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Distracting soundstage

Overall
3 out of 5 stars
Performance
2 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-28-22

I heard a lot of criticism of the new narrator for the third book in the series, so I decided to take a chance and buy the "Dramatized Adaptation" of book three.
The different voices worked great, and at least some of the sound effects worked and supported the action as well.
BUT, the soundstage, in general, was absolutely terrible.
- The background sounds and "music" were too loud and occasionally made it hard to actually hear the dialogue.
- A lot of the soundstage was made up of short and endlessly repeating loops of 5-10 seconds of non-sensical sounds and effects.
I considered giving up on the last book or switching to the non-dramatized version, as I got so distracted and irritated by the bad sound design.
A version of this book, with the different voices, and the sound effects that actually related to what was read, would be great.
Just drop the distracting and irritating "music" and endlessly repeating short sound clips.

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Awesome trilogy. To bad it was only a trilogy.

Overall
4 out of 5 stars
Performance
5 out of 5 stars
Story
4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 11-06-11

I will absolutely listen to this again in a few years. But I would really hope there will be a fourth book by then. But I doubt it.

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