Cujo Audiobook - Narration Driving me NUTS

I don't know if this is too niche of an issue for this sub but I am currently listening to the Cujo audiobook on my commutes. Overall its been fine. I'm not crazy about the reader (Lorna Raver) but up until this point she's been okay. A little shrill at times, but tolerable. Its evident that the book is being read by an older actress.

Well just yesterday I reached the point in the book where Donna and Tad are -for the sake of avoiding spoilers- in a bad situation.

And Oh. My. God.

The way that Raver narrates Tad makes me want to crawl out of my skin. He's a 4 year old boy who is supposed to sound scared, I understand that. But holy shit I have never experienced a voice so grating in my life. Tad doesn't sound scared, he sound like he's whining.. incessantly. In the most irritating way a human being could possibly speak. I would have never noticed over the course of these scenes how many times he says "Mommy?" if it weren't for Raver's exceptionally petulant pronunciation of the word.

"MmmmOOMmmeeeeEEEE?"

It s drawn out, and multi-syllabic and takes 3 seconds for her to pronounce every time she says it. Which is just about every time Tad speaks. And everything else he says is also in this same cadence.

Good lord it actually might be enough to make me DNF this audiobook and finish it in print. More than once I have actually had to pause the book and take a minute of driving in silence just to cope with how much her portrayal of a scared Tad grates my nerves.