Emissary By Chris Rogers Narrated By Jeff Hays

Emissary

Author: Chris Rogers  

Narrated By Jeff Hays

Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
Chart House Press

Jeff Hays is a magician with his portrayal of Emissary. Hay's has a pleasing deep and very masculine voice. When chapter one started I thought wow is this read by two people. I listened and thought no, I am sure Hays is the only narrator. Well, omg, this is the best female voice from a male narrator ever. The amazement does not stop there, no, he has other stellar voices up his sleeve. Aldamae was equally praiseworthy and very much a stand alone voice and accent. Jeff Hays is equal and even exceeds some of the golden voices of male narrators. I enjoyed his sound effects like simulating a intercom. Jeff Hays imbues so much life into each character that you can't help but enjoy every moment of Emissary. His pacing is excellent on both text and characters.

Jeff Hays Narrator

Audiobook Review: Emissary, By Chris Rogers

Chris Rogers Author

President Addison Hale returning from a re-election campaign is unaware that a ship is poised in space with a transfer beam directed at her as she sits in the  air force one's oval office. Ruell, an alien from a dying planet has been groomed to go to earth to invade the mind of the President of the United States, to be receptive to Ruell's influences.

Ruell is pleasantly surprised that seeing earth life from President Hale's mind is more intense in colors and textures and voices are far nicer than what he experienced in the preparation chambers simulations. Emotions are also something he'd not expected. Having left forever his body and now just a beam of light and energy that needs recharging he tries to remind himself to be a sponge to begin with until he's completely comfortable and knowledgeable about human life.

After watching, absorbing and collecting data, President Hale is shot in an assassination attempt. As he feels her life force going dark, he feels despair
that he failed his mission. A few pep talks with himself he is drawn to a Texas policeman Longshadow. Longshadow has a drinking problem and dealing with his grief for losing his wife, his son and his brother, all who died in a relatively short time of each other.



Ruell enters Longshadow's mind and unlike President Hale, Longshadow becomes aware of Ruell. At first he tries to drink himself into oblivion to shut up Ruell's voice, and eventually he realizes that somehow, Ruell is not his imagination and he isn't hearing things and going crazy. Ruell reveals himself in a way the convinces Longshadow that he is real and has a mission to fulfill.

Link to an interview with Jeff Hays

Emissary is very long, thirteen hours and Jeff Hays does a magnificent interpretation and portrayal of it. If not for such a fine performance I may not have been able to listen to all of it. There are other side stories that are books in themselves that needlessly go into long diatribes. Although each character is well fleshed out, about five hours could be deleted and turned into a separate book.

Panthers Play for Keeps by Clea Simon Narrated by Tavia Gilbert

Panthers Play for Keeps
Clea Simon

Tavia Gilbert Narrator

Blackstone Audio Inc.

8 hours 45 minutes

Tavia Gilbert Narrator

Tavia Gilbert is one of our finest audio book narrators. Her characterizations of the different animals in Clea Simons' books is absolutely stunning. Pru is so well done that one forgets that Pru is not real, but, Tavia, does make her seem like she is. Tavia Gilberts' voice is so charming, has a lovely pitch, and is so very expressive. Hands down no one does a cat's meow as well as Ms.Gilbert. Cat ears perk up in my house when Ms.Gilbert meows.

Author Clea Simon

Clea Simon the woman behind the Theda Krakow Mysteries, Dulcie Schwartz Mysteries, and Pru Marlowe.

Audiobook Review: Panthers Play for Keeps

Pru Marlowe is training Spot a service dog, she takes him out to a rural area to let him have some run free time along with his training. When Spot sniffs out a corpse of a once attractive woman, Pru is once again going headlong into another murder case. Her unique talent of being able to talk with animals gives her inside information that the police don't have access to. Wallis her ill tempered cat is always there to give her his advice and snarky comments. Wallis has no fondness for dogs, likes to hunt outside for flyby snacks and is Pru's sounding board when she's working out the details of a case.

The story is more complex than the previous three in the series. Pru gets into situations far more dangerous and life threatening. Relying on animal cues and
prompts that Pru does not always understand. There are breathtaking events in a fast paced adventurous story. Made me compare it to the old movies where you are holding your breath while yelling don't go down there, as the heroine makes her way down the basement steps. 

Pru is facing the green eyed monster when a beautiful woman seems to be moving in on Pru's on again off again boyfriend Detective Jim Creighton. Pru has a hard time committing to a full time permanent relationship. Creighton is not going to have an easy time pinning Pru down, after all it is difficult hearing the thoughts and feelings of any animals around while trying to carry on a normal relationship. Pru's attention and concern are always going first to the animals. Any human is taking a backseat to them.



The first book in the Theda Krakow Mysteries came out in 2005, Mew Is for Murder, 2006, Cattery Row, Cries and Whiskers by Clea Simon arrived in 2007, and Probable Claws came out in 2009.

Dulcie Schwartz Mysteries also came out in 2009 with Shades of Grey,
between 2009 and 2015 there were eight more books,
Grey Matters, Grey Zone, Grey Expectations, True Grey, Grey Dawn, Grey Howl, Stages of Grey, and Code Grey, to be released August 1,2015.

Pru Marlowe Pet Noir Series Dogs Don't Lie, arrived in 2011, Cats Can't Shoot was out in 2012, Parrots Prove Deadly by Clea Simon by Clea Simon, 2013, Panthers Play for Keeps 2014, Kittens Can Kill, was released March 3, 2015.