![]() ![]() But once I started, I simply couldn’t stop. Since I generally check out my audiobooks through my library’s digital catalog, it’s hard for me to commit to such a long story. The Diviners books and their audio editions clock in at over 18 hours. I should also mention that The Diviners happens to be a really scary series with some of the most frightening scenes I’ve read in a while (full disclosure: I’m a bit of a lightweight) and LaVoy played no small part in making them deliciously terrifying. At several points throughout the books, multiple characters are in conversation with each other and not once did I wonder who was speaking. LaVoy, an actress and five time Audie-award winning narrator, brings to life a wonderfully diverse group of characters with a variety of backgrounds: women and men, children and elderly people, terrifying demons and hungry ghosts, to name just a few. January LaVoy’s narration of Libba Bray’s The Diviners and its sequel Lair of Dreams is so stunning that I am willing to go anywhere with her. She helped me find things I might not have discovered on my own. I pored through Scribd (while I still had it) for things she’d narrated, even things I would probably never try to read otherwise. When I was looking for things to listen to during a period where I was listening to audiobooks for six or seven hours a day, her voice would automatically jump into my head. I followed them to The Fair Fight, which Justine Eyre added her voice to as well. ![]() They were both excellent, and I decided then that they were my favorite narrating pair. The first time I heard Fiona Hardingham narrate, it was alongside Steve West for An Ember in the Ashes. Now, take a look at some of our other favorite audiobook narrators. I’ve now read (via audio) several Scalzi novels, and I’ve loved every one of them. When I heard that Wheaton narrated Red Shirts, I decided to go for it. He’s a stellar narrator, and if it hadn’t been for him, I don’t know if I ever would have gotten around to reading John Scalzi. I thought he was going to be a novelty when I first listened to him read Ready Player One, but I was quickly proven very wrong. My personal favorite is a total geek, and he got to drive a space ship when he was in high school. I asked these questions of my fellow Book Riot contributors, and the list of answers includes tried and true audiobook narrators, British actors with diehard fandom followings, and a Tony award-winning author/composer/lyricist. Do you have any audiobook narrators that have made such an impression on you that you would listen to them read the phone book? What is about their voice that makes you want to listen to everything they’ve ever recorded? Have you ever listened to a book or author you’ve never heard of or that you’d never considered before just because of the narrator? Did you listen to a book narrated by someone unexpected (say, a celebrity) and fall in love with them (or with audiobooks in general) all over again? ![]()
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