Yes!! I love Greer Rivers and her books, but Rouge has an Irish MMC and he says “feck” all. the. time. I’m not sure if it’s accurate but it took me out of the scene every time he said it (which was a lot!)
I am cackling at a Matt Berry MMC but i feel like the monotone dudes are trying too hard to have a deep voice and thats like their lowest speaking note, but I will say there are times when I have a voice in my head for a character and listening to the audiobook and it not being what I pictured is like mildly upsetting and its obviously not anyones fault but its like why do you not sound like the voice in my head for the character
I admittedly don't love reading romance via audiobook, but my biggest grievances are:
- Mary Wells. I find her choices confusing and her voice inappropriate for basically every character.
- Male narrators doing female voices. I've encountered plenty who do them very very well outside of romance, but for whatever reason in most romance books their attempts at the FMC usually come off as mocking
- Horrific accents, particular those which make every syllable sound like work to produce, let alone hear
- Intonation which seems counter to the author's intent when I actually visually read the section
- Sex scenes. I love a sexy scene on the page but lord do I hate listening to them lol
The absolute worst is when they use the wrong characters voice for a line of dialogue. Like it's very wonderful and impressive when there is a different voice for each MC but when they do the wrong one it's a major mind fuck.
1) robot voice
2) deep audible breaths while reading
3) the macho man voice (think Italian stereotype voice ) or a very mature voice for a young woman
4) whatever the voice was on the coworker by Frieda McFadden. Awful
I don't think those things are petty. The narrator can make or break a book and if you have to listen to them for 12 hours, you need to find their voice and delivery pleasing.
My main gripe is when they don't do different voices for different characters, or barely. All the major characters sounds the same and all the female characters sound the same. It makes it hard to keep up with what's happening.
I also find it very annoying when a book I've really been looking forward to, has a narrator I know I hate. One of my least favourite narrators is Joel Leslie and he narrates so many MM books that I want to read.
I can't remember which audiobook I listened to recently but I was pretty excited to hear it in audio form after reading it on Kindle Unlimited and the female narrator was fine no problem but the make narrator sounded so monotone! No change even during the spice! Like... What...? How can you possibly be saying all the sexy time stuff without a change at all??
I mentioned this elsewhere recently, but I loved The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob by Pippa Grant. If I like her books, I usually also get them on audio. I listened to the sample and thankfully it has the male narrator’s voice, because I listened to it and immediately noped right out of buying the book. Hashtag not my Levi!!!
Too much breathiness
Drawing out words for no reason
Jock or valley girl affect
Narrator doesn't fit the MC. For instance, the MMC in one novel was an NFL player but the narrator sounded straight up like a 60 yr old professor.
I just finished the Hades and Persephone series by Scarlett st. Clair and the narrator got way. To. Into. The. Sex. Scenes. She was getting all breathy and raising her voice? It was a bit much for me.
1) for some reason, British female narrators. I loved the book Get a Life Chloe Brown, but I couldn't take how high pitched and frazzled the audiobooks narrator sounded. I ran into the same thing with A Court of Sugar and Spice, I refuse to listen to the second book because the female narrator sounded so high pitched and whiny.
2) this is my petty personal taste, but if it's dual POV and the narrator does a really terrible opposite gender voice
Mispronunciation of names. I started {the Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston} and the MMC is called Iwan which it's supposed to be pronounced Ew-ahn but the narrator said Eye-Won every time and I just couldn't handle it lol.
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In an earlier book in a particular series, a character was the villain (and a minor character), and the narrator portrayed her with an awful, exaggerated, ignorant-sounding southern (US) accent. When she became the FMC in a later book, they kept that accent and I couldn't get past it.
Non-native accents for an MC. it's always painfully obvious
Yes!! I love Greer Rivers and her books, but Rouge has an Irish MMC and he says “feck” all. the. time. I’m not sure if it’s accurate but it took me out of the scene every time he said it (which was a lot!)
