Lee Martinez, Soulless by Gail Carriger, The Gates by John Connolly, Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett). Ironically, I’m a fan of books inspired by Douglas Adams’ writing style ( Gil’s All Fright Diner by A. I found the plot meandering and the prose too busy with too much going on to make much sense. I first read it some years ago on my own and didn’t really like it. Stephen Fry makes this book very enjoyable. I really need to reread this trilogy in audio. And furthermore, I find that he’s as good with internal monologues as he is with action scenes.
When the POV jumps from one to another, he moves seamlessly between them without missing a beat.
Steven Pacey not only makes the characters come to life, but he makes you believe that he really is each and every one of them. I’m partial to narrators with British accents when it comes to high fantasy, and this book read by this narrator is one of my particular favorites.
It’s a joy to listen to and always makes me feel like I’m right in London. But not only that, he also portrays every character in the story, as well as London itself, so skillfully that I always forget I’m listening to the book rather than reading it myself. There’s no doubt in my mind that Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is Peter Grant (if there’s a TV show, the role’s gotta his, right?). When an audiobook narrator and the main character of the book seem like they’re made for each other, magic happens. Peter Grant books (aka the Rivers of London series) So here they are in alphabetical order by author because… just because that’s how I roll. So this list, or rather these lists, is a way of keeping track of the best ones, the ones that I know I would gladly recommend to anyone (with some caveats) and I know I would reread (relisten?) to them if I have the chance. I knew there were plenty I wanted to list for her, but couldn’t recall what they were off the top of my head. Also, I didn’t have the right motivation until recently when a friend on Goodreads asked for some audio recommendations, good audio recommendations, that is. So organizing my audio shelf has been a long, on-going process that I’ve been meaning to complete for years now, but kept putting off because… virtual shelves, not tripping over them, and all that. The sheer number of unread audios that I own and their combined hours is probably more than my lifespan. It’s too easy to forget about virtual books when you’re not constantly tripping over them.
It’s fine to let physical books accumulate and pile up all over the floor, but it’s a problem when you let that happen to audiobooks. Over the past couple of years I have listened to a lot of audiobooks and have amassed a ton more in my library, to the point where I didn’t know how many I’d owned, which was a problem.
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