![]() ![]() She writes complex characters and pays the reader/listener the compliment of allowing us to draw our own conclusions and to discover those complexities ourselves without repeatedly hitting us over the head with clues to point the way. I’m a big fan of Ms Duran’s writing, which is intelligent and lyrical. Given those reservations, I will admit apprehension when I learned that Ms Larkin was to be the narrator of That Scandalous Summer, the first book by Meredith Duran to be made available in audio. While I’ve had some issues with her narratives, for the most part she is successful and her readings are generally well-paced and pleasingly modulated. I’ve also felt that she hasn’t quite caught the right note emotionally in some of the books I’ve listened to. ![]() But her portrayals of the men in the books she narrates have been disappointing, mostly because they haven’t sounded masculine enough and also because there hasn’t been enough differentiation between the protagonists in the story. There’s no doubt that she is a talented performer, especially when it comes to more light-hearted, humorous books and her interpretations of female characters and “character roles” are generally very good. Narrator Alison Larkin has tended to be a bit hit and miss for me. ![]()
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