The Complete 7 Book Potion Commotion Mystery Series

By: Constance Barker

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Complete Seven Book Series

Sam is an earth witch who concocts smoothie potions for whatever ails you. Her friend Tessa is a spicy and ferocious fire witch who owns the local diner. Phineas and his pet rooster Chuckles are regular customers. Join this motley crew as they solve murders and combat evil forces along the way.

This is the complete seven book series for the Happy Blendings Witch Cozy Mystery Series including these books:

The Potion Commotion
A Pumpkin Potion Explosion
A Drop in the Potion
A Notion of a Potion
A Deceptive Potion
A Formidable Potion
A Risky Potion

Virtual voice was distracting to story

The virtual voice was distracting to my listening experience as it pronounced words like us as U.S. and it as I.T. It frequently through me off by putting the wrong inflection on questions, making them sound like statements - as if the question wasn't discovered until a page was turned.
Book titles were not clearly marked. there were supposed to be 7 titles in this collection,but I wasn't able to clearly discern the 7 titles. I think the titles should have been edited before release and someone needs to listen to the book before releasing it as well. The author and listener should both be disappointed that this collection was given substandard attention and read by a virtual voice.

The stories were nice and cozy. But the Virtual Voice was distracting.

The story was entertaining. I enjoyed the characters, interactions and dialogue. Except the Southern detective used “you all” way too much. And it should have been “y’all” at least part of the time. . Several times in a sentence is not normal. I have lived in the South as a Northerner, and I have never heard anything like it. It was very disturbing.

The narration was awkward. Such as no pause at the end of sentences, let alone chapters and Reading “us” as “U.S.” There were other mispronunciations that took a minute to decipher.

There was some variation in inflections, but several required thought to interpret what was supposed to have happened , such as situations where a phrase was repeated by another character responding with surprise or such. It was often steamrolled past, so the effect was lost.

I hope the AI will improve with feedback and tweaking over time. This is the second VV narrated book I have listened to; the other had some of the same issues. I hope this new format won’t be used for all books “included in membership.”

I still enjoyed the series, and would recommend it to others as cozy mysteries. Maybe it won’t bother other listeners as much.

Good stories

I enjoyed the stories, but until virtual Voice can read in character and proper accent (southern), it just hard to really get a good feel of the stories Characters. It just you can tell there is no feeling into it. You can tell when there is a period because it pauses. I’m surprised that it doesn’t announce period, comma, ect. I understand why the choose to use VV because then there isn’t fee of a reader, but until VV gets better it’s not the way to go. I don’t know how many times I had to turn this story off walk a way and come back. If I didn’t enjoy the stories so much I would have quit after the first chapter. You get tired of it saying and Sam said…, the Paula said… and so on.

unfortunate use of technology

in my personal opinion this could have been a truly good book, but the virtual voice narration nearly ruined it for me completely. the lack of emotion was lost in the bumbling AI just when I would get into a particular event the voice would double tap on simple words and distract me from the story. one word in it was " us" it repeatedly used
U S. then the final book had potential to be great however the repetitive use of ya'll was not only over used but misused. I'm aware this seems petty but it ruined especially book 7. until that book I could have simply excepted the error and most likely went on about life but it really could have been a terrific story. if I find another book by this author that has a real narrator I might check it out, it had alot of things I enjoyed in its story line.

All

Enjoy the series but not listening to the whole introduction prior to the book starting