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Homeport
- Written by: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Erika Leigh
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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3 out of 5 stars
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Found the female character annoying
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Written by: Nora Roberts
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Carolina Moon
- Written by: Nora Roberts
- Narrated by: Dean Robertson
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- Unabridged
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended.
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Northern Lights
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- Narrated by: Gary Littman
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- Unabridged
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story! Awesome narrator!
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Written by: Nora Roberts
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Three Fates
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love the book, but pronunciation counts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nora Roberts rarely disappoints
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The Search
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3 out of 5 stars
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slow moving 😴
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Homeport
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
After an assault at her family home in Maine, Dr. Miranda Jones is determined to put the experience behind her. Distraction comes when she is summoned to Italy - to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze of a Medici courtesan known as The Dark Lady. But instead of cementing Miranda’s reputation as the leading expert in the field, the job nearly destroys it when her professional judgment is called into question.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Found the female character annoying
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Carolina Moon
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 73
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic story! Awesome narrator!
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Three Fates
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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4 out of 5 stars
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Love the book, but pronunciation counts.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Nora Roberts rarely disappoints
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3 out of 5 stars
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slow moving 😴
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3 out of 5 stars
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Pretty good
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Lawless
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Half Apache and all man, Jake Redman was more than a match for the wild Arizona Territory. Sarah Conway, on the other hand, was an Eastern lady who belonged anywhere else but on the rugged land Jake loved. But beneath Sarah's ladylike demeanor beat the heart of a true pioneer, a woman he yearned to make his own.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just romance
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Whiskey Beach
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For more than 300 years, Bluff House has sat above Whiskey Beach, guarding its shore - and its secrets. But to Eli Landon, it’s home.… A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public scrutiny and police investigations after being accused of - but never arrested for - the murder of his soon-to-be-ex wife. He finds sanctuary at Bluff House, even though his beloved grandmother is in Boston recuperating from a nasty fall. Abra Walsh is always there, though.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A bit disappointing for a Nora Roberts
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River's End
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Olivia’s parents were among Hollywood’s golden couples - until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father... Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror - but her recurring nightmares make her realize she must piece together the real story. Now, assisted by Noah Brady, the son of the police detective who found her cowering in her closet so many years before, she may have her chance.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Frustrated w Weak Women
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At 25, Princess Adrianne lives a life most people would envy. Beautiful and elegant, she spends her days dabbling in charities and her nights floating from one glamorous gala to the next. But her pampered-rich-girl pose is a ruse, a carefully calculated effort to hide a dangerous truth. For 10 years Adrianne has lived for revenge. As a child, she could only watch the cruelty hidden behind the facade of her parents' fairy-tale marriage. Now she has the perfect plan to make her famous father pay.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Wrong narrator
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Chasing Fire
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Little else in life is as dangerous as fire jumping. Flying past towering pillars of smoke, parachuting down to the edge of an all-consuming blaze, shoveling and sawing for hours upon hours, days at a time, all to hold the line and push back against the raw power of Mother Nature. But there’s also little else as thrilling - at least to Rowan Tripp. The Missoula smoke jumpers are one of the most exclusive firefighting squads in the nation, and the job is in Rowan’s blood: her father is a legend in the field. She’s been fighting fires since her eighteenth birthday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great story
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Montana Sky
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When Jack Mercy died, he left behind a ranch worth nearly twenty million dollars. Now his three daughters - each born of a different mother, and each unknown by the others - are gathered to hear the reading of the will. But the women are shocked to learn that before any of them can inherit, they must live together on the ranch for one year.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Poorly researched and laughably predictable...
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Tribute
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Finally out of the celebrity spotlight and away from her mother's demands, Cilla is free to do what she loves: fixing up houses for profit. Her current project is personal. The Shenandoah Valley farm house was once the vacation home of Hollywood luminary Janet Hardy, Cilla's grandmother. When Cilla uncovers a stash of her grandmother's private letters, and begins asking questions about the past, she becomes the target of a crazed killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An excellent story
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Divine Evil
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Sculptor Clare Kimball has captured the attention of the New York art world. But big-city success cannot burn away the half-remembered nightmares that have plagued Clare since childhood. These phantoms of the past have drawn her home to Emmitsboro, Maryland, to the small town where she grew up and where her father died in circumstances never really explained.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not great.
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Identity
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Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Suspenseful
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Black Hills
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A summer at his grandparents' South Dakota ranch is not 11-year-old Cooper Sullivan's idea of a good time. But things are a bit more bearable now that he's discovered the neighbor girl, Lil Chance, and her homemade batting cage. Even horseback riding isn't as awful as Coop thought it would be. Each year, with Coop's annual summer visit, their friendship deepens from innocent games to stolen kisses, but there is one shared experience that will forever haunt them: the terrifying discovery of a hiker's body.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not great
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Written by: Nora Roberts
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Sanctuary
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Photographer Jo Ellen Hathaway thought she'd escaped the house called Sanctuary long ago. She'd spent her loneliest years there, after the sudden, unexplained disappearance of her mother. Yet the sprawling inn on an island off the Georgia coast continues to haunt her dreams. And now, even more haunting are the pictures someone is sending her: strange close-ups and candids, culminating in the most shocking portrait of all - a photo of her mother - naked, beautiful, and dead.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Speed reading!
