• theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    91·
    7 days ago

    I’m probably about a third of the way into the fourth Dresden Files book now, Summer Knight.

    I enjoy the premise a lot but the second and third books were a bit, ehhhhh, so I am hoping it picks up a bit more now that it is established.

    I don’t think it helps that I am not super keen on the reader of these. He isn’t bad by any means compared to some I have heard but the recording picks up a lot of mouth sounds in between which i find a bit off putting and he keeps pronouncing random words from time to time which shouldn’t really annoy me but inevitably does.

    My absolute pet hate is how so many readers on audiobooks seem to be unable to pronounce the word “wind” as in “he is going to wind her up” properly. So many pronounce it like wind in “the wind blows” and it is just the most basic thing that shouldn’t annoy me but inevitably pisses me off massively.

    Buuuuut anyway, book four, has started off strong enough to get me reinterested so here is hoping!

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      I finished that series, but by the end I was pretty fed up with the formula, and the tone. I love contemporary occult fantasy though, and that kept me going.

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        6 days ago

        I feel like I may be going exactly the same way as you. I’m around half way through book 4 at this point and I’m already kind of feeling a bit bored of the same issues. It doesn’t help that thus far the characters range from bearable - Dresden who really is boring as fuck, I don’t dislike him but don’t particularly like him either. All the way to oh would you fuck off - Murphy, that bitch is just fucking annoying and any scene with her in I am hoping she just fucking dies already…