Hey, I’m remembering to do this this month! Huzzah!
In August, I listened to four more audio books, so let’s take a look at them.
City of Lost Souls
Author: Cassandra Clare
Narrator: Molly C. Quinn
I’ll admit, I wasn’t too happy about having Quinn back as a narrator, since I didn’t really care for her performance in City of Glass. That said, I think she was much, much better in this one. She made Clary sound a bit more mature, which worked really well for the story. She’s still not my favorite narrator of the series (and I still don’t understand why we had so many of them) but I enjoyed her performance this go around.
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City of Heavenly Fire
Author: Cassandra Clare
Narrators: Sophie Turner and Jason Dohring
We’re back to having two narrators for this one, one of them being Sansa from Game of Thrones? That threw me for a bit! Her voice is so recognizable and so tied to that show for me, it was hard at first to get used to hearing her talk about Shadowhunters. I did enjoy her performance here, although I wasn’t sure why they had a British voice actress reading for a book where none of the characters are British. Jason Dohring was, well, extremely lackluster for me. He was fine, but most of his delivery was pretty flat. It was also weird having two narrators for this one. In City of Fallen Angels, having two narrators made sense because there were two distinct point of view characters. In this book, there are a ton of point of view characters and the switch between voice actors didn’t seem to corelate to anything? It wasn’t like Turner did the women and Dohring did the men. It was just random. Very odd.
Now that I’ve finished the series, I will say that Natalie Moore was probably my favorite, Mae Whitman my second favorite, and then Ed Westwick.
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Splintered and Unhinged
Author: A.G. Howard
Narrator: Rebecca Gibel
I have mixed feelings for this one. I am glad to having the same narrator for an entire series (Gibel narrates book #3 as well), but there were several things about her performance that I didn’t enjoy. The main one was her portrayal of Morpheus (the dude on the second cover). He’s basically the Caterpillar in the Alice story and is also sort of/kind of one of the love interests. He is described as being very tricky, snarky and sarcastic with a bit of a Cockney accent. The accent used is fine, but the rest of the voice Gibel gives him is just too heavy. It needed a lighter touch, to be a bit more playful. He spends a lot of the time teasing Alyssa and not taking things too seriously (or at least that’s how he seems most of the time).
Also, the name of the original girl that inspired Alice in Wonderland was named Alice Liddell and she is mentioned several times throughout both books, but the pronunciation of her name changed between book one and book two. In Splintered, her last name is pronounced “li-DELL” (which is how I’ve always heard it before), but in Unhinged, it got changed to “liddle” – like the word “little.” It was just weird.
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