A Broken Kind of Life by Jamie Mayfield (Goodreads Author), Tristan Wright (Narrator)

[Stephen]

This story is a slightly toned down retelling of Aaron by J.P. Barnaby

I LOVED the adult version and was curious how it would be Bowdlerized for the YA audience.
I listened to the audio-book version of both books, Aaron was narrated by Tyler Stevens. Stevens did an amazing job with the narration. The voices of the main characters are easily distinguished and fit well with my conception of the characters.

Stevens also did a brilliant job of switching between Spencer's cadences as a deaf speaker and the more common cadences of the hearing speakers. he also did a remarkable reversion to child-speak voice that Aaron uses when panicked that was particularly effective.

Tristan Wright did the narration for The YA version a Broken Kind of Life and was good but having heard Stevens' version first, I missed some of the brilliance of his performance.

Both audio versions suffered a bit in that there are several very rough segues between time changes. Perhaps these should have been separated into chapters or there might have been a musical cue. As presented, the abrupt changes were, at times, hard to follow.

My full review is at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...