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The Guardian of Secrets
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- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
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- Release date: 12-27-16
- Language: English
- Publisher: Tantor Audio
- Whispersync for Voice-ready
Regular price: $41.99
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After fleeing from an abusive husband accused of murder, Celia Merrill becomes embroiled in a Spanish Civil War.
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- ChickenMathIsReal
- 03-20-18
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Great book, story and narrator. One of the best I have enjoyed in a long time!!
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- Smith
- Waterloo, Belgium
- 10-13-17
Too Many Implausible Decisions in This Story
We did not finish this book. A weak, insipid main character, who makes a fatal choice at the beginning that we could not quite believe, followed by many other such events--too many to draw us into the story. Characters were not nuanced, and sometimes the author made us endure painfully slow scenes with a blow-by-blow we weren't interested in. We didn't get to the end of Part One.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-02-17
Well told story with great narrator.
The author captures the human cost of the civil war and shows that there are no winners - except perhaps those who find the courage to carry on with their lives in spite of the brutality and their own miscalculation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-26-17
couldn't read with my history
it isn't that it was bad but having had happen things very similar to the very first three chapters I could get no further.
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- JANE WILSON
- 01-22-17
AWFUL READER
Any additional comments?
This book desperately needed a good editor, and a good narrator. The text was scattered with mis-used words and appalling mispronunciations. (arthuritis!). The narrator chose to use cheeping, little girly voices which grated on the nerves. All attempts at regional accents were laughable. I gave up half way through - not really having any interest in what happened to the protagonists.
The story might have been passable with a different writer and different narrator.
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- Fred
- 11-23-17
Limited
An entertaining story but spoilt by basic writing style and poor standard of narration. Both became grating after a while and I abandoned the book about 30% into it.