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The Keeper: Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey

The Bennet Wardrobe, Book 1

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The Keeper: Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey

By: Don Jacobson, a Lady
Narrated by: Amanda Berry
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As Meryton burns, a new character is forged and refined. Love ignites in the fiery ashes and smolders until the couple can be reunited. Mary Bennet spent her life fighting to be herself. If only she knew what that was. For years, trying to be exceptional, she buried her nose in the fusty musings of Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women. With Jane and Elizabeth wed and gone, Mary must find her way as Longbourn’s eldest daughter.

A young woman of deep faith and inquisitive mind waits to unfurl her wings. Even as Miss Bennet overcomes her troubled adolescence, a mysterious man appears on the night of a great calamity. His secret—and her love—grows from a magical cabinet—the Bennet Wardrobe!

About the Wardrobe Series: The Wardrobe sends Bennets on time travel adventures where they can learn what they must. Explore how the Bennet sisters’ love stories echo through time in all eight books. Some doors open to cloaks and bonnets, others to unknown futures.

This book contains a few scenes of physical and sexual violence.

©2017 Donald P. Jacobson (P)2018 Donald P. Jacobson
Classics Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance Time Travel
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A fascinating story with average narration

This is a remarkable story, unusual and interesting. The narrator is adequate but the accents are deeply suspect in places. Despite the less than stellar narration, stick with it and you will find an excellent story.

The attempt at precise RP English results in vowel sounds which are consistently too long for the British ear. All other accents seem to be Irish despite their actual geography.

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Incredible scope handled masterfully

There is a certain lip to get over suspending disbelief and buying into the mythos, but the foreword helps enormously and situates this in a tradition in English fantasy that makes it seem perfectly sensible.

This mental shift out the way, the writer's stately and eloquent but not artificially antiquated prose makes you feel in safe hands. It pulls no punches, the first several scenes are pretty heartbreaking, and I was particularly impressed at how it doesn't shy away from or draw a veil over the horrors of war, as is more common in Austen variations. For me it adds to the sense that this work is more a true saga than a genre piece. Above all, it performs that central function of Austen inspired works: painting her world out to its edges, and her characters and their descendents, associates and antecedents all the way up to the top and bottom of a new, larger canvas. in this case, the entire frontage of Pemberley might not be large enough to support the canvas that Don has painted so masterfully!

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