Amazing Series

Every boom in the series was absolutely fantastic. Great characters, top notch plot and excellent narration. Highly recommended.

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WRONG NARRATOR :-/

Wyatt Baker picked up the Snow and Winter series when the narrator for bk1 and 2 stopped working in narration for a few years. It's a huge task to take over from another narrator part way through a series, but Wyatt didn't even listen to the first two books. If he had he wouldn't have potrayed Sebastian in such an aggressive voice. In fact, the whole audiobook performance was unnecessarily aggressive.

The narrator offered a straight read and made no attempt to even change his tone so we could differentiate between the characters. It's such a shame because Carole Poe is a super writer and goes into great detail in her research. The book itself is a wonderful mystery... even though I despair with Sebastian and his inability to make good choices.

I had to put the narration speed to 0.75 so that it didn't feel like the story was being shouted at me. Great story, buy the ebook.

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Enjoyable Story

The concept is interesting and well written. The characters are likeable and the narration is good.

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Another great mystery for Seb and Calvin

This third book in the Snow & Winter series has another enjoyable plot and good character/relationship development throughout the story.
I really liked the mystery that was pushed on Snow as he’s repeatedly gifted with or led to items or occasionally even a murder. The author keeps the MC’s and readers alike guessing as to the culprit of the case, really drawing you in with the details of such wonderful items of historical value such as the Kinetoscope. These of course grab hold of Sebastian’s attention with his thoughts then working on figuring out the who, how and why of the case whilst being dragged deeper into something that even has him in danger several times. I loved the detail that goes into the knowledge and research of these items as along with enjoying story, I felt as though I was learning something too. There are several possibilities as to the culprit but thinks quickly take a dark and dangerous turn for all involved. I was a lot happier with this book as to Sebastian’s actual involvement of the case. He spends less time acting the sleuth and trying to keep out of the way as opposed to how he was in the previous books.
The relationship between Sebastian and Calvin continues to move forward as they take the step to move in together. As a couple they mesh really well and balance each other out, providing the support each man needs through the harder times with Sebastian being involved in several cases recently and Calvin dealing with his PTSD which comes up in his professional and personal life. Their close friends and family are again a big part of their community and support, especially with the dangerous situations that Sebastian finds himself in. Though they don’t really spend that much time together, they really make the most of what they do have together whether it’s lunch at a diner or just grabbing some sleep together. Whenever they get intimate moments, you can really sense to love and trust that they have with each other. Opposite this, we see more of Sebastian’s ex, Neil. After the events at the ned of book two is nice to read the two men weirdly getting along and you hope, maybe one day, can move to being friends. In this book, Neil does his best to help keep Sebastian safe, really endearing him to the readers, I think.
I’d definitely recommend this book and the series. I think it’s gotten better as it’s gone on with character development and strong bonds forming as well as strengthening plots that draw you in right from the start. Sebastian’s friend and assistant, Max, even tags along for the first time and sees how Sebastian is when he’s on the trail of a mystery. I look forward to more from the couple and another interesting plot for Sebastian and Calvin to dive into.
I don’t know if it’s because I was used to Derrick McClain narrating the previous two books, but I didn’t enjoy Wyatt’s narration as much. He is a very good narrator and still draws you into the story, providing good voices for the characters but he has a bit of a harder edge to his voice than Derrick does. It takes a moment to get used to the main characters as they obviously have different voices but I was still able to enjoy the story overall.

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narrator put me off

I have to agree with another reviewer that this narrator was wrong for this book,very monotone and found it hard to tell which character was speaking.
The storyline however is good and I think I will read the rest of the series rather than listen if it's the same narrator.

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Great story!

I loved the story. It had an interesting plot, and great charachters. The book is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone, but to get fully understand the background I would recomend to read all the books.The narrating was nice, but not full score on that part for me. The narrator was a bit to far from how I imagine the charachters.

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Excellent story, not keen on the narrator

The story is very good, a murder mystery that drops a dead body in fairly early and introduces some fascinating history of cinema and the Kinetoscope . A past murder is captured on that old film and is tied into a modern murder and shenanikins. Sebastian sets out to prove the two events separated by lots of years are connected, much to his boyfirend Calvin's annoyance and fears for Sebastian's safety. Sebastian and Calvin have moved in together and are navigating that change in their relationship, not helped by old flames popping up and and Calvin is troubled by his PTSD and Sebastain by fears of being inadequate.
So far, so good, and there were lots of clues for the eagle eyed listener/reader to pick up and almost shout at the protagonists to take notice of. The plot dropped in several potential suspects and often went down a blind alley and I enjoyed the reveal at the end.
However, I couldn't get on with the narrator at all. His voice was hard all the way through, there was not enough differentiation between characters and he read it all as if in some hard assed film noir style. There was no softening of his voice for the more tender scenes and I just couldn't gel with him at all. In fact I gave up before the end with a couple of chapters to go and finished off the story by reading the book.

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