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  • Splendid

  • Blydon, Book 1
  • By: Julia Quinn
  • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
  • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (67 ratings)

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Splendid

By: Julia Quinn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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Based on the phenomenal growth of Quinn's popularity and her four-week stint on the New York Times best-seller list with Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, it's the perfect time to revisit Ms. Quinn's "splendid" storytelling.

American heiress Emma Dunster has always been fun-loving and independent, with no wish to settle into marriage. She plans to enjoy her Season in London in more unconventional ways than husband hunting. But this time Emma's high jinks lead her into dangerous temptation.

Alexander Ridgely, the Duke of Ashbourne, is a notorious rake who carefully avoids the risk of love until he plants one reckless kiss on the sensuous lips of this high-spirited innocent and condemns himself to delicious torment. Little does he know that his passion has touched the very soul of the lovely enchantress and committed them both to a lifetime of splendid ecstasy.

©1995 Julie Cotler (P)2016 HarperCollins Publishers

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Entertaining

I've read the book but was avoiding the audiobook as it's not narrated by the talented Rosalyn landor, I was pleasantly surprised and enjoyed it, the narration was overall enjoyable in my opinion, I speed up the speed a little.

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Took a while to adjust to a different narrator

At first, I thought I wouldn’t be able to listen for long! The narration was so robotic and not at all reflecting the dialogue. It was like AI was reading it. But after an hour, the narrator warmed up, I got into the story and I got use to the tone. It’s an exceptional story, just like all of her others. Every one I listen to, including this one, is my new fave.

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Terrible narration

The story isn’t bad. Definitely not up to the Bridgeton series standard one has come to expect from Julia Quinn, but the narration is utterly terrible. The women are given squeaky irritating voices & the men all sound like pompous morons. Makes it very difficult to relate the characters & loose oneself in the story.

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Fabulous Book

A great storyline with just the right amount of romance. I was especially grateful that the love making was not over loaded and over explained.
Highly recommend to others.

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did not enjoy narrator

she was high pitch, fast. just as well listen to other julia quinn books first.

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Narrator was Awful

Grating narrator voicing characters. Storyline also felt like a repetition of Julia Quinns other works.

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I loved this story a great book

I Would definitely recommend you try this book and don’t be scared of the narrator I found her very easy to listen to it was a great story and kept me on the edge of my seat. There were so many twists and turns 

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Boring

Didn’t hold interest
No life to the story and unconvincing characters
Narration creates Caricatures rather than characters.

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Splendid Narrator is dreadful

Terrible terrible narator, could not listen to the whole story! Her voice spoilt it for me

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Main male character creepy!

The narration was grating I couldn't stand the high pitched voices! I Usually love all of julia Quinns work but the male character is very possessive and pretty much stalks her... nope!!

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