![]() ![]() The book takes place over less than two weeks yet feels like it is at least two months. ![]() What, for instance, happened to the blacksmith after his tryst with his equine companion? -My unwillingness to believe that a young man as educated and smart as Matthew would throw away his entire live on a woman he met briefly. Characters that appear and then disappear once they have served their purpose. I don't blame some of the other characters for not taking him seriously. The negatives: -The 30 hours which should have been 20 - at most -Matthew Corbett's repetitive and sanctimonious whining. And that contributes to the negatives because some characters feel like they were there because the author wanted to write about them, not because they were critical to the story. Great character studies of the residents of Fount Royal, even the bad guys. His language is evocative and sucks the reader into the story. I would definitely listen to another of his books. By the time I wanted to stop listening, I had invested so much time into the story I felt I had to see it through The positives: -The narrator, Eduardo Ballerini, does a superb job. I kept forgetting that everything took place in a matter of days, not weeks. Entire chunks of the manuscript could have been deleted and the story would not have suffered. And the drag was compound by the main character becoming a tiresome bore. Started a 5, eased into a 4, slowly sank to a 3įor the first 10 hours I enjoyed this book, then it started to drag. ![]()
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