The Midnight Queen
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May Agnes Fleming
(3,905 Sterne; 58 Bewertungen)
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)
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Elly May
(3 Sterne)
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!!
couldn't get past second reader! Alas!
(1 Sterne)
First comment Readers
Clearspace
(4 Sterne)
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
benefitsingers
(5 Sterne)
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
Jenny Louise Johansson
(1 Sterne)
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
dahszil
(0 Sterne)
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...
lanternland
(0 Sterne)
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 Sterne)
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.