Review: Amazon horror, excellent narrator
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 21, 2013
Just a note - I got this audiobook and the e-book free from the author to help him out.  He asked that I read the short story while listening to the audiobook.  I was quite impressed, not only by the story itself, but by the narrator.  The story itself starts out with a slow burn, and just when I was about to give up on the real creepy factor, it hit me.  Hard.  It was a twist that I should have seen coming - but didn't.  Not only that, it got creepier and creepier, until the ending, which took another sharp turn, not at all ending on the note I expected.  It was, somehow, even more chilling than I expected.And the slow burn?  It was completely worth it.  Without the buildup and backstory, the ending would't have really meant anything.As for Commodore James?  I wasn't sure at first.  The only minor complaint I would have is sometimes questions sounded like statements, at least to me.  He has a lovely voice, his pronunciation is very precise, and more importantly - he emotes.  He has different voices for each character - which, yes, obviously all good narrators should have.  Some don't, or don't do it well, and so I thin it's important to point out that he does.  I wasn't crazy about the main characters voice at the beginning, although that's subjective.  I liked him more and more, and found the voice more and more appropriate as the story went on, however.What can I say?  James' voice slowly seduced me.  I became more and more entranced the longer I listened.  He somehow narrated, and made it sound casual, but also put emotion into his voice.  By the end, I just really wanted to listen to him some more.Highly recommended, either as an e-book, or an audiobook.  (It also comes in the collection Screamscapes as a paperback, but I'm in the middle of reading the rest of the stories so don't feel qualified to review that yet.)