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Peter Grant Challenge #6: The Hanging Tree
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Dec 08, 2016 04:08PM
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Finally got arou d to start the audiobook (got it as a present for Christmas). I can't Kobna say often enough what an amazing narrator Holbrook-Smith is.
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The funny thing is, I read book one as an audio, then switched to print books from the library. Peter's voice carried through to the print editions, but Nightingale's voice did not. I read Foxglove Summer as an audio, and I thought his voice sounded really funny and too nasally. lol. This one I bought as a print copy, so Nightingale sounded "normal" to me. :-P Other than Nightingale's voice, yes, I love the narration!
Jordan wrote: "Calathea wrote: "Other than Nightingale's voice, yes, I love the narration! "Nightingale's voice is strange, yes. And still, thinking of how he is actually very old (albeit looking to be forty), it's kind of fitting. Hm. I think it was worse in the earlier books and he let up on that a bit. But still, the narration reminds me of the fact that Nightingale was born 1900.
I finished this one last week, btw. There is an interview at the end of the audiobook with Ben Aaronovitch and Kobna Holbrook-Smith. It's cool to know what he default voice is. I thought it would be more like Peter's but it's not. :-D Also funny how the author admits that sometimes he writes a side character with a certain accent just to see how the narrator would work with it.
I finished this one last week, also. I thought it had a lot more of Nightingale in it. I like Nightingale. I think he likes technology a lot more than he leads Peter to believe. That's funny that the author would write characters to challenge the narrator.
