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Indlæser... The Seeker: Five Book Box Set (Volume 1)af Ditter Kellen
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Ember Wells knows the meaning of terror. A reporter by day, her nights are spent hiding from a serial killer known as The Seeker. He's stalked her for a year, terrorizing her through the lens of a camera. Held prisoner by paranoia, fear becomes a lonely companion...until she meets Angelo Dimitrov, a dark, mysterious stranger who sets her world on fire. Angelo Dimitrov is not what he seems. Sexy as sin and shrouded in secrets, he appears out of nowhere and moves in next door. Should Ember run from this stranger with the moss green eyes or give in to her heart and be burned alive? No library descriptions found. |
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This is normally very much my comfort genre: sexy vampires, kickass women and violence across the board.
Sure, this book delivered all of those things but it just didn't do it for me - I think largely due to the choice of narrator. Robert Coltrane (not of Harry Potter fame) was not well suited to this title at all, in my opinion.
Firstly, the book tells the story of a female main character and features her female best friend quite heavily - ordinarily I would expect a female narrator in this situation so I was surprised but happy to give it a chance.
Coltrane does accents quite heavily but it wasn't too bad, however his female characters sounded like a combination of Christian Bale's Batman and Officer Jenny from the original pokemon cartoon series (for those of you who aren't familiar with either, a mixture of very deep and also very breathy). This was particularly off putting during the sex scenes, where the audio production also lost some quality when you could hear the narrator between takes and also drinking while reading, there are only so many times you can hear a man saying 'Ooooh Angel' in a high pitched voice before it starts to feel weird.
The story itself is very formulaic, the plucky young journalist is plagued by a deadly stalker but aided by her equally plucky best friend, smart ass cousin and sexy Bulgarian vampire next door, she comes out of it all OK.
It was fairly un empowering to listen to a female character being rescued by her alpha male over and over again, married and *spoiler* knocked up within the course of a week or so. I would have liked to hear her holding her own a little better rather than handing over everything she is to the mysterious stranger with the moss green eyes.
I would recommend reading this book over listening to the audio, truth be told. I suspect that I would have enjoyed the story a lot more if I had read it. If you're a fan of vampire romance novels with an incredibly dominating alpha male, this may be the book for you!
Audiobook was provided for review by the narrator. (