Erin

Another wonderful Pratchett book!

Reviewed: 06-21-24

Great story plus great jokes interspersed in it. And the punes! Can’t forget the punes ;)

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Fun, cozy, enchanting!

Reviewed: 04-28-24

I really enjoyed this story! I’ll be listening to it again very soon. Fun adventure, with various tropes turned on their heads. I’d like to book a few sessions with Rufus, if someone will tell me how.

Loved the cameo by Jacque The Whipper!

Did not like the annoying voices the male narrator gave to all female characters except the female MC, but it wasn’t enough to keep me from listening to it. Get a different narrator for next book, or have them learn different voices that aren’t ear-destroying.

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Another wonderful story by Terry Pratchett

Reviewed: 02-15-23

This is one to listen to multiple times. First there’s just the main story. Then each time, you’ll notice another layer, another reference, another character interaction, another joke. Pratchett books never get old.

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Good story, mildly annoying narrator

Reviewed: 03-13-22

A few mispronounced words (tears/tears, rimmed/rimed, and scalpel as “scay-ple”). But mostly it was making the main character sound like she was a backwoods bumpkin.

Yes, she was raised in the country, but she was widely read, well educated and conversant in 4+ foreign languages.

But she was voiced as if she was a villager who couldn’t write her own name. All g’s were dropped from words ending in “ing”, and her vowels were exaggeratedly flat, completely unlike what a highborn, educated lady should sound like.

Whenever she’d say livin’, forgettin’ or whatever, it pulled me out of the story.Everyone else was voiced fine. No idea why the MC needed to sound like she dropped out of school after kindergarten.

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Horrible MUSIC, Great Story!

Reviewed: 03-16-20

The story is wonderful, as Terry Pratchett stories always are. But the music between sections makes me want to rip my ears off of my head, just to make it stop.
It’s completely unnecessary, horribly jangly, and totally distracts from the story.
Please, please, remaster (or whatever) and delete the music!

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One character has awful voice

Reviewed: 11-09-19

Love the story and most of the characters’ voices, but the voice given to Cousin Mariah Farlowe is almost enough to make me stop listening to the book. Yes, the character is supposed to be annoying, but must the narrator make our ears bleed?

Excellent story, as usual for G. Heyer, and still recommend, despite the one annoying voice.

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Decent. Could have been better.

Reviewed: 04-16-19

Author writes Cat like a petulant teen, especially in the first half. Paraphrase: “Like oh em gee, did I just say that????”

Some things move annoyingly slowly. They don’t build up; they just drag on.

The sex scenes are written as if they were erotic and really sexy... except that they aren’t. Just my opinion: either give good details so we all enjoy the scene, or discretely suggest that they had sex, and move on with the story. I’d like to just skip these.

And for an over thinker, Cat sure seems to miss a lot of very obvious things. Like that swearing to your lover “live together or die trying” isn’t tantamount to an engagement, and then throwing a very childish hissy fit when he says it is.

Or constantly thinking she can protect those she cares about by NOT telling them the danger they are in. Instead, she consciously chooses not to tell them what they need to know. Continually gets herself almost killed protecting them from immediate dangers, while leaving them vulnerable to worse ones.

I don’t find this believable. Dragons, sure. Nearly Dying to save the man you love while knowingly leaving him vulnerable to greater danger, not so much.

Narrator voices both thoughts and spoken words the same way, making it hard to figure out which is which. (Writer puts in too many internal thoughts, which is just distracting, and confusing to anyone not reading it in print.)

The storyline is good. It just could have been tightened up a lot.

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Annoying voice on one character

Reviewed: 10-04-17

I hate how screechy and annoying this narrator does a main supporting character. Please narrators, don’t voice characters that make our ears bleed!

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Good story, ok narrator

Reviewed: 08-20-17

As always, a good story by Mercedes Lackey!

Narrator over emotes a bit, and you never quite forget you're listening to someone else read, and just get lost in the story. Also, the narrator didn't listen to any previous books based in Valdemar and pronounces names differently than other narrators do. Why does this even happen?? Why not get all readers on the same pronunciation page?

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Good story!

Reviewed: 08-09-17

Narrator was awkward on Miss Peregrine and 1-2 other characters. Good overall, but performed those as if they were unfamiliar, kind of slow & halting.

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