Centaur of the Crime: Book One of Fantasy and Forensics (Fantasy & Forensics 1)

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Until that medallion transports her to the magical kingdom of Andeluvia.

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Dayna discovers that she's been summoned to solve the murder of the realm's king, before war breaks out between Andeluvia and the Centaur Kingdoms. When the trail of evidence leads from Andeluvia, back to LA, Dayna must bring all of her forensic skill to bear in order to solve the case. The price of failure? A war that will kill millions and devastate both lands. Hope she works best under pressure. Would you listen to Centaur of the Crime again?

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This was an interesting and fun crime story. I would like to see more along this same line. What was one of the most memorable moments of Centaur of the Crime? The way the author blended actual crime scene techniques with fantasy charicters and events was a fun twist. She was very articulate, had good timing and voice inflections. Can't wait to see if the author decides to write more like this one! Dayna Chrissie is the lead Crime Scene Analyst for the LAPD, and from the perspective of a former crime scene analyst, I found myself breaking out in laughter at just how apt our first introduction to Dayna is.

As Dayna arrives at the crime scene where we first meet her, she cracked me up right away.

Centaur of the Crime: Book One of ‘Fantasy and Forensics’ (Fantasy & Forensics 1) by Michael Angel

But they would keep corpse juices out of my socks. Angel caught my attention right away. If you can make me laugh and identify with the main character that quickly, you have my attention. And Angel never lost it. This particular scene is an odd case, to say the least. Peculiar clothing is only the start. Besides bullet wounds, there is a huge, charcoaled hole in the middle of his chest and Dayna has no idea how it was caused. For Dayna finds an odd gold coin inside the body — a gold coin that transports her to another world. Oh, and what a world!

She is a strong, competent, take-no-crap woman hey — if you are a woman in a police position, you have to be all those things — just breathing the testosterone in air can cause unwarranted beard growth! But she is also kind, understanding and very, very intelligent.

Pulled into another world to solve the murder of a king, Dayna takes the transition well. Especially not by a woman from another world. I loved this book. The fantasy aspects, the world building, as well as the creative development of the species and their various aspects. I am also adding some of his other works, especially The Detective and the Unicorn, to my Audible library. Of course, a narrator can make, or break, an Audible recording. In this case, I was very disappointed by the narrator, Katrina Carmody.

Narrators should understand that they are creating a piece of performance art with every book that they read, and Carmody does a less than acceptable job. Where was the director? Yes, I have heard worse, but she is far, far from the best. How can a professional narrator care so little for her work product? Other than the disappointing narration, I would highly recommend Centaur of the Crime to anyone who loves a good fantasy novel with centaurs, griffins, and other fantasy creatures.

And if you also like procedurals, Angel has a good grasp on that aspect also, so it is all good! His books populate shelves in languages from Russian to Portuguese. Michael currently resides in Southern California. Alas, despite keeping a keen eye out for griffins, centaurs, or galactic marshals, none have yet put in an appearance on Hollywood Boulevard. Bought this as WhisperSync on the cheap, but it is worth paying real money for all the laughs it brings. The audio performer, Katrina Carmody, is a conundrum. She is involved, pleasantly voiced, and emotive, but there are these occasional peculiar word pronunciations.

Even so, she gives depth and adds to the fun. From Michael Angel yes but only if Katrina Carmony doesn't narrate it. How did the narrator detract from the book? The second is that everytime some action started or something was about to be revealed in a conversation, the author would do a chapter break. It was as bad as those reality shows that go to commercial right as they are getting ready to announce the winner. I did appreciate the author trying to cut down on the use of foul language. But the main character using the term "effing" got to be as tedious as if she had been using the term it was replacing.

Another thing that was overused was the main character's brain "going click" and suddenly understanding whatever she needed to know. For characters that were switching worlds, they all seemed to take it in stride just a little too much. Now the characters from the fantasy world said they had studied our world but then they were confusing on what they understood and didn't understand. They knew about forsenics but not about guns. They understood modern English and slang except for the words "carriage" and the phrase "turn the tables".

I felt that the author should have done more research on some of the topics in the book. Forsenics should have been better understood.

Also, some of the medieval situations. For example, the author said the pikemen were carrying large shields. Pikes are extremely long spears that require two hands to use so at best they would only carry small shields for when they switched to close combat. This was a good notion that just wasn't executed to its fullest.

I would rate it as 2.

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Dayna is a crime scene analyst with the LA ME and has found herself on a doozy of a case The Good King Benedict was murdered and war is coming in three days. She must find the evidence to prove that the centaurs are innocent to stop it. Here's what I liked: The idea of a ME needed to solve a medieval crime in another world.

I love the punny title! Here's what I didn't like: It felt like it took too long to really get into the story. There seemed to be a lot of useless information, or info that was provided in a way that prompted me to skim and look for the next bout of dialogue. Dayna can ride a horse.

I had the impression she never rode one, but she had no problems riding a horse or slaying a dragon, or even being in a new world with new creatures. In fact, she was too busy checking out Galen's junk. Even Esteban took seeing a griffin and a talking fawn like it was an every day occurrence. There is a some poor sentence structures in here.

I got the feeling that periods were placed in the middle of sentences and the author just continued without fixing it. It made for clunky reading and jarred me out of the moment plenty of times. Wrong names being used when talking about other characters. Plenty of times Benedict's son was called by his father's name. But in the long run, I was pretty bored with the way the story was told and disappointed the execution.

Dayna Chrissie is the lead Crime Scene Analyst for the LAPD, and from the perspective of a former crime scene analyst, I found myself breaking out in laughter at just how apt our first introduction to Dayna is. As Dayna arrives at the crime scene where we first meet her, she cracked me up right away. But they would keep corpse juices out of my socks. Angel caught my attention right away. If you can make me laugh and identify with the main character that quickly, you have my attention.

And Angel never lost it. This particular scene is an odd case, to say the least. Peculiar clothing is only the start. Besides bullet wounds, there is a huge, charcoaled hole in the middle of his chest and Dayna has no idea how it was caused. Oh, and what a world! But she is also kind, understanding and very, very intelligent. Pulled into another world to solve the murder of a king, Dayna takes the transition well.

Especially not by a woman from another world. I loved this book. The fantasy aspects, the world building, as well as the creative development of the species and their various aspects. I am also adding some of his other works, especially The Detective and the Unicorn, to my Audible library. In this case, I was very disappointed by the narrator, Katrina Carmody. Narrators should understand that they are creating a piece of performance art with every book that they read, and Carmody does a less than acceptable job.

Where was the director? Yes, I have heard worse, but she is far, far from the best.

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How can a professional narrator care so little for her work product? And how can the production company expect to retain business when their offering is so poorly done? Other than the disappointing narration, I would highly recommend Centaur of the Crime to anyone who loves a good fantasy novel with centaurs, griffins, and other fantasy creatures. And if you also like procedurals, Angel has a good grasp on that aspect also, so it is all good!

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