Great story. Please don’t do accents any more.

I enjoyed this book for what it is, a great story about possibly real interesting interviews and information on aliens among us and a trip to Area 51. If I’d read this as an actual book with words I would have had nightmares. The narrator who is the author and has a voice and accent that is just fine on its own decided to do accents for the “interviewees”. The first one was a Welsh/Russian/French cluseau type accent that was odd but he masked with a voice changer so was ok. Then came a few Americans. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m an American that has lived in the U.K. for nearly 20 years but the accents were awful!! It’s not only that we can blatantly tell it’s the same person but the southern American accents (I’m from Oklahoma so I’m Southern myself) were ok till he started adding r’s at the end of words that end in a vowel and come before a word that starts with a consonant. I have discovered in my time in England that people who do this don’t even know they are doing it but it stands out to a native American English speaker. Then came the interview in the underground parts of Area 51 with Kermit the Frog. I was laughing so hard I had to stop the book because I was driving and couldn’t concentrate. Thank goodness the last interview was with a female CIA agent that he didn’t even attempt to fake and said he was just quoting the interview. It would be so much better if all the interviews were done that way. The story is great, narrator’s voice is great. Accents are ridiculous. If you like books about aliens and found footage films, I would recommend this book. It really is good. And if you are a native England English speaker you probably won’t be bothered by the accents. Except Kermit. You won’t be able to in hear that now. Sorry. Lol.

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