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The Toll-Gate
- Lu par : Callum Hughes
- Durée : 10 h et 4 min
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A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre.
Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.
When the captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance of a lifetime....
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 22/02/2023
1 of my favourite Heyer's but narration not great
This is one of those great Georgette Heyers - funny, interesting AND a murder mystery.
Unfortunately it felt like the narrator wasn't very familiar with this work - displayed a lack of knowledge about the characters, rarely got the emphasis right in sentences so that if you're not familiar with the book I don't think you'd be able to fully appreciate the plot, and he even mispronounced a few things along the way.
Overall, the narration really spoilt it for me (not that this was a bad narrator, but to do a book like this justice you need to have read it more than once - you need to be familiar with it and make notes about where to put emphasis etc).
Unfortunately none of these flaws were apparent in the sample, but I'll take note of this narrator for future reference and consider yourself warned if you're thinking about purchasing this version. It's ok but when I find myself constantly correcting the narrator - well I know I'm not enjoying it
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 24/09/2021
Heyer at her best!
And brought to life beautifully by Callum Hughes. Loved it! Will search out more books narrated by him.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Chris
- 03/05/2021
Tolle Hörbuchversion
Fast alle Bücher von Georgette Heyer gehören zu meinen Langzeitlieblingen. Diese Hörbuchversion ist gut und kurzweilig gelesen, perfekte Ergänzung zum Buch.
2 personnes ont trouvé cela utile
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Global3 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire3 out of 5 stars
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 18/03/2023
Strange mixture
I don't know why this is being marketed as a Regency romance, because it really isn't. I'd call it a male-focused adventure story with bits of the detective and romance genres mixed in, which happens to take place in the Regency era, but is decidedly a 50s novel. It's a strange mix and I'm not really sure who it is even for. I overall found it an ok read, but I was annoyed and bored by too many things. I was not a fan of the huge amount of 50s-sounding slang (that's I think meant to be humorous but wasn't for me), the way the story focused on the heroic males and didn't give the females anything to do (although the few that existed were set up to be good characters), and the very underdeveloped romance. They fall in love at first sight, they have a strange wedding, the end. The rest is all adventure plot that drags a lot and is rather predictable. I feel like there could have been done so much more with thid setup, these characters and also by this writer, I'm really a bit disappointed. Maybe she wrote other books that I like better, possibly I should give her another try.
The narrator was quite good though!
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 14/02/2023
Spannend bis zuletzt auf verschiedenen Ebenen
Sehr empfehlenswerte Unterhaltung!
Gute Charakterbeschreibungen aus den verschiedentlichen Volksschichten. Spannend bis zuletzt. Alle eizelgestalten finden ein Happyend, zauberhaft.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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Interprétation5 out of 5 stars
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Histoire5 out of 5 stars
- Gernot Müller-Putz
- 18/05/2022
Ich könnte noch stundenlang weiterhören!
Eine meiner vielen Lieblingsgeschichten von Georgette Heyer! Unterhaltsam, amüsant und toll gelesen! Eine absolute Hörempfehlung!