Mispronounciation

The Witch Myth stories are probably quite adequate for the genre, but I feel obliged to warn listeners that if you care about words being pronounced as they are intended don't read these.You have a choice - continuously stop and replay to see what should have been said or just let it go. All the Witch Myth narrators make mistakes - some much more frequently. Odd that no one edited the stories . I finally gave up on the collection .

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terrible narrators I tried! I wanted to like it

The narrator had no idea what the word she was reading were supposed to sound like.

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Fair Story - Horrible Narrator

Where does Witch Myth Super Boxset rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

bout the bottom

What other book might you compare Witch Myth Super Boxset to and why?

any silly magic fiction fits in this category - mindless fiction for fun

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of the narrators?

anyone who can read

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

no - just listened - mindless fiction is just a good escape -

Any additional comments?

the narrator could not pronounce words - simple things like crocheting a blanket derailed the story because the narrator pronounced it crowshetting instead of crowshaying - so it became tedious to rewind and figure out what the story was doing because the words pinged the brain as being wrong and halted the flow of the story.

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Pronounciation is atrocious in 3rd set

Changing narrator from American English in set 1 to British English in set 2 was bad enough...but switching to a Frenchwoman speaking American English was just NO. No...no...no!!! I literally stopped listening. It was ridiculous. No excuse for that. Trust me, you won’t be able to overlook it. The series was ok. Good value...but the last narrator just made it not worth it. Hurts me to review it like this, but it’s just the truth.

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Narrators

The narrators switched between books and there were so many mispronunciation of words it was aggravating.

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Great story, beware of mispronunciation

These stories were great, I loved how each one got more complicated and detailed. Having the different characters have their own perspectives was also awesome.

However, I am forgiving of narrators occasionally mispronouncing some words, but there was an abundance with all of the narrators in this book. To the point where I was getting irritated.
In the end I enjoyed these stories despite the errors and would recommend it to anyone who can deal with mispronunciations.

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Confusing order and narration..

I have enjoyed these books, but as others have said, the narration is is not very good to the point of possible distraction.
There are 3 sets of trilogies in this box set. So 3 stories in nine very small books (seriously, they could have and maybe should have just been 3 books total.) the first main problem I have with this set is that the order of the stories is wrong. I understand that there are other stories in the series but I thought, and hoped that the three that were chosen to go into a box set together would be in the proper order, and not have other stories that belong between them that are not included in the set.
The first story that plays had good narriation and was an entertaining story with fun characters. There were several things mentioned that sounded like there must be more to that story or situation that was just mentioned casually, so I figured that there are books outside of the box set that get into those.
Then the second story starts, and wait! Why is there a British narrator in a story about someone who is fully American? Instead of a young American, this narriation sounds like it is a story based on a middle aged British lady. Oh well, I can get passed that without too much thought about it. But then I realize that this story takes place before the one that I just heard. Several things that were mentioned in the first story were actually pretty big spoilers about the second story. That’s a bummer, why would they put them in the wrong order?
The third story was good, and was in the correct spot as far as these three stories are concerned. It is a bit distracting when the narriator doesn’t know how to pronounce so many common words. For example, pronouncing the L in salmon, or the A in cocoa. Also Salem was pronounced weird, and where it was pronounced incorrectly each time it was said, there were a few times when it was pronounced differently. So there were 2 incorrect pronunciations of the same word.
So for anyone interested in the correct order of the stories, the second story comes first. Then there has to be at least one other story that is not included in the set, because of things that are mentioned in the other two stories. I haven’t gotten into other stories in the series to give a name of what should be in there. Then the first story should be played second, and the last one is in the correct spot. But it takes place several years after the first one, so I’d be surprised if there are not a couple of others that belong in that space.
So, the stories themselves are entertaining and fun, but it would be nice if someone would put them in a proper box set where they are all together and in order. And some of the narriation could be quite a bit better.

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HORRIBLE narration

Good, fluffy fiction. First narrator is great, second one ok, but Elizabeth Lagalee (3rd narrator) cannot pronounce simple English words, which just ruins the experience of enjoying the book. Her constant mispronunciation becomes tedious and frustrating!

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not to bad

pretty good story, though the narrator mispronounced so many words and it was very annoying.

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Ugh! Pick a Narrator!

The stories are out of order. The best narrator is the first one. Either put the books in order, or just pick one narrator. This thing is just a hot mess!

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