Keeps the excitement of the first two books

Brilliant story, as usual. So much more than the film and TV shows.
Narrator did get sounds to different people later on OK but certainly for me doesn’t approach that of Bill Holmeood who took me to France, this one I still felt looking from outside as the accent though much more understood, felt too much local(England).

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A gripping adventure! A worthy sequel!

A very good book although the narrator sometimes sounds like he is giving a lecture and his choice of voices for some of the characters were just wrong.

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More of the same really

If you've read The Three Musketeers you will be aware that unlike the films the Heros of this book are not entirely the paragons you might expect them to be. This sequel keeps that up for pretty much all of them and now the queen is as unpleasant in this book as she was unfaithful in the first. This book is however an interesting history of the time it portrays but again from the point of view that pretty much all the historical figures involved are cynical, corrupt and in it entirely for them selves.
All the same the adventure is an exciting and compelling one and history around which the story is built is interesting.

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The only reason that it was not all five stars

Was that I wanted to emphasisze my great pleasure in hearing the best narration I have, to yet, ever heard. The accents fitted the characters. How this level of expertise and talent were maintained throughout the story is well worth comment, it added to an already good tale in a terrific read. Thanks, Colin B

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A lot better than film

I grew up watching the movies and I loved them but they pale wren compared to the book read them you will not be sorry.

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Great story, AWFUL reading

The intonations are all wrong and every sentence sounds like an awkward question! I simply can't understand how this was released. I have never heard a worse performance of an audio book. Paterson Joseph did an amazing job of the first book and by comparison this is terrible. He should definitely be brought back in to rerecord this book. Unfortunately this is the only full version of Twenty Years After on Audible so there's little choice

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After Simon Vance on others this is disappointing

The source book is great if you life Dumas and a necessary third part of the D'Artagnan series of stories. Why Simon Vance has done all the others and not this one is a mystery to me. The narrator on this is just not up to it. Annoying vocal tics (e.g. raising tone at the end of every sentence and inappropriate lilting) make it impossible to listen to after Vance. Comparisons are odious and perhaps if we had not heard the SV recording of "The Three Musketeers" we might have been able to bear it. But sorry Mr Davidson, and I hate criticizing someone who put this much work into something, but this is a very disappointing rendition of great material.

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strange anachronistic book full of bizarre justifications of nobility, aristocracy and honour.

Translation of the French less than perfect and the reading is very stilted like a constipated John Gielgud. To be read a a curiosity.

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I did not like the Narrator

I had listened to the preceding book easily (narrated by Bill Homewood), but this narrator seems intent to fly through dialogue at such a fast pace that it was a struggle to have a lasting impression of conversation between characters.
As such, I gave up on the book after 2 chapters.

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