Angel. This was a good story overall. I enjoyed the character development and the mystery they had to solve. The romance went from tentative to eternally bonded way too fast in my opinion, but I liked the characters together so it worked. The necromancer’s struggles to deal with his brother and police and students in addition to everything else going on was an interesting juggling act, and he handled it well. I appreciated his efforts and enjoyed the resolution to all of it. Angel.
I was frustrated by the author’s excessive use of the necromancer’s name. Sometimes it seemed like every single sentence on the page started with Angel. Angel. Angel. Angel. Over and over… I started to fixate on that to the detriment of the story, and at a few points I was tempted to grab a notebook and start tallying the Angels. Then there would be a sentence without his name, or he would use a pronoun instead and it would be a moment of relief, only to hear Angel again in the next sentence, and on we go! Angel.
The narrator had excellent diction and I really enjoyed the accents that he gave the various characters, especially the Boston and Irish accents. I did struggle a bit with the quavering tone of his normal reading voice. He sounded so tremulous that it was as distracting as listening to a woman with vocal fry. It’s not really a problem, but it pulls me out of the story when I keep noticing it. I know that he is a popular reader on Audible, though, so that’s probably just me being picky about voices. Angel.