Terrible change of narrator spoils a great series

Where does Sacred Stone rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Story- A solid Clive Cussler adventure, and just right for a bit of entertaining listening. Pretty good story, as long as you can suspend belief every now and then, but that's part of the charm with a Clive Cussler book.
Narrator - not the very worst I've heard, (although his female and non-American accents are grating) but not a patch on Scott Brick. Seems such a pity to change the narrator to add books1 & 2 when the rest of the series is by Scott Brick and we have got used to how the characters should sound.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Has to be Juan. Such a complex person, always puts everyone else first and such a sad back-story.

Who might you have cast as narrator instead of J Charles?

Has to be Scott Brick. I don't know if any feedback gets back to Penguin Randomhouse, but PLEASE re-record these first 2 books in the series.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I did, because I wanted to hear the story, but the change of narrator, odd accents and his strange pauses or weird emphasis on words spoilt my enjoyment.

Any additional comments?

Why change a good thing when it's not broken and has been having great reviews?

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poor stuff

struggled to keep listening, the narrator was terrible, his English, Scottish and even Texan accent was horrendous.

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Awful narration

As per previous reviews- the narrators accents are shocking and in some parts takes away from the story as your left questioning yourself as to carrying on with the audio book - ITS THAT BAD!
Story is the usual twists and turns of adventure as you expect from this author

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Terrible English and Scottish accents

The book was good as always but nowhere near as strong as the jungle in the Oregon files. Narration good tempo and pitch but dick van dyke did a better English accent. The Scottish accent was equally dire

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Good Story, Shame about the terrible Accents.

Narrators should be able to do more than two accents for a country. I'm a proud Englishman and we have a multitude of accents from Geordie in the north, past Mancunian, Brummie, Fens, London, to Somerset.

This narrator can do two.
Downton Abbey Posh and Dick Van Dyke Cockney.
Irrespective of what the character was, one of these was trooped out. As a large part of this story is based in London, it got very disturbing.

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Great story. not do good performance

don't let this man do British accents again. awful. not even funny bad


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British accent

the story was great, however my only criticism was that the British accent was less than expected.

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Narration ruined good story

The story was interesting & the usual fast paced action but I struggled to finish it because the narration was awful. Producers - Please stay with Mr Brick he at least can read fluidly & clearly.

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oh no

I have listened to all Oregon books and many other Cussler ones. I really tried to listen to the Oregon 1 and 2 but couldn't manage it. The stories were not quite up to scratch but the narrator was appalling.. Please don't waste your time

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Good story but narration let’s it down

The story is another good instalment in the series but it just doesn’t sound as good as the Scott Brick narrated books. As others have said the British accents are not good but otherwise it is ok and if not compared to other books in the series maybe would not have the lower rating.

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