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. Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving. Alex Rider is now an IMDb TV/Amazon Original Series Alex Rider is an orphan turned teen superspy who's saving the world one mission at a timefrom. I could hold hope for an updated series of audiobooks with a more modern narrator, preferably younger or younger-sounding. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz: 9780142406144 : Books. Uniting forces with Americas own CIA for. To see his beloved Russia once again be a dominant power, he will stop at nothing. A man who just happens to have a nuclear weapon and a serious grudge against the free world. 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). The desperation of a man who has lost everything he cared for: his country and his only son. Then in "Eagle Strike", he used a French accent but the character says "Paris" and pronounces the hard "-is" at the end. 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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