PSA: That narrator voice change in book 4 of the fantasy series we all read

I was in my book club meeting last Thursday over at Linda's house, and we got into this huge debate about the audiobook narrator swap in book 4 of the Crown of Embers series. Three people in the group kept saying the new narrator was fine because she just changed a few character voices, but I had to speak up because I listen to these books during my commute every day for 8 months straight. The original narrator gave the main dwarf character this gravelly, deep voice that sounded like he was chewing rocks, but the new one made him sound like a squeaky cartoon mouse. I even pulled up chapter 17 on my phone right there at the table to prove the point, and everyone went quiet when they heard the difference. How do y'all handle narrator changes in long series without just giving up on the audiobooks entirely?

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wilson.sam18d agoTop Commenter

Tbh that narrator change was a total betrayal.

tara_jones9418d ago

Ugh yes @wilson.sam, that really threw me off too.

patriciareed18d ago

Oh for crying out loud, don't even get me started on the dwarf voice thing! I had to pull over on the highway during chapter 17 because I thought my phone had glitched out and switched to a children's cartoon. The new narrator made the elf queen sound like she was ordering a latte at Starbucks instead of commanding armies. I've been rebuying the first three books on a different platform to get the original narrator's versions because apparently consistency is too much to ask for.