• The Haunting of Blackstone Mansion

  • The Blackstone Trilogy Book 1
  • By: Augustine Pierce
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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The Haunting of Blackstone Mansion

By: Augustine Pierce
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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An abandoned mansion. A restless spirit. A terrible secret...

Seeking to escape a recent tragedy, antiques expert Katherine relocates to Blackstone, Oregon. Her new home lies within reach of the majestic Mt. Hood, and tucked away in the thick forest of those foothills looms the dark, foreboding, and abandoned Blackstone mansion.

In its shadowy, labyrinthine halls, she can see the tiniest movements, feel the deepest chills, and hear the faintest sounds.

She braves the mansion and its salons packed with antiques that she might broker to collectors when the restless spirit of a woman who died far too young reaches out to her.

Determined to help the ghost, Katherine discovers a past filled with jealousy, unrequited love, and murder.

But with the past, not everything is as it seems, and Katherine’s time is running out. Caught between powerful, deceptive forces, she must find a way to aid the spirit even if it costs her her own sanity… and life.

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Slow moving

The story was not half bad but the narration by virtual voice was very disappointing. It was like listening to maps telling me which street to take next. Narration by a human with emotion would have made the book for me much better.
Sorry but virtual voice is something I will stay away from when purchasing an audible book.

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For the love of god I hated the narrator 

Was this an auto voice?! No difference in any of the characters voices. I hated this so much.

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Women Moves From Big City to Small Town

It's so hard to find a good haunted house book these days. While the story was okay, the majority of the time spent reading/listening addresses a woman who recently went through a trauma, and decides to move from NYC to a small town in Oregon. We read about her moving in VIVID detail (she went to the store, she opened a freezer, she picked up a pizza) in those exact words. The haunted mansion is only mentioned in a few chapters, and even when the most climactic part happens, she ends up leaving the house to have a chapter long diner visit and conversation about going back to the mansion. The author's vivid writing about the spirits inside the mansion is fantastic, but the AI generated narrator leaves a bland impression.
Overall, there were too many details about her daily life (she woke up, she took a shower, she made some scrambled eggs, she opened the door, she got in her car). We don't need every detail for a good story. Overall, it was okay to listen to, as I didn't put it down, but I desperately wanted less detail about her life and more time in the haunted mansion.
On another note, why does the AI generated narrator have a British accent when the narrator herself is American?

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