- By Jan Pattison on 2020-11-17
Written by: Nora Roberts
Publisher's Summary
Determined to restore Manet Hall to its former splendor, Declan begins the daunting renovation room by room, relying on his own labor and skills. But the days spent in total isolation in the empty house take a toll. He is seeing visions of days from a century past, and experiencing sensations of terror and nearly unbearable grief - sensations not his own, but those of a stranger. Local legend has it that the house is haunted, and with every passing day Declan's belief in the ghostly presence grows.
Only the companionship of the alluring Angelina Simone can distract him from the mysterious happenings in the house, but Angelina too has her own surprising connection to Manet Hall - a connection that will help Declan uncover a secret that's been buried for a hundred years.
What the critics say
"To add to the pleasure, tastefully choreographed, highly erotic lovemaking scenes are seamlessly woven into a novel that exemplifies storytelling at its finest." ( Booklist)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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Performance2 out of 5 stars
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- Kierstyn
- 2018-09-18
Great story, poor narration
I loved the book but almost quit listening a few times because the narrator was driving me crazy. The accents were not as good as most books that I have listened to and I found it took away from the story. #Audible1
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Meave
- 2018-09-13
Reincarnation, Romance & Mystery
#Audible1 Midnight Bayou is a feel good romance and mystery about reincarnation and ghosts in Louisiana. The lead character is Declan Fitzgerald, a handsome, wealthy lawyer from Boston that left his career and moved to the Bayou's. Declan buys a rundown mansion near New Orleans called Manet Hall and becomes fascinated by the house and it's history. While restoring the mansion Declan hears music, unexplainable noises and he has visions. Declan meets a beautiful, Cajun woman ( Angelina Simone) and set his mind that he's going to marry her. Angelina is stubborn and refuses to believe Declan can truly love her when so many men have left her the morning after. The story includes history, mystery, humor and most of all lots of surprises!.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Sabrina
- 2023-08-02
I love Nora but this one was … okay
First off, SA warning in the first part of the book.
Second… the story was pretty good. It’s not one of Nora Roberts’ best books but definitely not bad. I listen to all of it. I like the supernatural parts of the book. The ending is a little lacking.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Louise C.
- 2020-12-07
Great all around
Really enjoyed this audible.loved the voices and laughed out loud several times. Fun story,moved fast but didn't feel rushed
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Missy Vee Elle
- 2019-05-01
Great full I bought this on a sale
Very disappointing. Storyline was just ok, nothing very interesting. James did a great job as Decklen but awful as Angelina. It was a cross between a German accent and an Irish accent. Much better Nora Roberts out there.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Donna Hartley
- 2018-09-09
loved it
great storyline with engaging characters. a great read overall. would definitely recommend it to my friends
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Christine Dunning
- 2018-08-04
bauou
loved this book great love h vary compassionate and sexy family adventurous just love np
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 2018-07-04
enjoyed
I enjoyed the narration but was disappointed when it was over. i wanted to know more of the characters story.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Brad
- 2013-12-10
A Nora Roberts Review By A Guy
This novel came up in one of Audible’ s special sales. It sounded interesting to me, a Boston attorney comes to bayou area outside New Orleans buying a huge Southern mansion and doing the restoration/renovation mostly himself, rebounding from a broken engagement and finding love. Embodied in this was a parallel story at the turn of the century involving a murder in this home and various spirits (ghosts) that were active in this long-abandoned plantation home, and the obligatory love story, both past and present and very connected. So far, so good.
As a male reader of mostly history/nonfiction and detective/thriller novels, this had some excellent elements to get me engaged. First, the story is somewhat complex as the characters from the past are highly correlated to the characters in the present. There is a lot of ghost activity, flashbacks and paranormal events. Nora Roberts demonstrates authority on the process of restoration which was interesting.
Suffice it to say, this story leaves the concrete world and heads somewhere else. The characters are well-developed and interesting. The couple is compelling, complex and interesting whole people. My only quibble comes at the end, when too many things happen and there is parallel story running simultaneously; that got me into disbelief quickly. Would you say yes to marry someone that had lost his mind/gender periodically?
Things happen with much purpose and everything means something, so there is a bit of rush as everything has to be neatly resolved. I recommend this book as excellent entertainment. Nora Roberts writes a novel with strong characters, a great plot and wonderful information and dialog.
So, from a man's perspective, this is worth the time and money. It was escapism at its best.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Phyllis S Mike
- 2013-01-18
Not the Norm
I read it twice now. The two things I enjoyed most are:
1 - The characters get together early. It's not the typical cat and mouse game.
