Good story, bad narrator

I love Natalie Maher and her stories. Have all of them on ebooks, and half on audiobooks. I love Bioshifter. It's a great series.

Unfortunately, the narrator in this case is grating and really hard to listen to. Her narrating is mostly monotone, hard to follow when any important transitions happen, and I find myself tuning her out subconsciously while listening to the book because of how both boring and unpleasant her narration is.

Buy the book, avoid the audiobook.

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We Get it! The MC is GAY Something!

It can be mostly Agreed upon (Except for a selected few) that an repeatedly insistent Focus on a Characters Sexual Preferences "Political Commentary" at a level where the core of the Fiction is consistently sidelined, is a Detriment to the actual Story.

No matter WHAT the focus of the Sexual Preferences "Political Commentary" is!

And also Constantly coming to the most Idiotic Decisions...

The MC got so Annoying, I couldn't bear to listen a second longer.
And i liked the underlying Concept!

The Author clearly wants to Talk about a different Subject all together. And i recommend to Start a new in a different Genre. My Recommendation something like "slice of life".
Then write about how a young girl that goes through puberty and with the Changes to Her body and mind struggles to find a spot in the world for her self.
And thanks to that and the increasing pressure of responsibility and Her new feelings of "being" she feels like a monster in an alien world.

Much more fitting and Relatable.

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The protagonist is just too annoying

I understand that the protagonist has some kind of mental condition, but after hours of story in wich nearly every decision she makes is detrimental to her I just checked out. I just don't find it interesting when the protagonist of a story repeatedly makes the worst decisions for her situation even knowing it is a bad decision, it takes out any suspense since I already know that the characters in the story will make the decisions the story wants them to make to create more drama instead of what actually would make sense.
At the beginning of the story I was able to live with it, since the character has to be able to grow, but after a while I realised she was just getting worse instead of growing.
What also really annoyed me was that these strange instinctual urges she had in the "real" world weren't able to help her in the other world to get over the killing and fighting, if you give her those urges that are a problem in one world then at least let her have them in the other where they can be an asset.

And then we come to politics, the whole discussion around queer acceptance makes absolutely no sense in this story, it feels like some kind of tokenism just there to appeal to a certain crowd. The fact that she struggles with acceptance because she's a lesbian and a monster doesn't compliment each other in this story at all, it dilutes the message since one of those doesn't give you instictual urges to kill or harm others.


I feel as if we have 2 books that were clumsily melded together.

One book would contain the story about a young women with a serious mental condition that is struggeling through everyday life and trying to build a worthwhile life for herself, while also fighting her inner demons. No fantasy needed and it wouldn't dilute the struggles real ppl are facing eatch day.

The other book would be a tale about a quirky girl who travels to another world when she sleeps. She realises she's slowly turning into a monster in her original world and is trying to hide that fact with the help of her best friend, while experiencing a fantastic life in the other world every time she goes to sleep. This story would be much more interesting if the protagonist could make logical decisions instead of being held back by her own mental breakdowns. Or if this needs to be a horror story, then she should start out as a mentally stable person and slowly go insane.

The whole thing about her sexual orientation could be worked into either story.

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