Bright Skies

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Summary: The book is fine, but the audio version is a disappointment!
Review: I still surprise myself that I can generally enjoy Emilie Loring books and have bought all of the recent hardcovers to ensure that I have them to pass on to my hoped-for granddaughters. The dialogue, with frequent diversions about the "sunny frocks" or "gold-tipped eyelashes" still hold some strange appeal for me. However, the charm of Bright Skies, a sweetly romantic story with a mystery, all coming together in very upper-class, genteel Hawaii, was utterly ruined by the comletely mis-cast reader on the audio version. I don't know his age, but he reads like an older man might, substituting strange speech habits and tones to delineate between characters. Particularly frustrating for a mid-fifties reader, was the fact that he read the parts of mid-40's Sally Shaw (the parent-figure aunt) and her long-lost beau, an Army General in his early fifties, as though they were doddering old geezers.

Every ounce of romance, potential sensuality (after marriage of course), personality and character, was left out of the audio version. The reader, James something-or-other (I dumped this audio version at the used book store as quickly as possible, so I don't have it to reference his name) sounded bored with the entire process. So, read the books and give Fran and her Colonel voices from your own imagination. But don't rely on the audio version to do it for you.

Rating:
Summary: The book is fine, but the audio version is a disappointment!
Review: Talk about a mix-up!!! Pat, a Red Cross nurse's aid working in Hawaii shortly after WWII, meets Cam, an Army major who is in Hawaii on a secret military mission. Two years previously, Pat and Cam had been engaged after a whirlwind romance, but Pat suddenly disappeared. Pat is now practically engaged to her Aunt's very rich, very influential brother-in-law. A mystery, an angry red-head, stolen diamonds, and numerous misunderstandings abound in this delightful novel as Pat and Cam chase a nondescript black briefcase (reputed to contain a million dollars belonging to the U.S. government) through High Society on the Islands

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Summary: A mystery, a red-head, and stolen diamonds
Review: Talk about a mix-up!!! Pat, a Red Cross nurse's aid working in Hawaii shortly after WWII, meets Cam, an Army major who is in Hawaii on a secret military mission. Two years previously, Pat and Cam had been engaged after a whirlwind romance, but Pat suddenly disappeared. Pat is now practically engaged to her Aunt's very rich, very influential brother-in-law. A mystery, an angry red-head, stolen diamonds, and numerous misunderstandings abound in this delightful novel as Pat and Cam chase a nondescript black briefcase (reputed to contain a million dollars belonging to the U.S. government) through High Society on the Islands