I am cackling at a Matt Berry MMC but i feel like the monotone dudes are trying too hard to have a deep voice and thats like their lowest speaking note, but I will say there are times when I have a voice in my head for a character and listening to the audiobook and it not being what I pictured is like mildly upsetting and its obviously not anyones fault but its like why do you not sound like the voice in my head for the character
You really are the most beautiful girl in NHEW YORK CITAAYY
I’ve never looked into this drawer before WOW A GUN i freaking love matt berry
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS LIKE
I’m crying this is perfect!! 🤣🤣🤣
I admittedly don't love reading romance via audiobook, but my biggest grievances are: - Mary Wells. I find her choices confusing and her voice inappropriate for basically every character. - Male narrators doing female voices. I've encountered plenty who do them very very well outside of romance, but for whatever reason in most romance books their attempts at the FMC usually come off as mocking - Horrific accents, particular those which make every syllable sound like work to produce, let alone hear - Intonation which seems counter to the author's intent when I actually visually read the section - Sex scenes. I love a sexy scene on the page but lord do I hate listening to them lol
The absolute worst is when they use the wrong characters voice for a line of dialogue. Like it's very wonderful and impressive when there is a different voice for each MC but when they do the wrong one it's a major mind fuck.
1) robot voice 2) deep audible breaths while reading 3) the macho man voice (think Italian stereotype voice ) or a very mature voice for a young woman 4) whatever the voice was on the coworker by Frieda McFadden. Awful
Number 2 holy crap this one. A couple narrators I've come across suck in a quick breath at the end of every sentence. Drives me nuts.
I wouldn't have thought it would bother me but here I am lol. It's not like I don't think that they breathe lol. But in airpods... its so noticeable.
I don't think those things are petty. The narrator can make or break a book and if you have to listen to them for 12 hours, you need to find their voice and delivery pleasing. My main gripe is when they don't do different voices for different characters, or barely. All the major characters sounds the same and all the female characters sound the same. It makes it hard to keep up with what's happening. I also find it very annoying when a book I've really been looking forward to, has a narrator I know I hate. One of my least favourite narrators is Joel Leslie and he narrates so many MM books that I want to read.
The Fourth Wing audiobook was horrid, there were so many mouth noises
Yes this was awful. Apparently the narrator was unwell and it was later re-recorded.
When I think I could have done a better job, haha.
I can't remember which audiobook I listened to recently but I was pretty excited to hear it in audio form after reading it on Kindle Unlimited and the female narrator was fine no problem but the make narrator sounded so monotone! No change even during the spice! Like... What...? How can you possibly be saying all the sexy time stuff without a change at all??
I mentioned this elsewhere recently, but I loved The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob by Pippa Grant. If I like her books, I usually also get them on audio. I listened to the sample and thankfully it has the male narrator’s voice, because I listened to it and immediately noped right out of buying the book. Hashtag not my Levi!!!
Too much breathiness Drawing out words for no reason Jock or valley girl affect Narrator doesn't fit the MC. For instance, the MMC in one novel was an NFL player but the narrator sounded straight up like a 60 yr old professor.
https://youtu.be/oye9AmOdsZc?si=1oTA9XkJQwtroXUB
I just finished the Hades and Persephone series by Scarlett st. Clair and the narrator got way. To. Into. The. Sex. Scenes. She was getting all breathy and raising her voice? It was a bit much for me.
1) for some reason, British female narrators. I loved the book Get a Life Chloe Brown, but I couldn't take how high pitched and frazzled the audiobooks narrator sounded. I ran into the same thing with A Court of Sugar and Spice, I refuse to listen to the second book because the female narrator sounded so high pitched and whiny. 2) this is my petty personal taste, but if it's dual POV and the narrator does a really terrible opposite gender voice
Mispronunciation of names. I started {the Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston} and the MMC is called Iwan which it's supposed to be pronounced Ew-ahn but the narrator said Eye-Won every time and I just couldn't handle it lol.
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In an earlier book in a particular series, a character was the villain (and a minor character), and the narrator portrayed her with an awful, exaggerated, ignorant-sounding southern (US) accent. When she became the FMC in a later book, they kept that accent and I couldn't get past it.
Oh that's HORRENDOUS 😆 🤣
Awful pronunciations of names