![]() ![]() ![]() As far as a distinct voice for each character goes – they all sounded like iterations of the narrator’s natural voice. It sounded more like she was reading – which, of course, she was, but I didn’t want to hear it that way. The narrator, Rita Barrington, did a nice enough job, but it didn’t come out as a smooth steady flow of words as you’d picture a conversation. It just makes you feel it all – and the ending – it is one of the saddest things I’ve read. Yes, I know – how can that be? I suppose it really can’t, but what I mean is – the research is so thorough and the writing so well done that you feel as if you are right there in the middle of the battlefield, or that you can actually see that terribly disfigured soldier as he tries to deal with his return to a society who really doesn’t want to see him. I think, for me, this book might have suffered from having the writing be too good. Maybe that one will be less dark and sad. So, I’m going to skip all of those earlier books and perhaps try number eighteen when it comes out. After reading this really sad, heartbreaking book, I read all of the book blurbs on the remainder of the books in the series and I came to the conclusion that Maisie Dobbs had the darkest, saddest life of anyone I’ve ever read. My solution to that was to read this first book in the series and then decide if I wanted to read all of the others. I came into this series by reading book sixteen, The Consequences of Fear, and wanted to know more about how Maisie Dobbs became who she is. ![]()
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