Such fun

I really enjoy this story and the female characters sound great but the male one all sound like they are having trouble speaking

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Unintentionally hilarious.

Love the world.
Love the setting (my home town)
Love Andrea parsneau.
Love the hilarious male Aussie accents!!! I suspect someone showed Andrea the “Darren and Damo” vids on you tube. I lol every time a male character talks!

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A great start to a fun story.

Really love having this setup in Australia as a Aussie, definitely fun to hear about how all of our cute (and not so cute) creatures have changed. Only real irritation with the whole book was how often protecting her kids was reiterated, was just a little over the top but otherwise great story.
Narration by both Andrea and Heath was fantastic, great vocal range for characters and emotion, smashed it!

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Worth the read

I’m an Aussie, so I loved the jokes and realism of the story from an Aussie perspective — also having read the OG system apocalypse series I loved how it fit in. It’s now one of my top 2 series with Aussie MC — it’s great to be represented 😅

But. I really am not a fan of the accents. Really. As in really really not a fan. I could barely understand the guys most of the time. Sure, laid back Aussies have a big drawl (and there is a lot of us that do), but a lot of us also sound like we open our mouths and don’t have a blocked nose. Also the women definitely sounded like kiwi or South African more than Aussie. Sorry Andrea — I love your work, but honestly I would have preferred your normal voices than what you gave for most of the women.
In this case when you were faced with actors who couldn’t do the accent, I think it would have been better to go clearer and more neutral accents so the story was easier to hear and follow along.

TL;DR
I love love loved the story (yay for an Aussie POV) but I will admit I spent a heck of a lot of time rewinding when the guys spoke, and thinking about how me, a random non-voice actor Aussie, would have done those voices more accurately and clearer.

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That was hard work

Lacking decent characterisation, and having a main character not much more fleshed out than the NPCs. No idea why I finished it.
She is inexplicably American, with little to no background, because the author was so focused on the game mechanics trying to prop up any semblance of plot. With all the Australian idioms, why make her American?
I’m an Aussie nerd and a gamer and a roleplayer, and the fact it was set in Australia was the only reason I kept with it.
The nerdy overly alliterative narrator drove me nuts.
Only read if you want the career progression of your last RPG read out for 12 hours.

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An excellent addition to the series!

This book was awesome, as an Australian I thoroughly enjoyed the hell out of it! For myself I never had any issues with any of the accents, Heath (who's an aussie himself) did a good portion of the male characters and Andrea was excellent with all the others.

In all honesty I know that the Australian accent can be an exceedingly fickle mistress for people not from here to pin down with 100% accuracy, it's easy to veer off into a bit of kiwi or south African, it happens. So long as the narrator gives it a good crack and doesn't go all croc Hunter on me I'm all good!

I cannot wait for the next one!!!

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when's the second coming out on audible

So good I want to read the second one, brought it on Kindle, but wondering why it's not on audible

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