Envy
A Luxe Novel
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Narrated by:
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Nina Siemaszko
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By:
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Anna Godbersen
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Farther uptown, Henry and Penelope Schoonmaker are the city's most celebrated couple. But despite the glittering diamond ring on Penelope's finger, the newlyweds share little more than scorn for each other. And while the newspapers call Penelope's social-climbing best friend, Carolina Broad, an heiress, her fortune - and her fame - are anything but secure, especially now that one of society's darlings is slipping tales to the eager press.
In this next thrilling installment of Anna Godbersen's bestselling Luxe series, Manhattan's most envied residents appear to have everything they desire: Wealth. Beauty. Happiness. But sometimes the most practiced smiles hide the most scandalous secrets. . .
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Lace gloves! Jewelry boxes! Horse-drawn carriages! The intricate games of love and attraction played between the mannered upper class and the swarthy servant class below. Is this Jane Austen? No, it’s Envy, the third installment of Anna Godberson’s The Luxe series of young adult novels, set primarily in Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century.
Performed in a sly, crisp tone by actress Nina Siemaszko, Envy continues its saga of the sisters Elizabeth and Diana Holland, two upper class young women who are as wily as they are driven by their passions. Now, scandal attends Diana as her true love catches her with another man, and a well-known socialite’s fortunes are showing cracks. Jane Austen might be amused.
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The Shifting Fog [also published under the alternate title The House at Riverton]
- By: Kate Morton
- Narrated by: Caroline Lee
- Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,198
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,975
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Alternate title for "The House at Riverton"
- By Karen on 12-22-13
By: Kate Morton
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Beguiling the Beauty
- By: Sherry Thomas
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 459
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 424
When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She’s exactly what he’s been searching for - a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast - and soon proposes marriage. And then she disappears without a trace.… For in reality, the "baroness" is Venetia Easterbrook - a proper young widow who had her own vengeful reasons for instigating an affair with the duke. But the plan has backfired. Venetia has fallen in love with the man she despised - and there’s no telling what might happen when she is finally unmasked….
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5 out of 5 stars
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Worth multiple listens
- By anonymous on 09-10-19
By: Sherry Thomas
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Buddenbrooks
- The Decline of a Family
- By: Thomas Mann
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 679
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 612
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 610
First published in 1900, when Thomas Mann was 25, Buddenbrooks is a minutely imagined chronicle of four generations of a North German mercantile family - a work so true to life that it scandalized the author’s former neighbours in his native Lübeck.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Where Have You Been All My Life, Thomas Mann?
- By Virginia Waldron on 03-30-17
By: Thomas Mann
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Now, Voyager
- Femmes Fatales
- By: Olive Higgins Prouty
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 64
Boston blueblood Charlotte Vale has led an unhappy, sheltered life. Lonely, dowdy, repressed, and pushing 40, Charlotte finds salvation at a sanitarium, where she undergoes an emotional and physical transformation. After her extreme makeover, the new Charlotte tests her mettle by embarking on a cruise and finds herself in a torrid love affair with a married man which ends at the conclusion of the voyage. But only then can the real journey begin, as Charlotte is forced to navigate a new life for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Inspiration for The Movie Classic
- By Susie on 12-17-12
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The Luckiest Lady in London
- By: Sherry Thomas
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 528
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 483
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Story4 out of 5 stars 482
Felix Rivendale, the Marquess of Wrenworth, is The Ideal Gentleman, a man all men want to be and all women want to possess. Even Felix himself almost believes this golden image. But underneath is a damaged soul soothed only by public adulation.Louisa Cantwell needs to marry well to support her sisters. She does not, however, want Lord Wrenworth-though he seems inexplicably interested in her. She mistrusts his outward perfection, and the praise he garners everywhere he goes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lovely story, extremely well-written
- By Jonna on 04-14-14
By: Sherry Thomas
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The Husband Trap
- By: Tracy Anne Warren
- Narrated by: Bianca Amato
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,032
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,048
Winner of a RITA, a National Readers’ Choice Award, the HOLT Medallion, and the Golden Quill, New York Times best-selling author Tracy Anne Warren is among the most acclaimed and popular Regency romance storytellers. In The Husband Trap, the reserved Lady Violet Brantford agrees to swap identities with her vivacious sister. Before she knows it, she’s married to the Duke of Raeburn, who finds himself pleasantly surprised with his charming new wife.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Passionate and emotional narration...
