Magic Wanda

Q and Lwaxana: What's Not to Love?

Revisado: 03-08-21

Two of my favorite characters in the same episode! In their own voices! John de Lancie reads all the male character voices, and Majel Barrett reads all the female characters.

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Not very steamy but good story and writing

Revisado: 02-12-21

A welcome relief among other historical romances that I have recently found to have distractingly poor writing and/or highly implausible stories. I love this voice artist, who does a variety of accents well.

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Great writing & narration; story beyond ordinary

Revisado: 11-13-19

I love this voice artist. She does a variety of accents well and does a good job with both female and male voices. It was my first time "reading" anything written by Madeline Hunter, but the writing is superior to typical historical romance, and everything seems plausible. Finally a story about people other than lords and ladies!

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Somewhat Implausible

Revisado: 10-03-19

Previous reviewers disliked the voice performer, and though I didn’t find him completely unbearable, he does seem to make the lead male character Aulay sound stupider than he should.  Every time a male character says “What?” it comes out “Uhwhhhhu’?” like he’s a moron.  This is not the way you want the male lead in a romantic novel to sound.  I suspect reading the book might have improved my affection for the two main characters. 

I’ve listened to all the previous books in this series, and I wish the author would stop having unconscious characters be nursed back to health by someone dribbling broth down their throats.  It perpetuates a dangerous myth.  You cannot do this to an unconscious person in real life; you’d kill them, as the liquid would wind up in their lungs.  In this book, she overuses the word “grimace,” which I noticed all the more because of the way the voice actor pronounces it.  Also, “reticent” does not mean the same thing as “reluctant.”  “Reticent” means something like “reluctant TO SPEAK.” I know these are nitpicky things, but they detract from my enjoyment of the books.  I find myself questioning how plausible things are quite often.  Like, “Really?  When you know there’s a killer on the loose, now is a good time to have a wedding?” Or “Really?  A lady wakes up and can’t remember anything but doesn’t ask basic questions about her life while she recuperates for several weeks?”  Or “Really?  You’re going to marry this chick not knowing whether she might actually be married already?”  But if you’re the kind of person who isn’t bothered by lapses of logic in the name entertainment, this book will pass the time.  The author does a fair job adding humor and lightness to the stories, though sometimes I find those instances to delay the plot pace unnecessarily.

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Meh

Revisado: 10-03-19

Despite the voice actor's delivery that makes every sentence seem overly dramatic, the story was just kind of meh and the sex unexciting too.

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Stick It Out

Revisado: 02-01-18

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I was put off by the narrator's dramatic style, and I think it contributed to my finding the main character Iona annoying. But I got used to both after a while. The other two books in this series use different narrators.

Any additional comments?

The Irish culture shines through, and I liked each volume better than the previous ones in the series. This series was recommended to me because I like time travel romances, but this series isn't really about time travel. Nora Roberts' writing is so much better than other authors in this genre, so I enjoyed the telling of the stories more so than the actual stories.

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Dinna fash!

Revisado: 02-01-18

What didn’t you like about Paul Woodson’s performance?

Every bit of dialog begins with a half-laugh, but the writing is so bad, I can see why he thinks it's a joke.

Any additional comments?

If you have the misfortune of buying this audiobook, pour yourself a whisky and drink every time somebody says, "Dinna fash."

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