u/harmlesslandsquid

Totally random thought that popped into my head today but I thought maybe Titus should have recognised Darrow as a red name. Lots of the golds mention it's a very off colour name but wouldn't suspect it's a red name because to them they only know reds as numbers, but I'd have thought that a fellow red would have gone "oh shit no way, Darrow? Like the bloke from my drill team and my 3rd cousin and my neighbour two doors down, wtf is a Darrow doing here?!"

Doing a graphic audio listen through of the series after my regular audiobook listen and I've been thinking about which voices I like and which just don't work for me.

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Apollonious, oh my goodness, what a voice, he's just perfect for the role. It's one of the most pleasing voices I've ever heard.

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I can't stand how the Jackel's voice actor says Lilath's name. The way he super over pronounces it, LilATH. It's driving me mad listening to the post day of red doves chapters because he says it so often 😂

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I wasn't super impressed by a lot of the red voices, some seriously dodgy Irish accents going on there, looking at you Dancer and Harmony.

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But I thought Lyria was much better in this than the regular audiobook. Same for Lysander.

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I liked Volga a lot too, she really conveyed cute but seriously dangerous giant puppy dog through just voice acting.

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Roque was an interesting one, his voice made him sound like so much more of a pompous little pixie bitch in the graphic audio and it made it much harder to like him even when you believe you have no reason not to. But I kinda like that? Because turns out he is a little bitch and I want to hate him 😂

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What are other people's thoughts, who stuck out to you guys either in a good or bad way?

I've got 3 kids, two boys, 7 and 4 and a girl who's 16 months. When she was younger my daughter always wanted to be sat snuggling with you, we jokingly called her the lap terrorist, but now she's a little older and walking she's super keen to be off exploring, playing, chasing her brothers around etc. Obviously it's lovely to see her so happy and engaged and she still loves to come for a cuddle but it's really brought home that she is growing up. My boys are wonderful but they feel so grown up as well now, my oldest is getting to the age where he wants to do more and more things without me, he often says he doesn't want to read stories together at bedtime because he wants to read books on his own or he wants to go play in his room by himself. My middle boy is starting school in September, he goes to preschool at the moment, I remember a time where we'd walk across the playground holding hands but he's so excited to get there now he runs off ahead. It's just hitting me how much they're all growing up and all the little things I'll never get back. No more tiny little fingers and toes, no more sleepy, tiny baby snuggles. I know there are so many great things to experience still but it's just hard seeing tiny new born babies and knowing that'll never be mine again. If I had the money and space I'd 100% have more children but I know it's not the sensible thing to do in the position we're in. It just hits me sometimes and bums me out you know? Felt like I needed to have a rant about it.