• BLACK In The Box (BLACK #5)

  • By: Russell Blake
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
  • 2.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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BLACK In The Box (BLACK #5)

By: Russell Blake
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Artemis Black's world is coming apart in the days leading up to Christmas. His relationship is on the rocks, he's struggling to make ends meet, he's gone days without sleep, and when he's called in to investigate a brutal murder at a big box store in Long Beach, he's at the end of his rope. Racing the clock to clear a young woman's name before she's charged with homicide, Black gets more than he bargained for, and finds himself enmeshed in a web of deceit and betrayal that will require every ounce of his and Roxie's sleuthing prowess if they're to survive the night.

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The poor virtual narrative was bad.

Loved books black 1-4 but the 5th with virtual narrative was horrible could not finish the book.

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Virtual Voice and Literature.

My wife and I have hugely enjoyed the Black series through Book Four, but were leery of sitting down to listen to Book Five because of Audible's decision to use Virtual Voice. We were right. It was a huge mistake. It's one thing to use Virtual Voice for non-fiction or technical titles, quite another for books utilizing characters and their dialogue. Hearing Black and Roxie's banter presented in the same voice and with the same inflection was disappointing, to say the least. Audible rightly presents human readers as 'performing' the book. That was not the case with Virtual Voice. There may be some economic advantage to using Virtual Voice, but Audible would be wise to restrict its use to pure narrations and not performances. We gave the story a one-star only because we knew it would get people's attention and we would like to see Audible respond.

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Great story...narration awful.

Lots of mispronounced words but worst of all it just killed the funny parts with very odd tone and emphasis.

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