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The School of Hard Knocks

By: Christopher G. Nuttall
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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A plot is being hatched at Mountaintop Academy, a plot that threatens the lives of Emily and her friends...and the integrity of the Allied Lands. In a desperate bid to uncover the secrets of Mountaintop and recover her stolen notes, Emily goes undercover into Mountaintop, a mission that may cost her everything.

©2015 Christopher G. Nuttall (P)2017 Podium Publishing

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Awesome series

I do love this series. I love the way the author keeps you guessing. However, I do hope in future books that Emily will be less naive.

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good book

can't wait till the next book excited hopefully they get it out soon happy to hear there's 11 books in the series just wish they had a mole on audio before I started it and kind of hook now

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Didn’t like the way the range of voice changed

In about chapter 3 or four Emily’s voice went to a totally different register I had to rewind to make sure it was Emily I did not like the fact that the register stay deep I preferred her having a higher registered voice

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pitched down

I enjoyed it, but it took som getting used to the narrators darker voice from chapter 3.

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Disappointed in the authors voice choice changes.

Why go back and forth with Tavi and another voice actor? Chapter 2 is when it starts and throughout the other chapters it switches back and forth. The voice actor wasnt bad but it made things confusing.

The series is worth listening to but I hope the other books in the series are worthy of my credits.

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Voice change made it a bit difficult

The book was great but they turned the tone lower in the voice and it took me a while to get used to it.

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love it

I love the series but I don't like the voice change... However the performance is so well done that at times that I forget this is a book and not a movie.

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Amazing!

I absolutely love this series!! I can't wait too find out what's going to happen next! it was a great read 💙

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Amazing novel!

Loved the book. love the series, but until now this is the best one! have absolutely no complaints. thoroughly enjoyed every second of it. Also, the performance was superb!

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Great series, excellent narrator, unfortunate bug

This book is actually performed by the same narrator but the file was set to the wrong sample rate making it play back at a lower pitch. You can listen to the "Sample" on the website and hear it playing back at the correct speed/Pitch. I've contacted Audible with the info in hopes they can one day update the audio asset.

Either way it's still a great book, but the lower pitch does impact the performance and the characters we've grown used to.

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