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Phantom Embrace

By: Dianne Duvall
Narrated by: Arika Rapson
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Across dimensions....

A gifted one, Yuri Sokolov was born with the ability to see spirits, but he knows better than to make contact with them. Yet he's never seen one as lovely as Cat Seddon, the woman who haunts his home and his dreams. But amid their star-crossed love, a new danger may have Yuri facing a different kind of eternity.

Contains mature themes.

©2015 Dianne Duvall (P)2021 Tantor
Action & Adventure Fantasy Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Romantic Suspense Fiction Suspense Feel-Good Funny
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Creative Storyline • Sweet Romance • Enjoyable Male Voice • Unique Characters • Excellent Writing • Engaging Backstory
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Of course, the quality of the writing is Diane duvall's usual excellence. But the narration falls far short of what we've come to expect from these books. This reader did absolutely no research on each character's previous characterization and has failed to continue with the style and personalization of Kirsten Potter. which takes A LOT away from the depth and imagery. Too many of her characters who are British or ancient immortals have lost their accents and depth. This NEEDS TO BE REREAD by Kirsten Potter. End of story.

The usual excellence from Dianne Duvall.

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AND! This book make book 5 better. I was a unique take on a love and ghost story.

Yuri’s story is sooo sweet.

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What a creative storyline! Loved both the characters story and the narration! Bravo On to the next book

A unique HEA

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I love the immortal guardians series, but the narration on this story did it a disservice. The editing was at issue too with several misses. There was actually a blood bag brought to lips and he sunk his FINGERS in. Pour voice distinction between characters. Wrong voices compared to other book narration. And heavy accent. Very distracting.

Narrator matters

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This story doesn't give any pivotal information to the overall storyline so if you don't like the narrator on the short stories you can skip ahead. It backs up to where Zac throws vamps through David's window and ends after the compound battle from the same book but this time the love interest is Sebastian's dead sister Cat and 1 of the Russian Imortrals. It is very sweet and sad.

Sweet but you can skip

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The book was great, but too short the narrator was awful. Still waiting on David story..

Love the book, but too short

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Loved it !! this story. the narrator is so fantastic it's like your really there!! good overall

excellent

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Really need Kristin Potter narrating these. The name mispronouncements is infuriating.

The story as always is fantastic

Story great narration eh

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Didn't think I would like it, but I lived thus story. It was good to get a follow up on Uri.

Unexpected

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First, the book review: Really cute short romance story. It ties into the overarching plot of the series nicely without delving too much into it. You feel almost separate from it as the female character (a ghost) would probably feel. It worked nicely for the side plot that is this book. You don't need to have read the other books to follow this, but it would certainly make a little more sense when they describe parts of the main series plot points. Some nice steamy scenes, but nothing too descriptive (could be good or bad depending on your preference). Overall, the writing style, plot style, etc., are all in line with the way the other books are written. This is just a nice short jaunt slightly away from the main thread. A little less violence, a little faster pace romance - sometimes that's a needed reprieve if you're like me, and like to binge listen. This series definitely has me doing that.

As for the narrator, as many have complained, the narrator is different from the usual one who reads the longer books. I actually skipped In Still Darkness (Richart's story) due to reviews of the same narrator. So it took a few minutes to get past it. But because I really wanted to know what happened in this storyline I mentally moved on from it and tried to act like it was a new book I was listening to. It kind of worked. Obviously the characters we know and love sounded way off, but since the majority of the book is between the two main characters, it wasn't that bad and I was able to get into it.

On another note about the narrator: I don't think this narrator is bad. A lot of people complaining are upset with the narrator. I don't know how much control the narrators have over their job choices and research they can do in the limited time I imagine they're given to record the books. I actually wouldn't mind listening to her in another series. She wasn't bad at doing a male voice when she did. I wished she would have used the male voice when speaking from the male thought perspective, but other than that, she's far better than some narrators, and a million miles better than the dumb virtual voice readers they're using so much of now.

Note to Audible: if you're listening, those virtual voice books are just awful. They can turn a masterpiece into the ugly remnants of paint on a painter's palette that have all melded into a shade that can only be called lifeless brown/grey. Lifeless because there is no life in those voices. The inflections are all wrong, the pauses are either missing, in the wrong places, or not needed. Too often when listening to those books, you have to stop and mentally correct the sentence that was read to figure out how the author wrote it, because it didn't get translated correctly by the AI program. Please stop being cheap and keep the narrators working. No matter how bad any of them are critiqued, they're all 10x better than any of the virtual voices. Your listeners pay a lot of money and deserve to have a book read to them by a person that understands what is happening in the story. If you want to give us half-ass narrators, then you will have to charge less than half of your already exorbitant prices.

Wraps up a sidestory nicely

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