The narrator turn what would otherwise read as a fairly trashy sleazy story into a genuine love story that you do become interested in. What does Becca Battoe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? I suspect perhaps her editor may have had a hand in it.

In this book we now are allowed to let our imaginations work a little as to what happens 'in between' sundown and sun up. It is probably one of those stories you only need to listen to once, although my partner is now listening to it in the car and I admit I am getting a lot more out of it second time round.įinally Ms James has seemingly got bored with all the sex and started to concentrate on the story and the journey. Would you listen to Fifty Shades Freed again? Why?

If Audible re-recorded these books with a different female narrator and Zachary Webber reading the male lines, it would bring the books up to the level of quality you would expect from a huge worldwide success. He does a better female voice than Becca Battoe. Zachary Webber does an incredible job on “Grey” and “Darker”. Primarily read by a female, but a male to speak male lines. For these books especially, the duet style of narration would be incredible and add so much more depth and entertainment to the listeners experience.

Due to the great success of the books and also the movies I don’t know why these books haven’t been re-recorded with a narrator who is more well known and great at what they do. She can’t find a middle ground between enraged crazy tyrant and sulking whimpering man. She makes him sound like a whinging man child. In this instance though, Christian sounds like a permanently grumpy old man who when experiencing moments of raw emotion is borderline pathetic. There are female narrators out there who can quite successfully do a male voice.

I know that it is difficult for a female voice to portray the tone of a male but this is such a mess. Christian’s ‘voice’ is so far off the mark. As the books progress so does Ana’s character and she becomes a more confident and bolder woman which doesn’t come through in the narrative. I know Ana is, in the beginning, inexperienced and timid but her tone is too young. For Anastasia she puts on a voice I would imagine you would assign to a 16 year old girl. She mispronounces words, takes pauses is awkward places and her ‘voices’ for the characters are quite irritating. Perhaps she would be better with lighter chick lit but her narration of the Fifty Shades series is cringeworthy. The narrator of this series is not really suited to the genre.

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