The Pearl Brooch

Time Travel Romance: The Celtic Brooch, Book 9

By: Katherine Lowry Logan

Narrated by: Carolyn A. Lee

This brooch saga begins July 14, 1789, the day French revolutionaries stormed the Bastille! And America’s ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, comes to Sophia Orsini's rescue....

Sophia Orsini, a time-traveling Italian artist, believes she understands how the pearl brooch magic works, but when it abandons her in the middle of an 18th century Paris mob, she realizes she was wrong.

America’s ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson, comes to Sophia’s rescue, but that meeting leads her down a path she otherwise wouldn’t have chosen.

Kevin Fraser and his pregnant wife, JL, fly in his Cessna to enjoy a weekend at Mallory Plantation in Virginia, but wind shear turns Kevin's textbook landing into a disaster and the plane through a chain-link fence, injuring JL and sending her into premature labor.

Pete Parrino, VP of Global Security for MacKlenna Corporation, is in Florence on business when he stumbles upon Sophia Orsini’s art studio. Sophia is the love of Pete’s life, and he hasn’t seen or heard from her in 20 years. When he discovers she hasn’t returned from her annual two-week holiday, he breaks into her studio and finds evidence that she’s a time traveler.

When the clan discovers where she is, Pete, Matt Kelly, and Jack Mallory must decide how much of America’s history they’re willing to change in order to bring Sophia back to the future.

The Celtic Brooch Series:

• The Ruby Brooch (Book 1): Time travel romance - Oregon Trail 1852.
• The Last Macklenna (Book 2): Contemporary romance.
• The Sapphire Brooch (Book 3): Time travel romance - Civil War, 1864-1865.
• The Emerald Brooch (Book 4): Time travel romance - World War II, London, June 1944.
• The Broken Brooch (Book 5): Contemporary romance.
• The Three Brooches (Book 6): Time travel romance - Napa and San Francisco, 1881.
• The Diamond Brooch (Book 7): Time travel romance - New York City, 1909.
• The Amber Brooch (Book 8): Time travel romance - Colorado, 1878.

©2019 Katherine Lowry Logan (P)2019 Katherine Lowry Logan

Narration is terrible

I really like the story but the narration is terrible. The accents are terrible. And the narrator pronounces all sorts of words incorrectly.
Why did they use a different narrator this time? The narrator for all the prior books did a great job.

Fun story, newbie narrator...

Enjoyed the story, but had to look up the irritating narrator - it's her first. So while she should've at least watched YouTube for accent training and spent 5 min. with Google for name pronunciation, it was a good first attempt. That said, it was amazingly distracting and I'm disappointed to be a guinea pig for an unvetted narrator swap this far into the series. Several times before looking her up, I thought she must be a relative of the author! Ms. Lee, keep working on it, you'll get it... Ms. Logan, I'm looking forward to the next book.

My least favorite so far

I enjoyed the story line, but I did not care for how the author regularly had Sophia using contemporary references. There didn't seem to be a significant point to it and it made me dislike the character a bit, but I don't think that was the intention. I also don't recall JL having quite so much for disdain for Elliot. Maybe it was the narrators interpretation of the tone.

The narration...OH the narration. Some parts were OK at best, the rest.. choppy, stilted phrasing, It was a let down after Teri Schnaubelt. I don't mean to be mean to Ms. Lee, but Teri is a hard act to follow in an extended series. I might try reading this one to see if I have a different experience of the book.

Still in progress and struggling

I have been in love with every single book in this series and it feels as though the characters have completely changed! The change in the narrator is horrible. The characters completely lost who they were in my mind. I am debating whether to give up on the audiobook and simply read it. I love listening to audiobooks when driving and cleaning and struggle to find time to read but I may need to for the sake of the characters! Bring back Teri Schnaubelt!!

Narrator

narrator needs some serious practice. story was good as usual but changing narrator was a mistake