• A Not So Convenient Marriage

  • By: Sandra Merville Hart
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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A Not So Convenient Marriage

By: Sandra Merville Hart
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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A spinster teacher...a grieving widower...a marriage of convenience and a second chance with the man she's always loved.

When Samuel Walker proposes a marriage of convenience to Rose Hatfieldso soon after the death of his wife, she knows he doesn't love her. She's loved him since their school days. Those long-suppressed feelings spring to life as she marries him. She must sell her childhood home, quit her teaching job, and move to a new city.

Marrying Rose is harder than Samuel expected, especially with the shadow of his deceased wife everywhere in his life. And he has two young children to consider. Peter and Emma need a mother's love, but they also need to hold close the memories of their real mother as they grieve her loss.

Life as Samuel's wife is nothing like Rose hoped, and even the townspeople, who loved his first wife, make Rose feel like an outsider. The work of the farm draws the two of them closer, giving hope that they might one day become a happy family. Until the dream shatters, and the life Rose craves tumbles down around them. Only God can put these pieces back together, but the outcome may not look anything like she planned.

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The computer narration was sometimes difficult as the intonation of voices was absent and some sentences seemed to run together.

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Keep me mad

I like this book. Some of the time, I was so upset with male character and wish that the female character will run away and see how his life would be without her. Shed a few tears. Yelled at the book a few times, as well as couldn’t understand some of the things that happened but in the end I was happy. Still can’t get used to the virtual voice but on this one, I slowed it down because sometimes I will get confused on who was speaking.

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Just okay

Cute story if you have nothing better to listen to.

The AI was not that great. There is no voice change or inflation to show character change.

Gets very Godly towards the end. "We must pray on this." "Leave it in God's hands." and so on.

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horrible virtual voice

Horrible virtual voice. I’d give a minus if I could. It ruined the flow, even knowing who was talking , no shift in character voices etc. the story itself was diminished by narration but I did appreciate some things I waded through as in the commitment to God’s path as well as showing weaknesses in various characters.

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Story was good

The story was very good and super sweet, but it was really hard to listen to because of the virtual voice.

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I cried

Honestly, I believe this book taught me that we may have plans for ourselves, but once we listen to God, things tend to fall into place great storyline

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Underwhelming

This book was boring, it just drug on forever, I like to play a book for background noise when working on my schoolwork, it’s just meh.

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