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I just found the Voice Actor’s website.
Kill me now.

Oh god. For some reason, the Voice Actor has chosen public school accents for most characters. To my ears, this produces the most horrible sounds in the English language. Servant types get the rural accent of middle England. Infuriating. All of it.

Oh no. It’s not a narrator, it’s a Voice Actor 😡

It’s interesting but also very infodumpy
I hope all the stories come together later.

Mesmerized by this book. So good.

It is increasingly difficult to enjoy listening to this
The narrator is so excited all the time. And he shouts. I keep adjusting speed and volume but nothing helps.

This narrator is trying too hard. The pathos in his voice is very annoying to me. You’re a narrator, not a stage actor.

Ohhhh the narrator has perfectly captured our hero’s ignorance and arrogance. What will you become Irody Hasp!

It was so lovely to hear how the story ended for tehanu and Ged and teru. le Guins stories
Are never casual, are they.m

Nothing wrong with this book nor the story. History. I just can’t keep track of the names and dates at the moment. Shelving it.

Starting to regret it. Nathalie is so full of hate, I find it hard to listen to. She also drops her faith rather quickly when faced with hardship.

Fell for the hype. Willingly.

You can call it planting or child making activity but it's still rape when there is no true consent.

What a horrible world Shen Tao has created.

Good grief. These druggy alcoholics are so unbelievably boring.

Hij snifte - hij knuffelde
Laryngitas - keelontsteking
Spleen - milt
Hij reed me naar de xxx - hij bracht me naar xxx
Etc
Etc

Also, weird translation choices. Anglified words where perfectly good Dutch ones exist.

All the women are so... Feminine and flat and dull. They are characters that enhance the men.

Can’t really date this book. The male gaze suggests the 60’s, the female love interest “smiles up” at him and lets him blather on patiently. She has no inner life as yet and talks a lot about her father and grandfather. The AI personalities hark back to the 90’s. I’ll go read the book details.

Any older women reading this?

What?? The London girl now speaks with an American accent? That’s just plain weird. And very distracting.

What the hell did I just buy

It’s becoming very difficult not to quit this book. This is another of those YA books where all the adults are flat and one-dimensional. They are voids, leaving Rose to make every single choice by herself. There are no deep thoughts here and the adults are bobble-heads.

Rose is a self-absorbed, short-sighted girl. Arrogant and insecure at the same time. A perfect 13-year old. I do hope she grows up later in the sorry.

It’s all so grim and miserable. Don’t know if I can finish this.

Does nobody cook in this story?

I rarely listen to Dutch narrators but am enjoying the voice of Phaedra Kwant, such a good fit.

So many little inconsistencies. She wants to kill everyone but couldn’t stand up to 1 guy in her home town. She’s 20 and still “a girl”, after 10 years on the street. Never has any education but speaks to royalty like an equal. Etc etc