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A couple of years ago (or so), there were a handful of books in the Eve Dallas/In Death series that were re-recorded. When the books were first released in audiobooks, they started with the newer books, then went back and caught up with the first ones in the series. The narrator didn't have much of a style when she first started, so that group of books ended up sounded markedly different from both the later ones *and* the earlier ones.
I ended up buying them because it's a series a tend to re-listen to, and it was nice not to have that "wait, who's that talking" moment because the unique voices of a few characters were not yet created in those first recordings.
I wish they'd do that with almost all of the Nalini Singh Psy-Changeling books. The narrator has greatly improved in the last few books and it's just painful to do a re-listen on that series. I always said she read like someone reading along with a metronome.
READing as if SHE were listenING to a metROnome. You could keep time to the beat of where she'd stress her syllables. The worst thing was, she was mostly fine with dialog, but when it was straight narration...THERE she goes aGAIN.
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