I've been listening to Victorian novels this year and I'm loving them. I recently hit a snag, though, with a Thomas Hardy* novel,
A Pair of Blue Eyes, read by Anna Bentinck. She was awful. She made the female protagonist sound like a ninny and the male sound like a dolt. I persevered until about the 15% point and I hated it so much I gave up. I plan to read the rest of the novel and it's already so much better.
*This is Hardy's first novel published under his own name. Hardy is so depressing; nothing could get me to re-read Jude or Tess, but I'm hoping his despair wasn't so great early on.