Armchair Audies Best Solo Female Narration And The Winner Is…
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My Choice for Best Solo Female Narration-The Unseen Guest
(The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #3) by Maryrose Wood, narrated by, Katherine
Kellgren- This book is up for an Audie Award for Best Solo Female Narration and
I do believe I have found my winner! For me I believe that to win an Audie
Award a narration has to truly wow me and this narration did just that more
than any of the others in this category.
As with the first two books Katherine Kellgren’s narration
is so fabulous with a lot more people making wolf sounds, and an ostrich we
can’t forget the ostrich! Every voice is distinct and every animal sound/voice
is fabulous. Kellgren’s range is so unbelievable that at times you wonder if
there is more than one voice narrating but no it is all Katherine. It is books
like this one that make me realize why Katherine Kellgren is one of my all time
favorite narrators. This book is up for an Audie Award for Best Solo Female
Narration and I do believe I have found my winner!
2nd place-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by, L.Frank
Baum narrated by, Anne Hathaway- Anne Hathaway did a good job with so many
different voices but I had a hard time with the voice of the Scarecrow because
it sounded like Marge Simpson. Listen to the sample on audible then go to
youtube and listen to Marge Simpson it was too close to being the same voice I
just couldn’t picture the Scarecrow in my head because the voice was Marge!
That was the main voice that was just wrong and it took me out of the story,
the rest of her voices were good with a few being annoying and some just not
fitting, like a valley girl voice just seemed out of place. I guess I liked her
narration overall I just wish the Scarecrow had sounded different. I would
recommend this audiobook even with Marge Simpson cast as the Scarecrow! I can
see why this book was nominated; as much as I am not a fan of Audible’s
celebrity A-list (because the real A-List is all the great narrators who do
this for a living), but Anne does bring many voices to the mix maybe at times
too many because some of them don’t seem to belong in the land of Oz but what
do I know I’ve never been there!
The Boy in the Suitcase by,Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis
narrated by Katherine Kellgren- This was my first Adult book narrated by,
Katherine Kellgren and as always she does a wonderful job, I just love the
timbre of her voice. She also does all the different eastern European accents
very well. A job well done!
Juliet in August by,Dianne Warren narrated by, Cassandra
Campbell- Cassandra Campbell’s narration is very good with softness when
needed, she was able evoke the emotion I believe the author was trying to
convey. I only had a small problem with a mispronunciation of the town of
Regina which is not pronounced like a name but Reg-I-na (with an eye sound on
the I not an E sound). I am honestly not sure I would have finished this
without Cassandra’s narration her voice always makes me want to keep listening.
Call The Midwife by, Jennifer Worth narrated by, Nicola
Barber- I first want to start off saying I was a bit leery of this one on audio
as I had a previous experience with Nicola Barber that I felt didn’t go well,
but what I found in this narration was really good, much better than I had been
expecting and made me not look twice whenever I see she has narrated a book.
Here is what I said in my review: Nicola Barber narration is
very well done, going from British to Irish to Cockney accents all seamlessly.
CD #6 felt like it ended in the middle of a sentence, but the way some of these
stories just trail off I could be wrong about that.
Which I admit wasn’t much but I was very impressed with all
the myriad of accents she had to go through and thought she did very well with
each of them.
Nicola Barber’s narration was well done but not sure if it
will top my list in the end.
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