The Outlaw Demon Wails

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Gigi Bermingham

Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her.

As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge.

But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line...and there are some lines that should never be crossed.

©2008 Kim Harrison (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Awesome story

Love this as much as all the others. Hated narration. Agree with the other comments.

horrible narration

ok bring back the previous narrator it's a LAY line not a lee line. everytime nails on a chalkboard!

Buy the Hardback instead

Harper Audio produced this book instead of Tantor Media which did all the other books. I don't know why they chose to change companies and narrators.. Harper audio and Gigi Bermingham ruined this book for me. She is one of the worst narrators ever. I'd recommend you buy the hardback instead. Which is what I plan to do. I can't stand to listen to her whiny voice another minute.

Seriously the narrator is horrible

Please release this book with the original narrator. The story is great but the narration is god awful it would be worth buying a copy again just to forget about how this narrator miss pronounces everything.

3 on the Narrator 5 on the book so 4 overall

It took me a while to get into the book again because of the narrator change. I understand if you have to change the narrators but if they are reading a series thats already 5 books in you'd think that they would AT LEAST annunciate certain words and character names the same as the previous narrator. The book minus the narrator voice was wonderful it definitely had a ton of twists that kept it entertaining thru out! and the narrator grows on you a bit after a while.

Good story bad narrator

The Hollows series starts out strong with Dead Witch Walking, and continues strong, avoiding some of the pitfalls and dead space that a couple of other paranormal authors left characters to stagnate in. Outlaw Demon continues to follow Rachel, Ivy and Jenks and strengthens the storyline around the Demons. Great fun to listen to . . . but the new narrator is horrible. She uses little baby voices and exaggerated vocal mannerisms that are just painful to try and get beyond, to focus on the characters and story. And would it be too much to ask for audible publishers of science fiction/fantasy/paranormal books to present a vocabulary list to their narrators ahead of time to prepare?

I like the book but...

I was distracted by the narrator's mispronunciation of key words and names, such as Piscary and ley. The book was entertaining and I am interested in reading the next one in the series. I just hope the narrator for this book won’t be reading for the next.

"Not News but..." was spot on. Narrator botched it

What did you like best about The Outlaw Demon Wails? What did you like least?

The story gave some additional depth to some of the characters. Unfortunately, I am starting to anticipate the stories rather than be surprised. I'm still disgruntled about her killing off Kisten.

What was most disappointing about Kim Harrison’s story?

Each additional story in the series is more and more dependent on the preceding books. They don't stand alone and I recommend reading them in order. I'm still disgruntled about her killing off Kisten. Oh, did I say that already? Probably means I really miss the tension of Kristen, as the "good boy" trying to manage having to do "bad" things. RIP Kristen... now you're REALLY dead. I'd love to have seen you reappear by some supernatural means. Oh, maybe I'm getting ahead of myself.

Would you be willing to try another one of Gigi Bermingham’s performances?

No. She should have the common courtesy to listen to one of the preceding books to adopt the accepted pronunciations and voice characterizations. Read review by "Not News but...". I couldn't improve on that critique.

Did The Outlaw Demon Wails inspire you to do anything?

Look forward to Marguerite Gavin returning as narrator in the next installment.

she ruined jenks!!!! he sounds like mickey mouse.

the book is awesome, but the narrator is awful.horrendous, and annoying! the accents reek, and the vooices are entirely indescriminate!

Such a disappointment

I have been binging the Hollows books and enjoying them. This one however was just not good.

1. Like everyone else has said the narrator was awful. Why make the decision to change all the pronunciations? I cringed every time she said “lee” instead of “lay” for ley lines.

2. Rachel was insufferable in this book. She was whiny, over reactive (more than usual), and sometimes just bitchy.

3. The story at times just didn’t seem to hold together. There were times I was scratching my head wondering why something was happening.

I will listen to the next in the series. At least Margaurite will be back!