Lovely story, poor choice of narrator.

As with many translations some content was not as strong but overall the story was lovely. However, the choice of the narrator made it almost impossible to enjoy.

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Decent tale, terrible narrator

I think this story is pretty good. I found the early parts engaging, although the latter bits got less so, as the events in Lisbon played out. I found that part fairly un-credible. My impression of the story had to be filtered, though, through a truly awful narration - the first narration on Audible I've found that wasn't an addition to the story. I'm not going into details, but there were multiple mispronunciations of words, frequent oddities of emphasis, an apparent lack of comprehension of what she was reading, and, most irritatingly, so many glaringly obvious "patches" (where a word, phrase, or sentence is re-recorded and punched into the previous recording to repair an error). It was something of a nightmare, although I did slog through to the bitter end, so I guess the story was pretty good after all.

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