Badlands: A Cassie Dewell Novel

I love all things CJ Box! Wasn’t a fan of the female narrator at first, but then I got used to it … again, all things CJ Box are my faves!

The reader would be suited to other nooks I believe such as a romance novel perhaps.

Very entertaining. Good story line. Enjoyed the narrator.

Good book. Narrator did ok but believe for this book it would have been better if the narrator was a man.

I really wish they kept with using Holter Graham for narration. Holter did such a wonderful job with both Highway and Back of Beyond. I have yet to hear a female narrator do a convincing male voice -especially for a villain. With January LaVoy's narration, this is clearly the case. It is not, however, due to a lack of her talent in the narration department, but rather the general physical limitations posed by a female's smaller voice box; the sound that is produced comes out forced, unnatural, and thus distracting to the listener. Some may say the same about a male narrator imitating the female voice, but, on average, I hear male narrators doing a much better job at imitating the opposite sex than vice-versa. I am not against female narration, I just feel having a female narrator do all the of voices, including deep-voiced villains from this particular book, diminishes and distracts from the aural experience. For the next Cassie Dewell book, I am hoping for Holter Graham to come back as narrator, or at the very least, have both a female and a male narrator.