Argren Blue

An Epic Fantasy

By: Ross Hightower, Deb Heim

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

“Readers are immersed in a gripping fantasy tale filled with resilience, self-discovery, and the pursuit of freedom.” –Literary Titan

Rebels strike at the heart of an evil oligarchy – a story for our times.

As the leader of the rebel group Oss’stera, Alar's burning desire to topple the oppressive Vollen Empire drives him to join the resistance. But with one failure after another, he begins to question if their fight makes any difference.

Amidst the chaos, Alar discovers abilities reminiscent of the legendary heroes of old. When a powerful witch from the empire offers a risky mission to infiltrate an Inquisition stronghold and free prisoners, Alar and his allies seize the opportunity. Their success attracts the empire's attention, and they realize the true consequences of their actions. Can this rag-tag group of rebels have any chance of defeating this evil oligarchy or is it already too late?

The worst narration I've ever listened to!

Virtual narration made a mockery of the art of reading and listening to a story being read.
I will never listen to another book narrated by virtual narration.

I cannot tell you what the book is actually about except there are rebels, an emperor's Inquisitor and something about art.

This Virtual narrator verbally spelled out words, spoke 2 different options for a word it didn't know, said the wrong word for an object, such as read, bow, etc , and it paused at the wrong times in every sentence. **The worst issue with Virtual narration is the incorrect inflection and even worse, the complete lack of inflection. I can't forget about incorrect inflection in the wrong places!

This made it impossible to know who's who, a person vs a place, and what the story is about! I was, and still am, completely lost throughout most of this story.

I will never listen to another book using Virtual narration. I believe using VN will push readers back to reading books rather than listening to them. Yes, it is that bad!

I rarely write detailed reviews, and this is not a detailed review about the story line, because I really do not know what it's about!

VN may be just okay reading children's first books where there is no need for inflection. That said, using VN would completely defeat the purpose of books like "Cat in the Hat" that teach children to read and recognize words.
Virtual narration is really bad