Funny, emotional, and satisfying.
Having narrated the first two installments in Hall’s series, it feels like Joe Jameson knows these characters inside out. Luc and Oliver are tiptoeing around the idea of becoming fathers, and it turns out that adopting a puppy has in no way prepared them for the reality of being foster parents to 14-year-old Jasmine. As Jas and Oliver clash, Luc is also trying to save his job after the earl who funded the charity he works for dies. Jameson is completely dialed in, whether he’s navigating fraught discussions between Luc and Oliver, voicing a resentful teenager, or exclaiming “Ruff!” as Spud the dog. His engrossing performance makes the case that audio is the best way to experience this series.
Funny, emotional, and satisfying.Pub Date: June 2, 2026
Duration: 16 hrs, 15 mins
DD ISBN: 9798349101182
Publisher: Dreamscape
Review Posted Online: July 28, 2026
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2026
After her divorce, Roberta Jewett, with her three daughters, returns to Camden, Maine, to start a new life. Such an independent move in 1916 brings difficulties with her mother, her in-laws and the townspeople. Dukes's performance, while skillful, sometimes suffer in scenes of emotional content. His pace slows, and his reading acquires the peculiar emphasis of someone trying to get instructions across to a non-English-speaking person. The effect is disturbingly laughable. When he resumes his normal pace, the story revives and personalities emerge again, but the awkwardness remains as an odd interruption to Spencer's drama of pain and love, dispelling Dukes's carefully constructed characterizations.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Dove
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
A young Southern woman marries into an aristocratic Boston family and spends her summers at a vacation community on the Maine coast. Heavy-handed abridgment reduces this novel to an outline which denies the listener any character development. Judith Ivey offers stereotypical dialects which are discordant to a New Englander's ear. In her interpretation the Down East Mainers speak like thugs in raspy voices. Her presentation of a Boston accent is phonetically erratic and also spoken in gruff tones. The color and flavor of Maine are missing from this tasteless rendition.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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