Outlander competitor!

meant as a stop gap for Outlander and couldn't stop!!! can't wait to see what Jem gets up too. wish he was an audio book!

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Great story but very odd pronunciations <br />

The reader had a very strange accent - which is sometimes annoying - the story itself is good and an easy listen

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Jarring narration

Really off prononciations (era, Charles, off etc) which grates/amuses but is distracting an a pity. The use of Americanisms is also contradictory to the setting and narrator and jars

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Good story, uneven narration

What made the experience of listening to The Passage the most enjoyable?

The story

What did you like best about this story?

Time travel

Would you listen to another book narrated by Eva Kaminsky?

Not if she puts on a cod English accent, unless she learns how to do it properly. Her acting is fine, but her pronunciation is painful.

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

Neither. It was entertaining.

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Good story but irritating use of pronunciation and Americansisms

Poor research regarding English pronunciation and use of American words, e.g Creek instead of stream, butt instead of rear/behind/bottom-Butt is English is a water butt or barrel.
Good attempt at RP English accent but occasionally slipped a 1950’s accent as already pointed out by other reviewers.

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Storyline great! Pronunciations not so

The general storyline is very interesting, with good descriptions, but although the narrator has a soft voice, her very 1940’s newsreel accent along with American words, such as fall for autumn and pronunciation of simple English works, naïvety, pronounced as ‘naïvitay’ is very irritating and off putting, it’s neither one language or the other. Having said that though, the story line is good enough that I wish to continue the rest of the series for its conclusion.

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Dreadful narrator

A reasonable story ruined totally by the awful narrator. She mispronounced words (too many to mention) and was completely unrealistic. A shame but I will definitely never listen to a book that she narrates again. Not sure that the story is strong enough for a follow on book which I believe there is.

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It had potential

The story line of time travel to the historical past which the author used as backdrop to the plot was not well or accurately developed. Neither was the experience of time travel convincing. The plot fell apart at points particularly at the end and moved between a bodice riper fantasy that was uncomfortable to read and characters that were stereotypical and wooden so not well developed enough for me to care what happened to them. Worst of all was the narrator who is in desperate need of a voice coach and a much better director. The primary role of all narrators is to recount or tell a narrative, which can make or break story telling, particularly if they fail to narrate different accents convincingly and accurately so that the reader is taken into the story not left cringing on the margins. The narrator of a story has more power than the other characters, because they control what gets said and what gets left out. Not just the words of the author but how they are said. I won’t be listening to any more books in this series

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Narration

I’m barely half way through the book but I feel the need to comment. I’m enjoying the story and the narrator’s voice is very pleasant when she is narrating, the problems arise when doing the voices. She regularly slips into the most peculiar pretentious upper class voice from pre 1950, not just the women from the present time, even Hugo is guilty! It’s bizarre. And then there are some American pronunciations and yet the narrator does sound English? There are loads of examples such as “naivety”. The English end to this word, sounds like “tee”, Americans, sounds like “tay”. It’s a shame having these constant irritants, will it result in my being unable to continue listening? I hope not.

I really cannot understand why there is so often a problem with the narrators? A poor narration can totally ruin an audible book. Why isn’t more care taken when appointing a narrator?

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Story interesting.

Historically interesting but the narration was most bizarre at times. Spoilt it some what sadly.

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