BLACK In The Box (BLACK #5)

De: Russell Blake

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Artemis Black's world is coming apart in the days leading up to Christmas. His relationship is on the rocks, he's struggling to make ends meet, he's gone days without sleep, and when he's called in to investigate a brutal murder at a big box store in Long Beach, he's at the end of his rope. Racing the clock to clear a young woman's name before she's charged with homicide, Black gets more than he bargained for, and finds himself enmeshed in a web of deceit and betrayal that will require every ounce of his and Roxie's sleuthing prowess if they're to survive the night.

Stop with the AI VOICE

I love RC Bray and search out books he narrates. That is how I found this series. I listened to the first 4 books and really enjoyed them. I I have gotten to know and appreciate these characters and this story line. Unfortunately, AI ruined it. I can fully understand wanting to give AI a try but RC Bray gave life to these characters and AI choked them out in the back of a minivan and buried them in a shallow grave. So sad.

AI voice

I will not buy another virtual voice book again. It ruins the story. Very disappointed.

First four in series were wonderful!

LIstening to the first four Black books by Russell Blake was delightful, had me laughing outloud at the snappy and well-read dialogue. R.C. Bray, as narrator, did a fabulous job bringing these books to life as funny, unusual and expressing great characters. Black #5, however, was dull. Story was still good and clever, however, the narration was pretty bad, mispronounced words, very boring, not good inflection which really made this listening experience very dull. I will probably not listen to any more books using virtual voice.

Virtual Voice and Literature.

My wife and I have hugely enjoyed the Black series through Book Four, but were leery of sitting down to listen to Book Five because of Audible's decision to use Virtual Voice. We were right. It was a huge mistake. It's one thing to use Virtual Voice for non-fiction or technical titles, quite another for books utilizing characters and their dialogue. Hearing Black and Roxie's banter presented in the same voice and with the same inflection was disappointing, to say the least. Audible rightly presents human readers as 'performing' the book. That was not the case with Virtual Voice. There may be some economic advantage to using Virtual Voice, but Audible would be wise to restrict its use to pure narrations and not performances. We gave the story a one-star only because we knew it would get people's attention and we would like to see Audible respond.

Can someone please pay R.C. Bray?

I absolutely love books 1 through 4. R.C. Bray is the voice of this series. I revisit them annually. But he AI Voice doesn’t serve the story or series well. Despite really wanting to know how the 5th Black book plays out, I’m struggling to focus with the AI voice. I doubt I’ll even finish the audiobook. Can someone just pay R.C. Bray, please?

Virtual voice ruin good story

Very little, If any, inflection. Also, difficult to know which character was talking. Why couldn’t different voices be used? Doubt I will listen to another virtual voice book again.

I would have read this for free

The virtual voice ruins any attempt at enjoyment. I'd read it to the masses free of charge if it meant resurrecting this abomination of an audiobook from its virtual ashes. Sorry, Russell. They did you dirty.

the bad reader

terrible idea to have an AI reader. Frequented error on putting emphasis on wrong syllable

Stop with the AI

The AI was so bad I can’t even tell you if the story was any good. It seem like it was but every thing you liked about the first books was lost with the AI. Please have the last read re do this so I can actually enjoy it.

The AI voice is the worst.

Love the Black novels, but this AI voice reading the story is horrible. Very monotone with no inflection,..no change in voice for each charter. What happened to RC Bray? Stay away just for this reason.