I tried. I couldn’t make it through chapter 1. About 25 min. was all I could take for several reasons. First, it was the voice of the narrator. I don’t like the valley girl, unnecessary and unsettling elongation of the end of her words at an uncomfortable octave. I tried focusing only on the male character voices, which I could bear. But they were too rare.

There were also aspects that seemed derivative and juvenile. One of the juvenile points was the amount of focus given to O.P.I. nail polish. It seemed an unnecessary and irritating focus for the character. I guess it was supposed to be cutesy, and maybe that works for another listener. Examples are when the character described her nails as “you only live once O.P.I. painted fingernails” and told her spy helper to tell her friend that “she can have my entire O.P.I. collection, if I don’t make it out.” Of all the aspects of a character to focus on, that one didn’t work for me.

Additional disliked included the main character, named Syn or Sin or Cyn, being a very un-intriguing witch. She spoke her brief spells blandly and as an afterthought, with what seemed to be little intentionality, which would seem necessary when making a spell. And there was telling and not showing: saying “I spoke the spell” (but no spell given) and saying “I cursed a blue streak” (with no streak included in the story).

I tried, regrettably. So not worth a credit.