It saddens me that such a promising series has been torpedoed by terrible performances. I don't know how this was ever approved of the finished product. Also in this installment there are some really weird pauses, long enough to make me check if my earbuds had become unplugged. If that isn't bad enough she has this habit of swilling mucus noisily around in her mouth, you can hear her sucking it through her teeth and swallowing, I find it not only disgusting but distracting. I really don't mind the way she voices every other character but the voice she uses to read Aisling is that of a heavy smoker and old lady. Which brings me to my main issue with this series. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact they’ve had for years. The Aisling in my head does not speak the lines the way the narrator reads them. MacAvoy 1983 Book 1 of 2 in the Black Dragon series Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter, Elizabeth, is in troubleshe just doesn’t know what kind. Parts of the story were a little dramatic for me but I wonder if I would have had the same issue if I were reading the books instead of listening. In this story Aisling's relationship with her demon, lover and mentor all progress with a heavy does of hijinks thrown in. I still enjoy the plots enough that I will see the series out and with only one more book that is not much of a commitment. I loved the first story and is still in my mind the best, each subsequent installment I have liked less and had a harder time grasping the connections and explanations the authors uses. I continue to feel completely polarized by this series. Somebody please get the narrator a Ricola
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