He changes the pronunciation of Coordinator Chiwewe’s name partway through, then changes it back. Our villain Captain Murtry has the accent Alex should have, but it sort of comes on slow and ramps up as the story unfolds. Alex’s famous accent (practically defines his character) comes and goes, sometimes entirely absent. It would seem reasonable to go back and listen to the earlier narrations (this is a series fans are invested) to find how each character was played and try to follow that, but maybe the scheduling issue provides a clue: too rushed to research? Not only are characters played inconsistently with past portrayals (Avasarala loses her accent Amos’s voice moves way down in pitch), they are played inconsistently within this one book. I regret that I didn’t find this out earlier and go seek that one out! I’m sure Davies is a nice man, but he butchered this reading. And this new guy is messing it up.Īccording to this fan wiki, Erik Davies stepped in to read book 4 because Mays had a scheduling conflict, and a later audio edition was released with Mays reading again. In this format, no news is probably good news.) The earlier narrator of this series, Jefferson Mays, has given me each of the characters’ voices and accents he gave me a world that I invested in.

(I do try and recognize narration, and sometime comment on it, but I’ve probably failed to credit some fine work.

I guess it is one of those quiet tragedies that we often don’t notice or remark on the narrator at all if they do a good job done right, their work kind of fades into invisibility behind a great story. Following Leviathan Wakes, Caliban’s War, and Abaddon’s Gate, Cibola Burn makes book four of The Expanse.įirst remark: I noticed within seconds that this audiobook is read by a different narrator than books 1-3.

Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey