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Originally Posted by CRussel
I've noticed this too. The sing-song thing, especially, seems to be becoming "normal". Very, very annoying. Ah, for the days of quiet, subtle, but compelling narration from a Donada Peters or Barbara Rosenblatt.
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The sing-song method was part of the problem I had with the narrator on the last book of the Craft Sequence, because it sometimes seemed she was JUST sing-songing the text and not making sense of it. It strikes me as a shortcut to get around the prep work (or not having time to do the prep work) of reading and marking up the text to be able to read it in a cadence that actually makes sense.
ETA: Currently listening to Spellmonger by Terry Mancour. I was in the mood for some fanta-comical fluff, and it fits the bill, with some unexpectedly decent worldbuilding. It is a bit of an adolescent male power fantasy, though, which is maybe written on the tin where wizards are involved. In a modern context, the protagonist's behavior would be viewed as sexual assault in one instance and sex trafficking of minors in another, without even getting into the sex magician ex-girlfriend, and I'm not all that far along in the book yet.