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Love for the Spinster

Women of Worth Series, Book 2

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Love for the Spinster

By: Kasey Stockton
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
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Freya runs from her past, but trouble seems to follow her everywhere she goes.

Years after discovering her parents' marriage was invalid, and she illegitimate, Freya continued to struggle with the scandal hanging over her head. When her father reappears with his real wife and daughter, Freya flees London entirely.

With an inherited country house, Freya at least has somewhere to run. She looks forward to meeting her faithful steward, who writes the most diverting letters. However, Mr. Daniel Bryce is not the old gentleman she expected, but young, handsome, and eligible.

Freya struggles with her growing feelings for her steward as they work together to renovate the only home she has left. When a stranger shows up and threatens to reveal Freya's past, will she find the strength to remove herself from the scandal's shadow?

©2019 Kasey Stockton (P)2019 Tantor Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Marriage
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Hoorah, I found Mary’s narration lovely when sped up. The occasional weird pronunciation of the odd word doesn’t bug me and I enjoyed this story and unexpected ending at x1:1. I recommend.

Great story with Narration at x1:1

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Another wonderful original from Kasey Stockton. Slow and meandering narration.
Best enjoyed in order of the series.

Gentle engaging story

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This is the second book by this author that I've accidentally encountered, and I am once again left feeling slightly tainted by the experience. Kasey Stockton has created a hero who spends much of the book behaving like a committed flirt with several women, including the heroine, but we're expected to believe that he loves her. The heroine prides herself on being a strong, independent woman, but fails to ask even basic questions on several occasions when it would be natural to do so. For example, she allows the hero to foist a companion upon her without asking about the lady's age, circumstances, character or relationship to the hero. This isn't the author making a point about the heroine's self-delusion, it's bad writing. Additionally, Mary Sarah, the reader, once again brings her inept reading to bear on a very weak book. She seems never to have heard an English accent. "Cat" is rendered "caht", "hall" becomes"hull", "father" becomes "futher", all in her pretentiously misguided attempt to ape an upper class English accent. Her abuse of other vowel sounds is too enormous to be detailed here, and her saccharine tone and odd, choppy modulation complete the unpleasant experience. I was dragged through two books by this diabolical duo of reader and author, compelled by horrified fascination, but no more. If you find one of these books for free, as I did, and have a taste for the ridiculous and grotesque, then by all means try it, but wasting a credit on such garbage will almost certainly leave you feeling unhappy and slightly discombobulated.

Author and reader create a disaster

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As usual, this author writes an engaging story that captures the emotional nuance and intensity of human interactions very well. Once engaged with the story, I stayed engaged, right to the end. This series is written in the first person, occasionally straying into 3rd person descriptors - eg “I tucked an errant curl behind my ear”. I don’t believe a sensible person would describe their own action in this way, and the main protagonist worked hard to be sensible and real. I think anyone would find it difficult to write in the 1st person in this genre, so I put it down to teething problems - vindicated as I progressed through the second in the series.

The narration was bizarre, and remained so. I took a break from the audiobook version before the end of the second chapter, returning to Kindle for the next couple, and was relieved to find that the story contained references to cats. The author wasn’t trying to bemuse me by including references to ‘carts’ or ‘Kurds’ with long tails and difficult personalities. For convenience, I returned to the audiobook, but often found I had to rework what I’d heard in my mind to make sense of the story.
The narrator did a great job with the accent for about 60% of every sentence, but consistently mispronounced words with the short ‘a’ sound, eg ‘act’, as ‘arct’, and short ‘o’ sound as something like ‘aw’ eg ‘doll’ as ‘doorl’ - almost as if someone had told her that British speaking people pronounce ‘pass’ (short ‘a’ in the US) as ‘parss’, and the rule had been overgeneralised. Hence, her pronunciation of ‘fact’ confused me greatly for a moment, every time.
I don’t mean to mock - This really had to be an error at the production level.

This is where whispersync demonstrates it’s value!

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