Comment by Loughla

That's the thing. It is acting. All the characters are played by actors. And they just simply nail their parts. You're right that it's an equal and almost perfect mix of acting while not changing the tone or impacting the content via the same acting process.

It legitimately is the best audio book I've ever heard. I think it's because their voices and tone and cadence matches what I hear in my head when reading the book.