I cannot tell if this story was any good or not because the narration was so unbearable I could not continue. I gave the story rating because it wouldn’t let me do the rest of the review without it rather than for the story itself. Besides, I assume the author had some say in choosing the reader.
The problem with the reader is that the last word in every sentence and almost every phrase had exactly the same inflection. It was as if he was doing a parody of a sing-songy poem. The distraction was so bad I could not focus on what he was reading. The exception seemed to be with dialog which was reasonably good. Unfortunately, it wasn’t worth wading through exposition and description just to get to dialog.