Reply To: Audiobook listeners! What are your thoughts on the new narrator?
I did something last November that I’ve never done before for any of the books in this series: one hour in, I returned it to the library and got on the (then very long) waiting list for a hardcopy.
I love listening to audiobooks, especially where accents are involved. In this case, however, I was so very disappointed in the new narrator. Gamache sounded like an old, frail, tired man at first. At the end of the hour, he just sounded like almost everyone else. I kept thinking it would get better, but it just got worse.
I was finally warming up to Ruth’s character a bit, but her new voice was also a deal breaker. I feel like the narrator has never read or listened to any of the previous books or has any understanding of how her character has evolved.
Aren’t there any real actors out there who can properly voice these characters with the correct accent?
I finally got a hardcopy but reading it in print doesn’t give me nearly the same thrill as listening to a good narrator. I am so disappointed.