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Series ended with a whimper

Revisado: 10-19-24

I got to about the 40% mark in this book before i started skipping whole chapters. And I only bothered to finish in the hope of seeing the characters from the first 4 books. I might've at least liked the pairing if the heroine hadn't had a personality transplant. But even if the characters had been interesting (they were not), or had chemistry together (they did not) - the story still would've been a terrible combo of ludicrous and tedious. The "revolution" and it's aftermath were just bad

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Charming murder mystery

Revisado: 09-18-24

Well written, well constructed murder mystery with an excellent narrator! The lead is likeable and all of the other characters, even very minor characters, are interesting and enjoyable - and the narrator impressively differentiates between all of them.

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Charming murder mystery

Revisado: 09-18-24

Well written, well constructed murder mystery with an excellent narrator! The lead is likeable and all of the other characters, even very minor characters, are interesting and enjoyable - and the narrator impressively differentiates between all of them.

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Well written mystery adventure with great narrator

Revisado: 10-01-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The author is so good at creating a sense of time and place that I can practically see the characters and settings while listening to the story. I thoroughly enjoy the main characters and I'm consistently impressed by the care taken to flesh out the ancillary characters as well. The author is also very, very good at crafting a mystery; one of the best writers of historical mysteries that I've found. oh! and the narrator is excellent. This book was especially impressive since there were so many characters, and amongst them were characters from different classes, different countries and different regions within those countries - and I never had to guess which one was speaking. This is a great partnership

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Dumb

Revisado: 05-14-23

Both the hero and the heroine were so incredibly stupid that I wanted both my time and money back when I finished this book.

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Characters are great, pacing is a little odd

Revisado: 12-21-22

This is (for the most part) a well-written regency with great characters and interesting relationships. There’s really good build-up in the relationship between the couple throughout the story. The secondary characters were interesting and well fleshed out. It’s a very good book up until the end, which feels rushed and crammed with plot points. The last two chapters are an extremely tedious hour of telling instead of showing - an unsubtle, overwritten and boring justification for the heroine’s behavior that read like a combination of a bad soap opera scene and a C- freshman psych paper.

The narrator didn’t really differentiate between characters unless the character had an accent. And her pronunciation of any word ending in “ng” was so grating that I actively avoid any other books that she reads.

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Stories are excellent, narration is unfortunate

Revisado: 11-08-22

Each of these stories is excellent. These are well crafted regency mysteries with well-developed characters. They are well-written and well researched but the narration is unfortunate. The narrator does differentiate between characters but they all (men, women and children) sound like elderly ladies - and every! single! sentence! is read as if it includes multiple exclamation points. It’s so overdone that it’s difficult to actually make sense of the story.

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Bit of a letdown

Revisado: 10-06-22

The mystery was disappointing. I figured out the culprit and the motive pretty quickly; the previous mysteries were more engaging and much less transparent. I was also disappointed with Frances & George. They got married and nothing really changed except that she moved next door. I think being trapped by the circumstances made the whole book feel like it wasn’t going anywhere

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Excellent update

Revisado: 05-27-22

This is one of my favorite Discworld books and the narrator just made it better.

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Narrator was better than the story

Revisado: 11-12-21

Ellen Archer was excellent. The heroine of the story seems to be learning to be an adult at 30 - so she’s a little tiresome.

SPOILER
I hope the heroine’s mother-in-law convinces her husband’s heir to sue her on behalf of the estate for the value of the pearls

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