A review by nero1279
Beauty From Pain by Georgia Cates

medium-paced

3.75

🎧AUDIO VERSION🎧⭐️⭐️  /5 performance by Bunny Warren and Robert Black. 

No, no, no. You must use an Australian narrator for Aussie characters when a story is set in Australia. No one, and I mean no one, can imitate the true blue Aussie accent, anything less is simply tacky. Even a British accent would have been preferable. This fact alone almost caused me to stop listening. 

ARTICULATION  - the Aussie accent is atrocious 

BREATHING –  projection appropriate, mouth noise is too high. 

DELIVERY – solid and in the spirit of the text and author’s intent. Timing and pacing is a little fast at times. 

EYE BRAIN MOUTH CONTROL – delivery was adequate at most times. 

CONSISTENT – articulation for the Australian aspects is poor, breath and pitch control was not as strong as it could be. 

ANALYSIS – understands the story arc and characters.

CHARACTERISATION – the Aussie accents are horrendous and for an Aussie listener, very off putting. 

SEPARATION - the distinction between American and Australian accents was very poor.

STORYLINE 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Ok, once I got over the atrocious attempts at the Aussie accent, the story shone through. I can certainly see how this will make a great movie series for Passionflix. I certainly hope that Aussie actors are employed. The colloquialism used throughout the book were good, however the use of “roo’s arse” did make me LOL. Nope that is certainly not one we do not use. Also a drug store means something completely different in Australia 🤣 we call them Chemists. Yes, we commonly the word “brekkie” but referring to a sandwich as a “sanga” in such a casual conversation is not normal for Aussies. Wagga Wagga is never referred with the 2 names by Aussies. We are notorious for shortening everything, so it would be simply Wagga. As for the storyline, very cute and I’m glad I pushed through the narration.