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The Toll-Gate

Autor: Georgette Heyer
Czyta: Callum Hughes
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A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre.

Captain John Staple's exploits against Napoleon's armies in the Iberian Peninsula have earned him the nickname 'Crazy Jack' amongst his comrades in the Dragoon Guards - but once the Battle of Waterloo brings the curtain down once and for all on the Napoleonic Wars, the boisterous, adventure-loving captain finds life in peacetime intolerably dull.

When the captain finds himself lost in the Pennines, he takes refuge at an unmanned toll-house. It's there that he encounters a woman of extraordinary qualities - and suddenly, his soldiering days pale away next to the adventure, and the romance of a lifetime....

©1954 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin Audio Historyczne Regencja

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Fast alle Bücher von Georgette Heyer gehören zu meinen Langzeitlieblingen. Diese Hörbuchversion ist gut und kurzweilig gelesen, perfekte Ergänzung zum Buch.

Tolle Hörbuchversion

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Eine meiner vielen Lieblingsgeschichten von Georgette Heyer! Unterhaltsam, amüsant und toll gelesen! Eine absolute Hörempfehlung!

Ich könnte noch stundenlang weiterhören!

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Sehr empfehlenswerte Unterhaltung!
Gute Charakterbeschreibungen aus den verschiedentlichen Volksschichten. Spannend bis zuletzt. Alle eizelgestalten finden ein Happyend, zauberhaft.

Spannend bis zuletzt auf verschiedenen Ebenen

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I don't know why this is being marketed as a Regency romance, because it really isn't. I'd call it a male-focused adventure story with bits of the detective and romance genres mixed in, which happens to take place in the Regency era, but is decidedly a 50s novel. It's a strange mix and I'm not really sure who it is even for. I overall found it an ok read, but I was annoyed and bored by too many things. I was not a fan of the huge amount of 50s-sounding slang (that's I think meant to be humorous but wasn't for me), the way the story focused on the heroic males and didn't give the females anything to do (although the few that existed were set up to be good characters), and the very underdeveloped romance. They fall in love at first sight, they have a strange wedding, the end. The rest is all adventure plot that drags a lot and is rather predictable. I feel like there could have been done so much more with thid setup, these characters and also by this writer, I'm really a bit disappointed. Maybe she wrote other books that I like better, possibly I should give her another try.
The narrator was quite good though!

Strange mixture

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I’ve learned that the narrator has a significant influence on how a story is told. In this case, unfortunately, it drove me to give up on the book.

Georgette Heyer was a brillant author, I decided long ago to buy physical books, reading them once and then what?, they just gathered dust and robbed me from space on my shelves.

The story might be good, narrator not so much

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