Hey guys it's Trina and this is another audiobooks review video. So this year I
have been doing one of these wrap-up videos for every five audiobooks that I
listen to. I already talked about all the books that I read or listened to in my
monthly wrap-ups or in Goodreads reviews so that's where I talk about like my
enjoyment of the book or the series, the characters, the writing, just my rating
of the book overall, and in these videos I talk about just the narration - whether
or not I liked it, didn't like it, did it add to the story experience?, would I
recommend listening to audio versus reading the print book?, and are there any
formatting differences. So this video is just talking about the narration of
these audiobooks and I will link down below anywhere else that I have talked
about these books if you're wanting to know more full reviews. So a couple
things that are different this time is first of all, instead of reviewing five
audiobooks I am reviewing six because three of them are all part of the same
trilogy. They all have the same narrator and I wanted to wait and be able to
review them all together. And this time I'm also going to try to do ratings for
the narration. I was asked in a comment last time if I could please rate the
audio versus the book itself and show you guys like a comparison of, you know,
how my ratings differ. I have tried to do that in the past in one of my
earlier ones of these videos and I didn't really like it because honestly I
find it hard to rate audio narration on the same like five star scale as a book
itself because like to me the audio is either good or bad. You've got two ratings:
'it's good,' 'it's bad.' Maybe 'it's fine.' But I'm gonna try to put that on a five star
scale this time. We'll see how it works. Let me know if you like it. First up
today, I'm gonna be talking about the audiobook for The Gentleman's Guide to
Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee. This is a YA historical fiction about a main
character Monty who is about to embark on a tour of England with his sister and
his best friend Percy who he actually has a crush on. A little bit of romance, a
little bit of an adventure. I did enjoy the book itself and the audiobook is
narrated by Christian Colson who is the actor that played Tom Riddle in the
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets movie, so you may recognize his voice
from that. I thought that he did a fantastic job with this audio book. He
really embodied the personality of the main character, Monty. Monty is like this
roguish, snarky, smarmy guy and yeah Christian Coulson just really brought
that attitude and personality into reading it. I thought that his
personality really brought the story to life. It was a very very enjoyable thing
to listen to. It very much kept me entertained. I had absolutely zero issues
with his voicing or his standard narration of dialogue, descriptions,
anything like that, so I would give him a five star rating in terms of the
narration itself, whereas the book got a four star rating. Now as far as any
formatting differences between the print and the audio, there is a map in the
front of the print book which shows you all the locations that are traveled to
in this story. Other than that you're not missing out on anything. I would
definitely definitely recommend this audio version. I thought that it was
fantastic. Then I listened to Girl Out of Water
by Laura Silverman. This one is a YA contemporary romance-ish story about a
girl who lives in California, has to uproot her life and move in with her
aunt and her younger cousins because her aunt has been in an accident and
needs help caring for her cousins. It's kind of a story of like self-discovery.
The narrator of this audiobook was Laurence Bouvard and she was okay. Her
voicing was fine, her standard reading was fine, but I didn't think that her
tone matched the personality or attitude of the main character that I was getting
from how she was written. The writing is still in the audiobook, like you can hear
the words that were written on page and it seemed to me like this main character
was a little bit mopey, like in a more sad way about some of the things that
were happening in her life and yet the narrator kept reading her in this really
high-pitched whiny tone and it made her seem a little bit more immature than
what the book was telling me that the character was. So to me this was a
disconnect. I don't know, I guess I would give her like three or three and a half
stars because it just didn't mesh up with what my head was telling me this
main character was like. The book itself I did give it four stars. I did enjoy
listening to this one audio but I don't think that it necessarily
really had like a huge you know improvement over the print book so I
wouldn't really recommend one over the other. I think they'd both be fine. Next I
listened to Like a River Glorious by Rae Carson, which is the second book in the
Gold Seer trilogy. This is another historical YA, it's more of a survival
adventure type of story. It's set during the California Gold Rush period
following a character who was traveling across the country to get to California
because she has an ability where she can sense where gold is in the ground. This
audiobook was narrated by Erin Mallon and to me her voice acting and narration
was just so fitting for this series and like its tone and its setting and
