Lovely narrator, amazing story

Excellent voices for all the characters, really enjoyed this audible. I can tell I will be revisiting it often.

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Love the book, narrator fails.

This is a brilliantly funny book which has none of that evident in this narration. The narrator has plenty of expression, but it isn’t always appropriate expression and a lot of it is disjointed. Does nobody brief the narrators? So many of them read the books as pretty poor, simple stories when Heyer was full of humour. I’m literally having to find the humour for myself… even when Bouncer is preventing Eleanor from moving! It should be laugh out loud but isn’t. A good actor who should have prepared better.

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Too many mistakes

The yarn is good ( though a few loose ends could do with tidying up), but why oh why does the reader say “exciting” instead of “existing”, “ precious “ instead of “ previous”, “way” instead of “say”, “ his” instead of” this”, etc, etc, etc ?? And, above all, why is Becky given a strong regional accent when she ( a governess) is certainly the daughter of an impoverished gentleman, probably a clergyman, and therefore to be expected to speak in refined tones? This is not the first Georgette Heyer Audible book that is misread: I am ready to volunteer as a reader. My accent is slightly Irish, which would perhaps prevent verisimilitude, but having read the novels over and over again, I could promise exact pronunciation and correct emphasis in each sentence. Interested?

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Poor Narrator

I know this book of old and have read a number of times…
Awful storytelling…surely the reader at least runs through the script before recording…very disjointed sentences, odd accent’s especially Becky, and Carlyon for that matter, an essential character to get right, half the time you wondered if Carlyon thought he’d strayed into the wrong story!!! Miserable carping heroine who should have been much more humerus and ironic.
A good book ruined.
Worst Audible listen yet!

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Let down by the narration

One of Heyer’s more nonsensical plots but still full of fun and romance. Unfortunately the pleasure was marred for me by the narrator who got his voices mixed and his sentences garbled at key moments.

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Sadly let down by the narration

I really love The Reluctant Widow, it's one of my favourite Georgette Heyer books but the narration was so stilted and almost monotone that it lost all of the charm and was hard to get through.

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Exciting

Riveting and exciting drama.

Georgette Heyer is a masterstroke, of such quality of writing.

Very well narrated, and worth a read.

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Another good story.

I have read this book myself many times but this was the first time I have listened. Unfortunately I found the narrator's way of saying Carlyon such an annoyance. I have always thought it to be Car-le-on NOT Car Lyon. Car Lyon is so clumsy and just does not flow. He also said the ministers name incorrectly from my perspective. Apart from that the narration was acceptable.

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much loved story, read several times

excellent story, funny and clever with much loved characters you learn to care about.

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let down by narration

It's clear from the odd intonation that the narrator is not a native speaker. He does a commendable job as a non-native speaker but when I'm paying money for an audiobook I want someone who knows what they're doing to such an extent that I'm not brought up short by their repeated odd pronunciation. I wouldn't listen to an audiobook read by this narrator again.
As for the story itself, it's one of Heyer's that's less romance, more whodunnit, only it's not particularly good at either. On the other hand it's Georgette Hever, so miles better than most other writers of 'Regency romance'.

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