Love the book! Could not stand the female narrator

Absolutely loved this one! I've really enjoyed all of the Corsairs and Risdaverse books. I really hope Ruby keeps up both series.

This story was fantastic! FMC was strong and the apitome of "you catch for flies with honey" attitude. I'm typically a bigger fan of the "try me b**ch and I'll throw punch a MF" FMC variety, but I still liked her. I did wish she was more assertive with her kinda bf, but also kind of got it. Still every scene regarding him annoyed tf out of me due to her lack of assertiveness.

MMC was awesome and cracked me up throughout the introduction of his character.

The male narrator is an awesome one. Not a huge fan of his female character voices, but he does so well with everything else and has such a great voice for audios that you get over it.

The female narrator was intolerable for me. I couldn't stand her cadence, and she had kind of a lisp thing going on. Everything just sounded so corny because of how she performed it, and the sex scenes from FMC POV were terrible because of her performance and made me CRINGE. Every time there was a spicy scene, I just hoped to the universe it'd switch to the MMC POV. Such a bummer because the narrators for Ruby's books are always perfect for the characters, but this woman nealry ruined the book for me.

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Hard to dislike

As usual, the writing of Ms. Dixon did not disappoint. Overall, the book was great, but I could not help but grit my teeth at the female narrator's "male voice"

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narration was awful

Huge Ruby Dixon fan here, but I'm not gonna lie, the narration had me struggling to finish it. Female narrator sounded like she was trying to read a book to a bunch of preschoolers. The male was just bulldozing his way through the story. I was really disappointed with this one.

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Love the Story but the Narrator not so much

Another great Ruby story. I love how Bee uses her smarts to get what she wants. She’s determined and tenacious. However both narrators fell flat, just bad all around. The male narrator sounded like a happy go lucky kid which doesn’t match Crulden at all. The female narrator had an ethnic accent and can’t do male voices. I loved the story when I read it, but cringed when listening.

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Ruby does it again

RISDA is becoming an interesting community for humans. However I’d prefer the original narrating team.

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Love Ruby but the male narrator really threw me.

I love Ruby's works. Her universe building for this type of fantasy romance is second to none, really! I really enjoy her stuff....but this male narrator...what the heck? I kept checking the play speed because I thought I had it set faster on accident. Nope, it's just the male narrator plowing through the dialogue so dang fast I can't keep up. WHY is he reading this book like that? WHY so fast? Why is his narration so strangled sounding? Did he have somewhere else to be? Did he think this was sexy? Did he need a cough drop for a sore throat?! So many WHYS on that end. The female narrator was warm, rich, well paced and pleasant.... but, there *was* a very condescending and infantile sound to her being the manipulative and cunning, yet innocent and bimbo seeming, human female...(btw why is it Bee and not Bea? She clearly says her full name is BEAtrice...but every publication and synopsis I've seen has it spelled Bee. Ah well, just a personal pet peeve). She was baby-voicing the narration to death. It almost felt like a preschool teacher was reading those parts. It wasn't enough to annoy, but it was enough to make me roll my eyes and giggle a bit. The female narrator was FAR superior to the male narrator who honestly just seemed bored to be there and rushed through his bits with careless abandon, while at the same time putting on this gruff, strangled, and, pain filled sounding voice. I felt anxious when he read. It was extremely off putting. I HATE a rushed narration. Overall the story was amazing like all of Ruby's books....but I'm begging Ms. Dixon - PLEASE don't ever let Alexander Cendese narrate ANYTHING again until he gets that pace correct. It was literally so distracting and off putting my review has been about that almost entirely instead of the actual story....*sigh*. Unfortunately that can't be helped, it's all I can focus on. Yikes!

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another great cruelden story!

I read this in ku first and loved it.... as I did with bad guy... I then wanted the audio book, bad guy's audio book was fantastic.... but I honestly enjoyed the ku version of worse guy better reading it myself. this audio book is ok but I just wasn't feeling the narrators.... not that they were bad, it was still a decent listen and great storyline.

i liked that even though they were both clones of the same guy they were different and had their own individual personalities. I loved how formidable B was and how she used being nice and sweet as her armor. they were a really good match. the circumstances made for a good story but I was rather disappointed in how badly he was treated by the guards on risda especially since every one already knew mycrul. seemed like they should have approached him with more understanding. but it seemed like he was treated worse. tortured hero and sunshine heroine who won't give up on him makes a great book, loved the ending!! I would definitely like to see if there's more cruelden clones out in the universe!!

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Story was okay but the narrators.....

I love Ruby Dixon but this book was a little bit of a miss for me. I felt like Bad Guy had the better story overall. This one was a little boring by comparison. Sometimes great narrators can save a kind of boring story but that certainly did not happen here.

The male narrator was okay I guess but definitely not the voice of a scary/violent gladiator type character. I could look past the voice because he narrated the part well. With the female narrator, I felt like I was being talked down to or like a teacher reading a book to a Kindergarten class. I understand the character she was reading was putting on a sweet persona to manipulate situations in her favor but the narrator really needed to be able to turn it "on" and "off" depending on the situation. It was on the ENTIRE time and it got so annoying the more I listened. It did not work at all. The flow with which she read and the emotions she tried to convey with her voice was not there. It was very stale. Also, her male voice made me cringe so hard every time it happened. I ended up skipping through a lot of the female narrator's chapters after a while.

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Outstanding

I thoroughly enjoyed this Audible book. It is a twist on the usual space romance; he is the prisoner and she is his rescuer. Ruby Dixon never ceases to entertain me. It was a pleasure to listen to the narrators, they made the story come alive.

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Loved it!

Victor and Bee were such an adorable couple. I loved the way he loved her.

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