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Old Acquaintances

Regency Tales, Book 2

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Old Acquaintances

By: Gayle Buck
Narrated by: Hugh Bradley
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After a wonderful visit with her sister's family, Miss Judith Grantham is returning home. She anticipates a dull ending to the Christmas holidays. An overturned mail coach blocks the icy road, and she takes up one of the passengers - a young girl who turns out to be a runaway heiress.

Judith is astonished when some of the other passengers turn up at her doorstep, in need of shelter from an impending snowstorm. Suddenly, she is hostess to a motley and ill-assorted group.

Things become even more interesting when the runaway heiress's guardian turns up, too. He is Sir Peregrine Ashford - the man she jilted five years ago.

©2013 Gayle Buck (P)2019 Gayle Buck Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance
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I am a lifelong fan of Georgette Heyer and have read her romances time without number, never tiring tire of these. From time to time, however, I search for a living author similar to her in the hope I will have a new series of books to enjoy for many years to come. I thought I had found such a one in Gayle Buck, but whilst I enjoyed the story it does not even come close to the brilliance of Georgette Heyer. The characters and dialogue lack the depth, authenticity and wit I have come to expect, seeming more forced and less dazzling. And whilst the narration was clear, I found it too slow (subsequently increasing it to 1.4x) and overly theatrical. His pronunciation of ‘breakfast’ particularly annoyed me! I was left wondering if I would have enjoyed the story more if I had read the book instead …
So all in all, it was good, but at the same time far from brilliant.
(On a positive, the story was ‘clean’ and not being full of sex and innuendo, unlike most modern romances.)

Good, but not fabulous.

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