Seeds of Murder

Boken är helt okej med någon oväntad vändning här och där. Uppläsningen får dock inget toppbetyg. Hennes röst är behaglig nog, och hon bjuder på en del olika dialekter. Men jag kan tydlig höra när det vänds blad då rytmen haltar, och det finns några riktigt råa klippningar som sticker ut.

The story was quite interesting, although I doubt any real person would have been so forgiving – so there was a lot of suspension of disbelief about interhuman relationships involved. Another damper on the listening pleasure was that the audio did not pass through a sufficiently thorough post-production check; the pauses mid-sentence were at times too long and jarring, while the pauses between two sentences were so short that I had a hard time grasping the two distinct sentences. I must admit I was also upset at the speaker pronouncing “La Jolla” like it was related to the word ‘jolly’, and “chaise longue” as if it was written ‘chaise lounge’ – although that might have actually been the author’s fault, if it was really written “lounge”.

Impossible to listen too. Good book but narration edit is TERRIBLE. Voices make no sense, pauses in a middle of a sentence, volume up and down in the same conversation. Changes to intonation. Each character has at least 3 different accents. Confusing and just BAD.

The plot is not strong enough to justify 11 hours of listening. However, the biggest issue is the audio edit. There are strange pauses midsentence and at times it’s hard to tell who is supposed to be speaking.