The Hawk and the Heather (Romance Alive)

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Summary: Pride meets prejudice head on!
Review: A lovely modern romance story with a twist of stubbornness.

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Summary: Audio Edition Is Too Abridged and Narration Could Be Better!
Review: I also listened to the audio recording and I agree that the story was fine but I also agree that the narrator's lack of British accents was a bit odd. Why would a company put out British Historicals and Regencies on audiobook and not use a narrator who has a British accent? They should rerelease this and use a British narrator or find someone who knows how to put one on and another thing is that this book has been extremely abridged on this tape, it is only one tape and approximately ninety minutes so though I love listening to audiobooks I also love to read and I would recommend you buy paperback or hardcover editions instead so you will get the full story. Why an unabridged audiobook with a British narrator was never issued I have no idea why!

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Summary: Good story, but why no English accent?
Review: The Hawk and the Heather was a good story and I liked the characters Heather FitzHugh and Tanner Montgomery but I can't give it 5 stars because as it's an audio book recording for a Historical Romance set in Regency England I found it strange that the reader did not use an English accent and had a very American sounding accent so I was disappointed as I felt that a proper English accent would have been more approprate to the atmosphere of the story and I could have visualized the story better! The story is about a young lady named Heather FitzHugh who has an intense dislike for Tanner Montgomery, the Duke of Hawksbury a man she has never met but has mistakenly believed that he caused her family's financial ruin and fall from grace and her father's death and sets out to get revenge by catching Tanner's heart and than breaking it and causing him the embarrassment of society she believes he caused to her family but winds up falling for him instead much to her dismay and soon she is plagued by guilt because of her deception to the man she loves and also feeling guilty because she believes that she is being disloyal to her family by falling in love with their sworn enemy! It really wasn't a bad story but the accent thing made the story less enjoyable than it should have been if they had used an English reader or had this one imitate an English accent.