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The Downstairs Maid
- De: Rosie Clarke
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
- Duración: 15 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 357
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 332
She is a servant girl... When her father becomes ill, Emily Carter finds herself sent into service at Priorsfield Manor in order to provide the family with an income. He will be the Lord of the Manor... Emily strikes up an unlikely friendship with the daughters of the house, as well as Nicolas, son of the Earl. But as the threat of war comes ever closer, she becomes even more aware of the vast differences between upstairs and downstairs, servant and master...If you like Downton Abbey you’ll love this!
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1 out of 5 stars
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Some Good, Lots of Bad- Details too 'adult' for me
- De Susan en 09-09-15
- The Downstairs Maid
- De: Rosie Clarke
- Narrado por: Penelope Freeman
Good light read/listen
Revisado: 10-06-15
This is a nice light read up through about half of the book when you are rooting for the romance between Emily and Nicholas. However, Emily becomes frustrating later on when she self-imposes her own shackles by continually choosing duty and denying herself her wishes. It actually got quite tiresome and melodramatic at some point, with the ever optimistic heroine who smiles in light of a series of awful blows and was much to docile and sweet. You kind of want to shake her and tell her to take control of life and stop being so passive and gullible. Other than that the book was enjoyable but by the end i just wanted it to be over.
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Miss Bennet Blooms
- Love at Pemberley, Book 3
- De: Reina M. Williams
- Narrado por: Kate Sample
- Duración: 2 h y 12 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 19
Miss Mary Bennet is the last unmarried Bennet sister. She believes she will live out her days as a maiden aunt, seeking quiet in the libraries and parlors of her father's and brother-in-laws' homes. On a visit to Pemberley, the estate of Fitzwilliam Darcy, her sister Lizzy's husband, Mary begins to feel more is possible than her planned life of solitude. Among new friends and with new confidence, Mary opens to new feelings when she meets Mr. Nathaniel Bingley.
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4 out of 5 stars
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It was quick and sweet
- De Carole Rae en 05-07-20
- Miss Bennet Blooms
- Love at Pemberley, Book 3
- De: Reina M. Williams
- Narrado por: Kate Sample
Too fluffy even for chick lit
Revisado: 02-12-15
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The amazon.reviews for this book have roughly 4 stars so it may be the performance that ruined this book for me. The narrator's voice is is actually pleasant and she has a decent accent and good diction but the flow in which everything is read is a bit painful. I took me weeks to go through this book it was so hard to sit through.
The author uses far too much description, every object and moment is imbued with too much metaphorical significance, it really slows down the narrative and makes it kind of cheesy. The whole book is both overly sweet and unnecessarily melancholic.Both Mary and Nathaniel muse endlessly about their loneliness, inability to understand love and lack of acceptance. Those are normally legit feelings to muse about but their was so little action and so much musing it was waaayyyyy too much. I've read some good Austen fan-fiction but I'd pass on this one.
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