Voice Actor Change, but that's not the problem.

I generally don't mind Leo Barnabas, and initially it was refreshing change from Tad Branson. There's still something missing and maybe I've been spoiled listening to multi-cast narrations, but there was just a frustrating sameness about it.

So I pulled this book up in Kindle, and that's where I found the issue. Markham's writing style just isn't up to snuff. The scenes and overrall story was good, but just the little problems keep adding up. Like a comic book, sometimes characters are talking or thinking WAY too much when things are happening that discussing actions while in the heat of battle is just a curious superpower. But then there's long (and this is literally spelled out) expletives which just completely bring you OUT of whatever mood is being set (the adult ones, especially).

It's entertaining, don't get me wrong. But there's definitely parts of this where it's a real slog and hard to get through. I could actually really like this if "narrative distance" was tightened up.
And if there was more than one narrator, but then that's asking something else entirely. Hope this review helps.

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