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The Brutal Truth

By: Lee Winter
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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About this listen

Australian crime reporter Maddie Grey is out of her depth in New York, miserable, and secretly drawn to her powerful, twice-married media mogul boss, Elena Bartell, who eats failing newspapers for breakfast. As work takes them to Australia, Maddie is goaded into a brief, seemingly harmless bet with her enigmatic boss - where they have to tell the complete truth to each other. It backfires catastrophically.

Contains mature themes.

©2017 Lee Winter (P)2018 Tantor Literature & Fiction Romance Funny Boss
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I wasn't sure if I should get this book due to the reviews talking about how hard the Aussie accent was to listen and as I am Australian I figured it would bother me too. Well I am glad that I ended up purchasing the book as it was a great story and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it and the accents didn't bother me at all.

If you enjoy Lee Winters other books you will enjoy this one too :-)

I thoroughly enjoyed this book

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This is the 2nd time I’ve listened to this story and I really enjoyed it 2nd time round. The mashing of the Aussie/Kiwi/parts of England sounding accent of the main character was annoying but I’ve heard so much worse. (Probably the aff-ter instead of arf-tuh were the worst) But accent aside the performance was very good. And it couldn’t stop me really enjoying the experience.
I’ve increased my rating from 4 stars (1st time) to 5 stars after listening a second time and after a long break in between. I very rarely re-read or re-listen to books. I was going to listen to a spin off from this story - The Awkward Truth and thought I should listen to The Brutal Truth, at least the start of it, to refresh my memory of the characters. I’d read many books in between.
Instead of stopping after remembering the characters I kept wanting to listen further, and further, and further.
I found the twists and turns, and the character development more and more interesting. I think I found a lot more subtext this time, whether author intended or not, it certainly added to my enjoyment. Thanks again!

Even better second time

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Superb writing with an amazingly engaging and captivating storyline, Angela Dawe’s narration is quite diverse and well executed with the exception of her Australian accent, it lacked any form of accuracy and made it challenging to reach the end of this story, credit to Angela for giving trying though.

Wonderfull story but hard listen for an Aussie.

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Loved the sTory and build between E and M. Australian pronunciations hard to listen to as an Aussie.

Excellent story

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Cudos to the Narrator for giving the Aussie accent a go, but it was a little painful to listen to. If not for the thoroughly entertaining and funny storyline I may not have continued to listen.

Entertaining

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The story had me from the beginning it was brilliant climatic and for 11 hours. I was hoping to see the final crescendo. What I got wasn’t that at all? It was a little vanilla and withholding. I wish it was more. The main character has waited all her life to have a love like this and to feel like this, and yet when it came to the time, it was merely run through quickly.. I enjoyed it, but I wish the mature scenes had a bit more maturity in them.

Could’ve been more

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Loved this book! As an Aussie I agree with the other reviewers that the accent was not great, but I just imagined Maddie was a Kiwi instead from the start and no probs.

One of my favourites

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Awesome book. Loved the tone of voice and the French accent. The Australian accent needed some refinement, Sounded like a mix of American and New Zealand.

Loved it

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I wasn’t expecting to enjoy this much really given the setting but five minutes in I was hooked by the characters.

Australian accent is a shocker but once you get used to it it seems to fit the characters pretty well.

I really enjoyed it and so my lee winter audiobook binge continues

Loved it

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I adore this book. I’ve given up counting how many times I’ve read/listened to it. It has some fascinating insights into the world of fashion and publishing. It also brings into focus some definite current concerns about the abuse of power in the workplace. At its heart though, it is a tender and engaging love story. Lee Winter’s wordsmith is so brilliantly carved out that you can read it again and again. Angela Dawe’s voice as Elena Bartell is memorising and you’ll actually want to listen to the book again, just to listen to this character. I did take one star off for the Australian accent for Maddie, (that does grate for Australian ears, but most people won’t care).

A brilliantly written book

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