In Freedom's Cause

my favorite Henty

(2.5 stars)

Clegs

My favorite Henry story, partly because I had ancestors involved in the Battle of Dunbar. Mike Harris is an excellent reader. The next two are fair readers, but the last eight chapters need to be redone as the reader seems to have a speech impediment.

great story...

(4 stars)

gardengirl

I love the story but I'm going to have to read the last part to myself. Not necessarily that miss Gabriel is a bad reader, but I feel that it would be more enjoyable to read it myself.

Great book!

(3.5 stars)

Faith Wild

This book is amazing! I loved it. The first three readers really good, but the last one wasn't the best. I still appreciated her time and effort though. The book is about Scotland's fight for freedom, with lots of exciting adventures in between! This book is extremely well thought out! Everyone should read it!

What a shame!

(2.5 stars)

A Big Henty Fan

A ripping good yarn set around Scotland's struggle for independence. Henty once again presents highly accurate historical research in a very easily understood form. The first reader, Mike Harris, is second to none; his recordings are clear and professional and his voice, with its mellow accent and rounded depths of tone is superb, he could read the ingredients off a ketchup bottle and make them sound interesting and important! Sadly, Mike Harris has one fault, he is so good that all the other readers suffer in comparison, in particular Miss Gabrielle C (the reader of the last few chapters and victorious finale). I think she had just got braces on her teeth or something, you can hear her struggling to speak clearly round them. I have heard Gabrielle on other recordings and she does the same on this one as the others, there is a breathy rush to complete the chapters in the fastest possible time, which completely destroys all the efforts of the author to tell the story with conviction and passion, while the listener has to make a super-human effort to comprehend the barrage of incomprehensible verbiage thrown at them by Gabrielle. I confess, that I was not inclined to put up with her or LibriVox's crass failure to monitor her output; I bailed out before the end. What a shame to spoil such a good book with such a dire presentation!!

It's ok

(3 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

I have to read this book for school and it's really good! The first couple readers I understood and could Nararate about the book. Once I got to the end where Gabrielle C. was reading and I couldn't understand a thing. she was mumbling and I can't understand anything. I wish she would take her time on some of the words instead of rushing through. Please redo these chapters. I'd be fine if Gabrielle C. did it again but it would be nice if she took her time while reading these. I can't understand it anymore and it's made me not wanna listen to this book.

well enjoyed

(3.5 stars)

Waples - Avid listener

the story was well written and really enjoyable as a whole and Henty is quickly becoming a favourite! Unfortunatly i do have to agree with the other reviews the first narrator was excellent and the next 2 did a alright job but due to what sounded like a lisp or some other speech impediment a fair portion of the pronunciation of the last reader was slurred or garbled and unintelligible. She wasnt a bad reader but it was certainly a challenge to understand her and follow the story in her section. Also the third reader mispronouced a fair number of simple words which frustrated listening.

(2 stars)

Slegle

LibriVox, Please review this book. G.A Henty is an amazing author of books that should be read more youth of today, and this book is an exquisite story. That being said Mike Harris is an amazing reader and I don’t think any person could ever complain about his reading skills. But once Mr. Harris’s chapters were over the readers following him slowly get worse. Now anyone reading next to Mr. Harris are over shadowed by his amazing reading skills. The last two readers were a destruction of the telling of this story. The second to last struggled too much with reading mispronouncing everything, but I am sorry Ms. GabrielC your voice is like nails on a chalkboard. I avoid most stories read by her, but ii was interested by this story. It is a shame such a good book like this gets ruined by bad reading. I appreciate Ms. GabrielC’s efforts, but I can’t understand the most important chapters due to this. Can we have another recording of this with only Mike Harris reading. Sorry gabby if you read this but please stop reading on LibriVox.

good but not great….

(3 stars)

Mel

Good story Micah Harris was my favorite reader and when I got to GabrielleC I couldn’t even understand a word and it was very frustrating I wish they would swap out the reader for those last chapters…. I had to start listening to it on Audible instead so…..