Breath of Magic

By: Teresa Medeiros

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Can a Puritan tame a playboy?
Precocious Puritan and aspiring witch Arian Whitewood spends her lonely nights dreaming of magic and excitement. She gets more excitement than she bargains for when she crash lands straight out of a witch hunt into modern day New York and the arms of Tristan Lennox, a reclusive billionaire determined to prove magic doesn't exist. Arian blows through Tristan's climate-controlled existence like a breath of fresh air, only to discover that the spell he weaves around her heart is more compelling than any enchantment.

Book 1 in Teresa’s LENNOX MAGIC Series, which includes:
Breath of Magic
Touch of Enchantment

“Wondrous and brimming over with the love and laughter of Teresa Medeiros’s enchanting style. Steals your heart and is not to be missed!”—Romantic Times

“A humorous, action-packed romp. Fabulously funny and wonderfully witty.”—Slake

“Medeiros is magic!”—Christina Dodd, New York Times bestselling author

“Try a novel by Teresa Medeiros and you will swear it was written just for you.”—New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas

“A superb storyteller. Medeiros can pull every last emotion from the reader with tear-inducing scenes and laugh-out-loud dialogue.”—Booklist

Writing is excellent, AI narrator is trash

Just as the title says. The premise, story, and characters of the book are wonderful. What a shame that the AI narrator does it such a disservice.

The AI reader regularly mispronounces words, e.g. confuses "resume" as in continue with "resume" as in job application. It offers absolutely no modulation between character pitch/tone, which makes conversations feel disorienting and inauthentic. (The last audiobook I listened to has a family of five sisters and each one had a distinctive voice. Amazing!) The AI reader also has difficulty with getting emphasis right in simple turns of phrase. (Because it is a robot. Who thought this was a good idea?)

Most egregiously, it gives everyone a British accent, though Arian is from 17th century Massachusetts and Tristan is a New Yorker in 1996. This bothered me most because I kept thinking of how a real voice actor would've rendered those compelling distinctions. Such a poor, greed-driven decision. Voice acting is an art, and I will never take it for granted again.

However. I stuck around because the writing was strong. Such a fun read I landed on in a stressful time. I looked forward to listening after the workday to take my mind off things.

Definitely plan on reading the sequel, though I will probably stick with the physical copy for that-- no soulless narrator necessary.

Magical

One of my favorite by Teresa. And that it has a sequel, is icing on the cake ♥️