- By SIMARA on 01-23-13
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Summerset Abbey
- Summerset Abbey, Book 1
- By: T. J. Brown
- Narrated by: Sarah Coomes
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 90
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 79
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Story4 out of 5 stars 80
1913: In a sprawling manor on the outskirts of London, three young women seek to fulfill their destinies and desires amidst the unspoken rules of society and the distant rumblings of war.... Sir Philip Buxton raised three girls into beautiful and capable young women in a bohemian household that defied Edwardian tradition. Eldest sister Rowena was taught to value people, not wealth or status. But everything she believes will be tested when Sir Philip dies, and the girls must live under their uncle’s guardianship....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great for Downton Abbey fans, but…
- By Katherine on 03-11-13
By: T. J. Brown
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Freud's Mistress
- By: Karen Mack, Jennifer Kaufman
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 69
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 68
In this sweeping tale of love, loyalty, and betrayal - between a husband and a wife, between sisters - fact and fiction seamlessly blend together, creating a compelling portrait of an unforgettable woman and her struggle to reconcile her love for her sister with her obsessive desire for her sister's husband, the mythic father of psychoanalysis.
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3 out of 5 stars
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What a Super Ego
- By Mel on 07-12-13
By: Karen Mack, and others
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Midnight Angel
- Stokehursts, Book 1
- By: Lisa Kleypas
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 145
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Story4 out of 5 stars 133
A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord—who must defy society to keep her safe . . . and overcome a tragic past to claim her as his own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Can't finish. Made me cringe.
- By Lillian on 02-23-22
By: Lisa Kleypas
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Revealed
- By: Kate Noble
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 683
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 626
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 625
Phillippa Benning is the unrivaled beauty of the Season. But when another lady challenges her for a marquis's attentions, Phillippa entices him to a secret rendezvous only to stumble upon The Blue Raven, England's most famous spy, lurking at the site of her planned tryst. The Blue Raven has uncovered an enemy plot directed at upcoming society functions, but he's unable to infiltrate London society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really enjoyed this one — terrific listen — ignore the negative reviews
- By Pamela on 08-31-20
By: Kate Noble
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The Forgotten Room
- By: Karen White, Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig
- Narrated by: Morgan Hallett, Susan Bennett
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,131
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,937
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,930
It's 1945: When the critically wounded Captain Cooper Ravenal is brought to a private hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side, young Dr. Kate Schuyler is drawn into a complex mystery that connects three generations of women in her family to a single extraordinary room in a Gilded Age mansion. Who is the woman in Captain Ravenel's portrait miniature who looks so much like Kate? And why is she wearing the ruby pendant handed down to Kate by her mother?
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3 out of 5 stars
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The same story 3 times over...
- By Amazon Customer on 03-30-16
By: Karen White, and others
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Winter Collection
- Six Historical Short Stories (A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 1)
- By: Sarah M. Eden, Heidi Ashworth, Annette Lyon, and others
- Narrated by: Karen Peakes
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 112
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Story4 out of 5 stars 112
Six award-winning authors have contributed brand new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection. A collection unlike any other, listeners will love this compilation of six sweet historical romance novellas, set in varying eras, yet all with one thing in common: Romance.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Winter
- By Manila J. Dobbs on 08-12-23
By: Sarah M. Eden, and others
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The Princess and the Peer
- Princess Brides Series, Book 1
- By: Tracy Anne Warren
- Narrated by: Justine Eyre
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 403
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 368
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Story4 out of 5 stars 366
When a royal summons from her brother arrives, Emma knows it's time to embrace her duties as the princess of a small European kingdom and marry the man her brother has chosen for her, a stranger she has never met. Instead, she does what any self-respecting princess would do - she runs away. All she wants is one week in London. One week to experience everything life has to offer, before she is locked away in a loveless marriage forever. Former naval captain Nick Gregory has inherited a title he never wanted.
