Called

By: Robert J. Crane

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

From Million-Selling Author Robert J. Crane...

A demon hunter without a home. A cop without a cause. A seemingly unstoppable evil rising in a small town...

WARNING: Contains violence, coarse language and sexual situations.

Archibald "Arch" Stan was a local cop in Midian, Tennessee that was good at his job, good at being a husband, and exceptionally good at hiding his disappointment at not being able to figure out what was missing in his life that made it all seem so empty.Lafayette Hendricks looked like a drifter, a broken-down hitchhiker blown through Midian on the prevailing winds. When Arch catches him in a fight on the town square, though, things start to get weird, fast, because the guy he's fighting doesn't die when he gets shot. And Hendricks is carrying a sword. Pretty soon, Arch's whole life is turned upside down by Hendricks's revelation that there's a secret world operating under the one he's been living in his whole life - one filled with demons, chaos, and unspeakable evils, one of which is already in town, stirring trouble. And if the two men don't band together to keep watch on the darkness falling on Midian, then this small town might just get swallowed up by the forces of evil - with the rest of the world to follow shortly behind.If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Stephen King, Michael Anderle, Shayne Silvers, Shannon Mayer, or J.R. Rain, you will LOVE the first installment of the Southern Watch series.

Good read

Nice urban fantasy horror what ever you call it and takes place with in a few dozen miles a my front door which is fun

The robot voice was a huge distraction.

Okay story but the robot voice was terrible. It was flat and continuous and made it hard to follow the story.

computer natation fail

The first chapter of this book is an introduction to 3 different characters. While I enjoyed the book itself, computer narration just ran all the paragraphs together so you couldn't tell you had switched to a different character. It just made things very confusing. There was also no fluctuation in accent when the book specified heavy accents, and the colorful colloquialisms used didn't sound right with the flat narration. The narration lacked the emotional fluctuation that draws a person into the story.

An entertaining story with some unexpected humor

I enjoyed the story. The AI would have been better if it understood pausing between scene changes. Without a pause you are suddenly following a different character in a different place. I've had to back up to see when it changed.

As long as they are using an AI, why not have it do different voices for each character to help us tell them apart? That is part of what makes the human read stories better.

Nope

No more virtual voice. Just hire an actual person to read the book. I can’t count the number of times I had to rewind and listen to parts again to figure out when a scene had changed, or to figure out what character was speaking, etc, etc.

Stick with it.

Vertical Voice was better than some readers, but a person reading would be a great improvement.

great book love the story but AI reading needs work

I wish the AI would pause more between character switches as I'm sure the book skips a few lines or has a visual separation of thoughts. But, the book was great and I'm definitely going to listen to the whole series.

Great storyline Bad virtual voice

I really enjoyed the story but the virtual voice is not good. I would love to listen to the other books in the series but won't.

The AI narrator.

The AI is not something that I like. First time listening to one. Probably will be the last. Difficult to follow when the author moved to different characters perspective. The delivery of “oh” is also an issue.

Greatest author there is.

Just like all his other titles, Crane tells an amazing story that draws you in and holds you tight through the entire story.