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

don't you check with the author?

how on earth could an audio book be recorded without checking with the author how names are pronounced?? so much butchering! and not just names, basic words. the narrators voice was pleasant enough, if a little off on the expressiveness of character. The lack of proper pronounced names pulled me out of the story the whole time. she has no accent yet speaks as though English is her 2nd language. so painful to listen to. go read the book instead.

Great book, horrible performance

This is one of my favorite books in the Rachel Morgan series. So having to struggle through listening to this horrible performance mad me sad. Her character voices are bad, and in the case of Keesley, downright racist. She may have wanted to actually LISTEN to any other book in the series, maybe then she could have pronounced words and names correctly. And I'm just crossing my fingers that they do away with the cringe-worthy "suspense" music moving forward. I'm very happy to see Margarite Gavin is back to performing the next book.

Story is great, but...

I have enjoy this whole series. Unfortunately this book was painful to listen to, the narrator has changed. Between the horrible attempted voice changes between characters every chapter transition has a musical interlude that interrupts the storyline.

Do not change narrators

I don’t want to be rude because I’m sure this narrator did the best job she could but honestly she butchered this story. She mispronounced names. The demon Al sounded like an elderly British woman and her voicing of Jenks was like nails on a chalk board. The story was great and I expect nothing less from Kim Harrison. You can stop with the dramatic musical pauses.

Awful narrator

I love this series by Kim Harrison but can not listen to this narrator. Her mispronounced words and nasally voice are awful. The narrator for the other books in this series is fantastic. I wish they would have her narrate this book too.

So hard to enjoy a good story with such terrible..

narration. So grateful that all the other books, besides this one is Margherite. I cannot tolerate Gigis voices, her constant mispronounciations, and especially her voice for Jenks.

Just push through

I personally feel like this title is one most informative and revealing in the hollows series.
I understand it’s not the same narrator and she pronounces things incorrectly.
Just push through it , she’s not as bad as some of the reviews let on.
I got used to her around an hour into the story.
As I said this is a very revealing book for the main protagonist and shouldn’t be skipped if your planning on reading / listening to all the books.

Great story , Racheal is finally growing up and becoming less annoying.
I just wish the side characters Shes Allied with wouldn’t try and casually murder her every book.
It comes off as strange to me.
But overall a great story to devour.

bring back the other reader.

the books are incredible. but for Tinks sake brink back the other reader. this lady mispronounced everything

Gigi was rightfully fired from doing another audio

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

(how to get 5 star? They should have kept Marguerite Gavin as the reader!!) Sadly they chose to have another person do the audio recording for this one book in the series, and most likely due to RAGE by listeners she was fired. Gigi did not bother to get pronunciations from the previous books & made over 310 audio gaffes by saying things wrong. Takata, Ley, Piscary were the top offenders in pronunciation errors. Not only this, but there were huge pitch variances between recording takes. In one glaring occasion her voice dropped a noticeable octave from the previous recording point. Another error was her repeating the same 2 sentences in a recording. (this could have been an editing error, but still...)

Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?

Yes.

What didn’t you like about Gigi Bermingham’s performance?

Everything. From her whiney portrayal of Jenks, the coarse voice of Ivy, and to her repeatedly butchering pronunciations, Gigi was rightfully fired. She should have taken time to research her job.

whhhhyyyy Jinx

listen I'm going to listen to it because I never got time to actually crack open the book but whoever this narrator is I am not a fan of her voicing Jinx. But all n all the story is great as per usual