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I loved the first Maggie Hope audio book and couldn't wait to listen to the next one. Within an hour of listening to Princess Elizabeth's Spy, narrated by Susan Duerden, I felt like I was on an endless roller coaster, with rising and falling intonation like waves on a beach. Every sentence ended exactly the same. When she was doing the men's voices, they were way too loud and abrasive, compared to her voice of female characters or just the narration part in between characters. I found myself cringing each time a male voice came on and if he spoke too long I had to turn it down. Her female voices are lovely, and do not have that up and down intonation. I'm disappointed to hear that she narrates the rest of the books, as I am not sure I can listen to her again. I might have to go back to the Maisie Dobbs series.....a similar type of series, with a wonderful narrator!
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