How is this so highly rated???!?

Never have I seen an audio book rated so highly that I so adamantly disagreed with (Saying a lot since I’ve been an Audible member for ~25 years)

The dialog ranges from barely tolerable to terrible. Characters speak their thoughts and intentions in plain, direct, story telling bareness, progressing the plot in a most unnatural and uninteresting way. Character development is minimal. The story is plain and basic. The villain is a cartoon villain.

I realized up front it was an “RPG” style story, and while I guess some of the high scores are from people who are interested in battle scenes where every weapon switch, mana point, and damage score is detailed. I’ve read a few of these styles, and with good characters and story, this can be fine. Here, I found myself skipping the battles to avoid detail after detail that progressed neither the plot nor the characters’ development.

I don’t know how to score narrators when they are given material like this. They came across has very unbelievable but they did have to say what the author wrote.

Again, astonished at the average reviews.