
Ambush or Adore
A Delightfully Deadly Novel
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Narrated by:
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Emma Newman
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By:
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Gail Carriger
About this listen
London’s best and most covert spy tries to escape the man who has always adored her.
New York Times best-selling author Gail Carriger brings you a charming story of enduring love set in her popular Parasolverse, narrated by Emma Newman.
Intelligencer
Agatha Woosmoss, the Wallflower, is the greatest intelligencer of her generation. And no one knows she exists. She has been invisible, capable, and cunning for well over four decades. Her greatest skill is in her ability to go forever unnoticed. Except by one man.
Versus Intellectual
Pillover Plumleigh-Teignmott is a professor of ancient languages at Oxford University. He’s tried to ignore his training as an evil genius and live a quiet life away from politics and intrigue.
When an assignment goes horribly wrong, Agatha must hide and heal. So she goes to ground with the only person who’s always kept her safe: Pillover.
Can Pillover hold on to the deadly woman who specializes in getting away? Will Agatha realize that patience is indeed a virtue, and that perhaps it is good to be noticed by the one who waits?
Spinning off from Miss Gail’s Finishing School series, this story stands on its own and spans decades, but was written after Defy or Defend. May contain vampires, old injuries, lost love, and the reappearance of many favorite characters. If you like gruff but caring men with secret sorrows and the tough smart women they love, you’ll also enjoy How to Marry a Werewolf, also narrated by Emma.
©2021 Gail Carriger LLC (P)2021 Gail Carriger LLCone of my go too authors
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Delightful
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That brings me to the narrator. I know that Emma Newman is Ms Carriger's preferred narrator and I also know that I don't fully understand the murky world of how narrators are imposed on authors and the lack of contact permitted between the two. BUT, Emma Newman's narration just doesn't work for me at all. It's too flat, with too little distinction between characters and tends to sound like the narrator is really rather bored, which is a shame. Many times i've zoned out - not just on this book but others with the same narrator - only to have to rewind several times to pick up the narrative. Accents also don't work for me and as others have noted, the difference in pronunciation of names compared to previous books is jarring. If I hadn't bought them in audio format already I would be avoiding the next three and picking them up in print instead.
Sorry this isn't more positive - I really wanted to love it but the combination made that hard. I won't be returning it, but unlike some of the other titles in the series I doubt this one will be a repeat listen.
Slightly disappointed
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