Jenks

Children’s book narration style

Revisado: 03-05-25

I’m having a really hard time getting into this one. I’ve picked it up several times and each time I can barely get through a single chapter because the performance is so odd.
The cadence of the narration is vaguely sing-songy, and the drawn out pronunciation and emphasis on very mundane words feels very forced: AS iiiiiiiiiiif she is TAlking to chilllllllldren…

This style of narration (where every sentence is both drawn out and has an exclamation point at the end!) seems to presuppose that the listener either doesn’t understand what is being said, or won't find the subject matter interesting otherwise.
But this is a relatively niche book which is likely to attract fans of history who have at least a passing knowledge of the period and are looking for a more in depth experience,

So while the narration choices weren’t to my tastes, I found the subject and writing style compelling and will probably seek this out as an eBook.

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