Enjoyable story convinced the narrator was AI

Interesting story set some years after the death of the necromancer. Sets up well for the rest of the series.
Had a REALLY hard time with the narrator, odd emphasis on words, broke sentences in the wrong place and generally didn’t elevate the story.

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Story great reading awful

If you could sum up The Wizard Hunters in three words, what would they be?

Brilliant wonderful plot

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Wizard Hunters?

hard to say as its all good

Would you be willing to try another one of Talmadge Ragan’s performances?

The reader is rubbish - can't even speak English properly - i.e. bad pronunciation and no expression in the voice at all. Why do we have all these american speakers?

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Good fast paced story let down by awkward narration

I’ve been enjoying these early Wells fantasy series though I think she works best in short story/novella form as the writing is tighter — she certainly had an obsession with about half a dozen verbs which tire with repetition— eyebrows endlessly ‘quirk’, and people always ‘push’ or ‘shove’ to their feet, etc. Those quirks (see what I did there…) thankfully are not as irritating in her more polished current murderbot series, 20 years after these books. Nonetheless I enjoy her imaginative worlds and characters greatly. Agree with others on how unbelievably annoying the narrator is (though this was recorded in 2013 which is too early for the possibility of an AI!). Just weird weird weird pronunciations and sentence stresses. I couldn’t take another in the series read by this narrator.

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Was the reader a real person or an AI?

The story was so so. Each next step was always fairly obvious well before it happened.

Sorry to be rude but the reading was completely weird. Kept putting emphasis on the wrong words and also separating each word in a sentence in a clipped and artificial manner. Sounded like a robot. Was it one?

I googled Talmadge Ragan and she's an American actor who specialises in audio book readings. When I listened to some of these (briefly) she sounded perfectly ok so not sure what happened here. A mystery.

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Gripping steampunk fantasy with a great narrator

This steampunk fantasy adventure is full of action and tension with a likeable and complicated main character. The world is vividly described and I enjoyed the magic system that gradually became clearer throughout the book – I liked the fact that different societies view it very differently. Altogether a cracking read and I’ll definitely be getting hold of more books in this series.
9/10

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Absolutely awful naration

This is a great story but is absolutely ruined by the awful naration.
Other reviews mention AI but I think (based on when recorded) it's more a combination of text-to-speach supplemented by some actual human interaction, though the intonation and pronunciation is often all wrong blending sentences together and ending them when they should not. Based on the authors other books (of which I'm a huge fan) I doubt the writing is as poor as the naration makes it seem.

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very poor reader

Could not listen for more than 10 mins before I had to abandon the book. Cannot rate the story because I never got into it.

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