How Good is the Narrator?!

Fantastic, well researched look behind the scenes. Spoiled by constant mispronunciation by the narrator. Every time I heard Peter Duddon, stoodents, or consdidooshun. it made me grit my teeth. Really detracted from what is otherwise a riveting listen.

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The worst narrator ever

To really understand this book you need to know that the author’s husband was Malcolm Turnbull. From my perspective that colours her interpretation of everything that happened under Morrison’s leadership. That said, her analysis is thorough but the narrator seemed to think she was reading something fictional. She is really bad - has completely misunderstood what she is reading.

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Interesting analysis disappointing narration

Enjoyed the content but regret that an Australian narrator was not used. The American narrator mispronounced many names and sounded odd trying to use an Australian accent. As an Australian listener, which is surely the target audience, I would have appreciated an Australian narrator who was familiar with the culture, characters and names of places and people.

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Excellent story, let down my the narrator

Sadly the narrator of this book distracted me terribly. She read the story like a fairy tale and this grated on me. Ultimately this let the experience and the story down. I often find with books of this nature, the best narrator is the author.
However, I thought the book was very good and well researched, so props to Niki Savva.

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Informative but annoying narrator

I agree with all the other comments. Why this narrator? I mean at least she was Australian, but it would have been good to have someone with better diction. Someone who said ‘twenty’ not ‘twenny’ for example. How are narrators chosen? Is it a question of cost? You pay for what you get? Anyway, apart from that the book was enjoyable. I know Nikki is preaching to the converted but that’s ok, that’s why I listened. I enjoyed her forthrightness. One thing I didn’t like was that the book is not strictly chronological. Rather, it is in topics. I suspect this was done so that each chapter can stand on its own and, for eg, be extracted and used in other forums. But what it means is that there is a fair bit of repetition as certain events or quotes are relevant to more than one topic and are repeated in different chapters.

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Compelling

Compelling and informative from start to finish. A fascinating and entertaining insight into the chaos and dysfunction of the Morrison years

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Informative balanced book let down by the narrator

Niki Savva is a terrific , balanced political writer who called out every incident of Morrison’s venality and betrayal of his party and the Australian people. However, this audible book is badly let down by the ill chosen narrator who would be better suited to light fiction. She continuously annoyed me by her inability to pronounce “t” eg par’y (party), commi’’ee (committee) and on and on she went. She also mispronounced names and places which in a book of this genre is unforgivable.

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Great summary of Australia’s dark days

Great book. Nikki has done an excellent job of outlining the issues of the period and how the issues are not individual one off’s but demonstrate clearly an appalling character flaw by Morrison. More concerning is how the pursuit of power allows people to not see what is in front of them and therefore to allow such disgraceful behaviour to continue due to a fear of losing an election is completely disrespect of our political system and the Australian people. Our polity is seriously damaged by SoMo and his enablers. That is his legacy.

My only criticism of this book is the narration. Sorry but it is important to know the correct prononciation of people’s names and political terms and place names. So many dreadful errors that should have been corrected by an editor or whoever is responsible for such things not the narrator.

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So annoying

The narrator has the absolute worst voice to be on Audible. Her voice is nasal and does not convey what Niki Savva’s tone or intention. Further, if she had researched the pronunciations of words for only briefly, the performance would have been somewhat passable.

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A must read for those of us who want to make sense of last 3 years of national government

Niki Savva is a great Australian investigative journalist. She is at the top of performance. A journalist and author with integrity, curiosity, persistence, fearlessness, excellent narrative skills and attention to detail.
Read the book and find out for yourself.
Thank you, Nikki

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