Cursed

The Green Mountain Pack

By: Ashlee Sinn

Narrated by: John Teal, Elizabeth Vidt

Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

The witches don’t rule Salem. The shifters do.

JT Corwin has it all: the name, the wealth, the privilege of being one of the most eligible bachelors in New England. He has everything except what he craves most...love. Between his missing father, abrasive mother, and a slew of meaningless relationships, JT is tired of being an empty shell. So when he meets a stranger who seems to know exactly what he needs, JT has a hard time getting her out of his mind, despite the trouble she promises to bring.

Estes MacAnndra knew this might be the last year she could run her scam. Her partner in crime has plans for expansion while Estes just wants to move on to an honest and simple life. Running around from state to state, avoiding the law, and hiding her truth has taken its toll. Salem was just one stop, a place to tap into the history and give the people what they craved during the haunted season. But this Salem has a certain handsome shifter who is drowning in loneliness and yearning for peace. A man who has given her something no one else could...hope.

Estes has a dangerous secret. JT is in charge of a dangerous town with a dark history of prosecuting those who are different. JT suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the law with no one to turn to. Estes may use her ancestry to make a living, but now she needs to tap into a power she’s always had to hide in order to help JT. It may expose her to those of her kind who want to remain unknown, but for the first time in her life she can do something good with her talents. However, in Salem, no good deed goes unpunished. And when JT loses control of his town, he discovers he may not be able to save himself and the woman who has claimed his broken heart.

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I had to think pretty hard about this review because I believe the story is actually pretty good, the problem is simply the narrators. First off, they don't mix well with each other, at all. She sounds like a child and he is working so hard to sound older and sexy that is straddles the line of creepy. Or, maybe that was the point?

After a while, she stopped bothering me. She doesn't have a particularly pleasant voice, but her acting chops got a bit better as the narrative went on. I don't think she should do this for a living, but at least she stopped bothering me so much. Maybe i just got used to her. He, however, was terrible from start to finish.

The SOUND of his voice is great - lots of natural bass that I'm sure is why he was chosen, but he can't read and he can't act and he works so hard at being sexy that it distracts from the words he's attempting to read, you can literally hear the effort.

At first, I thought he sounded like he was trying to be Scott Brick, who famously reads without much inflection, but does it really well. He simply reads you the story and puts only the slightest alterations or inflection into his voice when reading character dialog. But as time went on, I realized that I'm pretty sure he's the same voice as the narrator behind the name 'Dom Jonson.' Maybe I'm crazy? I dunno, go see for yourself. I SWEAR, it's him, the man can't do anything else with his voice so it's pretty recognizable. Anyway, as the book went on, it became clear he wasn't trying to emulate Brick, and Dom Jonson sure doesn't, so I think he just doesn't know how to change up his voice.

Anyway, because he can't act or read but tries to, he just does horrible accents whenever he switches between characters. It makes the story nearly impossible to follow while also being incredibly distracting. The poor author needs to find someone better to tell her stories because this man butchered it. Either that, or he needs to figure out how to read better.

The only real positive might be the sex scene, but even that was uncomfortable because it sounded like it was happening with a child and while the production value of their reads was actually pretty good, they didn't really sound like they were together, which is kind of the point in a sex scene.

Anyway, I had a hard time with this review. The narration is terrible, but the story, I think, is pretty good. But yeah, I'm pretty sure John Teal is Dom Johnson. Tell me that's not the same guy.