No more Ray Porter?

The main reason why I started this series was because I loved the narrator Ray Porter. But now that he is no longer the narrator I can’t listen to this anymore, the characters voices are all wrong and it ruins it for me

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Kevin Pierce?

Would you listen to Annihilation again? Why?

I really like this story, And I like Kevin but changing a narrator 3 books in is never good.

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Boring

Ray Porter made this series tolerable. Without Ray this book is just simply boring. The plot drifts and there is not any real creativity to the story.

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Done with this series

If I had a dime for every time the story repeated itself in this book, I could take some meaningful time off. This book in the series actually repeated the same scene constantly. The story is being drug out, and not much of any story was told in this book.
I loved the first book, second was still interesting, but I literally cannot tolerate this series anymore, because it is like going in a circle with the occasional change here and there. I'm done.

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Never change narrator

Should have stayed with Porter. I'm not sure who thought it was a hot idea to switch. Bad move

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I won't be finishing this series

I have listened straight through up to the end of this book and I'm thinking I am no longer interested in this series.

My reason is that the storyline is convoluted, meanders and I find it difficult to stay focused while listening. The differentiation of the characters is getting very muddled. Although the descriptive language used for various characters, their emotions and motivations are good, they don't connect me with the characters and situations any longer.

I have listened on and on hoping to see some crescendo to a compelling momentum that would make we want to find out what will happen next, but the pace and storyline itself is so shallow, I find that the "payoff" at the end of each book now seems purely self serving in order to hopefully, (with little care form me now), to want to listen to the next book.

I am very selective about which readers I will listen to and Kevin Pierce is one that I like a lot, but I feel he is just not the right reader for this work. Mr. Pierce's style is like a the words of a small child when he says, "Grandpa, tell me a story?" He's great for certain types of material, but not this one. Sorry Mr. Pierce. I know you are doing your best and I don't feel it's really your fault.

One reason I started listening to this series was Ray Porter, who I always throughly enjoy listening to. He was such a perfect fit for these books that it overcame many of the short fallings for me with these works, but towards the end of the book before this one, I could see the effectiveness of this series to hold my attention was waining. Then with the switch in readers, I could see this was not going to go well. As with all acting, even the best performance does not make up for a poor script.

Maybe others of you see this series differently, but I am done with this series.

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WTF! The change of narrator kills this series!

I was enjoying this series until whomever decided to switch out narrators.

But to switch to a mono tone narrator the story becomes monotonous.

I goes I have to find a new series to get!

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The book series started off great...but

I was hooked after the first book but not so much by the third. After this book I won't continue the series. I really struggled to stay interested but the story had so many twists and soooo much detail at every turn. This book should have been 4 hours max. I'm out.

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Narrator, Narrator, Narrator

Where does Annihilation rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I am going to rate it in the series. I fell in love with the story and the PRIOR narrator, Ray Porter after listening for a very short time. Ray Porter made the first 3 books come alive. The ability to sit back and listen and just let the story float into your mind was wonderful. THEN book 4 and Kevin Pierce became the narrator...

What was one of the most memorable moments of Annihilation?

The most Un-memorable was Kevin Pierce as the Narrator. Unlike the prior narrator of books 1-3 of this series, you cannot let this story flow into your mind, you have to focus, pay attation and sometimes back up the story because you missed something due to how it is being read. I lost a lot of the story because of Keving Pierce.

How could the performance have been better?

Continued to use Ray Porter. Unless something happened behined closed door that we the listener is unaware of, a great narrator should not be changed in the middle of a series.

Any additional comments?

After listening to the first book and falling in love with the narrator Ray Porter, I used my credits to buy all of the books in the series. BAD MISTAKE.

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Hate narrator. No character distinctions.

Narrator's voice made completing story more difficult than if reading it myself. Once you know a narrator works, be consistent. What was his appeal other than he can read, really. Like videos this.medium is IMPORTANT. Realize this now before it's too late.

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