
The Reluctant Widow
Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
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Narrated by:
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Daon Broni
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Georgette Heyer
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One of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists, Georgette Heyer, as ever, captures a whole new audience's heart.
Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight, she is a bride, by dawn, a widow.
A typically thrilling and sweeping tale of romance and tragedy, The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best - the undisputed queen of historical romance.
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The narrator did not help. Very stilted.
Not a good Georgette Heyer
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Unpleasant narration
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Very Good Story
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this is my favorite or her books;
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intrigue and humor
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Narration could've been better, but is far better than some attempts of other Heyer novels (unfortunately). At least I'm not constantly correcting his reading of one passage or another, and I can pardon all his errors because he hits the exact right tone for the supposed villian of the piece (with hilarious results, imo)
always a fun time
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Disappointing performance
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But.
The voices are almost all the same. Thankfully he reads the dialogue tags, or I might have missed a couple changes.
That's nothing, however, when compared to the...
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...almost full-second pauses...
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...at the end of every sentence.
Like, this is Georgette Heyer.
We've got people cutting each other off, which sounds like:
"But I told you I was-"
(full-second pause)
"I don't care where you were!" (Full-second pause.) "I asked you to come right away!"
And then we've got a character whose whole THING is talking quickly and smoothly, stream-of-consciousness style, so no one suspects he has a thought in his head which isn't said out loud.
That effect is ruined and kinda painful to hear...
When every couple of words...
There's a full break...
In the narration.
Seriously, this is the first time I've considered stopping a book halfway through and demanding my money back, it was so bad.
I'd bet a solid hour of the runtime is blank space.
If there is ANY other audio version of this book out there, get that one instead. I bet versions where someone's reading it into their phone mic to put on YouTube are less painful to hear than this.
Painful narration
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This is one of my fav GH novels!
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Rochdale is ROTCH-dayl.
It's similar to the start of the name Rochester.
It's not a "sh" like in Rochelle nor a "k" sound as if for a rock.
one of my favorite Geotgette Heyer regencies
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