• Shadow Beasts

  • A Magical Library Urban Fantasy Novel
  • By: Nellie H. Steele
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Shadow Beasts

By: Nellie H. Steele
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Publisher's summary

If Paige isn’t careful, her new job could land her in an early grave.

Paige Turner’s zero-balance bank account demands she take on a new job, but she never expected it would be as Shadow Harbor’s newest librarian. Now the unlucky orphan is learning it’s not books she’ll be shelving…but magic. Dark, dangerous, deadly magic.

Her new position requires she keep the supernatural subworld at bay while retrieving and archiving magical artifacts from around the globe. If she fails, the world may just be doomed…but even trying could get her killed.

Teaming up with a snarktastic teacup dragon doesn’t seem to be helping, either. Paige still struggles to master magic and shelve supernatural secrets. And when her first assignment involves massive multiplication of a group of wayward werewolves, she fears the world may not survive her tenure as librarian.

Fans of The Librarians and Warehouse 13 will love this enchanting new cozy contemporary fantasy series.

Buy Shadow Beasts now to start shelving magic today!

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the female ai voice comes across better but still not as good as live narrative.

I like the story but some of the world building and action details were not fleshed out enough. IMO I did enjoy the story and characters.

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cute story

The vocie of the automated book reading never does a book justice. I liked the story. It was fun and easy flowing. would be more enjoyable if a real person actually narrated the book.

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Shadow beast the librarian

I loved it something different but the same kinda boats I like ware wolfs and vampires

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Computer generated voice

First time listening to virtual voice , not a fan of ai voice !
The story is good ,

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I liked the premise and will purchase the next in the series

The virtual voice misses the nuance of dialog and leaves the story a bit flat. A human performance would be better or a non audible read.

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Not a fan of the virtual narrator

The virtual narration sounded fine for most of the book. However, there were areas where it seemed so artificial that I almost stopped listening. The technology might be good, but it’s far from great!
Cute story though!

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Bad AI narration

The AI voice is far from Adequate. I much prefer a live actor. It keeps our attention better. This seems to drag. Aside from the AI voice Paige’s inclination to clumsy accidents gets old.

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I liked the story

I did not like the virtual voice. Sounded too much like same voice for all characters. Plus starting out with the story you don’t get the feel of the action, it was slightly monotone.

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Voice not the best

Story would be good but not enjoying the narration. Maybe I’ll just read the book instead of listening. Perhaps they will have a new recording sometime in the future and I will try again.

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I enjoyed the storyline. it was playful and and creative

the virtual narration did not do this book justice. it would have been better with a real person narrating

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