The Last Trail

Fun albeit predictable story. The narrator is easy to listen to initially, then got a bit out of whack in last quarter - rough splices, read too fast or not in proper rhythm as dialogue. However, I liked his tone.

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The narrator’s voice was perfect for this novel, the plot engaging and it gave a vivid picture of what the frontier was like. Having never read one of Zane Greys books, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

I have enjoyed all of Zane Grey’s books I have listened to. While it is a little bit predictable the author is able to make you root for one character and despise another with equal ease. Now about the narrator. Mike Vendetti should be a decent narrator, his tone is easy listening! One minor issue I had was that his character voices occasionally carry on past the dialogue, into the description of who was speaking or how they were speaking. The larger issue was that it sounded like he became bored with narrating at one point. I almost had to quit listening when he started narrating in a sing-song voice, or adding odd inflections and drawing out the length of words. Also a man with a deep voice should just try to soften his voice for female dialogue, as he did most of the story, because his falsetto is not convincing ;). Overall, there was a dark couple hours of narration, but I enjoyed it.