2 - The evil is revealed in the very first chapter of the book but the twists in the plot kept me keenly interested. The second time I read it I picked up a lot that I missed the first time. I'm sure I'll read it a third time.
Truly delightful. I typically love the characters in Nora Roberts books and this is no different.I consider this story a very pleasant escape from reality.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Houston mom
- 2012-11-03
Nice, gripping story without all the violence
This is one of my favorites so far, and I've listened to dozens of her books. It was nice to simply be trying to figure out what happened in the past vs. constantly looking over your shoulder, wondering when the ubiquitous killer was going to attack one of the main characters. Sandra Burr is always a great narrator, and I enjoyed James Daniels. There was never any question which character was speaking. I also enjoyed the little twist at the end that I didn't see coming. This one goes on my "listen again" list.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Maria
- 2013-05-15
What's done in the dark will come to the light.
This story switches back n forth between the past (dead) owners of the house and the new Yankee owner. I was hooked from the beginning with the back story, it is so interesting how the snooty elite got away with murder, and the lies they told were never questioned, simply because of who they were. Enter the Bostonian, who has given up his lucrative law practice to buy a decrepit plantation and begins to restore it to its former glory. The evil presents its immediately, however our Yankee isn't too easily scared off, besides he has the lovely Angelina Simone to keep him centered.
This story is classic Nora, and kept me interested. Will it win a Pulitzer? NAW!! But for pure entertainment it was great.
It was worth a credit for me.
Now for the Narrators, they were fantastic. I enjoyed their performance and will listen to them again. Well done.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Mindy
- 2013-12-07
Cringe-Worthy Sex Scenes
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Maybe for a laugh at the sex scenes - book itself is just ok
Was Midnight Bayou worth the listening time?
Yes, since I got it for a cheaper price - but I think I would have been disappointed if I had wasted a credit on it.
Any additional comments?
If you are bothered by bad accents and extremely repetitive words, stay away. Specifically, the main character who describes herself as Cajun is voiced with a slight Irish brogue and the author uses "cher" constantly as a form of affection. When I mean constant, it seems it's in just about every other sentence.
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- PJPackwood
- 2014-01-11
Cajun accent?
The story was pretty good. A little too "romantic" for me but it was okay. The only problem, to me, was when the narrator attempted to speak with a Cajun accent it sounded more like an Irish accent :)
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- Camden
- 2012-12-28
A story of mystery and history - addicting
What made the experience of listening to Midnight Bayou the most enjoyable?
Absolutely addictive. You can't get enough. You want to know where the ghosts are and who they are and what happened and why amid the story of the "today" characters who are trying to find out the same. It's not scary. It's just perfectly mixed with today and yesterday.
Who was your favorite character and why?
Decklon (spelling?). He is the main character aside from the female side kick. He exhibits great characteristics - stubborness, softness, understanding, patience, curiosity and perseverance.
He rebuts his family's drive to be an attorney and makes a life for himself in the middle of the Bayou although he has no idea what made him just dump everything...something is pulling him and I like that he is perfectly unfolded like a creative puzzle.
Which scene was your favorite?
I love the scene where you finally discover what the historical brothers did to one another and why. It unveils a terrible history of the home and helps you understand why Decklon was drawn to it.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes - in fact I think I did it in four sittings.
Any additional comments?
This story is so beautiful it saddened me it was not part of a trilogy...truly addictive.
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- Maggie Mac
- 2013-03-12
Roberts Has Done It Again.
Books by Nora Roberts usually have a good storyline, with a thread of romance running through. But the story takes precedence, unlike some so-called 'womens' fiction, which has one romantic (?) scene after another, held together by a thin thread of a storyline.
Roberts has a tremendous sense of 'place', which is one of the best, and most outstanding, features of her books. She makes her settings come alive, as the story develops. I admire the amount of research she does prior to developing a story. It brings the listener/reader to the location, building a word picture of where we are. I wonder if she writes 'on location'? That certainly would allow for the detailed sense of 'place'.
Midnight Bayou is a trip to the deep south, the remnants of the 'old-school' life, with a parallel story ... a flash-back theme ... which helps 'flesh out' the details of what is taking place in the present. This is Cajun/Acadian country, and they become a large part of the story.
James Daniels and Sandra Burr continue a smooth narration, which allows the listener to become immersed in the story ... and in the deep south.
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- Menon
- 2013-05-14
Amazing Read!!
I absolutely loved this book!!! It was filled with intrigue, mystery, love, passion and just the right amount of humor to warm your heart. I loved they way Sandra Burr did the before version and James Daniels the present day version. Both have wonderful voices. I've always loved Nora Roberts and this is definitely one of her better works, though I thought the end was a tad bit rushed.
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- Leesa
- 2014-01-04
Love the Twisted Story
I loved the mystery and the elements introduced into this haunted love story. I wish it would of ended a little more detailed but for the price it was a great deal. It is a credit well spent. I enjoyed this ride.
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