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Killing the Shadows
- Narrated by: Vari Sylvester
- Length: 17 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- S. Christie
- 22-07-16
Oh dear... Awful on so many levels.
I love this author and have read many of her wonderful books, my favourite being 'A Place of Execution'. This book isn't a patch on. Any of her others, and it's hard to believe that it has been written by the same person. It has the most ridiculously silly plot and has an intensely unlikable and arrogant heroine. I skipped through huge chunks because it was over explained and dull. However it was the narration that I found the worst thing about this book. The accents used were abysmal ( the American accent was frankly frightening!) and the accent used for Kit Martin made him sound like a drag queen. The quality is the audio was also dreadful, with variations in volume and clarity throughout. Whoever recorded and published this audiobook should be ashamed. If you are considering buying this book, don't! Val has many other brilliant books, choose something else instead.
41 people found this helpful
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- janet
- 22-06-16
Waste of a credit
Not sure if it is the predictable story, poor narration or appalling audio quality - but audible your having it back.
26 people found this helpful
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- SAH
- 26-02-16
Uninspiring performance
Although I found the story quite engaging, the narrator's voice is dull, and expressionless with too frequent oddities of pronunciation. Really frustrating to listen to. I also found that the sound quality was very variable and would suddenly become muffled, mid-listen. Very disappointing.
21 people found this helpful
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- Philippa Jane Brown
- 19-05-21
Narrator makes this difficult to understand.
I don"t know about the story but the narrator is terrible. talking very loud at times causing me to turn down the volume but then whispering so you can't hear it.
i have listened to many audio books and have never come across such a terrible narrator. it has ruined the book for me and wasted my money.
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- Ms Julie Meikle
- 24-10-21
Truly dreadful narration
The narrator spoilt the whole book for me. Can’t listen to any more. Audio quality is also poor, but the narration emphasise this. Awful accents, silly male voices and ridiculous intonation.
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- Kathy
- 03-06-21
Story ruined by narration
Others have commented on the narration of this book and in the beginning I thought it wasn’t too bad. As time goes on, however, it goes from irritating to almost unbearable. The narrator can speak in a normal tone but when delivering dialogue reverts to a strange, almost sarcastic delivery which is over-nuanced. Some people do speak like this but not every character in the book.
Will definitely not listen to her again.
6 people found this helpful
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- Val Honeyman
- 30-03-16
Dreadful narrator
What disappointed you about Killing the Shadows?
A fairly uninspired storyline from a usually enjoyable author, also the sound quality is variable, but the worst aspect was the truly dreadful narration.
15 people found this helpful
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- Sally Sehlin
- 18-04-21
Amazing narration marred by pronounciation
I really enjoyed this book, the story was gripping and the narrator was excellent BUT the jolt when well-known Scotthish place names and surnames were mispronounced cost her a star!
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- abi c
- 04-01-22
Spoiled by the cringy male voices
I couldn't get past the awful put-on voices for the male characters. would have been much better with just a straight read
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- Ricky Fuller
- 22-02-16
Promised more than it delivers
A worthwhile listen for the most part but it began to become hard work about 2/3 through and ultimately tailed off to a predictable ending.
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