everything. She reads the main character with a slight southern accent, which is
very appropriate because this character is from I think Georgia and the book is
all first-person point of view from this main character and the narrator reads it
all with this kind of like wavery, worried quality I thought it fit very
well. There was just something about this
audiobook, like the tone of her reading and the way that she read it just
embodied autumn and like the fall season and it had just turned fall when I
listened to this and I was just like so into it. It was just like the perfect
atmospheric seasonal read so that really added to my enjoyment of listening to
this one on audio. Now my critique of her narrating was I felt like all of the
female voices and all of the male voices were exactly the same. She did not do
very distinct voices, especially in the group of main characters, but I was never
confused about who was speaking because the writing was done so well in terms of
like 'he said,' 'she said,' so like I always knew which character was speaking. For
this one I would rate the audio four stars. I really enjoyed it
other than I can see the fact that I don't think she does very distinct
voices. The book itself I also gave four stars and I do have to say I probably, if
I just read the book, I might have given it three or three and a half stars. I do
think the narration kind of made this story for me just because of that
atmospheric feeling I was getting from it. As far as any formatting
differences, there is again a map in the front of this book. I don't think it's
totally necessary but if you love book maps you may want to check out the print
version. Other than that, I definitely recommend the audio because
it just totally made the story for me. And then finally I am reviewing the
entire Conspiracy of Us trilogy by Maggie Hall. There are three books in
this series, they are: The Conspiracy of Us, Map of Fates, and The Ends of the
World. This is a YA adventure kind of contemporary story. It's about an
ordinary girl who finds out she's part of an ancient secret society who are
trying to follow clues to track down the lost tomb of Alexander the Great, and the
audio of all three of these books were narrated by Julia Whelan. She is also the
same narrator who does the audio books for The Girl at Midnight trilogy by
Melissa Grey and in that series - I make a note of this because it kind of affects
how I feel about, you know, her voicing in this series - but in The Girl at Midnight
I found that she made the male voices very similar, they all sounded very gruff,
I couldn't really tell them apart. That was my complaint. However, her voicing in
The Conspiracy of Us trilogy is not all the same. Like these are actually
distinct, unique voices and I think a big part of that is probably because all of
these characters are from different parts of the world so each of them have
different accents, and so Julia Whelan actually has some talent because she was
able to do multiple accents in the same scene with so many different
characters. The characters have French, Russian, British accents. I have no idea
if they are truly like authentic sounding but she has some talent there
and so I never had any trouble in this series recognizing who was speaking or
difficulty telling the characters apart or anything. I enjoyed listening to these
books, they definitely made it a little bit more action-packed, I guess, in my
opinion. I did actually start the first book in the trilogy in print format like
months and months and months ago, or last year maybe, and I read a couple chapters
of it and then I had to give it back to the library and I just remember not
having been that into it but then once I got the audiobooks I was into it and I
was able to binge read like all three of these books back-to-back. So I did really
enjoy the audio experience. I think that I would give her a rating of 4 stars
with the narration just because it's not my absolute favorite audio book
narration I have ever heard but I have no real critiques of her job with this
series. And the books were all so all rated four stars each. So overall,
four star books, four star audio narration. I really enjoyed listening to
these on audio and would recommend that format if you're able to listen to them.
Those are all the audiobooks that I am reviewing today. I like to in these
videos end by telling you guys which one of these audiobooks was my favorite of
the group, which one would I recommend the most, and my favorite here was
definitely The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee because, you know,
the narrator just really embodied the character and he was a fun character. I
enjoyed spending time with him, that really made this story for me, so yeah I
would definitely recommend it. If you're looking for an audio book to pick up and
you haven't listened to this one yet, go get your hands on it, go get your ears on
it, because I really thought it was a wonderful experience. Let me know if
you've listened to an audiobook that you absolutely loved recently. I'd love to
know what it is. I will link you to the rest of the playlist for my audio book
reviews series in the description, as well as, you know, where else I have
reviewed each of these books I'm talking about today for things besides just the
narration. Thank you guys so much for watching and I will see you in the comments. Bye.
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