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Teatime for the Firefly

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Teatime for the Firefly

De: Shona Patel
Narrado por: Marisa Vitali
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Layla Roy has defied the fates.

Despite being born under an inauspicious horoscope, she is raised to be educated and independent by her eccentric grandfather, Dadamoshai. And, by cleverly manipulating the hand fortune has dealt her, she has even found love with Manik Deb - a man betrothed to another. All were minor miracles in India that spring of 1943, when young women's lives were predetermined - if not by the stars, then by centuries of family tradition and social order.

Layla's life as a newly married woman takes her away from home and into the jungles of Assam, where the world's finest tea thrives on plantations run by native labor and British efficiency. Fascinated by this culture of whiskey-soaked expats who seem fazed by neither earthquakes nor man-eating leopards, she struggles to find her place among the prickly English wives with whom she is expected to socialize, and the peculiar servants she now finds under her charge.

But navigating the tea-garden set will hardly be her biggest challenge. Layla's remote home is not safe from the powerful changes sweeping India on the heels of the Second World War. Their colonial society is at a tipping point, and Layla and Manik find themselves caught in a perilous racial divide that threatens their very lives.

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Would you listen to Teatime for the Firefly again? Why?

Yes, but only for the story.

What other book might you compare Teatime for the Firefly to and why?

on a much smaller scale, Shantaram

Did Marisa Vitali do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?

She tried, but...not so much. I listened at faster speed than I normally do to help distract from narration

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No laughing or crying, but smiling

Any additional comments?

I would recommend this book for the story and setting. Wish for more background history, as in A Suitable Boy

Forgive the narrator...listen for the story...

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What made the experience of listening to Teatime for the Firefly the most enjoyable?

I cannot recommend this audible purchase at all.I listened to a little over 2 hours of this book today during my commute. I am almost certain that I will love the written version of this book but the narrator in this audible version is just horrible. She has made it painful for me to continue listening and I am thankful that I was able to purchase the book in a kindle daily deal. The narrator places emphasis on words in the wrong places. The reading is choppy. At times she had difficulty transitioning between the different characters. Listening to her today was painful. Her narration is such a distraction. I want to focus on the story, on the characters in the story. Instead I keep getting caught up in hearing the narrator make very blatant mistakes that detract from the story.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

She detracts because she does not appear to be a professional narrator!

Any additional comments?

I will update my review after reading the written book.

Horrible narration but the story itself is good.

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The story is captivating, sweet and very interesting. Patel's writing is very pictorial and poetic. I think I learned quite a bit about tea plantations, Assam, and social relation in that region during the post-war period. However, the narration is weak -- she pauses in all the wrong places -- leaving the listener waiting for the remainder of sentences, also her character voices are inconsistent, and the accents are not accurate.

Beautiful writing, but poor narration

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What did you love best about Teatime for the Firefly?

I loved the story and the writing, both were excellent. I liked the narrators voice and clear diction and pronunciation, but she would pause in the middle of a sentence and this gave the narration a jarring disruption.

A novice narrator ?

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The story is quite interesting- writing and characterization are good and show the author’s skill. But the audible performance was horrible. Every word of Indian origin was butchered. I don’t understand how the narrator didn’t take the slightest effort to learn how to pronounce even one Indian word- and how the author thought this was a good presentation of her work.

Truly atrocious pronunciation

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Great read. A Wonderful story about an interesting time for India and the world that is still relevant.

Great read. Wonderful story both historically and personally interesting

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Terrible performance of an otherwise intriguing story. Couldn’t continue past the 1st chapter. Please choose performers with more care.

Performance Mars the Stiry

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I think this story might have been sweet if read on original paperback. The narrator was truly awful. I do not recommend wasting time or money on this audiobook.

Sweet story, awful narrator

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I have never experienced listening to a book with such a poor reader. I struggled to follow the story because the words that were emphasized distracted from an understanding of the plot. verbs were consistently emphasized whether or not they contributed to the story. her voice was fine but she it would be helpful for her to be taught how to narrate a book.

poor performance

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