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The Lost Lieutenant

Serendipity & Secrets Series, Book 1

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He's doing what he can to save the Prince Regent's life...but can he save his new marriage as well?

Evan Eldridge never meant to be a war hero - he just wanted to fight Napoleon for the future of his country. And he certainly didn't think that saving the life of a peer would mean being made the Earl of Whitelock. But when the life you save is dear to the Prince Regent, things can change in a hurry.

Now Evan has a new title, a manor house in shambles, and a stranger for a bride, all thrust upon him by a grateful ruler. What he doesn't have are all his memories. Traumatized as a result of his wounds and bravery on the battlefield, Evan knows there's something he can't quite remember. It's important, dangerous - and if he doesn't recall it in time, will jeopardize not only his marriage but someone's very life.

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No problem with the story. But the narration ... she pronounces so many vowels wrongly that I nearly gave up in irritation. Clearly English is not her first language. Here are a few examples: back pronounced as bark, hat as hart, calm as corm, father as fother, and numberless others. Make sure you try a sample first.

Good story, but weird narration a serious distraction

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I loved the story, Erica Vetch writes a smashing story. This is fortunate because the narrator, Mary Sarah can surely never have heard a native English speaker. She does do marvellous character voices but her general style of reading often sounds distracted, Her pronunciation is bizarre. At first I thought a woman with a lace carp was wearing a fish on her head.
I still recommend this book though. Erica Vetch deserves better than she may be getting due to the narrator

Wonderful story. Distracting narration

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I loved the dilemmas and the portrayal of the characters.

Everyone struggles with this narrator who pronounces so many words completely bizarrely! However, she DOES act the male and female voices excellently and each is different t. My tip is to speed up the narration to about 1.3 or 1.4.

There are still oddities but then the American authors always get a lot of period detail and language wrong, or their editors butcher their writing for a US audience (please stop it whoever is ‘responsible’: your readers are not so foolish as to struggle to understand that people spoke differently is Regency England from how they do in modern America!).

Overall a nice tale and it sets the scene for the later stories.

Good characters and a happy ending

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I really struggled to get through this book because of the narration. It sounded very much like she was faking and overdoing the accent. Words like father and Kathy were pronounced fother and Kaathy.
Other than that the story is really good, just a shame that it is diminished by the distracting performance.

Really good story, but irritating narration

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The narrator has such a strangely sibilant way of speaking, twisting vowels out of recognition. She is trying to imitate an English accent but it is so awful that I can’t listen to any more. Back is not pronounced bark. Father is not pronounced Fother etc etc. It interferes with the story, which in itself is packed with historical inaccuracy and unlikely behaviours. That said, it would probably be an okay listen but I can’t stand the narrator any more, and will avoid this narrator in the future.

Really Appalling Narration

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