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Insane vampyre & hillbilly heroine find their HEA

Reviewed: 10-08-22

Lothario is the "Enemy of Old". His character has been build up during the previous books in the series, so my expectations were high. I wasn't disappointed. I loved the clashes between her forthrightness + common sense and his dramatic ways. I just wish the narrator hadn't emphasised the insane part so much in the erotic scenes. It makes the hero sound like an inmate in a Victorian asylum.

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A Patchwork monster is on the loose in Chelsea

Reviewed: 08-15-22

Loved it. While the book can be read as a stand alone, I'd recommend reading book 1 first, where the world and the characters are introduced.
In book 2 miss Hannah Myles continues to solve mysteries and have clashes with Lord Wycliffe. No HEA in this book, though I'm sure there will be one for miss Hannah before the series is finished.

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Jane Austen with zombies

Reviewed: 08-09-22

A great story for anyone who enjoys fantasy and regency stories. An agent from France have managed to turn a number of upper-class people into zombies. Had they been poor they could have been put away, but now they mingle with everyone else in the London ballrooms. The mystery isn't hard to solve, but the comedy of manners is really fun.

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Ok but...

Reviewed: 09-15-18

This book would be excellent for a "Spot a Georgette Heyer reference". The author has borrowed wording and even whole scenes from a couple of books and mixed them together. Its not a direct copy of any of them but I wouldn't be surprised to see it called out for plagiarism. Apart from that the book is ok but a bit too long imho.

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What a voice

Reviewed: 08-02-18

Lynsay Sands airways writes great stories and this one is no exception. The narrator is really good and had me melting several times.

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Ok story, not too fond of the narrator.

Reviewed: 07-09-18

It's a good story (though not one of the author's best) and the narrator has a good voice when he talks normally. Unfortunately he makes the hero sound awful. The hero is supposed to look and sound somewhere around 30, but the narrator makes him sound like a 65 year old. I don't get why he doesn't just use his normal voice? He also gets the hero's mother wrong. She's described as looking youthful - she looks the same age as her son - but he makes her sound like a Monty Python housewife.

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Great detective story

Reviewed: 08-20-17

A grumpy old man is murdered and everyone seem to have a motive. Inspector Hannasyde and Sergeant Hemmingway are called in to solve the case but soon find out, that its not as easy as they'd hoped. The book is arguably Heyer's best detective novel. The parsimonious Miss Harriet, the manipulative Mrs. Matthews and "the amiable snake", Randall Matthews, are unforgettable characters. Ulli Birvè does a great job of recreating the way posh Londoners spoke in the 1920's-1930's.

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Great story, bad narrator

Reviewed: 07-12-16

I love the story so I thought I wanted to get the audio book as well. Unfortunately the narrator makes the hero sound like an 80 year old telling war stories to his chums, and the erotic scenes sounded as if he were reporting from a war zone.

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I love the story, but

Reviewed: 12-18-15

I love the story. The only thing I disliked is that the narrator makes the heroine sound even younger than she is. It makes it a bit creepy, when the hero is supposed to be 35.

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