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The Pearl Brooch
- Time Travel Romance: The Celtic Brooch, Book 9
- Narrated by: Carolyn A. Lee
- Length: 23 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
This brooch saga begins July 14, 1789, the day French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille! And America’s ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, comes to Sophia Orsini's rescue....
Sophia Orsini, a time-traveling Italian artist, believes she understands how the pearl brooch magic works, but when it abandons her in the middle of an 18th century Paris mob, she realizes she was wrong.
America’s ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, comes to Sophia’s rescue, but that meeting leads her down a path she otherwise wouldn’t have chosen.
Kevin Fraser and his pregnant wife, JL, fly in his Cessna to enjoy a weekend at Mallory Plantation in Virginia, but wind shear turns Kevin's textbook landing into a disaster and the plane through a chain-link fence, injuring JL and sending her into premature labor.
Pete Parrino, VP of Global Security for MacKlenna Corporation, is in Florence on business when he stumbles upon Sophia Orsini’s art studio. Sophia is the love of Pete’s life, and he hasn’t seen or heard from her in 20 years. When he discovers she hasn’t returned from her annual two-week holiday, he breaks into her studio and finds evidence that she’s a time traveler.
When the clan discovers where she is, Pete, Matt Kelly, and Jack Mallory must decide how much of America’s history they’re willing to change in order to bring Sophia back to the future.
The Celtic Brooch Series:
- The Ruby Brooch (Book 1): Time travel romance - Oregon Trail 1852.
- The Last Macklenna (Book 2): Contemporary romance.
- The Sapphire Brooch (Book 3): Time travel romance - Civil War, 1864-1865.
- The Emerald Brooch (Book 4): Time travel romance - World War II, London, June 1944.
- The Broken Brooch (Book 5): Contemporary romance.
- The Three Brooches (Book 6): Time travel romance - Napa and San Francisco, 1881.
- The Diamond Brooch (Book 7): Time travel romance - New York City, 1909.
- The Amber Brooch (Book 8): Time travel romance - Colorado, 1878.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-05-23
Sounds better on 1.2 speed
I’m on my third run of listening to the series and was considering missing Sophie’s story out due to my dislike of the new narrator’s accents, but at the last minute decided to give it a go. I listened to it on 1.2 speed which helped the flow and previous frustration I felt about the pace of the reading. The narrator is still stilted and a little robotic on the story but if you can get past the accents, she almost acts out the dialogues and it’s not bad. Blane’s accent was terrible but due to Katherine’s lovely writing and (yes) Carolyn’s acting his part he was my favourite character. Sophie was a bit of a pain but she redeems herself in future books. As always though, Katherine brings the characters to life and I’ve loved listening to the books again, back to back.
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- Sarah Singleton
- 17-05-19
Bring back Teri Schnaubelt
Despite Carolyn’s best endeavours the French and Scottish accents fail to convince - sorry to be painfully honest.
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- Claire
- 14-05-19
Beautiful story
Beautiful storyline but preferred all the others because it lacked the steamy scenes the other stories had. As for the narrator I didn't like the voices of the men especially the Scottish men. Their voices were awful, especially Elliots. Teri Schnaubelt's voice for them was warmer and sexier.
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- DavidP
- 27-06-19
Bring back Teri Schnaubelt
Loved the story, spoiled a bit by the new narrator. I have listened to all the previous brooch stories and enjoyed listening to Teri Schnaubelt
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- Kindle Customer
- 08-07-20
Narrator dreadful
Well, what a shame that the narrator can't do accents, not Scottish, not French. Why didn't you use the same narrator as previous books?
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- Cat P
- 05-12-19
Terrible French accent!
This series of books are very entertaining. the previosus narrator has always been great. BUT, this lady has absolutely NO idea about french accent or pronunciation, and her scottish is abysmal too! its utterly torturous to listen to!
seriously unimpressed!
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- pixy
- 24-02-23
I’ve lost my happy place with this series
Th story was ok following the usual pattern but different people and places. What I found most disturbing was the change in narration. Accents were so different I found it cringeworthy and was zoning out with some characters as I found the ‘new voice’ changed my inner vision of some characters so much I couldn’t really follow who was who at times. Maybe I’m just too set in my ways
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- Lorrie
- 20-05-23
Not her best
I finished listening because I am stubborn but it was so difficult to listen to the dreadful narration. Excruciating accents and slow to the point of screaming. Such a shame!!! The story itself wasn’t too bad but the heroine definitely needed a head wobble to sort herself out.
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- Madfishlizzie
- 07-07-19
Great story, awful accents
oh dear, what terrible accents, a struggle to listen . please dont use her again.
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- Alisongs
- 04-05-20
Dire narration - total disappointment
I have loved the whole series and the interweaving of the different stories and characters. BUT I have to agree with so many other reviewers Why oh why change narrators to one who obviously learned her french accent from Joey in friends. If you haven't seen the episode you should look it up. It feels like someone may have coached her but it just didn't compute. Please audible check before you sell anything to your readers... does the narrator have any understanding of the accents included. In this case it really detracted from the whole experience. Did the author have any input? Surely not
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