The Other

Zack Tolliver, FBI, Book 1

De: R Lawson Gamble

Narrado por: Thomas Block

The hunters noticed the circling birds against the rose-tinted sky above the rim rock and saw where the flat rays of the early morning sun glinted on something that didn't belong there, and the three of them walked that way. What they find sends FBI agent Zack Tolliver and his friend Eagle Feather in pursuit of a dangerous and powerful killer.

©2012 R Lawson Gamble (P)2018 Thomas Block

Good Story, horrible narration

The narration of this book makes it almost unlistenable. I don’t know what they were trying to accomplish, but failed. Some people might like being talked at like two year old, I’m not one. The change of voice for the Navajo characters is very distasteful.

Narrator

Everything else is great but your narrator's delivery made it hard to finish. Sorry

Enjoyed the story, interesting premse

R Lawson Gamble has created an interesting group of characters and imaginative take on native myths, overall an interesting premise. Unfortunately flawed by The narrator Thomas Block. Sentences, paragraphs don't flow naturally and poor differentiation of characters, confusing. The quality of the written story is five star.

Bad narration

Great story for this genre but narration was atrocious. His inflections were horribly off. Ruined story

a little slow to develop

like the native American theme, story a little slow to develop, a little long and I got lost in the climax

Narrator was difficult to listen to

Narrator's inflections, intonations, and speaking pace was halting and inconsistent. Sometimes was like listening to a new, inexperienced reader, or to someone who wasn't using anticipation or inference. Sometimes the narrator sounded distracted so sentences were broken and the pace would occasionally be sped up and others were narrated painfully slow. I even adjusted the speed and it was still difficult. It was sometimes hard to understand which character was speaking.
Story was good for a quick and light listen. I did enjoy, for a nice change, that the people going after the 'bad guy', regardless of affiliation, did work together. Also enjoyed that there was not foul language or sexual content as it wouldn't have added much to the story. Seems there could be more story to develop.

Definitely a Fantasy

The reader was so hard to listen too. I finished it but wanted another readers

Wrong narrator for this book

Could not finish 2nd chapter. New York / northeastern accent is probably better for a noir set in a city. Navajo's sounded like Asians. Sorry, sure this guy is good for other setting than southwest indian-country

The worse narrator ever

This book might have been good and honestly I listened until there was about 90 minutes left but by that I just could not take the narrator’s voice anymore without cutting my wrists.
I know that being a narrator might be a hard job but there are so many excellent ones out there I don’t know why in the world they would choose this one . A narrator can make or break a book especially if they try to use these god awful voices that absolutely fell to match the character in the book. There are many good Native American actors and narrators that could have done the Native voices but instead this narrator sounds like he is speaking with a voice from Hong Kong . I have listened to many audiobooks and I have to say this is by far one of the worst narrators ever . So this turns me off from any more books from this author especially if the narrator is the same person .
Do yourself a favor read the book which is what I did just to finish it.