My Dom

Narration ruins it again

I don't know if the authors have done something to piss the folks at Blushing Books off. clearly there's some bad blood.
The stories in this series are good, better than many in the genre. Formulaic, HEA books with hot scenes, but also providing reasonable character depth and a good mix of drama, humor and pathos.
But, while these books make a decent read, the narration in the audiobook is an absolute horror-show and makes enjoyment of them almost impossible. Painful. The only way I was able to get through them was to think of the reader a prompt for an actual narration going on in my head. And I did that much mainly out of a sense of support for the writers.
The reading is stiff, with bad, awkwardly timed inflection and elocution that makes it seem as if this is the first time the reader ('cause this *ain't* narration) of the audiobook has encountered the script. The narration in each of the books of the series is consistently bad.
This quality of the reading in this audiobook is a frank betrayal of the writers. It seems designed to garner bad reviews. Worse, however is that it is a giant "f**k you" tp the listener. Bad production values on the level of those in this audiobook show absolute disdain for the listener. Which is curious in a business where the listener or read holds the power over success.
So, the only thing I am left with is that the writers pissed Blushing Books off somehow, because these tracks feel like vengence.

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Fun, sexy story

I loved the authors development of the relationship and the smart dialogue and interesting storyline. I'm excited it's a series and can't wait to listen to the next story. The narrator did an excellent job.

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Loving this series!

Completely intoxicate me, I am sitting at work with earbuds in, and this book has my attention! Jane Henry and Maisy Archer have a winning series started with the Boston Doms! Heidi hears her neighbor spanking his date through the window and is totally intrigued by what she hears. Few a chance encounter with her dog and an injury at the local gym, Dom(what an appropriate name) and Heidi become friends, and slowly become involved. This book had me captivated, had me taking the journey into bdsm right along with Heidi and falling in love with Dom. I also love meeting the supporting cast of characters(Matteo, Slay, Hillary and of course, Heidi's over the top mom). The integration of the lifestyle and the social issues and tragedy which are encountered by Hillary make this story suspenseful and sexy all at the same time.

Nova Quinn does an excellent job narrating this book from Heidi's POV. I think she has a good range for both male and female voices and I found her performance to be wonderful.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Loved it!

What a great, sexy story. I couldn't turn it off! the narrator was fantastic and the story was hit!!

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must be a first book for this author

Any additional comments?

There are chapters that are at different speeds so i started listening on my desktop and had to switch to my iphone to change the speed at different chapters. Also there are sections that are dubbed over where there are two different conversations going on over each other.

The narrator was not good at changing her voice to sounds different from male to female characters so it was confusing sometimes to know which character was speaking.

I did, however, love the Dom's way of taking care of Heidi and that she had a reputation of a ball buster and not a pushover.

Over all i was able to finish the book and think it was good over all.

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Well, I can't say I wasn't warned.

The performance wasn't great but it certainly wasn't helped by poor production values, amateurish overdubbing and an unforgivable error early on with the Audible intro being repeated over top of the narration. Seriously?

That said, the over-the-top criticism of the narrator's performance is...well over the top.

The story itself is a difficult to swallow. A successful, independent businesswoman enters a D/s relationship and doesn't do any research or negotiate terms? She enters into a relationship and makes no effort to protect her career, meekly accepting the assurance of her dom, a virtual stranger(named Dom btw, sigh) that he'll won't interfere with her business. She accepts punishments from Dom the dom for actions on her part that are completely reasonable like leaving when the Dom freezes her out when she's in a vulnerable emotional state and for stressing about a sister who is in danger.

I won't be reading or listening to the rest of the series, however unlike some reviewers I won't be copying the same review into the comments sections for those books....too weird!

Good story. Has issues.

Good story. Dom and Heidi are enjoyable strong characters.
Poor production - narrator voice sometimes strong and close to mic, suddenly wavers out likes mic was pulled away. All happens within the same sentence. Very annoying. Also, a phrase is frequently repeated twice.
Narrator has a good voice and inflection but production issues override.

Very nice!

I really liked the narration for this story. I already loved the book, Jane and Maisy are wonderful authors. I can't wait to listen to the next one!!

Different than most BDSM books.

Any additional comments?

Not really a BDSM book!
The only BDSM in this just spanking....
I am glad that they find love and the balance they need .
Not my favorite book!

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