An Elegant Façade

Hawthorne House, Book 2

By: Kristi Ann Hunter

Narrated by: Charlotte Anne Dore

Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins

Publisher's summary

Lady Georgina Hawthorne has worked tirelessly to seal her place as the Incomparable for her debut season. At her first London ball, she hopes to snag the attention of an earl.

With money and business connections, but without impeccable bloodlines, Colin McCrae is invited everywhere but accepted nowhere. When he first encounters the fashionable Lady Georgina, he's irritated by his attraction to a woman who concerns herself only with status and appearance.

What Colin doesn't know is that Georgina's desperate social aspirations are driven by the shameful secret she harbors. Association with Colin McCrae is not part of Georgina's plan, but as their paths continue to cross, they both must decide if the realization of their dreams is worth the sacrifices they must make.

©2016 Kristi Ann Hunter (P)2016 Tantor

This was ruined by the narrator, what a shame!

There are four books in this series and I don't know why, but books two and three had a different narrator than the first book. The narrator for the first book and book four was excellent, so, imagine how ripped off you feel when you buy the whole series expecting good quality narration and you can tell this narrator is inexperienced.
I really like Kristi Ann Hunter's style of writing. She's a talented author and has a great sense of humor, and in book one, I was really enjoying the first narrator's delivery of some funny lines. Then, I get to THIS book and she could not deliver a funny line. She over pronounces her words and doesn't seem to know how to deal with punctuation. A sentence would end (with a period, of course) but she would blow right through it without stopping. It's infuriating. And Audible won't let me return this one, which is even more infuriating.

Just beware that if you liked the first book, this one and the third one in the series are just awful. I got through them only because I really wanted to see what happened with each sibling, as there are 4 of them and each book concentrated on one of the four. I couldn't wait to get to the fourth book in the series where Kristi goes back to the original narrator in book one.
It really is a shame, Kristi Ann Hunter should just pay for a good narrator and keep her audio books consistent.
It would make us, who pay good money for credits a whole lot happier. Now, I feel like I can't trust her with her series in the future if there is a change of narrators.

Wonderful Story and Content

I was at first not as excited with the story line but it evolved into a wonderful lesson for us all! I loved the praise and love inspired by all the Hawthorne family and characters. Thanks Be To GOD we all have a purpose and direction even in today’s culture and events.

the narrator did good

i listen to most of my books at a higher speed then most people but i felt like the narrator did a good job. her voice and way of portraying the characters never bothered me at all. also i feel the writer did a wonderful job at writing her story. both of these undertaking take a lot of time Entergy and i really appreciate all that both of you ladies poured into this book.
i actually did feel like there was much reference to God in this book until close to the end when the main character has a revelation about how she has been living her life. i felt like it was really good and could have even had more talked about in that time.

Interesting story, bad a narration

I enjoyed discovering what Georgina‘s secret was. I also enjoyed her interactions with Colin as she goes through her own self discovery and reevaluation of her values. However, I found the narration distracting and unpleasant.

Wonderful story!

This is a wonderful story. I felt that over all the narrator did an okay job. However, it could have been much more fluid and less tilted in certain areas. It would have been good to continue with the first narrator.

Well…

Well… the first part of the book was the first book in the series rewrite from another’s perspective. It was okay but I wish the author would have given a bit more. It is not usual to write a story about someone with reading difficulties- especially within the regency era. Soooo. I liked the Idea of the story but I had a hard time getting through this one. But it was clean and true that God loves each one of us -no matter what!

wonderful

finally a book without dirt sex scenes! I didn't have to fast forward ....i enjoy the whole book!

Awful Narration

The story is wonderful but this narrator has me wanting to pull out my hair. Ann Marie Gideon was the perfect narrator why can't they just keep the same narrator through the entire series.

Desperately needs a new narrator

I enjoyed the storyline of the book as I am drawn to the slow burn clean romance. It’s really hard to like the heroine for a large portion of the book. The biggest issue I have is with the narration. She enunciates so hard and the words don’t flow well. It’s a big distraction!

Unpleasant Narration

The narration isn’t good. The way she reads for the characters makes them sound sluggish and robotic. It’s very difficult to engage in the story. I find myself annoyed and distracted by the reading. After several chapters I followed the advice of some others and listened at 1.2x and it helped.