Great book, wrong narrator

Can’t hold an accent & characters changing nationalities every 2nd word.

Good story and didn’t fully figure it out until a few minutes before the Great Reveal.

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Narration

The narration was appalling. So many words pronounced in a most peculiar way and very irritating accents

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Ingenious story

well drawn cast. some anachronisms but overall good plotline. weird narration and accents that grate. would buy the next one if a different narrator.

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The theft, the guilty and the party

I enjoyed this audiobook which appeared in my Plus catalogue. The story is set at at an old days nobility house party where we meet the characters, as the title suggests the main character is Lady Violet. Not a choice I would have made but I thought there was a strong story about Lady Violet who has attended the party to reengage with society after a period of morning the loss of her husband. The twist at the end of the story was not what I expected and this made it even more enjoyable. I will certainly lookout for these Grace Burrowes books again.

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Truly awful accents

Although the ending was easy to guess it was enjoyable, once I got past the terrible accents. The reader wandered round the phonemic script as the characters wandered around the English speaking world. The Scottish Marquis was particularly confused!

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A Refreshing Protagonist

What I liked most about this book was the fact that Lady Violet is middle aged with a large dollop of emotional intelligence.

After becoming reclusive after her husband died, and recently out of mourning, she has been persuaded to attend a house party by Hugh St Sever, a friend and physician.

Also at the house party was Sebastian McHeath, Marquess of Dunkeld, a friend from Lady Violet’s youth; there are hints of a romantic interest never he went to war and she married but now they have a frosty relationship.

Her marriage wasn’t happy but at the same time, she recognises that it wasn’t desperately unhappy either. She is able to reflect on her emerging feelings, both emotional and physical, without it feeling like she was a hopeless romantic or someone absolutely set on denying herself either.

The plot itself is a bit sparse and for me, it took second place to Lady Violet’s life journey and discovering more about who she is now. Pieces of jewellery go missing, a potential death, and a blinkered magistrate who has decided who the thief is.

What also made a refreshing change was that there was no endangerment of the protagonist, being suddenly saved at the last minute.

My one niggle was the narration; Kirsten Potter did a very good impression of an aristocratic accent in Georgian Britain, but every now and then she didn’t hit the mark and it jarred slightly. Also, why on earth didn’t anyone correct her pronunciation of ‘migraine’ (my-grain), unless mee-grum is a form of headache that I’ve never heard of.

The niggle about the accent is a recurring theme for me, if the characters have a distinct to a country or location, whatever that might be, please use a narrator that natively speaks in that accent.

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Enjoyable Tale!

I enjoyed this book
Engaging characters, a lively heroine and attractively brooding male interest !
Narrated well, bringing all characters to life
I look forward to following these characters in future stories

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easy listening

set in the distant past, enjoyable yarn. Nicely read, kept my interest throughout the telling.

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great main character

loved this first book and I'm hooked. it's just confusing how old she seems- voice and wisdom- when she is not!

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couldn't finish

the story seems ok but awful narration. Gave at the end of chapter 2. Apart from accents changing in mid sentence they also shifted each time a character spoke. No idea what a mig-gran is.

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