Perhaps my earbuds are the ones that work too well. But the narration does not detract from the stories themselves, which have been as good as I remembered them. Skeleton Key: An Alex Rider Adventure Audible Audiobook Unabridged Anthony Horowitz (Author), & 2 more 643 ratings Teachers' pick See all formats and editions Kindle 8.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Alex Rider of Point Blank is back in another hair raising adventure. I could hold hope for an updated series of audiobooks with a more modern narrator, preferably younger or younger-sounding. Another problem with the narration is that the recording microphone works a little too well, and picks up every minute noise that comes from his mouth (swallowing, lip-licking, and other wet mouth sounds). Then in "Eagle Strike", he used a French accent but the character says "Paris" and pronounces the hard "-is" at the end. Skeleton Key is the third in the series about Alex Rider, a 14-year-old English school boy, who works as a spy for M16, the U.S.s equivalent of the CIA. Like he thought Russia was somehow also in South America? Be prepared for some cringeworthy attempts at a Chinese accent as well. His foreign accents are atrocious: In "Skeleton Key", for example, I easily forgot what nationality the main villain was supposed to be because the accent was just all over the place. He carries most adult characters well, but it's hard to feel like Alex himself is actually a teen sometimes. I've been rediscovering this series after not reading it since high school when they were new.
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