Fright Court

By: Mindy Klasky

Narrated by: Emma Galvin

Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's Summary

Sarah Anderson has found her dream job: Clerk of Court for the District of Columbia Night Court. Dream job, that is, until she’s attacked in the open courtroom by a vampire defendant. And until she’s forced to take self-defense lessons from her boss, the enigmatic vampire James Morton. And until she learns that she can’t share the truth about any of that with her best friend, Allison Ward – even over delectable cupcakes from the Cake Walk bakery. Soon, Sarah is surrounded by vampires, griffins, and sprites – all members of a secret supernatural court. And when a deceptively easy-going reporter starts to ask questions, Sarah wonders just what answers she is supposed to give… Will Sarah be able to create order in the court?

©2008, 2011, 2012 Mindy Klasky (P)2014 Audible Inc.

Vampires, werewolves and sphinx oh my.

This book was really great. it reminded me a little of the Robyn Peterman books. It has vampires, werewolves and other supernaturals. The narrator did a great job with each character. I look forward to reading more in this series.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Unbalanced

This strong modern woman takes on a new role in a court and ends up in a physically abusive relationship, but it’s okay because he heals her broken arm and feels “really bad. On the other hand, the author uses her lead character’s OCD as part of a supernatural gift, which is kind of neat. The narrator should look up unfamiliar words before attempting to sound them out, and had a distracting habit of halting her sentences in. . . . . . inappropriate places.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

I seriously dislike the narrator.

the narrator is terrible. she is out of sync with the flow of the writing. I do like the story, I find it light and entertaining.

2 of 3 people found this review helpful

YUCK!!!! Narrator or author? IDK!

I am all for a good vampire story, but the voice and accent of the narrator is totally awful. Also, some of the wrong pronunciations of the simplest words are just sad.

3 of 5 people found this review helpful

Performance

The reading was choppy with no inflection. Monotone, pauses for breath timed wrong with sentence structure making it hard to follow. Ended up just reading the book. So much better that way. I use audible for when I drive long distance for work. This this destroyed the story.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Great book, painful narration...

Let me start by saying that I really loved this book. However,in all my years of listening to audible, I have never slammed a narrator like I am about to…the narration was absolutely horrific.
This narrator mispronounced SO many words that it was painful to listen to! Common words!On top of that, she couldn't even say a full sentence without putting weird pauses every 5 or 6 words, no matter what the punctuation originally indicated. I don't know who was the producer, but they obviously were NOT doing their job the day this was recorded.
I did listen to the entire thing because I really liked the story, but I will be buying the e-books for any future books with this narrator.

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Please no more Emma Galvin!

I really enjoy Mindy Klaskys writing. Her stories are light and generally fun, but I am pleading, PLEASE, find a different narrator! Emma Galvin has a pleasant voice and I would find her portrayal of these characters if she only knew the meaning of punctuation! She pauses where she shouldn't so often that I find it terribly distracting. As much as I enjoy listening to books I'm afraid that any other Klasky books I purchase will have to be in print not on audible!

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

No. Just...no.

Setting: Washington D. C contemporary
Genre: paranormal, supposed to be funny
I could not give zero stars, so I gave it one. I don't like to give crappy reviews unless I have been unable to finish a book, then it serves as a warning.
As I said, I was unable to finish. I got barely into chapter 3 before I had to stop.
This character, Sarah Jane Anderson, supposedly found her "dream job" working as Clerk of Court in night court, but then she's attacked by a vampire her first night at work. Apparently, working with supernatural individuals was not on the job description, and she's freaked out. Her boss, a vampire, saved her life but was unable to mesmerize her into forgetting what happened. He offers her 3 months pay and an excellent recommendation, but she begs to keep her job. Now, this woman continues to be extremely frightened. She whines about the situations and monsters she may encounter in the course of her duties. She's irritating!bSecondary characters are introduced in the first two chapters, but are extremely one-dimensional. You can barely tell they will figure into the plot. Or will they?mSarah should have taken the excellent severance package and gotten another job. But then, what of the plot? Look, it's a great concept, but so poorly executed that it was painful. Also, it's in first person POV, which lends itself to internal monologues, but there was too much of that telling and not enough showing. It is just bad writing. Apparently this author has done better work, but it will have to be free for me to even try.
The narration wasn't bad. There were some starts and stops where there shouldn't have been, but maybe the script was crappy. Differentiation of characters was okay.
Anyway, life is way too short to waste time on bad books, so move on from this one. I got the Whispersync deal, so it wasn't terribly expensive, but still...

1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Scary nights

This is a entertaining story about vampires and other creatures. I really enjoyed this book!

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

Narrator impossible to enjoy

Ms. Galvin reads with a bizarre and repetitive cadence that always ends in an inexplicable tonal rise. It's as though she breaks it up by syllables, not punctuation. I almost fell asleep while driving because of the odd rocking motion of her voice. I've tried three times to listen and can't get past the first hour. Walk away from this one, even on sale.

0 of 1 people found this review helpful

Terrible narrater

Started listening to the story an got to chapter five before I gave in. I couldn’t get with the story as the voice put me off. Won’t get another book of this author.