Wicked Gods

Gifted Academy, Book 1

By: Michelle Hercules

Narrated by: Madeleine Dauer, Alex Kydd

Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Nowhere is safe when the gods are wicked.

Since the beginning of times, there has always been two sides: Norms and Idols. But never have the scales been so unbalanced as they are today.

I'm a Norm, which means I grew up in fear of the Idols and their godly powers. And now, I'm going to be surrounded by them, day and night. I've been offered a place at the prestigious Gifted Academy, an opportunity very few Norms get.

To survive, I must become invisible. But my hope to get through the academy unscathed goes down the drain when the most powerful boys in school set their eyes on me.

They hate me simply because I'm a Norm. If they knew who I truly am, they'd tear me apart limb by limb. But I'm done cowering away from Idols. It's time for the Norms to fight back, and it all starts with me.

Contains mature themes.

©2019 Michelle Hercules (P)2019 Tantor

Narrator

Great story... but.... The male narrator is absolutely TERRIBLE. It was hard to get past that!

Definitely not appropriate for younger readers

Overall I enjoyed the story once I realized it was half smut half YA. I didn’t look that’s much into it beforehand, but I wasn’t expecting soft porn. The female narrator did a great job, but as others said the male narrator was terrible. I’ll listen to the second book and give it another chance as I do enjoy the story.

IN LOVE

I loved this book and half way through I HAD to make sure there was a second one because there is no way I’m wanting this to end!
I LOVE the narrators, they brought the characters alive. I totally liked the male voice! They both did a great job!

Solid story, but ...

Like many reviews have said, the male narrator is downright awful. Completely cringe like he doesn't know how to just talk to someone.

If you can get past that, the story is worth it.

Great read. Bad narrator

This book was well written and kept me interested throughout. The female narrator was good but as others have said the male narrator is horrible. I’ve listened to other books he has narrated and it’s the same as well. He sounds like a dumb jock and his female characters dialog always makes them sound like they are just dumb girls as well even though they aren’t written as such.

That male narrator...ummm

I couldn’t finish listening to it. I had to read it when I got the chance. The male narrator was not good at all. The fact it is the same narrator across all books I just gave up and read it on my own. If he would just read it with his own voice instead of trying to act out the character as a bored surfer?? Maybe it would have been tolerable. I should have read the reviews before purchase.

Male Narrator was TERRIBLE

grrrrrr. story is good so far, but the Male narrator sounds like he's a pothead surfer boy. There were no differences in the Male voices. it was all the same inflection and same droning surfer boy tardo. totally ruined it. trying to finish the story

mehh

the male narrator was pretty atrocious, not going to lie. he used this surfer-guy, douchebag tone for all the guys. I tried to speed it up to get through his chapters but he sounded like a South Park character then. I DNF but if I were to go back to it, I’d choose the Kindle version for sure.

male narrator... eh

The female narrator was fantastic, the male narrator was awful. He made each male character sound whiny and idiotic. I'm really hoping he's better in the second book, because I really want to continue this series, however it took a lot of patience getting through the book when one of the guys point of views came on. I may have to just switch to reading this series instead of listening.

Great story, awful male narrator

It was hard to get through and not hate the guys. Just not sure how much of that was the story and how much was the ridiculous narration.