Allies

Mad Dogs, Book 7

By: Brenda Cothern, Wench Publishing Inc.

Narrated by: Jack Curtiss

Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's Summary

The Mad Dogs return to Camp Smokey in the North Carolina Mountains brings more changes than just their brand new downtime base. A new Council Representative is the least of the changes thrust upon the unit.

Promotions that are unwanted, more questions Doc needs to answer, and born shifters to be recruited in hopes that they can become Mad Dogs. But even with new allies, the Council and the Organization just won’t give the unit a break

©2017 Brenda Cothern (P)2018 Wench Publishing, Inc.

Not nearly as good

I loved the first books, especially 1-4. I’m really disappointed in this installment. This book is about 2 hours shorter than the rest. It had to be longer. The 2 hours cut held the romance because this book was lacking in that regard. It developed the political intrigue and the characters a bit but the romance was stagnant. That part of it didn’t go anywhere. It really needed some development. Disappointed I bought this one. Lastly, they switched the narrator. The first was BY FAR the best. He actually gave each character (maybe 10 or so) their own voice and style - and each was pleasing to the ear, which is truly incredible. He made these audiobooks successful. You can’t translate a story like this to audio without an excellent narrator. I’m really not sure if I’ll buy another if he isn’t on it. There are just too many characters for most narrators to handle.

Great book!

Love this series. However, why oh why did you change our narrator? This one is good, but the original narrator was so much better and did each of the characters so well. Each had their own inflection. I still enjoyed the book, but please bring back our first narrator back for next book!

Different narrator made me not finish

Ok I love the Mad Dogs series and books 1-6 were great on audio and the guy that narrated them ( books 1-6) did a great job with voicing the different Mad Dogs. I was looking forward to the latest book on audio and I couldn't make it past chapter 3. the 'new' guy narrating is bland as white toast. there is no character differentiation like in the previous audio books, everyone sounds the same, no tone inflections either its all one note. Sad to say but I think I will read this one instead of listening to it. *sigh*

Interesting Story

The concept is interesting and well written. The characters are likeable and the narration is good.

What happened to the narrator?

I love these books. I bought this in ebook cause I couldn't wait for the audio to find out what's next. Now I've bought the audio to go with my collection and was SO DISAPPOINTED! The original narrator had a nice pace and did all the voice inflections that made each character unique and alive that when I read the book I had the voices in my head. This new guy? Where do I start? He reads so fast, bland and drones on like it's a shopping list after awhile he becomes background noise and I forget I'm listening to a story and loose track of what's happened. I am 3/4's through and was hoping its because he's new I even tried slowing the reading settings. Sad to say but I have missed the whole story, no idea who's who doing what.. Will have to go back and read it, shame. Please redo Allies with the original narrator and I'll buy again. Hope he at least comes back for the next book or I will not be purchasing audio version done by this guy! I think I'll try and return this.