Story interesting, but text and narration annoying

Struggled to finish this box set, the historical parts of the story were enjoyable and interesting, I'm a big norse myths fan. The writing of the book was annoying in the extreme. Certain words/phrases are used over and over throughout the entire series. Characters felt immature and became annoying. If i heard the word 'thanks' from Bree one more time I'd have hurled my tablat at the wall. The narrator made the Characters sound even more like kids, than the text in the story.. Except for Cade, who by looking at the artwork on the books covers looks to be early 20s, sounded like a 40 year old bloke.. Which in turn made the other characters sound like high school kids. I love fantasy books, but this series was definitely aimed at a very young audience, even the 'bad language' was pathetic. Give me Sarah J Mass anytime.

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telegram style reading is off-putting

The story is bundled, so you get a long ride of 5 books back to back, containing magic, realm jumping, chasing for a lost sister and becoming a "god" of some sort....

yeah okay, it's not like there aren't other stories likes this, so I thought I give it a shot as an audiobook.

The storyteller, or reader, seems to be used to be either dictating in front of a class or reading a telegram.
You constantly get :
A. a breathy ending in the sentence, as if to give a sensual note to it...
B. a distinct change of tone of the last word in the line, followed by a silence at the end, as if that would be the moment to make the remark "period"or "break"
- pronounced word separation, as. it . was. indeed. dictated. to. be .a . telegram. period.
break. next.line.

this goes on through the entire story in a kind of A-B, A-B reading cadence.
It distracts from the content in a very bad way.
I'm not trying to be mean here, I know it takes time and effort to do this, but I'm sorry, this story I think would benefit from a different reading style.

The story itself isn't a fantastic gem either. I seen better, I seen worse.
It's okay, but doesn't standout in a particular point or subject.

It could be that I need to read other titles first, in order to know where the characters come from and what their background is, but as it is, I don't feel like the mc changed all that much during the story.
Ok so she learned something about herself; about who she is and she developed new and more powers, but that's about it. Oh yeah...and a love interest, which she absolutely does not want, or have time for, so you know she will end up with exactly that/ him/ it.
that last thing gives you a nice insight in what to expect; it is all a little bit too predictable.

Saving her lost sister, sure, but please don't succeed in book 1 already, ok? We need to go through another 4!
Again, not trying to be mean, but the way the end is setup in a couple of the books here, it is just too obvious that the mc will fail and needs to get stronger first before succeeding.
The fact you see it coming takes away the excitement you feel or should be building. It's like, "hey, she's gonna fail, he's going to escape in the last second, so why cheer her on?"...
better call it quits now, go back to the training and come back with a new plan, eh?

the ghost dogs are a nice treat, those drew a couple laughs, but sadly not enough to save the story...

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