It’s disconcerting at first but does fade away after a few chapters. The result is that you may find yourself forced into “unhearing” and “unlearning” Stone first, and then readjusting to his new voice. He is given a very deep “dumb as rocks” voice in Caulky, but in Nailed, his voice is completely different - much more upbeat, similar to Cole’s voice in Caulky. If you’ve read Caulky and then you immediately read Nailed, you may encounter an additional issue: a character “schism” in Stone due to two very different voices from one book to the other. It happens too often to be chalked up to inadvertent mistakes. Also noted in this book with the “weaker” narrator, a number of inexplicable mispronunciations. Nailed has the same two narrators as Caulky and while they are both more than competent - good diction, intonation, pacing - one narrator is definitely stronger than the other - richer tone, better emotional representation of the words on the page - which is something noted in Caulky but amplified in Nailed.
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