Wonton Terror

A Noodle Shop Mystery, Book 4

De: Vivien Chien

Narrado por: Cindy Kay

In the fourth in Vivien Chien's Noodle Shop delicious mystery series, Ho-Lee Noodle House is ready to take the Cleveland night market by storm―until a brand-new food venue literally explodes onto the scene.

Lana Lee is all smiles when the first evening of Cleveland’s Asian Night Market kicks off the summer. The weekly festival is always good for business, packed with locals and tourists, and this year, some stiff new food-truck competition. Wonton on Wheels, run by old friends of Lana’s parents, promises to have customers lining up for their delicately wrapped delights―until the truck blows up at evening’s end.

Lana’s boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau, had been planning a birthday getaway for the two of them but, lo and behold, Lana must assume the role of amateur sleuth yet again. With one proprietor of Wonton on Wheels dead, it’s beginning to look more like murder and less like an unfortunate accident. And as they begin to unwrap layers of disturbing secrets, Lana’s own family erupts into new drama. Will Lana be able to solve this crime―or has she jumped from the wok right into the fire?

“Thoroughly entertaining...fun and delicious.”―RT Book Reviews

©2019 Vivien Chien (P)2024 Spotify Audiobooks

Love This Series- New Narrator is Great

I was delighted to discover that the rest of this fun series has finally been recorded! I absolutely loved the first three books and was disappointed when it seemed there would be no more audiobook versions. I had even purchased the Kindle version of the fourth book and was slowly making my way through it.

I noticed that some reviews are critical of the new narrator, but I think she does an excellent job. While her style is different from the previous narrator, who had a more dramatic approach, I personally prefer the new narrator’s understated and crisp delivery. The way she voiced the characters made them a little less snarky or whiny than before, and therefore more likable.

That you guys had a new characters

Overall, it was really good but throughout the story, it was like really really, really really confusing

Always live Vivien Chien❤️❤️❤️❤️100%

I love the characters, storyline, all the action and excellent interwoven stories of each character in China Village. I love sipping my green tea, and occasionally trying to g to find the foods in the story so I ac make it that much more real.
What’s hard about this book is that the narrator changed.. and I didn’t realize it until I’d hit play. It was such a significant difference that I didn’t recognize the Lana I had come to know and love.. so I had to press pause for awhile, give my ears other stories to listen to and now I am back a few months later and as long as I don’t listen to the earlier books I think I can enjoy the rest. I don’t know what happened but I can guess the first narrator might not have been available at the time or perhaps she got sick or something else.. I hope she is well. I miss her voice so much!! She was a perfect Lana. The narrator for this and the rest of the books going forward has grown on me some. I crave Vivien’s books and so I am willing to set aside my auditory bias and do my best to immerse myself in the stories.

Lots of love to to Vivien❤️
Thank you for writing these 🩷💕♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

Hooked Again! Loving the New Narrator and Lana’s Growth

I’m so glad I stuck with this series! The old narrator had great character voices, but the weird pauses kept throwing me off. Plus, Lana Lee’s passive, almost juvenile nature was starting to get on my nerves.

But I’ve really noticed her growing more confident and assertive, which makes her way more fun to follow. And the new narrator? She’s awesome! She brings a fresh energy that pulled me right back in. I’m fully hooked again and can’t wait to see what trouble Lana gets into next!

Just amazing !!

Absolutely love the book soo good and keeps you on the edge of your seat. I’m kinda sad that there is a new narrator but I am Still going to listen !!

Narration ruined the book for me

The narration is so bad. These characters that I've grown to love feel completely different. Peter, who is always kind of a goofy, nice guy, is now like some stoic, stereotypical cool guy voice. All the names are pronounced differently in this, and as much as I love the book series, I don't think I will continue with the audio versions of them because of the narration. This is extremely disappointing for me as someone with dyslexia, as this is primarily how I read books.

Narrator Ruins It

I started listening to the Noodle House Mysteries a while back and was so sad when the audio versions ended at book 3. But recently, I found that the rest of the books were recorded and now available on Audible and was exited to dive back into the stories on my long commute. Problem was that the narrator of the first 3 books was gone and replaced by Ms. Kay. I am sorry to say, after an hour of listening I don’t know if I can continue. Ms. Kay is not a great narrator. She has no range. The men all sound the same with a low gravelly voice that is forced and just sounds like a female trying too hard to talk like a man. The ethnic accents are all but gone and the female characters have slight range but not much. I guess this is the last audio version I will be downloading since sadly Cindy Kay reads all the newer audio books.
The stories are fun, so when I have time to actually read the book I will do that, but no more audio for me.