Investigative Reporting

By: Amanda M. Lee

Narrated by: Angel Clark

Length: 24 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's Summary

Avery Shaw can't stay out of trouble - not that she wants to.

As a reporter for a Southeastern Michigan newspaper, Avery can't stop digging for the story - and that often makes her a target.

Follow Avery as she finds new love, has trouble letting go of a past love, and deals with a family that needs a group rate for therapy.

This audiobook contains books four through six in the Avery Shaw mystery series. It includes: Shot off the Presses, The Preditorial Page, and Misquoted & Demoted.

©2012 Amanda M. Lee (P)2015 Amanda M. Lee

hurts my ears

Awful narrator. Listening to this book is like being in a room full of squeaking, squawking, angry teenagers...

best narrator ever

love the books, the narrator makes the book come alive.you will enjoy this book to

My favorite series

Love the characters, the banter, the stories. Narrator does good male voices. Got to be hard to pull off without sounding ridiculous. At least I know my Avery voice is. I've said too much.

Yikes!

I like the Avery Shaw mysteries... but oh my goodness, this narrator is tough to continue listening to! Her cadence is off and nearly every guy-voice is high pitched and nasal.

It doesn't help that SEVERAL places have repeats from unedited recordings. I suffered through them, but I don't look forward to getting Book 7 through Audible. I'll probably bite the bullet and get the ebook.

As for the story, Book 6 may be my favorite as far as Avery's character development is concerned. I've wanted to like her from the get-go, but it was difficult in some of the earlier books... there was no end to her anger and it was starting to grate. At least in the last book in this series we see her anger and feisty nature doing more than upsetting her mother and making random people want to do her bodily harm.

Looking forward to more mysteries and more character development in future books!

*SPOILER ALERT* I don't know what it is with the name Ariel (perhaps the author has an arch nemesis and is immortilizing her in several bad characters or maybe The Little Mermaid was traumatic...) but it seems to pop up somewhere in nearly every book... for different characters... I think Book 6 also breaks this mold, unless I just blocked it out. : )

Interesting storylines, frustrating editin

I actually am enjoying this series, which at first I didn’t think I could keep with it. The biggest frustration was, as others have stated, is the poor editing of the audio. The first couple of times I thought I had backed up the audio and was hearing a repeat. I knew it was like a skipping record when it happened over and over. As a paying customer, that’s just a poor product delivery.

snarky humor

beginning to be friends with snarky humor 🤣 characters are fleshing out and even growing ... looking forward to the next set too

I love fiction- but a late 20 year old & teenagers???

I tried giving this series another chance, but this is getting ridiculous. Every teenage boy walks up to Avery and wants sex? She punches minors in the balls cause they suggest they want to have sex? Rape is so casually tossed around? The character who is raped asks- you think those are the boys who raped me, and the response is- it’s not your fault...? She never said it was??? Here’s the summary of each character at this point: Elliot- just wants to fight everyone and have sex every minute Jake- Avery’s dad Avery- a twelve year old - super unrealistic for her age and where she is in life The last group of books were okay, the narrator was my only issue. This round- it was collectively everything together.... Bummer. I really wanted to like this.

The editing

There are a lot of repeats in this reading, whom ever edited it did not do a very good job. It a good thing the books themselves are so good.

Great story line, some editing problems

I love the characters Amanda M. Lee creates in her stories. The reason I didn’t give it higher for performance is because there are a lot of areas where the editing is done poorly and sometimes there are parts that are repeated multiple times.

Lots of errors but Avery showing growth

In Books 1-3 there were a lot of mispronunciations. In books 4-6 there were still a few mispronunciations but the main problem was repeated phrases and sentences. I don't understand why these are not being caught before publication.

I was pleased to see some growth in Avery's character and hope this continues.

Love it

The story’s are amazing and fun and only get better! Id love to do some of the things Avery does, punching a teenager in the balls for one lol