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The Infamous Rakes
- The Forthright Lady Gillian and The Fickle Fortune-Hunter
- Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
- Length: 15 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
Will two of London's most notorious rogues be outmatched in the game of love by two clever young ladies? When Lady Gillian Carnaby reads of her own betrothal to a hitherto unknown Baron Hopwood in the London Times, she is shocked to learn that the man is real. Worse, Hopwood is merely a minor title for Josiah Hawtrey, Marquess of Thorne, a man with such a scandalous reputation that London society is quite willing to believe he would become affianced to a noblewoman he has never met. To save her reputation, Gillian and the Marquess must go through the motions of a betrothal. But when Gillian sees that Thorne desires her as a woman, if not a wife, she must play a most challenging game of love with one of London’s most notorious rakes.
The Marquess of Thorne's friend, handsome Lord Edward Crawley, seeks to wed a wealthy heiress to shore up his faltering estate - and pay off his gambling debts. When Felicia Adlam realizes that her breathtakingly beautiful younger sister, Theodosia, is the seductive fortune-hunter's target, she vows to protect Theo from him, no matter what it takes. But Crawley is charmingly honest about his intentions, and undeniably appealing, so Felicia soon discovers that she risks surrendering to the accomplished rake's seductive charms herself.
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- FEA12
- 08-06-24
Ruined by the fake English accent and endless mispronunciations
The stories are adequate Regency romances but if you are English the countless wrongly pronounced or accented words is so jarring that it undermines the narrative. For goodness sake employ an English actress to record these books, not an American with a very bad attempt at an upper class English accent
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- katedi
- 06-02-20
Ruined by the narration
While Amanda Scott writes a well-structured quick read historical romance, the narrator struggles with the English accents, which come and go in a very strange fashion. Unfortunately for UK listeners, we are treated to vase, pronounced Vaise, and enquiries as ink-queries, and a number of other oddities. If the narrator just kept her US-type accept it would probably be better, as these words would fit, but they really dont. The maid and the heroine have the occasional west country accent, which again, if it was constant, would not be entirely out of place as they are in Devon, but it comes and goes
I am at an early stage of this book and have to decide soon whether I will be able to finish it, as it is hard going.
Edit * I have now given up tryting to listen to this book. Further examples of the irritating mis-pronunciation, are viscount, pronounced as "vizcount" and Norwich as "norwitch". If someone is going to try to narrate English historical fiction, surely they study a list of English pronunciation first. I think I may have to return this title
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- Charmian Findlay
- 04-10-14
Could do better
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Good story lines, but I was distracted a lot by the trans Atlantic twang of the narrator, who even had problems with how some words are pronounced in the UK. Regency Britain sounds better spoken by some one from this side of the pond.
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- Lindsay Hague
- 12-01-22
Good story
Good story shame about the narrator, she starts with an English accent then drops into American. Also her pronunciation of certain words is irritating
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- AndreaW
- 04-12-23
Terrible narrator
I'm not sure what accent the narrator is aiming for. It makes following the story very difficult.
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- Sandra Hilton
- 19-09-22
Waste of a credit!!!!!
This woman can’t act and her accent is really bad. It’s putting me off. Wasted a credit. Either have an American accent or get a British narrator.
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