Romance Audiobooks discussion

Hello everyone. I've been listening to the Fever series by KMM and I've got about a third of the way into bk4, Dreamfever. This is the book where the narrator's change from Joyce Bean to Natalie Ross doing everything except the spoken male sections which are done by Phil Gigante. This is a new way of narration for me - I've heard of dual narrators - the female doing the female POV sections and the male doing the male POV sections - I think Suzanne Brockmann's latest do this, but this way is new and different for me. The change of narrators is much more noticeable when you listen to them all one immediately after the other as I've been doing.

Anywho, does anyone know why the narrators changed in book 4? Does anyone know how the 2 narrators came to be? I was thinking that maybe the powers that be wanted Natalie Ross but didn't think much of her male voices or something and that's why they got Phil Gigante (I know he's narrated some of KMM's Highlander books). I had been really enjoying Joyce Bean's narration however and I thought her male voices and accents were great. Does anyone know why she didn't get the gig for the last 2 books?

Curiously yours!

Kaetrin - KMM's fans petitioned for Gigante to narrate the male roles in the Fever series once it got rolling. After his performances with the Highlander series, many envisioned him as the voice for JZB and others.

So, it's a simple case of the author listening to her fans. I had a jolt when I started Dreamfever (I was listening to one after the other like you) but by the time I listened to Shadowfever, I thought Ross and Gigante were the perfect pair.

And, I don't know this for sure, but I'm guessing if Gigante did the male roles, he needed a female partner since he's not the perfect choice for a female role (and the majority of the narration is Mac). I think they were trying to play to all the strengths. I've heard it asked before why Joyce Bean didn't continue with the female roles (and I don't know) but I would assume contracts and such were a determining factor.

thx Lea!