Wild Pitch

Horrible narration!

I wish I had listened to the bad review one reviewer gave about the narration. It was slow with individual words said instead of flowing sentences. The narrator mispronounced so many words I couldn't keep track of them. Common words. "Rescind" does not have a long "i" sound in it. A few other words: haphazard, strenuous, and the Cy Young Award is not C. Y. Young! Brutal listening.

8 of 8 people found this review helpful

Decent story - Bad Narration

It wasn't a terribly original story, but was sweet and well told. I liked the characters enough to give it an overall favorable review and overlook the fact that I've basically read this story before.

This narrator has potential, but didn't hit it on this book. This was not the worst narration I've ever heard and I did listen to the whole book. (I've been known to quit after a chapter with a few bad narrations.) He has a nice enough voice, *bad* female voices though. His pacing/timing was off though and yes, many many mispronunciations - for me the worst was wrought as in wrought iron. I don't know what he said but it definitely wasn't wrought. I can forgive or overlook one or two stalls in pacing or strange pronunciations but this book was SO full of them I don't know that I will be able to listen to it a second time, even though I liked the story well enough. I hope if Christopher Rain is to continue as a regular narrator that he learns as he goes. I'd give him a second chance, but probably not a third unless things improve.

Wish I'd waited for it to be on sale or available through the lending library.

4 of 4 people found this review helpful

Luckily, I purchased the kindle version.

What would have made Wild Pitch better?

The narrator was not desirable. He's voice sounded as if he was choking, flat. Mason's ex-wife's voice was cringe-worthy. The other women voices were bearable.

Has Wild Pitch turned you off from other books in this genre?

No.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

YES. YES. YES!

You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The story line wasn't bad. However, the narrator did not do the story justice.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

A better reader would improve this.

The readers performance was not good at all. The reading was stilted and he he mispronounced common words which really irritated me and kept me from enjoying the story. His voice characterizations were not great either.

Worst performance of a good book

The performer who read this book is by far the worst I have heard yet. If you see a word that you don’t know how to pronounce, you really should look it up. I am only a few chapters in and have already heard more than 10 simple words mispronounced. This is a very good book that I have read before. This performance is ruining something that I like.

Terrible Narration!

Liked the the story.
But the narration was utterly terrible. Robotic. Cold. Dull.
I don’t recommend it.

Good series

How could the performance have been better?

Not fond of narrator, so slow at times and I couldn't take his impression of Mason or the female characters!!!

Any additional comments?

I was so excited to start this audio book because I started with the third one Triple Play first which I loved and the narrator Greg Boudreaux was fantastic but OMG this one hurt to listen to. :-(

Very enjoyable

I was halfway through this story when I realized the two men with a son I encountered in a later book in this series were the guys I was reading about. Apparently I missed reading this book when it first came out but learning I would run into them in a later story made this story all the more enjoyable.

Great Story but Slow Start

I almost gave up on this book in the first five minutes because I felt the beginning was too slow. I usually listen at 1x speed without any issue. However, Rain narrates way too slow for me to listen at that speed. Once I started listening at 1.25x speed, the storytelling got much better. I'm not a fan of long romance novels but this was good. It was a pleasant surprise.

Bad narrattion

Story was pretty good, but the narration ruined the story for me. It was just a too bland narration.