Pressley’s considerable talents will captivate listeners.
Alternating timelines tell the love story of Mars and West, wonderfully performed by the talented Brittany Pressley. Told from Mars’ point of view, the audiobook follows the couple from their first meeting as college freshmen in a creative writing class to 10 years after their messy breakup, when they both return to the university, now popular published authors, to participate in a book festival. With her versatile skills, Pressley brings the characters to life, capturing their personalities and voices and expressing the depth of their emotions. Listeners will hear Mars’ confusion over her feelings for West in the present day, and their growing friendship and love during their college years.
Pressley’s considerable talents will captivate listeners.Pub Date: April 7, 2026
Duration: 10 hrs, 41 mins
DD ISBN: 9798217282722
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Review Posted Online: May 12, 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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