The Outlaw Demon Wails

By: Kim Harrison

Narrated by: Gigi Bermingham

Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

To save the lives of her friends, Rachel did the unthinkable: she willingly trafficked in forbidden demon magic. And now her sins are coming home to haunt her.

As Rachel searches for the truth behind a terrifying murder, an even greater menace threatens, for the demon Algaliarept will stop at nothing to claim her, and the discovery of a shocking family secret throws Rachel's entire life into question. If she is ever to live free, Rachel must first walk willingly into the demonic ever-after in search of long-lost ancient knowledge.

But when you dance with demons, you lay your soul on the line...and there are some lines that should never be crossed.

©2008 Kim Harrison (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers

Didn't like narration

Although I love the story, this narration of the audible by Gigi Bermingham is nerve racking. I completely miss Marguerite Gavin's narration skills. Gigi, to me, has a grating voice not to mention some of her pronunciations made me shutter! Some of her accents were good, but Jenks and Ceri sounded like nails on a chalk board. Thank goodness there is only this book narrated by her. I hope someone is having Marguerite redo it to go with the rest!

I'll never understand... SAVE YOUR MONEY..

I'll never understand why they change narrators after 5 books.. nothing against the new one, I'm sure she's wonderful at reading other stories.. but this.. this was awful. Apart from the sound being wonky, the voices she gave everyone was just wrong. Jenks voice made me wanna stick my head in an oven. Secondly, I think maybe in the future if you're going to change the person reading perhaps have them listen to one or two of the other books that were read, you know to get the words right and semi get an idea of how the characters have been portrayed. I've listened to the first 5 books in about a week and considering how expensive audio books are, I don't think I'm going to pursue the rest of the series through audible. Unless the were to redo them with Margaritte again. I'll go paperback. As stated, save your money.. unless you're just starting the audio from this one.. and in that case.. maybe still save it.. the pixie voices will grate your eyeballs.

Horrible Narrator and Suspense music

I cringed the whole way through with this narrator and the suspense music was absolutely awful

amazing writing terrible reading.

Kim Harrison is an amazing author. Her books have great stories are fun to read. But the reading of this novel was terrible. All important words names places are mispronounced and after this being the 6th book of a series and hearing 5 of them pronounce correctly and in a certain way, this was heartbreaking. If things like misspelled or misspoken names and places and words that are simple to pronounce don't bother you then it's a great listen and I definitely recommend reading it.

don't you check with the author?

how on earth could an audio book be recorded without checking with the author how names are pronounced?? so much butchering! and not just names, basic words. the narrators voice was pleasant enough, if a little off on the expressiveness of character. The lack of proper pronounced names pulled me out of the story the whole time. she has no accent yet speaks as though English is her 2nd language. so painful to listen to. go read the book instead.

Great book, horrible performance

This is one of my favorite books in the Rachel Morgan series. So having to struggle through listening to this horrible performance mad me sad. Her character voices are bad, and in the case of Keesley, downright racist. She may have wanted to actually LISTEN to any other book in the series, maybe then she could have pronounced words and names correctly. And I'm just crossing my fingers that they do away with the cringe-worthy "suspense" music moving forward. I'm very happy to see Margarite Gavin is back to performing the next book.

Story is great, but...

I have enjoy this whole series. Unfortunately this book was painful to listen to, the narrator has changed. Between the horrible attempted voice changes between characters every chapter transition has a musical interlude that interrupts the storyline.

Do not change narrators

I don’t want to be rude because I’m sure this narrator did the best job she could but honestly she butchered this story. She mispronounced names. The demon Al sounded like an elderly British woman and her voicing of Jenks was like nails on a chalk board. The story was great and I expect nothing less from Kim Harrison. You can stop with the dramatic musical pauses.

Awful narrator

I love this series by Kim Harrison but can not listen to this narrator. Her mispronounced words and nasally voice are awful. The narrator for the other books in this series is fantastic. I wish they would have her narrate this book too.

So hard to enjoy a good story with such terrible..

narration. So grateful that all the other books, besides this one is Margherite. I cannot tolerate Gigis voices, her constant mispronounciations, and especially her voice for Jenks.