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Couldn’t finish

Review from Damascus Station →

The narration was impossible to follow. The inflection of the narrator was off, so it required a great deal of concentration to try and to understand what the text was actually saying. It’s hard to explain, It’s like he was…flippant.

Weird accent

Review from Insatiable Hunger →

The storie’s great, but Zeke’s accent is SO distracting. As listeners, we have no visual, so the ‘voice’ of the narrator is EVERYTHING.I disliked the diction of this character, and many of the words used are in no way consistent with the particular accent you are conveying-I found myself often fast forwarding to get to..

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Invested

Review from Escape: The First Omnibus →

I’m so invested in what happens to these guys that I have downloaded the next two audio omnibuses for this series! I cannot wait for the drive home so I can listen to the next set~!

The Game

Review from The Scream Catcher →

This was my first experience with Vincent Zandri’s work, and it was riveting. Jude Parish witnessed a murder, Jude agreed to be the prosecutor’s witness in court. Hector “the Black Dragon” Lennox was a video game designer who liked to record the screams of his victims before they died. Once the audiobook started, the story..

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Tired cliches, bad narration

Review from Damascus Station →

Maybe this would be a good book to read at the beach, that’s the kindest thing I can say about it. Full of the standard tropes and cliches about CIA operatives. My eyes were rolling a lot, like during the contrived Krav Maga scene and the spaghetti scene. Yes they threw flour at each other,..

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