For all the other Audio CDs in this series, Marguerite Gavin was the reader. While her female voice struggled on male characters as male voices generally struggle on female characters, she performs quite well and since the most of the voices in the books are in fact female, it works out well enough. I believe she was a great choice for reading these books and feel strongly that HarperAudio should hire her to re-read this story as this rendition is a virtual disaster.
Gigi Bermingham is a reading disaster. She lacks the ability to make decent voices. I feel her portrayal of Keasley is so stereotypical negro that it borders on racist. What appears to be her extremely limited education makes it so her pronunciations are poor to begin with, but the fact that she apparently didn't bother looking up pronunciations of key words such as Ley in the case of Ley lines, a critical component of the story makes it almost painful to listen to her. Thankfully, her performance of the pixies is so incredibly high pitched that the pain she causes while performing them makes you overlook her destruction of the English language.
When faced with performing accents from different cultures, she seems to feel simply changing the tone of her voice is sufficient. With 5 earlier books performed by another reader, she didn't bother to listen to even one of them to attempt a resemblance of consistency when it would be obvious that listeners of her recording most likely would have listened to the previous books as well.
The quality of this production was so bad that HarperAudio should attempt to bury it so no-one can have the opportunity to judge the quality of their products from this reading.
On the other hand, the story is quite good and deserves a better rating, but I wrote this review to complain about the Audio Book version, not about the story which I feel many others have done an excellent job of.Get more detail about The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, Book 6).
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