A Longer Fall [Dramatized Adaptation]

Gunnie Rose, Book 2

De: Charlaine Harris

Narrado por: full cast, Colleen Delany, Robbie Gay, Amanda Forstrom, Yasmin Tuazon, Stephon Walker, Bradley Smith, Ken Jackson, Michael Glenn, Alejandro Ruiz, Elizabeth Jernigan, Steve Wannall

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Charlaine Harris returns with the second of the Gunnie Rose series, in which Lizbeth is hired onto a new crew, transporting a crate into Dixie, the self-exiled Southeast territory of the former United States. What the crate contains is something so powerful that forces from across three territories want to possess it.

Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straightforward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate, as what’s inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

Author Charlaine Harris (Sookie Stackhouse mysteries and Midnight, Texas trilogy) is at her best here, building the world of this alternate history of the United States, where magic is an acknowledged but despised power.

Performed by Colleen Delany; Robbie Gay; Amanda Forstrom; Yasmin Tuazon; Stephon Walker; Bradley Smith; Ken Jackson; Michael Glenn; Alejandro Ruiz; Elizabeth Jernigan; Steve Wannall; KenYatta Rogers; Karen Novack; Nora Achrati; Nanette Savard; J.W. Rone; Jefferson A. Russell; Michael John Caesy; Richard Rohan; Nick DePinto; Dawn Ursula; Christopher Walker; Eric Messner; Rose Elizabeth Supan; Carolyn Kashner; Duyen Washington; Joe Mallon; Scott McCormick; Ren Kasey; Kimberly Gilbert; Ryan Carlo Dalusung; James Lewis; Lolita Horne; Elliot Dash; Chris Davenport.

©2020 Charlaine Harris (P)2020 Graphic Audio, LLC

great graphi audio adaptation

love the book when I read it and enjoyed the graphic audio just as much!

another good one

a love most of charlaine Harris's books. this is no exception. the dramatization is a big bonus. also the different voice actors make it very enjoyable. loved it!

Not quite, so sure about graphic audio

This was an accidental purchase, it was the second book of the series, and I got it before, realizing it was a graphic audio. Of course, the storyline was good as only Charlene Harris can do, but the background noise made it difficult to focus on the narrators. The narrators were great I think if it wasn’t for the background noise I would’ve enjoyed it more.

Fast action listen

What a slam, bang, crazy ride of a read as Gunnie Rose and Eli, the Gregorian wizard meet up in the middle of a train robbery and join forces to find the bones of a Black saint. As I am beginning to understand with this series, twists abound and who is innocent and who is sneaky mean get switched around often. Fortunately Gunnie and Eli are up for any challenge and no bigoted white men are going to get over on them or the long-dead saint they sort of saved. The talented cast of GraphicAudio made for a way exciting listen.

I disliked the distractions to the story.

I disliked the distractions to the story. The story on its own was good. There was no need for the extra stuff. I’d rather use my imagination.

New world, same ole discrimination

Next to urban fantasy, weird western is my favorite fantasy subgenre. I can put up with a lot of dry tumbleweeds if the OK Corral showdown is fantastic. Sadly, this second installment only got the first half right: an opening gunfight, followed by Gunnie Rose isolated in a small town of hostility and secrets. I was digging the first hour or so.

Unfortunately, the more the story plodded on, the more my interest flagged. There were multiple things that wore me down and I’m not sure I’ll continue with the series.

1. This is more magic realism than fantasy. A scant handful of characters used magic, and it was one-sided in favor of Team Gunnie Rose.

2. Flat everything. The graphic audio format tried to inject life into this, but the characters, world, and plot were uninspired and forgettable. The most detail was reserved for eating and drinking; every other scene was of eating delicious cornbread, drinking something with ice in it (the wonders of ice!), or cycling through the roster of Southern pies (pecan, chess, custard). The Big Bad doesn’t chew scenery or even have lines until the end. Gunnie Rose ends up without a team and doing the lone gunman thing- again, except she’s got a love interest with her- again … signaling a formula for not-greatness.

3. The most uninspiring feature was to give us a post-apocalyptic world with magic and monsters… and then give us yet another story where women and minorities are stuck under the yoke of white Southerners in a land called, of course, Dixie.