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The Winemaker's Wife
- Narrated by: Robin Eller, Lisa Flanagan, Madeleine Maby
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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- George West
- 2019-09-07
Terrible Audio
I’m an avid user of Audible. Thus far I’ve been pleasantly surprised at the voice work on the books I’ve selected. The Winemakers Wife, however, has the worst performance I’ve heard yet.
The woman in the role of Inés sounds like she is reading a children’s book. Her voice is so jarring that it distracts from the story. Very disappointing.
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- Joanne
- 2020-07-01
The narration unconvincing, accents distracting
I found the narration, sadly unconvincing. The attempted accents were a distraction from the story.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-06-10
Meh
This could have been so much more enjoyable to listen to had the narrator not used such awful voices for certain characters. The high- pitched whining of Inez was almost unbearable at times and the over-the-top French accents took away from being able to fall into the story as they were so distracting.
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- Mimics
- 2020-06-04
Loved the story line
Although I loved the story line I found the narrators hard to listen to and thus it took away from the story.
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- Wendy S.
- 2023-10-13
Overall a good book
I feel like the Narrators were overall good , just in the stressful times I felt them too pushed and pitchy. But still enjoyed their performances overall!
Thank you for the book ❤️
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- Christine O'Connor-Cartier
- 2022-09-02
Disappointing
I e read other work by Kristen so this surprised me a little. There was some interesting history thrown in but the characters and the paths they followed in both present day and WWII were very predictable. Also, so many cliche expressions it was irritating. The story was fine but it could have been done better.
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- Cat
- 2021-04-14
The last few chapters are the interesting part
I really liked The Room on Rue Amelie and was looking forward to this book by the same author. I found it to be quite difficult to get into. The characters are pretty one dimensional - the mid life crisis divorcée, the young naive, the rich old lady, the perfect man etc.
The protagonists are unlikable - one is whining too much, another is just so useless and naive and the other is very principled until she is not.
The “French” accent from Celine’s point of view is quite bad, it’s more a combination of German and oriental than French.
The language is quite poor and dry, some expressions are overused like “you must understand” or “hugging the shadows”. And the dialogues are too long and leading nowhere for the most part.
The end of the book is pretty good though, but the book could have done with 80% less words. It’s like the author had a good idea for a short story and the editor insisted to turn it into a longer novel...
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-03-13
Great Story, Distracting Narration
This is a wonderful story that brings an important element of WW2 to life. Some of the narration is distracting due to the narrators poor imitation of a French accent.
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- Winifred Blades
- 2021-02-11
Good story,difficult as audio
I stopped listening and went out and purchased the book
Enjoyed the story but found the narration difficult. Could not tell which accents were meant to be German and which French. Found it contrived and overdone
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- Jenn
- 2021-01-13
Well done
I love when I can't figure out the ending halfway through! Narration was good as well.
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- Diane
- 2019-08-20
The narration was like nails on a chalkboard!
The story was great but the narration was so awful, I kept having to put it down for a bit. One of the main characters sounds and behaves like a surly teenager - I was shocked when it turned out that she was supposed to be 41.
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- Renee Strickland
- 2020-03-03
Poor reading of unlikeable characters
The bizarre half-French and whiny American accents were jarring. If you have to endure this book, read it for yourself instead.
But I do not recommend the book. The plot is transparent, the characters are uniformly unlikeable, and the decision to switch between current day and WW2 every other chapter was forced. I drank a coupe of champagne at the end just to toast that I would never spend another moment on this book.
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- readalot
- 2019-08-27
More of a romance novel than historical fiction
If I were Kristin Hannah (The Nightingale) or Kate Quinn (The Alice Network), I'd be insulted that this book stands on the success of those fantastic novels and tries to put itself in the same category. This is nothing but a romance novel, and a weak one at that. I could only listen to half of it - 5 ½ hours of my life I can't get back. The narrating was so annoying - all 3 narrators were subpar - but perhaps its because the writing was so juvenile.
Seriously, the cover should have a shirtless man on the cover with a great chest like other cheesy romance novels do.
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- Nancy
- 2019-09-03
Mixed Feelings
The story line was good, but would have been so much better with a stronger female lead. Why do writers insist on making women stupid? I know no one who would have reacted as this dumb girl did. It is just not believable. I finished the book hoping to find out more about the main character, but just not much. Very disappointed.
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- Sarah Centrella
- 2019-11-25
Disappointing and predictable
I was disappointed by this book, the timelines were inconsistent in places and the story was too predictable and cliche. But what was most annoying was the narrators, the one who read the Celine character was unbearable, and the Olivia narrator wasn’t any better.
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- Collin
- 2021-09-03
Narrators were difficult
I enjoyed the book but had a difficult time getting over the fake French accents and girlish tones
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- StaceyLinnette
- 2019-09-06
Unexspected surprise
Im new to this author and enjoyed this end of summer treat. The book was filed with war love sacrifice and tragedy, ill not ruin the story for You but the last chapters pierced my heart and a few tears of joy and sorrow fell
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- paula wright
- 2019-09-06
This story proves blood is not always thicker than water
What a great story. It tells of the cruelty of the nazis and how they devastated captured territory. It tells of foolish immature young adults and decisions they make can have far reaching consequences. Also the goodness of many people during the war and self sacrifice and courage two interwoven stories. Generations apart of love hate revenge redemption. A credit well worth it
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- grace m hough
- 2019-09-05
fabulous
great characters. just when you think you know what's going on it takes a spin. kept me coming back to find out what happens next. Nice wrapped up ending but leaves some play for a 2nd book.
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- Nordic Artisan
- 2023-06-15
Wow! Amazing!
This book is a deep, “page turner.” It has so much IRONY! There is so much for someone philosophical to ponder! I LOVED this book and could not stop listening! I love the way the author brings the present and past together!
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