Schism: Triad, Book 1

I enjoy Catherine Asaro's Skolian Empire series, but the plethora of narrators distracts from the series. And this narrator is particularly dreadful. While trying to listen, the narrator distracts me and I keep thinking, "the reader's inflection does not match this scene" or "is this narrator really a computer?" and frequently, "it's pronounced scion, not p-scion, honestly, it's a play on words, the P is silent in the word psychic, so why would it be pronounced in psion?!" I'm not sure I'll finish this book, we'll see if I can overcome the challenges presented by this narrator.

I don't know how the producers could have someone who can't pronounce neutrino narrate this story. The inconsistency between narrators of books in the series is annoying, but mispronouncing scientific words in books that are so heavily embroidered with science is maddening.

A better narrator

Anyone other than Weintraub. Someone who can pronounce words like Behemoth and Psychiatric.....

The story was in keeping with the rest of the Skollian novels.

I have to agree that Suzanne Weintraub may be the worst narrator, ever. She can't pronounce Behemoth! I guess she is a reader of medical texts but the mind boggles at what she does with medical language. I only have to suffer through one more book Ms Weintraub narrates, and for that I am thankful.

I really need to start listening to the sample or free first chapter before buying. A quick listen and I would have known that this was not my style. I listen to one cd and called it quits, all though I knew within the first 10 minutes that I was not going to care. The first chapter list about 100 characters and all there relations. This is followed by a teenage girl who is the smartest person in the world, but she doesn't know it, she is so modest. Even though she is so smart, she does not know it until it is spelled out to her. There is also the dramatic guy kisses girl and then never calls her back. She feels her parents do not support her as much as her brother, because he is a boy and she is girl. I did not read far enough to see if she was as blind to her parents feelings and she was to her abilities. We also get the put down of people who are happy at being farmers and living in one place. Farmers of course are not as good as people who seek adventure. All this I got in 80 minutes of listening and I could not see going another 800 to 880 minutes. Me learn my lesson, listen to the samples.