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A review by krisrid
Death is a Cabaret by Deborah Morgan
1.0
I thought this might be a good way to try something different with the cozy genre, as it is a male main character and narrator [I listened to this as an audio book]. Unfortunately, this did not work for me at all, and I DNF'd it at the one-third point.
Mainly, I gave up on this because it was slow-moving and dull to me. At the point where I gave up the murder had just happened, and while I understand some set-up is required, if you need a full third of the book to set the scene in a cozy mystery, you need to tighten things up a bit.
And a smaller complaint that really irritated me was the fact that the narrator apparently did not know how to correctly prounounce Mackinac [as in Mackinac Island, which is an amazing place in Michigan and a great setting for any book - I have been there]. There are several points at the beginning where it is prounounced "Mack-i-nack" and others where the narrator says it correctly as "Mack-i-naw". Aside from the fact that if you are a professional narrator you should find out how to properly say the name of the location of a book, it is even worse when you pronounce it two different ways multiple times. I may be the only person who would notice this, but I did notice it and it annoyed me a lot.
Overall, though, I gave up on this because I found it boring. The mispronunciation was just the icing on the cake that eventually made me give up on this.
Mainly, I gave up on this because it was slow-moving and dull to me. At the point where I gave up the murder had just happened, and while I understand some set-up is required, if you need a full third of the book to set the scene in a cozy mystery, you need to tighten things up a bit.
And a smaller complaint that really irritated me was the fact that the narrator apparently did not know how to correctly prounounce Mackinac [as in Mackinac Island, which is an amazing place in Michigan and a great setting for any book - I have been there]. There are several points at the beginning where it is prounounced "Mack-i-nack" and others where the narrator says it correctly as "Mack-i-naw". Aside from the fact that if you are a professional narrator you should find out how to properly say the name of the location of a book, it is even worse when you pronounce it two different ways multiple times. I may be the only person who would notice this, but I did notice it and it annoyed me a lot.
Overall, though, I gave up on this because I found it boring. The mispronunciation was just the icing on the cake that eventually made me give up on this.