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Originally Posted by booklover6
All the Psy-Changeling books are in Audible Escape. I am on book 6. Does anyone else listen to these? Just wondering if I might like them better if I read them. The last one was good, but not great....
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I'd say it's going to depend on what it is you don't like about what you've listened to so far.
Angela Dawe is pretty awful, especially in the earlier books. Her dialog is okay (if the voices don't bother you like they do Library Addict
), but her exposition...gak. I've tried to explain it to people - it's almost as of she's got a metronome ticking away and every other beat she puts a stress on the word. Bad duh duh DUH duh ba DUH bad duh DUH. I really don't understand it because she doesn't do it that way in the dialog.
She does slowly improve, mostly. But even when she gets better, it's uneven. I mostly loved the book Shards of Hope, but I *hate* to listen to it. The sound level between the *whispered* dialog and the non-dialog is too jarring. If I play it loud enough to hear the whispers, it just about breaks my eardrums when she switches to the non-dialog parts.
I have them all, I have to admit, and I think she's generally good enough in the later books. I'm a big re-reader (re-listener) - but I usually can't go back any further than Bonds of Justice. And then I skip the next three because they (and Mine to Possess) are my least favorites in the entire series. I tend to prefer the books that include a Psy as part of the couple - the "dominant changeling male" rhetoric makes me kind of crazy.