![]() It got very annoying after a while and I just wanted to shout 'calm the heck down, woman!'. ![]() Even if the lead character was just making a cup of coffee it sounded like the most dramatic/harrowing thing ever. Her delivery - to me at least - felt like she believed she had to tell the entire story with every ounce of her being as though she was delivering an intense Shakespearean soliloquy or something. A good story tells itself and gets helped along by a good narrator. ![]() The female narration was too 'drama school try hard' for me. I just happened to listen to it when I was working through some personal stuff and found it very uncomfortable to think about. That part doesn't take up a lot of the storyline, so if you can handle about 1/4 chapter of it being discussed then you should be fine. I found that massively triggering and probably would've avoided it altogether had I known beforehand. The more you hear his side of things the more it becomes clear why he's so intense, but I wish someone had mentioned that it contains elements of abuse. ![]() That being said though, the male narrator did a very good job - I just found the character he played irritatingly intense and erratic. I've listened to it twice now and was relieved that I knew the story well enough the 2nd time around to be able to skip over the parts where it goes back to 1864. Warning Spoilers: Similarly to some of the other reviewers, I'm not usually a huge fan of time-slip novels and this one was no exception. ![]()
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