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The Grand Tour: or, The Purloined Coronation Regalia cover art

The Grand Tour: or, The Purloined Coronation Regalia

By: Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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Summary

Two young Regency ladies with special powers must save the monarchy

Kate and Cecy and their new husbands, Thomas and James, are off on a Grand Tour. Their plans? To leisurely travel about the Continent, take in a few antiquities, and - of course - purchase fabulous Parisian wardrobes.

But once they arrive in France, mysterious things start to happen. Cecy receives a package containing a lost coronation treasure, Thomas's valet is assaulted, and Kate loses a glove. Soon it becomes clear that they have stumbled upon a dastardly, magical plot to take over Europe.

Now the four newlyweds must embark on a daring chase to thwart the evil conspiracy. And there's no telling the trouble they'll get into along the way. For when you mix Kate and Cecy and magic, you never know what's going to happen next!

©2004 Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (P)2021 Tantor

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  • 28-01-21

A positively flat narration.

What is that accent?!

Sadly for me the first thing that will switch me off from an audiobook is an unnatural sounding narrator, those who weirdly curl natural vowels or make something quirky and unfamiliar of familiar names.
Sorcery and Cecelia has always been one of my favourite books, it reads with flare and sass, the characters deliver well-rounded elements of story in their letters, with the good pace and rhythm with which a comedian delivers a punch line.
I used to read it aloud, in character, with my best friend and, oh, the fun we had!
So even though The Grand Tour does continue with the lives of the Cecelia and Kate as they move into a more mature part of life, and, though both are still clearly the same young ladies that delivered the exceptional wit and sleuthhood that we saw in the aforementioned book, this audiobook may as well be about completely different characters.
The delivery is soporific, the narrator odd-accented; she completely changes the charming and witty personalities into slow characters who seem arrogant and snooty.

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