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Drowned Harbor

Blue Moon Investigations: Boston Book 1

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Drowned Harbor

By: Justin Herzog, Steve Higgs
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Virtual voice is computer-generated narration for audiobooks.

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A coven of witches bent on murder, a cult of hidden figures raising a leviathan to smite the city … sounds like a regular Wednesday morning for Boston PD’s supernatural division.

Chloe Mayfield is a career cop, but when a high-profile bust goes spectacularly wrong, she finds herself assigned to the losers in Boston PD's supernatural division …

… and discovers a world she never knew existed.

Tasked to investigate a drowning far from water in a high-rise building, the symbol carved into the victim’s chest defies explanation. Until she begins to pry, and a coven of witches show up with a threat to stay out of their business.

With a wise-cracking dwarf and a senior-citizen claiming to be a descendent of Joan of Arc at her side, she’ll need to uncover the truth and stop the killer. And she’d better do it soon, because the tides are rising, and one single misstep is all it will take to leave the city, not to mention her career, in ruins.

Get ready for high-stakes supernatural action.

An exciting addition to the best-selling Blue Moon Investigations Series written by Steven Higgs, fans of the series will be overjoyed to see familiar characters as well as to meet a few new ones in this thrilling spin-off series.
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NARRATOR SUCKS

the AI voice was pleasant enough but it was monotone. Audio books need some emotion in them.

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If Alexa voiced murder mysteries…

I prefer humans reading the story. I feel like this could have been a better experience.

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AI is terrible

Great story. Terrible narrative. If I wanted an impersonal, monotone, completely lacking in the subtle nuance of personal delivery I’d ask Siri to read it to me. Not likely to get another book from audible that is AI generated.

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Simple story with a heroine it’s not a very good cop

I’ve liked majority of the books in the series of blue Moon investigation. The female Officer does loses her gun and every other chapter. the storyline is simple not well thought out.

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Great Story-Virtual Voice Not So Great

I think I've downloaded 70% of Steve Higgs' books (he has a LOT). I love the stories and the opportunity to follow along with the characters throughout a series. In one series, I didn't mind the male narrator's voice, it was the pauses and almost a monotone tone that didn't work for me. In another series, the female narrator changed a two or three times, I think. None were great. One had a really sharp tone that kept pulling me out of the story. However, those less than stellar narrators were far better than Virtual Voice. With the narrators, I connected with the characters. In this series, with VV, I am not connecting with the characters, which is disappointing because the stories are good. I know it's quicker and probably cheaper to use VV, but if a new reader starts with a book with VV, the author risks that new reader disliking the "narration" and not bothering to check out the author's other books.

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AI narration a complete distraction

AI narration was a complete distraction so the story got lost. I keep speeding up just to get closure.

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AI Narration

The use of AI in the narration of this story was terrible! The inflection of the AI voice didn't match the sentence. A sentence that was a statement sounded more like a question. It was very difficult to tell who was talking because the voice didn't change between characters. The story would have been much more interesting if it was read by a human narrator. I'll never again choose an audiobook read by AI.

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Disappointed, was hoping for better

This book came up on Facebook, and I bought into the hype to my disappointment. The AI reading of the story throws it out of wack. Wrong pronunciation of words, no stress or inflection where needed keeps pulling me out of the story so to speak. It is almost like listening to someone speaking in a monotone. Maybe this is a new author and they were trying to get it on Audible cheaper, but it is just wrong. Struggling to even want to finish the book! The story has possibilities but the way it is being read makes it no fun.

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Bad narration

The AI voice used no accents or converted the humor or wit of the story.

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Stop dumping AI on us!

Lucky this book was a free offer. AI narration continues to be the worst thing Audible has done to its readers! This book is painful try to listen too. I couldn’t even get 10 minutes into it. I went to review it to let audible know how horrid it is and the system wouldn’t even let me review it because I hadn’t listened to it long enough!!!!! So I turned it on and turned the volume of so it didn’t hurt! Do you really believe the review will be better 20 minutes into a painful listen?!?!??!?!!?

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