STEAMED

During a lab accident caused by his sister, Dr. Jack Fletcher is blown into an alternate universe—a steampunk universe in which he lands aboard a steam-powered airship commanded by the beautiful Captain Octavia Pye. The zany combination of science fiction, bawdy humor, and steamy romance is told partly by Jack, narrated by Jonathan Davis, and partly by Octavia, narrated by Bianca Amato. While the story is like a raunchy cartoon, one thing is perfectly clear: Amato and Davis are gifted narrators whom listeners will want to seek out. Both narrators play their parts to the fullest, employing fabulous character voices that will make listeners laugh out loud, even as they roll their eyes at some of the crudeness. M.M.G. © AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine [Published: OCTOBER 2011]