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Sensuality, Horror and Thrill

Reviewed: 11-14-18

Upon first listening to this book I was taken a back, since I had grown acustomed to the narrtations of Simon Vance who captures the escense of the characters masterfully, but as I listened I felt this fragil sensibility, this sense of the angst of Tarquin that showed perfectly on the narrators voice, the accents can get silly and inconsistent at times but help a lot for characterization, honestly on of the better stories outside the original trilogy, having a diferent protagonist and one so young being the one to carry the story, it simply made wonders, every sense of adoration for lestat and regret and contradiction beutifully expressed in David Pitu's entonation.
#Vampires #ghosts #horror #erotic #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

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Nostalgia and Wonder

Reviewed: 11-14-18

It has been a while since I last went through the Harry Potter books, and I've found that I couldn't stop once I started, It's been a week and I'm already on book 5, honestly there is a lot to unpack there, lots of tiny details that I had forgotten, some I didn't realize when I was youger, J.K. Rowling created something wonderfull in this books, it might not be as complex and intricated as someother fiction author (I disagree but some say it is) but it doesnt need to be, it's an apeal to young minds, and is full of human experience, I honestly feel I found an old friend that I had not seen in a long time by listening to this books.
#Nostalgia #magic #wizard #tagsgiving #sweepstakes

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Great story, Lackluster delivery.

Reviewed: 10-03-18

Eric Shaw Quinn did and "alright" job at narrating this, I dont think he really grasped the gravitas this series has for his fans so that might be the source of his underperformance, pronunciations like "Mamood" (Mahmoud) and Lioncourt in an american way instead of the french, show that he really did not understand the world built by others before him, I dont mind much his bland american accented lestat, since everyone can choose to narrate however he wants David Pitu did a very nice job when he did the Lestat POV in blood canticle (even if the book wasnt that good) you could feel the renegade vampire in his voice, this one was a more bland interpretation but perhaps that is inocuous, by the end of the book it was as if he had more or less grasped what he was saying and had a better handle but in the final chapter "LION COURT" that punched me right out of the inmersion, really, I do think he had no idea that other books even existed, and sure thats not his job per se, but delivering good narration is, I dont think I'll be relistening to this one.

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