However, I think you can still enjoy Six of Crows on it's own. First I absolutely loved the Grisha trilogy and it would be hard to beat so if you are considering Six of Crows, I highly recommend reading the Grisha trilogy first. New characters, new adventure, same world. I would suggest maybe reading the physical book, as the voices of the audio book narrators do not meet the expectations set by the fact that this is a young adult novel, nor match the character descriptions. The reviews of this book seem to be completely skewed by readers who are more concerned with the presence of a fictional romance than they are about story development or writing style. Also, the story is about a group of teenagers and the narrators all sound like old men with a bad smoking habit. The narrators in Six of Crows made the story more confusing because they attempted vastly different voices for the same characters. I've listened to quite a few audio books with a cast of narrators who added to the story, but they helped mainly to add clarity to a complex novel. There were far too many narrators for a story without a great deal of depth. How did the narrator detract from the book? Why would you have multiple narrators who speak about themselves in third person? The alternating perspectives added a layer of confusion to the book that was completely unnecessary. Especially because stylistically, the writing in the different chapters all sounded the same. However, I spent the entire novel wondering why the author hadn't simply written the book in third person omniscient. The storyline, world, and characters in Six of Crows were intriguing and had definite potential to grow into an enjoyable science fiction/fantasy series. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? Potential Overshadowed by Poor Performance Any one of the 7 actors who worked on this book could have delivered the story with clarity and consistency and I think it would have benefited from it. However, I think the book would have been improved in its audio version by choosing a single talented narrator and sticking with him/her. I'm going to get the second book in the series for this reason. Still, I enjoyed the depth of the characters once I got there, and by the end of the book, I was deeply invested in the storyline and cared about the core group. That being said, after spending a few hours immersed in it, you get used to it, even if it grates. It's certainly distracting, and the story arc is developed in a way that there is very little backstory to explain what's going on until you're about 1/3 of the way into the book. ![]() Multiply each by the number of different narrators who interpret that character and it gets a bit muddy. Each narrator reads the whole chapter, and therein lies the issue: there are multiple different versions of every character's speaking voice. This isn't a dramatization of the novel - it's a good novel narrated by different characters whose names lead the chapter (think of George R.
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