THE PARADOX HOTEL

Emily Woo Zeller narrates this time- and space-bending work of science fiction set in the titular Paradox Hotel. The hotel is the place where the rich and famous wait before they travel through time for fancy vacations. The first-person narrator, January Cole, head of security at the hotel, has become unstuck in time and is experiencing the past, present, and future simultaneously. Zeller leans hard into this unreliable narrator, giving her a false bravado when she speaks dialogue but pulling it in during internal monologues. The hotel is filled with a United Nations of characters, so Zeller has the opportunity to demonstrate her tremendous range by voicing characters with accents from all around the world. A.R.F. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: APRIL 2022]