The Midnight Queen


Read by LibriVox Volunteers

(3.9 stars; 58 reviews)

May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously.
The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the soothsayer "La Masque" who shows him the vision of a beautiful young lady. Falling madly in love with her, he is astonished to find her only a short time later and saves her from being buried alive. He takes her home to care for her, but while he fetches a doctor, she disappears. Sir Kingsley and his friend Ormistan embark on an adventure to solve the mystery of the young lady - will they ever find her again? (Summary by Availle) (9 hr 23 min)

Chapters

01 - The Sorceress 26:20 Read by Annika Feilbach
02 - The Dead Bride 25:18 Read by Becca B
03 - The Court Page 17:51 Read by Jessi
04 - The Stranger 19:20 Read by Rayne
05 - The Dwarf and the Ruin 20:08 Read by Jessi
06 - La Masque 25:47 Read by Becca B
07 - The Earl's Barge 22:21 Read by Nienke
08 - The Midnight Queen 21:30 Read by Linda Ferguson
09 - Leoline 35:00 Read by Becca B
10 - The Page, the Fires, and the Fall 25:26 Read by Jessi
11 - The Execution 25:19 Read by Nienke
12 - Doom 24:29 Read by Jessi
13 - Escaped 11:53 Read by Dorlene Kaplan
14 - In the Dungeon 38:33 Read by Dorlene Kaplan
15 - Leoline's Visitors 22:55 Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
16 - The Third Vision 30:13 Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
17 - The Hidden Face 22:02 Read by Becca B
18 - The Interview 26:37 Read by MaryAnn
19 - Hubert's Whisper 21:52 Read by Grace Dobson
20 - At the Plague-Pit 31:40 Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
21 - What Was Behind the Mask 30:28 Read by Jessi
22 - Day Dawn 24:00 Read by Melanie
23 - Finis 14:51 Read by Larry Caplan

Reviews


(3 stars)

Oh dear. Once again a good adventure /romance was ruined for me by the poor readers struggling manfully with the English language which was not their natural one. In some cases galloping on through difficult words so that the sentence made no sense at all. But if you have endless patience, this is a good story.

Great first reader! Second was TERRIBLE!!


(1 stars)

First comment Readers


(4 stars)

Historical Fiction. A number of readers who read are very kind to volunteer, however many have accents so strong that they need to slow their words down rather than swallow them and contract them so fast that it is impossible to follow the story. As with many English as a Foreign language readers some humility is needed to make themselves comprehensible. Sorry to say this. The overconfidence without prior homework to look up the meanings of some words and check some pronunciations is a fault of many of Librivox volunteers. British place names wrongly pronounced is one easily remedied by having the humility to Google them. In this tale only one place name, Southwark, which is not pronounced South-waark, but Suthuk, strange as that may seem. There is no excuse with Internet checks available to all, for the volunteer readers, including American readers who seem never to check, to read a British located tale with British place-names correctly pronounce. Place-names ending in 'borough' for example. Look it up.

Part Fairy Tale part Mystery


(5 stars)

This story really has it all. It is like a macabre fairy tale. I do think the characters must have had 7 league boots since they seemed to almost transport themselves from one location to another very quickly. The story is really entertaining and you will think you have it all figured out only to find out you don't. A very entertaining and enjoyable story. Some narration is better than others. This did feature one of my favorites Lars Rolander but his mike had some kind of reverb, which was odd. I just love love his voice though.

A classic romantic adventure story


(1 stars)

and I have to agree that the second reader was bad. Really bad. Another later reader had a delightful german accent easily understood but the hurried style of reader 2 stumbling over words and replacing feeling with volume was quite trying. Didnt manage to finish.

First clip, wonderful reader is Annika Feilbach


(0 stars)

I just started listening. The first female reader's voice is a mixture of the lanquid, articulate, lovely, distinguished and when needs be, emotional. I love her british(and perhaps a hint of the continent) or rare Aussie accent without the snarl and whine.

Intriguing book, but...


(0 stars)

I never like to say anything bad about Librivox readers, but I just couldn't manage this one even though the book sounded very intriguing. Annika Feilbach, please do a solo reading of it instead of only the first chapter!


(4 stars)

There were a lot of readers. Some were significantly better than others, and it detracted from the book itself. The book is silly and fun, so bad it's good, and having fewer readers would have helped a lot.