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Imago

Imago Series, Book 1

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Imago

By: N.R. Walker
Narrated by: Antony Ferguson
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Nerdy, introverted genius lepidopterist, Lawson Gale, is an expert on butterflies. He finds himself in a small town in Tasmania on a quest from an old professor to find an elusive species that may or may not even exist.

Local Parks and Wildlife officer, Jack Brighton, is an ordinary guy who loves his life in the sleepy town of Scottsdale. Along with his Border collie dog, Rosemary, his job, and good friends, he has enough to keep from being lonely.

But then he meets Lawson, and he knows he's met someone special. There's more to catching butterflies, Jack realizes. Sometimes the most elusive creatures wear bow ties, and sometimes they can't be caught at all.

Lawson soon learns there are butterflies he can't learn about it in books. They exist only in a touch, in a kiss, in a smile. He just has to let go first, so these butterflies can fly.

Imago is the story of finding love, bow ties, and butterflies.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 N. R. Walker (P)2020 Tantor Literature & Fiction Romance
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Beautifully written and narration was superb by first time listening to Anthony Ferguson. A whirlwind romance whilst looking for a new species of butterflies Lawson and Jack fall in love.

Lawson and Jack

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I love all of this authors books, but yet again this narrator frustrates me because he doesn’t bother to check pronounciation of place names. Even if he doesn’t want to check with the author at least google them. This isn’t the first Australian set book where he has mispronounced places and it really pulls you out of the story

Love the story

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Lepidopterist and nerdy academic, Lawson, teams up with National Parks ranger, Jack, to find a new species of butterfly purported to exist in the northeastern Tasmanian wilderness. I liked a lot of things about this - the small town friendliness of Scottsdale, the easy companionship of Jack and Lawson, the dates they went on. I am never a fan of instalove and I felt the relationship and achievements would have felt more realistic and hard-won if they’d occurred over months rather an a single week - it was all a little too neat. 🎧 Antony Ferguson’s narration was well-paced. He narrated in his own British accent and switched to an Australian accent for the dialogue - this will sound a little formal and slightly stilted to Australians, but it wasn’t jarring.

Boys bond over butterflies!

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I always give honest reviews, and don't give harsh reviews regularly- there's usually a few good points.
Sorry, NR Walker, but I'm not a fan of this one.
It's a short story, but things between the 2 characters move unbelievably fast, emphasis on unbelievable.
The narrator also doesn't quite fit with the characters. Sometimes it takes a little while for my ears and my mind to fully integrate with the voice and the character, but I never could with this one. I gave it a good couple of hours- half of the book, but it just wasn't sitting right.
Other reviewers critiqued the narrator's pronunciation of Aussie terms while performing an Aussie accent. This is a common theme I'm finding mongst other narrators too.
All in all I wouldn't recommend this one. Choose just about any other NR Walker title.

First NR Walker title I DNF

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I usually live most of the work by N. R. Walker but this book just didn't do it for me. It moves too fast and the narrator is very robotic, no emotions. Sorry, won't listen to the 2nd one.

Oh no, how is this written by N. R. Walker?

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This author has such a great narrative.
Very real and relatable
Off to find more from her🤩

Loved this book

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This was a really cute series. I loved the detail of their jobs and the picturesque places they got to visit throughout the series from Tasmania to the Queensland rainforests and the desert. The butterfly science was captivating and they had plenty of passion and life and death moments to keep the story intriguing!
I didn’t love the narrator in the 1st and 2nd audio books. Too monotonous and no character voice distinction plus there were too many words incorrectly pronounced. I finished the series via ebook and still really enjoyed the overall story and characters.

Cute and interesting!

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