Audiobook Review
By: Anita Davison
Narrated by: Ruth Golding
Published by: Iambik Audio Inc 12/2011
Warm
12 hrs and 25mins
Sample
Isabel Hart is afraid of two things, the maze at Trencarrow where she got lost as a young child, and the lake where her brother David saved her from drowning in a boating accident.
With her twenty-first birthday and the announcement of her engagement imminent, Isabel decides it is time for her to face her demons and ventures into the maze. There she sees something which will alter her perceptions of herself and her family forever.
Isabel’s widowed aunt joins the house party, where her cousin confides she is in love with an enigmatic young man who surely cannot be what he pretends, for he is surely too dashing for homely Laura?
When Henry, Viscount Strachan and his mother arrives, ostensibly to use her ball as an arena for finding a wife, Isabel is determined not to like him.
As more secrets are revealed, Isabel doubts she has chosen the right man, although her future fiancé has more vested in this marriage than Isabel realizes and has no intention of letting her go easily.
Will Isabel be able to put her preconceptions of marriage behind her and take charge of her own life, or is she destined to be controlled by others forever?
My Thoughts
Thanks to
Audiobook Jukebox and Iambik Audio for the opportunity to review this wonderful
title that I most likely would have overlooked.
With engaging
descriptions and the individual attention given to the world and characters in
Trencarrow Secret; Ms. Davison nicely transports you to England during the Victorian era, where we get
entangle in young Isabel’s emotional crossroads.
When she finds that not everything is as
perfect as she imagined and family secrets come to shine a different light on
her family relationships as well as in matters of her heart-she has to choose
her path and redefine her goals and destiny.
Isabel is
not perfect, but real characters rarely are, at times, she seems childish and
spoiled. You wish she could have shown more assertiveness, with that said, the scandals,
intrigues, personalities and
misunderstandings held my attention throughout the entire book, and I was
hoping she made the right decision between the two gentlemen the aspire her attention.
The book
was beautifully written and the characters well fleshed out, but as hardcore
romance listener, I have to admit it felt short in that department by not being
the focus of the story. But instead it reads as a passage and the coming of age
of a naive twenty one year- old, and the growing up she has to undergo when
everything is not what she expected and a dramatic experience has shape her personality.
Entertaining
you ask? Yes! With no doubt, and I recommend it to Historical fiction fans with
a taste for the dramatic that weaved with a little mystery results an entertaining
an engaging story.
I have to be sincere and admit I like my reads
and listens with a lot more spice, nevertheless the interpretation by Ruth
Golding captivated my attention from the get go. Ms. Golding’s seasoned voice
and accurate interpretations of the characters lend the perfect ambiance to the
novel. The distinctive male voices are impressive as well as the different tones
she applies to give the novel the authenticity that nicely brings the story to
life.
Ms. Golding
is a new- to me narrator, but one I’m not planning to shy away from in the
future.
The Author
Anita Davison
Voices behind the books
Ruth Golding
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First time I've heard of this book or this author. It sounds entertaining and somehow different. I'll add it to my TBR. Nice review.
ReplyDeleteI never did before I saw it up for review on the audiobook Jukebox,and I remember this was very enjoyable. Let me know how you liked it.
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