great

Love this book but the accents used to portray a few of the characters were off.

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Fantastic

Great listen, consistent narration throughout each series is fab and makes all characters easily identifiable, although Adrian ended up somewhat British, the haughty voice suits him!

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Amazing

Loved the book already and the narration just made it come to life again. The characters were amazingly consistent and their voices distinct from each other and in line with the canon of the book. Only one small gripe really... being British I found Adrian's "British" accent was uncomfortable, like someone mixing the English accents they knew into one and then lengthening all their vowels. *shudder* He is supposed to be posh but instead sounds like he is a bottom feeding con man. Apart from that the storytelling was exquisite.

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loved it, great book

it follows on from where the previous series left off. great listen would recommend, great

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Extremely damaging to girls images of themselves

I love these books, but I’m disgusted at the fact that Sydney thinks a size 2 is “huge” and that she feels frumpy and like she has to eat less. This is soo damaging to young girls, as if there isn’t enough pressure to be tiny already.

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brilliant ...These spin off books are fantastic

love these spin off books. ...great to have familiar characters from vampire academy in stories of there own ..really worth a read no matter how old you are. .

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Brilliant start to a series

I really enjoyed listening to this audio book although the narrator did seem a bit shouty with some of her characters....Abe in particular! But, it didn’t spoil my enjoyment of the story or the rest of the performance.
I am, however, very disappointed that I am unable to download Book 2 in the series! All the rest of the titles, up to Book 6, seem to be available but, Book 2 is only available in German. So, be warned, you will be missing a chunk out of the stories if you start reading this series!

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brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant. Very eager for the next instalment. Well told, well thought of and Adrian is a brilliant , lovable character. I hope he's a fixed character in these stories.

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Good spin off - better than the original series.

Any additional comments?

I'm a bit of a sucker (pardon the pun) for vampire fiction. I think that Richelle Mead has a great imagination and her ideas are original and well constructed.

I listened first to the Vampire Academy series, which I persevered with but found a little grating - the heroes being a little too stalwart and the villains a little too mean. The problem still exists in the spin off (which centres around Sydney from the original series), but the more complex character backgrounds and exploration make it more believable.

Again the writer's imagination in the plot development and depth of the supernatural world are the strong points of the series. The quality of the actual writing is what keeps it from being as good as the likes of JK Rowling. It is arguable of course that I am just too old to be reading teen fiction... however, I found that there were far too many cliches and a lot of slightly irritating repeated phrases. This is perhaps made more obvious by the narration, as the reader (naturally) always reads the repeated parts in the same tone and with the same rhythm. That isn't a dig at Emily Shafter, who I think does very well (although I will always prefer an English accent) with the material she's given. I also liked the alternative voices, given to Adrian and some other characters, which added to the quality of the listening.

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Good story...but could barely listen

The actual plot itself is fun and entertaining, although not up to the vampire academy series standard as of yet. The crucial flaw of this is the recording. The voice actor is fine until they attempt pitiful accents to differentiate characters- terrible RP English accents, mock Turkish accents that sounded like Count Dracula at times. These borderline offensive accents make it really hard to listen to when you’re not laughing at the bad attempts or angry at how distracting it is. I managed to block it out as much as I could to actually get through the story, but it took some effort.

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