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Notorious Atherton

By: Patricia Rice
Narrated by: Eliza Jane Cornell
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The Pirate and the Princess

Nora Adams believes she is only a schoolteacher and a poor seaman's widow until the day she inherits a fortune, and her mother sends her to London to deliver a mysterious message to a newly arrived foreign princess - who looks much like Nora. Once Princess Elena receives Nora's missive, she steals Nora's identity and vanishes. Left adrift in unfamiliar waters wearing ill-fitting royal shoes, Nora determinedly sets out in search of the real royal.

Nick Atherton long ago retired from his villainous life of piracy, but he's dragged out of his role as fashionable fribble to protect the princess - or the false princess. Nick would far rather seduce the comely widow, but to do so he must dodge French spies and pursue misbehaving royalty. For the fate of a nation, Devil Nick takes to the high seas again, but will that cost him the only woman he could ever love?

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The storyline certainly is interesting however i think I would've struggled less at the beginning had I realised sooner that speeding up the narration would improve my listening enjoyment.

The narrator doesn't seem to understand the importance of differentiating character dialogue from reading the non-dialogue story. As such, her intonation is like being on a ferry in rough conditions...up down up down.

I do recommend this audiobook but strongly suggest you tweak the reading speed to a level that makes it tolerable to you.

Narration undermines a good story

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Easy listening, well written themes and characters. Narrator's storytelling enhanced the audio. On to the next book in this series.

Enjoyable

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Set in the days of Bonaparte’s last hurrah.
A French princess escapes across the channel to escape her fate.
Nora is tricked into trading places with her.
Nick a soldier reprobate, has been tasked to guard the princess.
The task becomes a ‘princess-hunt’.

Lots of improbables

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I struggled to get into this book. The narrator was Okay but the books story line was so unbelievable and smattered with the occasional sex scenes. Just not that great

Bit Dull

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