Why would they set up anyone for the public humiliation that will come with the performance of this book? Rather than list the name of the narrator, they should list the names of the people responsible for choosing someone to read this book who didn’t have the skills required for a satisfying audio experience. And they had to know this performance would be received even more poorly than those. They knew readers didn’t appreciate the poor narration of the last two books they published by Riordan. What were the publishers thinking?! They knew the narration would be included in reviews. He is going to be slammed for the quality of the narration-sadly, deservedly so-and I feel certain he had no idea such a slap down was likely. Now I am actually angry with the publishers at Penguin/Random House/Listening Library for throwing this performer to the wolves without a second thought. Furthermore, he likely didn’t know what audiobook readers expect and how demanding we are… but the publishers knew. This appears to be the narrators first attempt at audio narration and he obviously had no idea what the art of narration required. Then I found myself becoming angry-not at the narrator, at the audiobook publishers. As I continued to listen I became incredulous as to just how poor the narration was-stilted reading of the text, unconvincing character voices, atrocious attempts at accents. First I was disappointed, then I was angryĪs I began listening to this book I was rather disappointed in the narration.

Magnus chase and the sword of summer