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I'm listening to In The Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: The Complete Black Room Story (In The Black Room) by Luke Smitherd. This was originally an episodic set of releases, now incorporated into the one recording.
The premise is intriguing - imagine waking up one day to find yourself in a small "room", looking out of someone else's eyes. You soon find you can also talk to them, you are the voice in their head.
My issue with it is that the author has chosen (been forced?) to read it himself. It would definitely benefit from a professional reader. The author reads every character in the same way, with the same inflections and style of speech (I think part of that is the way the characters are written, which is a flaw in his style, IMHO).
Also, very early on he mispronounces a word, a word that he has written, and it threw me right out of the story for a while. He pronounced "ethereal" as two words "etha reel". Goodness!
I'm a fair way through it now, and the story is developing enough to keep me listening, but I feel the experience would have been far better with a professionally produced product.
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