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basschick · 12-03-2016, 04:21 AM

i'm looking for a new series on audible in either detective/mystery/police procedural, modern fantasy or urban fantasy. maybe a novel, but nothing with modern politics, army stuff or hard scifi. most important thing is the narrator - no cutesy girly voices (this drives me NUTS when the character's supposed to be a tough 35 year old), no rich melodic important male voices, no radio announcer voices. not looking for someone who reads really slow or really fast.

if there's romance and sex, i'd hope not to run into TOO much of it, as it's annoying to fast forward through the naughty parts. no heroines or heroes who make lots of stupid decisions, no romances that develop ridiculously quickly, no characters who seem to do nothing but jump to conclusions. and for the love of god, if someone just died or is missing or something awful happened, spare me from books where the heroine is admiring some guy's butt just after those things happened.

a couple of my favorite audible series include the dresden files - the reader is a perfect harry - and the in death series. the reader for the in death series is superb. in fact, i don't like some of the books that much, but the reader - or in her case, actress - is flawless. her reading never gets in the way of the story, her voices for the characters are so consistent that i can tell who's talking immediately most of the time. i did feel her roarke was a little too irish at times, but hey - she was working with a director who must have wanted it. so i just fast forward through the sex scenes and the ones where roarke is threatening to pour a soother down eve's throat again.

12-03-2016, 04:21 AM	#1
basschick Wizard Posts: 1,096 Karma: 4695691 Join Date: May 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	looking for a new series on audible i'm looking for a new series on audible in either detective/mystery/police procedural, modern fantasy or urban fantasy. maybe a novel, but nothing with modern politics, army stuff or hard scifi. most important thing is the narrator - no cutesy girly voices (this drives me NUTS when the character's supposed to be a tough 35 year old), no rich melodic important male voices, no radio announcer voices. not looking for someone who reads really slow or really fast. if there's romance and sex, i'd hope not to run into TOO much of it, as it's annoying to fast forward through the naughty parts. no heroines or heroes who make lots of stupid decisions, no romances that develop ridiculously quickly, no characters who seem to do nothing but jump to conclusions. and for the love of god, if someone just died or is missing or something awful happened, spare me from books where the heroine is admiring some guy's butt just after those things happened. a couple of my favorite audible series include the dresden files - the reader is a perfect harry - and the in death series. the reader for the in death series is superb. in fact, i don't like some of the books that much, but the reader - or in her case, actress - is flawless. her reading never gets in the way of the story, her voices for the characters are so consistent that i can tell who's talking immediately most of the time. i did feel her roarke was a little too irish at times, but hey - she was working with a director who must have wanted it. so i just fast forward through the sex scenes and the ones where roarke is threatening to pour a soother down eve's throat again.