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3 out of 5 stars
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GOOD - BUT I THOUGHT BOOK 2 WAS BETTER
- By CAROLYN 🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹🔹 on 12-23-12
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Where Dreams Begin
- By: Lisa Kleypas
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 214
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 215
Zachary Bronson has built an empire of wealth and power. Now he is seeking a wife to help secure his position in the ton...as well as warm his bed in private. But not just any woman will do for one of London's most notorious rakes. When he meets Lady Holly Taylor, he surrenders to the temptation to take her in his arms and kiss her. Yet he's pleasantly surprised to discover her fierce passions match his own.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Duplicate book!
- By E on 06-02-22
By: Lisa Kleypas
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The Perfume Collector
- A Novel
- By: Kathleen Tessaro
- Narrated by: Heather Wilds
- Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,887
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,589
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,574
London, 1955: Grace Monroe is a fortunate young woman. Despite her sheltered upbringing in Oxford, her recent marriage has thrust her into the heart of London's most refined and ambitious social circles. Then one evening a letter arrives from France that will change everything. Grace has received an inheritance. There's only one problem: she has never heard of her benefactor, the mysterious Eva d'Orsey. Told by invoking the three distinctive perfumes she inspired, Eva d'Orsey's story weaves through the decades, from 1920s New York to Monte Carlo, Paris, and London.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Unbearable Narration
- By D McKay on 08-05-15
By: Kathleen Tessaro
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Glamorous Illusions
- Grand Tour Series, Book 1
- By: Lisa T. Bergren
- Narrated by: Jaime Draper
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 72
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 60
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Cora is about to discover who she truly is. It’s the summer of 1913, and Cora Kensington’s life on the family farm has taken a dark turn. Not only are the crops failing, but someone dear to Cora is failing as well. One fateful afternoon, a stranger comes to call, and Cora discovers a terrible secret about her past… a secret that will radically change her future. Cora is invited to take the “Grand Tour” of Europe, a trip intended to finish a person’s education and solidify an understanding of refinement and ancient culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my favorites!
- By Diane Ellingsen on 06-19-17
By: Lisa T. Bergren
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That Scandalous Summer
- Rules for the Reckless, Book 1
- By: Meredith Duran
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
- Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 79
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 74
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Story4 out of 5 stars 75
Raised in scandal, Lord Michael de Grey is convinced that love is a losing gamble - and seduction the only game worth playing. But when duty threatens to trump everything he desires, the only way out is marriage to a woman of his brother’s choosing. Elizabeth Chudderley is delightful, delicious - and distressingly attractive. With such a captivating opponent, Michael isn’t quite sure who is winning the game. How can such passionate players negotiate a marriage of necessity - when their hearts have needs of their own?
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5 out of 5 stars
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I hated for it to end!
- By Libby on 08-05-15
By: Meredith Duran
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
- MJ
- 08-10-10
gosh the story turns and this record is HORRBLE
As for book 4 in the lux series - it is a good tale. However this recording is of the worst quality. It sounds like it was taken from a CD and not well edited.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance3 out of 5 stars
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Story3 out of 5 stars
- Mallory
- 05-24-21
Yikes
I’m not going to go on and on about the books; they’re ok, but I will touch on the narrator quickly. I think Nina Siemaszko has a great narrating style, but the mispronounced words were many and extremely cringe-worthy. Her voice was perfect for these books, but some of the mispronunciations made me groan out loud and took a lot of my attention away from the content of the story.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- DV
- 05-20-18
Good but narrator is awful!
The story is fun but the narrator mispronounces many words!!! It’s painful!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance5 out of 5 stars
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Story4 out of 5 stars
- caitcait
- 02-07-22
The ending..
I loved everything about the storyline up until the last 4 minutes of this book.
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