
Laurent and the Beast
Kings of Hell MC, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Joel Leslie
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By:
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K.A. Merikan
Beast has been disfigured in a fire, but he's covered his skin with tattoos to make sure no one mistakes his scars for weakness. The accident not only hurt his body, but damaged his soul and self-esteem, so he's wrapped himself in a tight cocoon of violence and mayhem where no one can reach him.
Until one night, when he finds a young man covered in blood in their clubhouse. Sweet, innocent, and as beautiful as an angel fallen from heaven, Laurent pulls on all of Beast's heartstrings.
In 1805, Laurent has no family, no means, and his eyesight is failing. To escape a life of poverty, he uses his beauty, but that only backfires and leads him to a catastrophe that changes his life forever. He takes one step into the abyss and is transported to the future, ready to fight for a life worth living.
What he doesn't expect in his way is a brutal, gruff wall of tattooed muscle with a tender side that only Laurent is allowed to touch. And yet, if Laurent ever wants to earn his freedom, he might have to tear out the heart of the very man who took care of him when it mattered most.
Contains mature themes.
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Marvelous performance of a thrilling book
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Frustratingly enjoyable.
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Dark and deep
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Performance: I always enjoy Joel Leslie as a narrator, and he is skillful in representing a range of accents. It would be challenging for any voice actor to switch as frequently and to such extremes and Leslie does. At the same time, it's not as perfect as having people with the actual accents, but having multiple narrators has its own limitations.
Very good, could be improved
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the best book
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Absolute perfection
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Excellent performance
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Oh my, this story was delicious!
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The narrator did a great job with exception to the female characters who all sounded a bit nasal and just plain rude.
Storytelling that sucks you right in.
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I'm familiar with both this author and narrator and separately they're great, I was very excited for this story, but the audio just completely shit it dead in the water for me. And I mean just lord awful narration. I was so disappointed and honestly I'm doubtful I'll get the next book. I feel like this was a waste of my money...
The narrator just wasn't well suited for this type of story. He has decent emotive qualities I guess....but his vocal range is extremely limited. almost all the characters sound the same. It all becomes monotonous and blends together and just seems to drag one. At some point you lose track and are like "what am I even listening to". And for some reason the narrator is adding this sort of raspy sound to all the voices, I guess in an effort to make the characters all seem tough, but in stead it just makes them all sound old and sickly and it's very distracting. And people are raging about his french accent that is actually decent but nothing particularly notable and feels like he forgets to use half the time because he only uses it for specific lines and not narration or thoughts from that character's perspective so when he does use the accent it's almost like it comes out of nowhere. Although at least his way of speaking is much more fitting for that character than literally any of the others.
Had this book been entirely from the perspective of the French character while in the 1800s then I think my opinion would be completely different. His narration of that book would have likely been very successful but since this book has so much going on and that's not the case, it unfortunately didn't go well. Which is a shame because few chapters that are from that POV showed so much promise....
Quite honestly... the narrator ruined this entire series for me now and I wish the book had been done by almost anybody else. It's not even a pleasant word flow to listen to when it's from Beast's perspective. This left me extremely frustrated. Especially since I know the narrator is well suited in other stories I've listened to, as far as pacing, characters, and voices go. I hope to GOD that he never narrates for this author again because he absolutely and irrevocably ruined her book. In fact, I hope he never so much as ATTEMPTS to narrate even this TYPE of book ever again. I'm just really upset about it. There's nothing else I can darty to adequately express my feelings about this aside from it was very unpleasant to listen to.
A Terrible Disappointment, don't do it
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