Good book; Very weird performance

So overall, a super interesting story as per usual. The author writes strong female characters with realistic bios and does a great deal of research to make the storyline itself believable. However, she did make some odd choices with Raphael that gave me pause - at one point, he says something like “What the Taco?”. Now, I’m not latino so I can’t say with certainty, but I’m still pretty sure that “what the taco” isn’t a colloquialism that’s just thrown around. Weird choice.

As for the performance; holy good christ did I laugh sometimes. I’ll give Gunn credit, I’d personally deliver an Oscar to him if I had that power - guy was dedicated. But I couldn’t take the sex scenes seriously with the way he narrated them, or sometimes even the characters themselves. He made Raphael sound like Antonio Banderas imitating a knockoff Antonio Banderas - the narrator in the previous books did a much better job. He sounded like what he’s supposed to be, a guy who grew up in South America but who had spent sufficient time in the US for his accent to shift a little.
Also, he chose to make Steph sound like she’s from Minnesota - why? Porqué? Why on God’s green earth would you do that? Woman sounded like me attempting to affect a stereotypical Canadian accent.

I’m looking forward to the next book since this narrator won’t be doing the performance. I feel mean saying it, since Gunn really poured his heart and soul into it, but it did become quite a romcom sometimes, which is a far cry from the sexy spy thriller I believe Gerard was going for.

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