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Nipped in the Bud
- Orchard Series, Book 12
- Narrated by: Marguerite Gavin
- Series: Orchard, Book 12
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Shirley Y. Thomas
- 20-09-20
Not nippy enough for me
I previously listened to Rotten to the Core from this series. It was far better than this episode and the narrator was far better as well. This narrator’s voice was hard to hear. I kept trying to turn the volume up. Of course this might just as well be a production problem and not the reader‘a voice at all. But when she dropped her voice to a lower register to signify a male character speaking, I often had to strain to hear. Whatever the cause, the narration is weak and made the whole book a disappointment to me. I don’t think I’ll purchase other books in the series after this. Too bad.
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- LOVETOQUILT
- 24-07-19
Ms Gavin simply is not doing well
Switching readers from Ms Miles to Ms Gavin was and is a huge Mistake! Gavin simply can not “do” male voices .... Seth’s voice needs someone better and hopefully with a tiny slight New England accent, like Ms Miles was able to produce. Not enjoying this audio anywhere near as much.
If Miles is unavailable Please get. Reader that does sound like a female voice going hoarse.
Sorry I bought “Nipped in the Bud”
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- Michele Abington-Cooper
- 17-02-19
Background
I enjoyed this series but it REALLY annoys me when an author does not keep the back stories of characters the same throughput. Ex. Meg’s friend in Boston
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- knitsistah
- 05-02-19
Don’t waste your time or money
I’ve been enjoying this series since the beginning, and have collected and enjoyed them all. But this is the was so out of whack that it feels that it was written by someone else, someone who hadn’t went back and acquainted themselves with the main characters and their storylines.
That Meg would call up her “friend” Lauren for lunch and advice made me sit straight up in bed. Their relationship started deteriorating when Meg moved to her apple orchard in the countryside and ended after a long-over due blowout. Their final meeting was at Meg’s wedding when Lauren came, accompanied by homocide detective Bill Marcus. Lauren was never again mentioned in any books... till now. Also, Meg mentions Detective Marcus to Lauren as if he’s someone she’s never met. Seriously.
Then there’s Meg’s annoyingly repetitive internal musings about making coffee four times a day; life as a farmer, a wife. She just drones on and on. Once the group decides to speak with Justin and see what he has to say for himself, they agree they’ll all be quiet and see what he knows... but then Meg just starts telling him everything they know about him and his lies. WTF? I was hoping Justin would pull out a gun right then Meg’s becoming a bored, bitter, know-it-alll.
I think I’ll read the reviews next time before purchasing. I didn’t see all the negatives until a week after I’d added the book to my library. So sad.
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- amy
- 05-02-19
not for serious readers
Does Sheila Connolly not remember that in the middle of this series that Lauren quit the bank in Boston and her and Meg left things on a sour note? Now Lauren is back as if the previous events were never even written? These books are full of repetition and mistakes in the details but, this is a pretty big and obvious anomaly.
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- Jamie
- 02-02-19
Ouch. Using serial killer and transgender together
I thought the stereotype of transgender people being serial killers or crazy people that you would see on the Jerry Springer show was behind us.
Should I assume Ms Connolly is ignorant, or instead does she likes to discriminate against stigmatized minority groups. I hope she is just ignorant because I do enjoy most of her writing and I would hate to stop reading her other books.