Look Before You Jump: a Hilarious Southern Mystery Romance

By: D. A. Bale

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Series is finished!

When scandal is afoot and Vicki leaps in to solve a murder, you know it’s gonna be big.

‘Cause this here’s Texas.

Don’t you dare call Victoria Bohanan a debutante. That cozy life is firmly in her rearview mirror after striking out on her own. Nowadays she’ll earn every penny of that twenty dollar tip by guessing your favorite drink faster than you can belly up to the bar. Sharp wits have gotten her out of more than one disastrous affair.

Until the mouth sinks her right into another.

When an old high school flame returns to town with a pastorate position lodged under his belt, life becomes tangled. This time it’s not between the sheets. Quicker than Vicki can score a shot of Jack, her former boy toy is embroiled in a mystery guaranteed to implode the megachurch his parents built and send the gossiping gaggle into a tailspin faster than a quarterback sack on Sunday.

She’s smart. She’s sexy. With an attitude the size of Texas only a mother could love. But when the cow chips are down, Vicki’s the one to uncover the killer and solve the case of who murdered the preacher’s wife.

Join the laugh-out-loud capers in book one of the Bartender Babe Chronicles that readers of Janet Evanovich are calling the Texas Stephanie Plum. Light among humorous mysteries and romantic comedies and long on—well as they say, everything’s bigger in Texas.

The AI reader is pure awful

It’s a cute story, but the AI reading is so choppy and lacks inflection and nuance that I just couldn’t continue to listen

Cute story

I would have enjoyed it better with a real person narrating instead of virtual voice.

AI narration

The virtual voice leaves a lot to be desired. There was very little inflection and feeling that could be heard. The story would have been truly funny with a live narrator.

Could be funnier if read by a human.

The story is good but the virtual reader detracts from the humor. Timing and pronunciations are incorrect.

excellent story that kept moving

the narration was horrible. I realize it's computerized, but it ruined parts of the dialog in the book. awful

awful narration ruins the story

Good story, but it is completely ruined by the AI generated narration. There is far too little difference between the voices of the characters, and everything is monotone.

Horrible AI Narrator

AI has a long way to go. Good thing it was free or I would want my money back.

AI Awful

AI just doesn’t cut it. The story might have been okay?? But couldn’t get past the stupid voice. Prosody was unnatural and you could never tell who was talking.

Virtual voice was terrible

When I read what this book was about, I was looking forward to a good comedy. But instead, the virtual voice made it into such a monotone when they were so many opportunities to make the book coincide with the theme. I will not listen to any more bookswith virtual voice.

Good story.

Audio was AI of some sort, voice was mechanical and without nuance. Very difficult to listen to.