The Protector's War

I'm not done listening to this audiobook, but I have to leave this comment somewhere. This narrator needs to learn how to pronounce the names of towns in Oregon. As a native Oregonian, one of the reasons I enjoyed this series is because it's set in an area that I've been familiar with my whole life. In the first audiobook, there was only one frequently mispronounced word - Corvallis (he says the "a" with a rounded "aw" sound instead of an open "ah" sound) - but it was subtle enough that I just decided to deal with it and move on. In this second book, however, we're hearing more and more about smaller communities in the Willamette Valley, and he's butchered at least three more names that I can think of off the top of my head: McMinnville (he adds an extra syllable, making it "McMinniville"), Gervais (it's pronounced as two syllables, ger-vis, nor three, ger-vai-us), and Umatilla (he pronounces it a Spanish way, with the double l's making a y sound). If you're going to narrate an audiobook that's set in a real place with real names, LEARN TO PRONOUNCE THE DANG NAMES THE LOCAL WAY.