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The Language of Spells

By: Sarah Painter
Narrated by: Stevie Zimmerman
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When you are ready, seek and you shall find. It is your gift.

Gwen Harper left Pendleford thirteen years ago and hasn't looked back. Until an inheritance throws her into the mystical world she thought she'd escaped. Confronted with her great-aunts legacy, Gwen must finally face up to her past.

The magic she has long tried to suppress is back with a vengeance but, gift or burden, for Gwen it always spells trouble. She has to stay—she has nowhere else to go—but how can she find her place in the town that drove her out after branding her a witch?

©2013 Sarah Painter (P)2016 Sarah Painter Dark Fantasy Fantasy Genre Fiction Metaphysical & Visionary Psychological Women's Fiction Magic Witchcraft Magic Users

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I used to love audio books in my youth but have fallen out of listening to them as I grew up, I'm not sure why. Perhaps it is because I have a very vivid imagination and the narration and voices didn't always match my interpretation of them.

I was somewhat nervous embarking on this audiobook adventure as I love 'The Language of Spells", have read it many times and have strong ideas of the characters. I need not have worried; the narration and character portrayal are spot on - the sign of a well written character and good communication between author and narrator.

I have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this engaging story and getting to know the characters anew in audio form.

The book follows Gwen, a 30-something small business owner, who just happens to be a witch, settling down as an adult in the town where she grew up. Petty jealousies, not so petty jealousies, past loves and town council officials all play their part in this engaging tale which is as much about finding out who you are and where you belong as it is about magic.

Better than I hoped for

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I Loved it. Just my kind of book. A easy listen with a good story .

Tia

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Nice to revist this story after so long, and even better having it read to me.

all good, thanks.

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Performance of main character Gwen and general narration would have suited a story from early 1900s to 1950s as voice was painfully overly polite BBC style. Struggled to enjoy it as other Sarah Painter titles due to this.

Good story, struggled with narration performance.

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The book is over 11 hours long and literally nothing happens until the last hour. The narrator was awful, like a 12 year old pretending to be posh and failing.
I loved Sarah Painter's island trilogy, but this is hellish.

Painfully slow

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