Narrator truly is awful and ruins a good story

I didn’t think all the awful reviews about the narrator could be that bad. But she IS that bad. She kills this book stone dead!

The character of Sophie Allen is vibrant and energetic - quick to praise, enthusiastic when people get it right, scathing when they do not or someone is trying to put her down. The narrator would have done Dylan the spaced-out rabbit in “The Magic Roundabout” really well. She makes Sophie sound as if she is coming down off a cannabis trip - dragging voice with an Australian intonation. In fact, although I have only listened to the first chapter, she makes everyone sound the same, a bit like an engine trying to rev up and failing.

A real shame because the Sophie Allen books are excellent. But I simply cannot listen to this narrator any more. This is going back.

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Apalling Narration

The narrator was dull and drawled. She also made very bad attempts at other voices- the book was ruined.

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Story line

Great story line and setting, but not well narrated which meant story was not flowing

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Awful Narrator!

The sotiry was good, but I have no idea why an Australian narrator was used for this story. The accents for various characters were so hard to listen to. I kept having to recheck where the book was set. Please change the narrator for the next books.

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Narration was dreadful

Narration was dreadful - so bad it made me laugh aloud - I had to stop listening as it was unbearable.
Story was ok, but the DCI was portrayed as sickeningly perfect, which was a bit nauseating.

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Good story - very difficult to listen to

This was a great story but the narration was really not good. The narrator applied a load of inappropriate accents that made most of the characters sound vaguely stupid. And as for the pronunciation of the town of Walsall - it made me scream.

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Average

Sorry to say the narration made this terrible. I could never tell what accent she was trying to do, whatever it was it didn’t work.
The story was average no real twists

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Excellent plot

First class police procedural with some nice twists. Lacked only the performance, simply a read through no emotional input, which was a shame.

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1-2-3-Basic as can be

This book really followed the bland suspense thriller handbook. The main character WANTED to be dynamic but failed, she was as interesting as watching grass grow. Sofie had an irritating habit of giving her staff long drawn out instructions. They had no thoughts that she didn't tell them too. The killer was brutal but really boring also. Jealous and controlling boyfriend...blah, blah, blah. There were no ah ha moments in this story, no one you particularly want to champion and none of the characters were likeable or unlikable...just BLAH. The narration was off also. Sofie's delivery of hard nosed "don't f$%£ with me cop" lines were delivered with no real heat, it was just words on the a page. I am sure I have listened to Cat Gould before so I am wondering if she was given direction to deliver the story in this weird grandmotherly, spinster aunt kind of way. Just really off on every character. Weird upper crust accents, odd intonation and just plain old ridiculous voices that did not match the characters she was attempting to bring to life for the listener. I was excited because Sofie Allen has a whole series AND they are in the bonus category. I was really ready to tuck in and loose myself in a good series... but alas no. I've removed the remaining stories from my library. On the hunt for my next intense suspense thriller because this series is a BUST

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Not much.

It was an ok story but please sack the narrator she was terrible. It spoiled a reasonable story.

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