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khorrocks 's review for:
The Secret of the India Orchid
by Nancy Campbell Allen
A murder, missing children, espionage, and a love story - all set in Colonial India. I think this book was trying to do too many things - so it didn't do any of them successfully.
To be honest, I think my review has been tainted by the narration (see additional notes below). At some points I tuned out the reading because it was so annoying. However, it did feel like nothing really happened in the first half of the book - it was mostly just awkward exchanges between the two main characters.
Audiobook notes: If one is producing an audiobook that is set in British India, it is typically helpful to have a narrator who has a British accent - rather than, say, a Canadian one. The narrator is gifted with accents, but her main accent is overly done and comes across as pompous. Not something I want to listen to for eight hours. The thing is, many of her character voices were perfectly nice. Her main character was just... ugh.
To be honest, I think my review has been tainted by the narration (see additional notes below). At some points I tuned out the reading because it was so annoying. However, it did feel like nothing really happened in the first half of the book - it was mostly just awkward exchanges between the two main characters.
Audiobook notes: If one is producing an audiobook that is set in British India, it is typically helpful to have a narrator who has a British accent - rather than, say, a Canadian one. The narrator is gifted with accents, but her main accent is overly done and comes across as pompous. Not something I want to listen to for eight hours. The thing is, many of her character voices were perfectly nice. Her main character was just... ugh.