Lovely narrator, amazing story

Excellent voices for all the characters, really enjoyed this audible. I can tell I will be revisiting it often.

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Exciting

Riveting and exciting drama.

Georgette Heyer is a masterstroke, of such quality of writing.

Very well narrated, and worth a read.

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Another good story.

I have read this book myself many times but this was the first time I have listened. Unfortunately I found the narrator's way of saying Carlyon such an annoyance. I have always thought it to be Car-le-on NOT Car Lyon. Car Lyon is so clumsy and just does not flow. He also said the ministers name incorrectly from my perspective. Apart from that the narration was acceptable.

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Too many mistakes

The yarn is good ( though a few loose ends could do with tidying up), but why oh why does the reader say “exciting” instead of “existing”, “ precious “ instead of “ previous”, “way” instead of “say”, “ his” instead of” this”, etc, etc, etc ?? And, above all, why is Becky given a strong regional accent when she ( a governess) is certainly the daughter of an impoverished gentleman, probably a clergyman, and therefore to be expected to speak in refined tones? This is not the first Georgette Heyer Audible book that is misread: I am ready to volunteer as a reader. My accent is slightly Irish, which would perhaps prevent verisimilitude, but having read the novels over and over again, I could promise exact pronunciation and correct emphasis in each sentence. Interested?

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Poor Narrator

I know this book of old and have read a number of times…
Awful storytelling…surely the reader at least runs through the script before recording…very disjointed sentences, odd accent’s especially Becky, and Carlyon for that matter, an essential character to get right, half the time you wondered if Carlyon thought he’d strayed into the wrong story!!! Miserable carping heroine who should have been much more humerus and ironic.
A good book ruined.
Worst Audible listen yet!

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much loved story, read several times

excellent story, funny and clever with much loved characters you learn to care about.

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let down by narration

It's clear from the odd intonation that the narrator is not a native speaker. He does a commendable job as a non-native speaker but when I'm paying money for an audiobook I want someone who knows what they're doing to such an extent that I'm not brought up short by their repeated odd pronunciation. I wouldn't listen to an audiobook read by this narrator again.
As for the story itself, it's one of Heyer's that's less romance, more whodunnit, only it's not particularly good at either. On the other hand it's Georgette Hever, so miles better than most other writers of 'Regency romance'.

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Has narrator got a speech impediment?

I love this story and still enjoy my previous version on it.
This version however has a more believable end, in the way it is portrayed by the narrator BUT : you have to get used to him first.
I spent the first few chapters trying to work out if he could only say words in groups of 3 or 4, regardless where the punctuation marks are or if he was only able to read a few words at a time, and he had not taken the effort to read each chapter before actually recording them. The errors in pronunciation of such words as "quiet and quite" are alarming if you like the story to flow rather than go back to see what was wrong with what you heard.

I did think about returning it, but if he does have a speech problem, he has made a fairly good job of it.

Along with others : most of these latest penguin books by GH not up to previous versions I have purcahsed.

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Listen to a sample before you buy

Excellent story ruined by the narration. It does get less stilted the longer you listen but the phrasing bears no relation to the punctuation, some of the pronunciation is strange and the accents are all over the place with Miss Beccles being particularly awful. I don't like to be negative but I really did not enjoy this narrator and am currently debating whether I will even finish it.

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Not the best audible translation

the story is enjoyable but I felt the narrator didn't do justice to the book. I was not drawn to any of the characters. Having read the book several times before I knew the storyline and was looking forward to listening to the audible version, perhaps with a more sympathetic narrator it would be better.

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