Jane comes alive

Would you consider the audio edition of Skinwalker to be better than the print version?

Yes definitely. The narrator makes Jane and Beast come alive. She manages to give them their separate characters. Jane Yellowrock is one of my favourite series of books and after listening to this narration I'll be adding the audio version of the others to my collection.

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Good story

Good storyline but quite slow to get started, almost gave up after three hours glad I didn’t Hope next book is a bit more fast paced

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Great opener

Great opener to a series with lots of promise. As a fan of the Sookie Stackhouse series this is a much welcome addition to the library.

A stellar performance by Kristine Hvam.

Now onto episode 2.

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Great fun!

Great fun, swashbuckling heroine and interesting take on old stories and legends, combining multiple ethnicities. Liked the Native American stories particularly.

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Mixed feelings

I have mixed feeling about this book. I enjoyed the premise & love a good vampire supernatural story, which this is. Add in some unsolved murders & an undiscovered past & I am all over this. I think there were just a couple of aspects that stopped me from enjoying it as much as I could have.

The narrator was great at the story & the female parts, but her male parts just didn't do it for me & I know it's difficult to find a narrator that does good male and female voices, but I need both. Might be better to read rather than listen.

The other problem I had with this book was, & bear with me as I say this, all the beautiful men. So Jane rocks up somewhere, & there's a hot guy there, & he seems to like her, & she thinks he's hot & then.........the same thing happens with another guy somewhere else. Over & over again. Personally, I can just stand a love triangle & when I say stand I mean ignore if the rest of the story is good enough, but to have 3 love interests in the same book, in the first book of the series? & for all three of the interests to be hot, but not actually be that likeable as characters? I'm out.

This being said, the rest of the book was really good & if you like a bit of flirting & not knowing who the right guy is going to be right away, give this book a go. I am going to give the next book in the series a go before I abandon it completely.

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Awesome book

Faith Hunter is one of the best authors I've heard in a long long time. Her first person narration is brought to vivid life by Khristine Hvam, an extremely talented narrator. The two of them together create an experience not to be missed. I would certainly recommend this book!

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A Surprise!

Would you consider the audio edition of Skinwalker to be better than the print version?

Having not read any print versions of books by Faith Hunter, I can't say whether her writing style is one that I prefer to hear or read.

What other book might you compare Skinwalker to, and why?

I was drawn to this book because it seemed to sit neatly within the range of books that have kept me returning to Audible. There are aspects of the Jane Jameson books by Molly Harper, Kara Gillian series by Diana Rowland, the Elemental Assassin series from Jennifer Estep and Kim Harrison's Rachel Morgan, from The Hollows. All strong female characters, with a hint of the supernatural, similar, but markedly not the same.

Which scene did you most enjoy?

I would say that some of my favourite scenes where Beast was in charge, although the final fight sequence with her frank handling of the situation was probably the most enjoyable.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

This book definitely did not make me cry, but there were certainly a few lines that made me bark with laughter. I'm sure the people sitting next to me in traffic were a little taken aback!

Any additional comments?

If you enjoy writers such as Kim Harrison, Jennifer Estep and Diana Rowland, then I would certainly say this book is for you. I am yet to listen to any of the rest of the series, so will wait to hear book 2 before I think about recommending it as a series!

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Great series!

This is a really great series. The world Faith Hunter has created is so rich, these books aren’t superficial, there’s so much going on and with each book she unwraps another layer, of the characters and the world they live in, the history behind why they do the things they do, make the choices they have.

This first book sets the scene for the world you’ll be sucked into and you’re in for a hell of a ride. violence, heartbreak, love, guilt and suspense. Jane is a fantastic heroine or anti-heroine maybe, she’s kick ass but easily hurt, she makes mistakes that you want to kick her for but that make her all the more real. Jane and many of these characters, Leo, Bruiser and Rick to name a few, suck you in, you’ll love em, you’ll hate em, and you’ll love em again. This book is just the start...

I’ve recently come back to the start for another listen through of the whole series after listening to her latest book in the series and am loving it all over again. Although I have to say I’m very glad the narrator started to go a different way with the voices of some of the key characters, like bruiser, as the books went on! I didn’t notice the first time through, but going from a recent book back to the first I did cringe a little at how ‘wrong’ a couple of them sound, you won’t know any different first time through so don’t worry but she refines them over the first few books and they become much better for those couple of characters

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Perfection!!!

This is without doubt one of the best shifter books I have ever come across, and defiantly the best one I?ve ever found on audio. The story its self is brilliant, as is that of the main character. Who she is and where she came from. The difference between how Jane sees the world in human form and when she is in the form of Beast is just one of the things that makes this story so gripping. All the characters are complex and intriguing as is the world in which the live. A truly great book that I will be able to listen to, and enjoy, over and over again.

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Vampire fighting, form changing fighter

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

In the most part I did enjoy this slightly different take on a vampire hunter. Jane's ability to change into the beast added a different angle to the story although I did find the short sentences when Jane was in beast form a little annoying after a while. There was lots of potential in the relationships Jane formed for future stories and I understand there are quite a few spin off stories involved. From a practical point of view I probably would have preferred the background more in this story but overall I would recommend as something a little different.

Would you be willing to try another book from Faith Hunter? Why or why not?

Yes, I've put the subsequent book on my wish list and will purchase soon. At end of the story she was about to do something so I'd like to see how this develops.

What does Khristine Hvam bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

With narration, you get more of a feel for where the book is set with the different accents a narrator brings, That always adds something extra to the book (for me).

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