Sexy voice audio book narrator12/29/2023 Holdbrook-Smith has an incredibly smooth, sexy voice that is perfect for the young biracial (Nigerian and English) police constable and sorcerer’s apprentice Peter Grant. Have you ever had a crush on an audiobook narrator without even having seen what they look like? Yeah, that was my experience with Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, who I was introduced to through his performances of Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant urban fantasy detective series, aka the Rivers of London series, aka the grown-up Harry Potter I’ve always wanted. Also check out more audiobooks by Black authors read by Black audiobook narrators. Check out this great interview with Robin Miles right here on Book Riot. She voices Black characters in the U.S., the Caribbean, Nigeria and other lands real and imaginary with equal authenticity, so well that after listening to many of her books I still had no idea what her accent in real life was. In order to excel at such a range of genres, Miles shows off an astounding ability to embody characters in different times and places. Jemisin, bell hooks, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, Audre Lorde, Chinelo Okparanta, Angela Davis, Roxane Gay, and so many more! You know an audiobook narrator is versatile when her resumé includes science fiction, literary fiction, memoir, and children’s fiction, to name only a few genres. She has narrated over 350 audiobooks! In particular, she’s made a career bringing to life incredible books by Black women authors such as N.K. The award-winning and much-loved Robin Miles is a hugely prolific audiobook performer. Without further ado, here are the five best audiobook narrators (according to me only, of course). These five narrators all have the qualities I treasure in audiobook readers: versatility in the character voices they can do, wide range of spot-on accents, and amazing extent of emotion and expressiveness. I mean voice actors who are so amazing at their jobs that while listening to the audiobooks they are performing I lose all awareness that I am listening to a human reading a story and I just feel completely immersed, like I am right there in the book. But the best audiobook narrators take it to the next level. There are a lot of great audiobook narrators out there. Find her on Twitter: Litsy: CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian, Goodreads: CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian, and Facebook: Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian. She also writes a monthly column on Autostraddle recommending queer books called Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian. She runs the website Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, where you can find reviews of LGBTQ+ Canadian books. Topics and activities dear to her heart include cats, bisexuality, libraries, queer (Canadian) literature, and drinking tea. Known in some internet circles as Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, Casey Stepaniuk is a writer and librarian who holds an MA in English literature and an MLIS.
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