Unraveled

By: Courtney Milan

Narrated by: Nicole Quinn

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past - secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom.

Miranda Darling isn't in trouble - yet. But she's close enough that when Turner threatens her with imprisonment if she puts one foot wrong, she knows she should run in the other direction. And yet no matter how forbidding the man seems on the outside, she can't bring herself to leave. Instead, when he tries to push her away, she pushes right back - straight through his famous self-control, and into the heart of the passion that he has long hidden away.

©2011 Courtney Milan (P)2012 Courtney Milan

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I enjoyed the witty dialogue between the strong-minded h & H. I first sped up the narration to 1.25, then switched from listening to reading on Kindle because the speed and style of narration was distracting for me.
The romance was lively and good-hearted in the style of a Heyer novel, with steam. I hope the author writes more like this.

story good, narrator voice is harsh

narrator sounds like she has is a life long 3 pack a day smoker. in some cases/voices, she sounds like she is speaking through a stoma.

fun story. horrible narrator

the story was a great end to the trilogy, but the narrator was awful. long pauses between chapters, horrible voices and kinda sounded like a grandmother reading a romance novel.

A GOOD BOOK TOTALLY RUINED BY THE NARRATOR

I enjoyed the building romance between Smite who is a cold, emotionally challenged Judge and Miranda a penniless, down on her luck woman who has to impersonate witness's at his court but he finds her out with dire consequences. Thoroughly enjoyable romance with a good plot that has many twists and turns.

I have enjoyed all CM's books but this one was painful to listen to - I suggest the Publishing House NEVER EVER EVER uses this narrator again and re-records it otherwise I can't see it being downloaded by many people.

What is wrong with the reader?

The others in this series were outstanding. I'm sure the story is great but I'm 10 minutes in and I can't listen to another word. It sounds like the voice has been mechanically altered. I'm returning this.

Best story of the series

I was bowled over by this series when I first read the three stories years ago. I thought then that Mz Milan was one of the most talented authors that I had come across in years. Unveiled was so intense and it certainly wasn't a fairy tale. Because I rarely read anything but historical romances, I often get bored with cardboard characters and improbable plots. These three books were anything but bland.
I've now listened to all books and I believe that they "listen" even better than they read.
Treat yourself to a real pleasure, read the Turner trilogy.

Exceptional Book; Tortured Narration

I loved the story. It was well written and it was a wonderful conclusion to the series.

However, the narrator on this last installment was very difficult to listen to. If I hadn’t been invested in this series, I would not have been able to finish this book. Her choices for the voices were almost abrasive. Especially the men’s voices. They all sounded sinister; even the main character. There was a disjointed cadence in her speech that made me want to relieve her of the distress of reading a book out loud.

I sincerely wish this book could be re-recorded with another narrator. Polly Lee and Kate Reading come to mind. I liked this story so much, and I want to hear it again, but I probably won’t. I’m sad.

Good story-narrator grew on me

The narrator annoyed me the first time I started to listen to this audio - she sounded a little over the top for some of the lower class voices.

But a few weeks later I started over because the story was interesting - and the author sounded fine once I got used to all the different voices. Actually, I thought she sounded great half-way through the story. I would definitely listen to another book read by Nicole Quinn.

Fantastic story but difficult narration

This story, as written, is amazing. But in my opinion this narrator couldn't do this story Justice . To be honest, with over 17 different characters I felt this would have been a heavy lift for most narrators. I can only think of 3 who could have carried it off. and in fact it might have been better to have a few narrators on this story because there were so many characters.
Don't get me wrong, this was my first time hearing a story read by this particular narrator so perhaps she does better when there aren't as many characters.
The heroine Miranda Darling sounded a lot like Rose from the show Ripper Street. Her voice was sometimes okay, then it became disturbingly child like by turns. It was creepy. Her best friend Jeremy sounded like Harvey Fierstein if you can believe it. He came off as angry in tone and inflextion, which was at odds with how the story was portraying him . I believe he was supposed to be good natured and a bit gullible but, he sounded surly most of the time.
Smite, the hero was almost robotic and wooden especially at the end. I don't believe she ever got the right voice to match his funny aloofness. There were many funny moments which were lost because of how she voiced his character.
I think probably worst of all was the character Richard . if you remember from the first story, Richard was the heroines brother who basically came across as being selfish and cold hearted yet redeemable. In this story we uncover a long buried friendship between Richard and Smite.
Richard's voice in this story was just horrible. It was nasally, whiny ,old and a caricature of an effeminate male. It left much to be desired. did I mention he sounded very old, as did the hero. It was a disaster. Almost like someone scratching their nails down a chalkboard. The scenes with Richard were painful to listen to, to say the least. and I really think the scenes with him and Smite could have been hilariously funny if it weren't for his voice.

Out of all of the stories in the series, this was probably my favorite one. I purchased the book as well as the audible so I plan on reading the book . I think it will be a better read then as an Audible.
Again, I counted over 17 different characters so it was always going to be like trying to land a triple Lindy, and we all know only Rodney Dangerfield managed to pull that off.

Narrator Fail

I was not impressed by the Narrator. should have stayed with the one from previous books