This audiobook, narrated by Gisela Chípe and André Santana, features best friends Javi and Mari, who find themselves in a complicated situation. Years ago, they made a pact to approve each other's partner, but now Mari is engaged to a man Javi hasn't vetted. What's more, he secretly loves her. As Javi scrambles to stop the wedding, the tension between the pair builds in this heartfelt friends-to-lovers rom-com. Chípe brings Mari to life with vibrant energy and personality, while Santana delivers Javi's lines with charm and emotional depth. Their distinct voices and nuanced performances capture the humor, longing, and emotional weight of the story. The dynamic between the narrators adds depth to the chemistry, making this audiobook both immersive and truly engaging.
Pub Date: 2025
Duration: 11 hrs, 15 mins
DD ISBN: 9798217076598
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Review Posted Online: yesterday
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:
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Dove
Review Posted Online: yesterday
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:
Duration: 3 hrs
Publisher: Harper Audio
Review Posted Online: yesterday
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