjoyable.
I love this book. I refuse to ruin the experience by keeping on listening to such bad narration. I’m sad because I was so hoping to enjoy the whole series again except on audio – Strawberries for Dessert is my favourite in the series. If I’m this upset about Promises, I can’t imagine how I’d feel about that one. The narrator is the same for the whole series sadly.
Dreamspinner: you need better narrators.
Read the book – the book is excellent. Audiobook is a total fail for me though. 🙁