Lynda La Plante

She never lets you down brilliant fair play, well read too. Loved it looking forward to book 2.

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Great story, shocking character voices

The narrator’s voice is nice, however she puts on the most awful voices for some characters and they are so much louder it makes it very hard to listen to at times. It’s a shame as it did spoil what was a good book.

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Struggled

Being a Brit I have always liked Lynda La Plante's work but I have to say,the chapters were long and I found it really difficult to finish it. Quite disappointed 😞 really. Narration didn't help as her voice was whiney & she struggled with the changes. was hoping for good things but quite disappointed.

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good story line bad narrative

Story line great 👌 had this had decent narration it would ha be been excellent but sadly it was dreadful .

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Awful grating voice

Oh my! Story okay but the narrator is awful at some character voices. “Rooney” speaks/shouts as if he’s on army parade with someone holding his testicles and “Rosie” squawks like Janice from Friends. Several times I had to turn volume down when these characters were shouting/squawking.

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Poor narration

Having just finished The Govner by Lynda La Plante I was looking forward to listening to this novel unfortunately the poor narration ment that I had to give up after 45 minutes which was unfortunate as the story seemed great

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just wasn't interesting.

couldn't get into this, seems I didn't really care about the characters cos all of them were hard to like.

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a page turner

Narrator was very good. The story quite complicated in places but gripping. a good read.

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Began well but …

Story got more convoluted as it went on - implausible. Not as good as ja Plant’s other books

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Okay story with horrid audio-editing and narrator

There were a few reviews that really disliked the book which made me hesitant to buy it. But I really love everything I've read from Lynda La Plante so far (which is quite a lot) and so I decided to give this audiobook a go. Contrary to some other reviewers I had no trouble getting pulled into the story right away. I didn't think it had a slow start at all. I've enjoyed the story but the narrator did everything she could to ruin it for me. Her normal reading voice is - albeit somewhat nasal - pleasant enough to listen to. I'm always using headphones but that's not a good idea with this narrator. She uses a weird, horribly nasal, high pitched, shrieking voice for one of the female characters in the book which hurt my ears - I immediately had to turn the volume down every time the narrator was using this voice. She also made one of the male characters in the book sound as if he had a few roos loose in the top paddock. And again I had to turn down the volume with this character because it was really hurting my ears, which was incredibly irritating! But I guess that also has to do with some really bad audio editing, which I think is quite unacceptable considering it's not unthinkable that people will listen to this book using earbuds or headphones! And, like someone else already mentioned as well, the narrator uses accents for some of the characters that were really out of place. This story would have been way more enjoyable had the narrator refrained from using loud, nasal, shrieking New York (or thereabouts) accents. And that has nothing to do with the New York accent per se - give me Fran Drescher's the Nanny or Cindy Lauper anytime - but here it was misplaced, annoying and LOUD.

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