Jem's Journey (A Wonderland Novella)

De: Irina Shapiro

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Feeling disillusioned and unloved, Jem decides to leave home and take his chances in London, but fate has a couple of twists in store for him. What’s meant to be an uneventful trip turns into a coming-of-age journey that teaches Jem that adulthood is not as easy as he might have expected, and life usually has a plan of its own.

narrators ability to make each character come alive

I love the authors way to help you stay connected to each character and feel like you're actually there alongside

Too Short!

I found the Novella disappointing because I loved Jem so much in the Wonderland series, and this small glimpse of his future was disheartening. The animated voice was not bad and the story was well written, but I guess I wanted him to go off with the Everly‘s in the end of it all.

Pleasantly surprised

I was happy to get a glimpse of what happened to Jem. I was hesitant to listen with the narrator being Virtual Voice, but it wasn’t bad. Better than many human narrators I think.

Jem has row in My Heart

This was a fun and quick story. Knowing how Jem’s life unfolds. How He grows into a Man.
The ending was short and to the point, would have liked more…but overall a good listen.

Terrible AI narration

It was just too weird to listen to AI narration. The emotion wasn’t there, obviously. Lines that should’ve been more sorrowful or sad or just a weird prescribed intonation of cheerfulness. Just too weird but I love arena Shapiro and I love the Wonderland stories so the story is good. I’ll just have to read it on kindle.

the virtual voice kept running on sentences

the story was good. I just wish it could have been longer and with a real person reading it.

AI narration ruined this book

I love Irina Shapiro’s Wonderland Series. Was very excited to have a little more of the story with this novella after finishing all 5 books. I was dismayed when at the beginning it was announced the narration would be with “virtual voice.” It turned out to be awful. There was no life to the voice, sounded completely hollow and fake. If this is the wave of the future - “virtual voice” - I might as well go back to reading actual books.

Virtual voice = No emotion

Good story to wrap up The Wonderland Series about what happened to Jem. However, virtual voice narration has no emotion or variation of characters. Thank goodness it's a short story!

Disappointed

I loved the Wonderland Series except this book. I feel like it was rushed and Jem deserved more of a story than this. The virtual voice also has a lot to be desired, I really dislike virtual voice, I think it cheapens any story.

A.I. Reading was intolerable.

I was very interested in finding out what happened to Jem as he was such an endearing character in the story. However, the AI reading of the story was completely intolerable. I couldn’t bring myself, even as interested as I was in Jem, to suffer the AI reader