A miss

Normally I LOVE Gail Carriger. But this one was...pretty bad. I'm actually doubting if Carriger actually wrote it. The prose was purple, the love scenes were cringeworthy, and the romance fell flat. Additionally, the production did this odd tinny effect anytime a character had a "thought," and it was very distracting.

I really can't recommend Carriger enough, but skip this one.

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Entertaining

Wonderful to see Channing find Love. Heartbreaking to learn both pursuer and pursued are hiding such devastating secrets from their pasts. I enjoyed the narrator, but did not like the echoey effect they used to show when someone was thinking a monologue or comment instead of speaking it. Neat idea, but annoying in practice.

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Witty, funny and delightful

If you like Carriger's work you'll like this. Same funny wit, hilarious banter and great characters. You don't need to read the other novels in her series, but previous knowledge makes the enjoyment all the richer. Narrator is good, but there's some timing issues with the inner dialogue effects towards the end, hence the three stars. Otherwise, a highly enjoyable book.

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Distracting narration

I generally enjoy Gail Carriger's books, but this one might be best read oneself. The narrator has a lovely voice and changes her voice well to suit different characters, but her American accent was pretty bad, and I found myself too distracted by it that the story itself wound up feeling kind of rushed and lackluster. I could tell that the narrator struggled to maintain the accent she used for Faith's speech- it slipped into something closer to a southern drawl frequently (not fitting for a character from Boston, as we are told many times Faith is), and even more Australian sounding a few times. I also though it an odd choice to have Faith's thoughts narrated with a British accent, when she is an American character.
I felt, by the end, that there hadn't been much development of affection between Faith and Channing, but I'm not sure if that was part of the novella itself, or simply because I missed too much since i kept being distracted.

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good plot, weird inner voice

just did not like the echo effect for inner voice. throws you out of the story.

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excellent

This book was excellent and enjoyable. it's a great story and the narrator did it justice.

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Yikes!

I haven't finished this story, and I'm not sure I can..... I bought it after I had listened to the Parasol Protectorate and Custard Protocol and loved both, although the former is a much better narration. The conversation is super stilted, and it's made so much worse by the production. When the narrator does an American accent, it's not the bad accent that bothered me so much as the horrendous, monotonous, flat way the narrator expressed it. The maid sounds like she's an unprepared actor reading the lines out of a play. This was a real disappointment :(

love the universe

absolutely love this universe and narration. I personally was not a fan of the echo used for monologues and at times it was unnecessarily droned on but still entertaining to see how biffy as an alpha is like.

howling good time!

I love the whole world of steampunk, werewolves, vampires and romantic adventures. Gail Carrier brings these adventurous, humorous characters into your life.

Back to what I love with Gail Carriger’s stories

I love that some of the Parasol Protectorate characters are back. Great story, listened to it twice. You just need to get past the “internal voice/ thinking voice” it’s terrible for the first 10mins then the voice becomes better production quality. I still didn’t like the sound effect but you get used to it. The story is worth it!!! There must be a book 2, I hope.