A Convenient Engagement
Brides of Brighton Series, Book 1
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A Convenient Engagement
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Narrated by:
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Mary Sarah
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By:
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Ashtyn Newbold
About this listen
A false engagement. A mysterious coast. Two reluctant hearts.
Much to her father's dismay, Miss Amelia Buxton aspires to become a spinster, just like her eccentric aunt. Growing up with parents who married for every reason but love, she has never seen a joyful marriage. When Amelia requests a summer trip to the legendary waters of Brighton, her father allows her the excursion, but with one requirement: She must return engaged, or agree to the proposal of the man of his choosing.
Crawling with tourists, Brighton is not the town Adam Claridge once loved. When his sister Eleanor disappears without warning, Adam is desperate to bring her home. In his search, he happens upon Miss Amelia Buxton, a young tourist that proves vital in his search for Eleanor. But Amelia is conducting a search of her own-a search for a husband-and Adam has little choice but to offer a fair trade: He will play the role of Amelia's betrothed in exchange for her assistance in finding Eleanor.
Convenient at first, Amelia and Adam's arrangement quickly plummets into disarray. Falling in love had not been part of their bargain.
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- Alvie.Huit
- 03-01-2024
steady tone all the way
Whilst Mary Sarah's narration was flawless at x1.5 speed, I just wish this story had more meat to its bones as I would've enjoyed a greater climactic buildup. This is a clean Regency romance so it would suit a much younger audience just getting started with this genre.
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- Lily
- 23-05-2023
Light hearted story
The story had no depth to it. But what ever the story had was lost in the narration. If she was trying to portray the main character as high brow it didn’t work. She was so inauthentic. At some points during the book she lost her accent and it was obvious. I won’t bother with any more books by this author and will avoid anything from the narrator.
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- Anonymous
- 09-03-2023
Difficult to listen to the narration
The story was okay, it felt rushed and some pieces seemed missing. I wouldn't mind listening to the next two in the series but I don't think I could get through another with this narrator, I don't get the accent, it was odd. If this book wasn't included I probably would have sent it back because of the narration not the story.
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- Kindle Customer
- 30-07-2023
narrator is terrible
I have tried to persist with this story as I like the author but the narration is painful. No one speaks like that! such a shame to ruin the story.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 18-08-2023
A possibly good story marred by odd narration
Weirdest pronunciation/accent I’ve ever heard.
Domp for damp
Unt for Aunt
Block for black
Pom for palm
Maybe this is how Americans think English people in the regency era spoke. Truly distracting & made it hard to get into the story.
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- lamington
- 30-10-2023
Appalling performance
The reader of this book went out of her way to render it unbearable. Her tone was saccharine sweet and the pace a choppy sing-song. Worst of all, however, was her tone deaf rendering of what I assume she thinks is a posh English accent. Her abuse of vowel sounds would be criminal were it not so ludicrous. The amazing thing is that she was hired, and presumably paid, by someone equally incompetent. However, the the story is so poorly written that the reader's ruin of it hardly matters. The heroine is obnoxious and selfish, and the author has no grasp of the habits of the time - the heroine, for instance, rocks up to a ball accompanied only by a single gentleman, both of them wearing day clothes, as if it were a normal thing to do. Apart from smaller errors such as this, serious subjects are brushed aside with psychopathic carelessness, giving the characters, and the book overall, an unsavoury feel.
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