What Rosie Found Next
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What Rosie Found Next
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Charlie Sanderson
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Narrated by:
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Charlie Sanderson
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Helen J. Rolfe
About this listen
One house, two strangers, one very big secret...
A shaky upbringing has left Rosie Stevens craving safety and security. She thinks she knows exactly what she needs to make her life complete - the stable job and perfect house-sit she’s just found in Magnolia Creek. The only thing she wants now is for her long-term boyfriend, Adam, to leave his overseas job and come home for good.
Owen Harrison is notoriously nomadic, and he roars into town on his Ducati for one reason and one reason only - to search his parents’ house while they’re away to find out what they’ve been hiding from him his entire life. When he meets Rosie, who refuses to quit the house-sit in his parents’ home, sparks fly.
Secrets are unearthed, promises are broken, friendships are put to the test and the real risk of bush fires under the hot Australian sun threatens to undo Rosie once and for all.
Will Rosie and Owen be able to find what they want or what they really need?
Each audiobook in the Magnolia Creek Series can be listened to as a stand-alone:
What Rosie Found Next - audiobook one
The Chocolatier's Secret - audiobook two
The Magnolia Girls - audiobook three
©2015 Helen J. Rolfe (P)2018 W.F. Howes LtdListeners also enjoyed...
Charlie Sanderson is a great narrator who does her job well.
This listen was FREE with the Plus Catalogue included membership and I recommend you listen to this book
A LOVELY LISTEN 3 STARS 🌟🌟🌟
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Heart warming
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lovely story. I just couldn't warm to the narrator. hence the 2 stars for performance.
lovely story
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Pure delight
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What on earth is a Ducarti?
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Brilliant story better to listen than watch TV anytime.
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So boring
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What a brilliant book to listen to if you want an easy listen.
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Other characters are well-drawn and memorable. Plot twists aren't scattered around like chocolate sprinkles but fed in at what feels like an appropriate rate for the length of the piece. Well before the end of the novel, I'd grown to thoroughly like almost all of the characters but don't take that to mean that this work is sickly sweet - it's not. Instead, it deals pretty realistically with how keeping secrets can affect both the keepers and those from whom the information is kept; how family break-up (whether through separation, divorce or death) can affect the psyche of those touched by it and how "settling" for the apparently safe option isn't always the right decision. The only part of the plot that I felt was less than completely believable was the story about Owen's father. Without dropping a spoiler, I found it hard to believe that his story wouldn't already have exploded by the time the events told here take place. Outwith that qualm though, it was a great little book. For readers for whom some erotic element is important, you might want to note that physical action is either brushed over (referred to but not described) or increasingly wished for but with little actual action other than the odd thrilling touch; an occasional (well hidden) physical reaction from the MMC and one passionate kiss which goes no further than to move the plot along.
This audiobook is really let down though by two things. The first is the dreadful editing of the recording. The gaps between the chapter headings and the chapters actually beginning are so long that, on some occasions, I thought the book had failed to download properly and asked my Echo to resume the book. There are other points at which a chapter stops so abruptly that, again, I thought there had been a download failure or that the editing had cut off a word or two. Watch out also for the playback speed when you commence listening. This is the only audiobook I have EVER started which began by playing at two and a half times normal speed. All of those failures are down to poor editing of the audio footage.
What's even worse though is the dreadful narration. Unlike another reviewer, I didn't find the narrator's voice "whiney" but it was completely wrong for the book. Rosie is a diminutive; caring; wounded woman but a determined character. Owen is a tough giant; a good-time guy; a successful self-made man but with the heart of a gentleman. The narrator's voice suits neither. Nor does the narrator understand how to read prose in such a way that emphasis is used in the appropriate places. It's either not used at all (when it should be) or it's placed on the wrong words or phrases in a sentence. That left me, as a listener, often scrabbling to make sense of what I'd just heard - very unsatisfactory as a listening experience. The narrator repeats the same offence by occasionally managing to mangle words in the same way, emphasising the wrong syllable. Poor use or lack of emphasis can ruin a reading and it did exactly that for me in this work. Coupled with the odd mispronunciation of some words ("ducarti" has been commented on in other reviews but it's not the only example) and you have a recipe for a colourless reading with very little authentic flavour. There's no excuse for mistreating a decent plot in this way and Audible should not have allowed this to slip through the net.
So, overall, a good story which I finished listening to only because I was invested in the characters and what happened to them. If you can get past the dire quality of the narration and the editing of it, it's otherwise a little gem. Whilst I'll look for other works by the author, I'll think more than twice if they're read by the same narrator.
Great story, dreadful narration.
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Quite good easy reading story
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