Stolen: Women of the Otherworld, Book 2

I had decided to listen to all of the "Women (and Men) of the Otherworld" series by Kelley Armstrong, after listening and enjoying her first book "Bitten." The pace was right, the story enticing and clever and the charactors were well developed. Armstrong continued with character development, although this book could have probably been half as long as it was. There were so many times that I just wanted to fast forward through some dull prose that turned out not to have a thing to do with the ending of the story, but I hung in there, hoping it would pick up towards the end, which it did.

I cannot give this book the four stars that it could have earned, because this review is for the audio version of the book, and that was poor. The choice of Nell Canning to read was a mistake. A red flag went up when she read the title of the book, and said "women of the underworld" instead of "women of the otherworld."

Her interpretation of Elena was way off, having given her a macho, rough voice instead of the feminine voice that Aasne Vigesaa had given her in the first book. As another reviewer stated, her southern accent of Clay makes him sound like a country bumpkin instead of an educated college professor, and she just can't pull off Jeramy's command in his role as pack leader.

The producers are the ones who are guilty of putting the wrong narrator in the studio, and really need to make it right. I will probably listen to the rest of the series, but I hope the choice of narrators is better.

Once again in a book series, for some reason the publisher decided to change the narrator, which for me if very distracting.

I enjoyed Aasne Vigesaa from Bitten. She had a much better range for the characters.

This narrator attempts of a southern accent for Clay is way off, she made him sound like county bumpkin, (when he had an accent at all) not a smooth southern sexy anthropologist that came across in Bitten.
I wish if they need to switch narrators they would try to get someone that matched the style of the previous narrator. For me it is really distracting. Especially when you have the same characters.
I'm only part way thru Stolen, but so far I liked Bitten much better. I hope it gets better.

I'm not sure I can endure this narrator's voice for the rest of this book. Elena sounds terribly different, like a chain smoker who is way older than 32, and Clay sounds like a hillbilly. Gone is his smooth and appealing accent. I'm so appalled by the reader that I'm barely paying attention to the story!

If you had a chance to listen to the first book, Bitten, and this was the reason for getting the second one, you will be GREATLY disappointed. In my personal opinion, the issue is the narrator. She is simply wrong for this book. Instead of a lively, feminine, and strong voice of Elaina, intelligent and quiet voice of Jeremy, and seductive and funky accent of Clay, you get Elaina with voice of 50+ year old heavy smoker, Jeremy sounds like a mafiosi, and Clay sounds like a neurotic cowboy and not a world-renowned anthropology professor. The entire book is in a complete dissonance with the first one. I wish the previous narrator was used for this book.

I really liked book 1 of this series.. but they didn't keep the same narrator.. it took almost 1/2 the book to finally get used to the new narrator.. somehow she managed to change the characters.. ugh.. almost as if it wasn't the same author? but I liked the story so I stuck it out... hope the next book brings back the old narrator.. these books are fun and appropriate for listening to in little portions without getting confused.. if you're looking for great literature, look further.

I almost stopped listening because of the narrator, mainly because I loved the narrator from Bitten so much! But once I got past the voice, I really enjoyed the book. Its not as good as Bitten or Broken, but still really good.

I didn't like this story as much as the first one, Bitten. I also really, really liked Aasne Vigesaa, who narrated Bitten, and didn't really like the sound of Nell Canning's voice. That's a very subjective thing so take a listen yourself.

This story just didn't grab me as much as the first one. It felt like I had more of an emotional reaction to Elena's situation than Elena did. The characters seemed very one dimensional. Regardless, I'm looking forward to listening to the next book.

love the story but the narrator sounds like a grandma and when it comes to the sexual sences you don't want your grandma reading it to you =/

I enjoyed the first book and narrator and was excited to continue the story and then heard the narrator. I was unsure I could even endure this awful new voice. She is too old to be the voice of Elena and the voice of Clay was absolutely wrong. I don't think she even listened to the first book. Awful Awful Awful - I will not listen to another book narrated by Nell Canning.

The story is good, the narrator is not suited to this series, it takes away from the story. The narrator for Bitten is much better.