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Good Story, but did not care about the narrator

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

good, read, interesting.. the reader of the story was too distracting from the actual characters thus made listening somewhat uneasy.

Would you listen to another book narrated by John Lee?

No, but bought another book read by John Lee (not realizing ) and could not even finish listening to the story, Sorry to say..