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  • Jem's Journey (A Wonderland Novella)

  • By: Irina Shapiro
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 2 hrs and 21 mins
  • 3.1 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)

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Jem's Journey (A Wonderland Novella)

By: Irina Shapiro
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

Feeling disillusioned and unloved, Jem decides to leave home and take his chances in London, but fate has a couple of twists in store for him. What’s meant to be an uneventful trip turns into a coming-of-age journey that teaches Jem that adulthood is not as easy as he might have expected, and life usually has a plan of its own.

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The AI Reading was horrid.

The story might have been better if a robot voice that did not pronounce character names correctly was not used.

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Novella

After the others in the series this was woefully short.
I have to agree the A.I. reading was like listening to a robot which I guess it is.
Hopefully this will not become the go to.

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AI narration ruined this book

I love Irina Shapiro’s Wonderland Series. Was very excited to have a little more of the story with this novella after finishing all 5 books. I was dismayed when at the beginning it was announced the narration would be with “virtual voice.” It turned out to be awful. There was no life to the voice, sounded completely hollow and fake. If this is the wave of the future - “virtual voice” - I might as well go back to reading actual books.

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I love this author and was excited to listen to this book. However, the virtual voice was horrible. fluctuation was wrong throughout the reading. if not for the story, I would not have finished it. Based on this reading, I'll doubtless not listen to another virtual voice reading.

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the virtual voice kept running on sentences

the story was good. I just wish it could have been longer and with a real person reading it.

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Jem has row in My Heart

This was a fun and quick story. Knowing how Jem’s life unfolds. How He grows into a Man.
The ending was short and to the point, would have liked more…but overall a good listen.

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A.I. Reading was intolerable.

I was very interested in finding out what happened to Jem as he was such an endearing character in the story. However, the AI reading of the story was completely intolerable. I couldn’t bring myself, even as interested as I was in Jem, to suffer the AI reader

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Pleasantly surprised

I was happy to get a glimpse of what happened to Jem. I was hesitant to listen with the narrator being Virtual Voice, but it wasn’t bad. Better than many human narrators I think.

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Awful narration

I love Shapiro s novels, but it feels as if she could not make up her mind if Jem was smart or stupid. And the awful virtual narration did nothing to enhance the book. I fear a future that contains only virtual narrators.....

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