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The Latinist
- A Novel
- By: Mark Prins
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
- Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 112
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4 out of 5 stars 97
Tessa Templeton has thrived at Oxford University under the tutelage and praise of esteemed classics professor Christopher Eccles. And now, his support is the one thing she can rely on: her job search has yielded nothing, and her devotion to her work has just cost her her boyfriend, Ben. Yet shortly before her thesis defense, Tessa learns that Chris has sabotaged her career-and realizes their relationship is not at all what she believed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narrator
- By Meredith on 01-31-22
- The Latinist
- A Novel
- By: Mark Prins
- Narrated by: Sasha Higgins
An insufferable narrator
Reviewed: 10-04-22
I don’t know if I would have liked this book better if it were read by someone else. The young woman who narrates switches in and out of a grating millennial American teenager’s voice for most of the novel. The vocal fry alone was enough to drive me crazy. Also the novel pays way too much attention to the tiny details of Silver Age Latin poetry. The details of college life at Oxford are Terry accurate. But the novel crawls slowly toward a « crime » that doesn’t happen until in the last ten pages. The protagonist is annoying, egocentric, and arbitrary in her behavior. I was always aware of a male novelist trying too hard to create a feminine consciousness and ending up with a sociopath. Intentional? Who knows? But it’s unpleasant to spend time with her thoughts.
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