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The Time of Our Lives

By: Portia MacIntosh
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford
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Summary

Love is in the air?

Luca is used to being the ‘single one’ at weddings - it happens, when all your other friends are engaged, married or taken. But when she bumps into Tom, her friend from university who broke her heart into a million pieces, she finds herself wondering what could have been.

It’s 10 years later, surely she should be over that Tom by now? So why is he looking even more gorgeous than ever - and why doesn’t he seem to be able to keep his eyes off her either?

And as the champagne flows and old secrets resurface, Luca realises that perhaps the time to take a chance on love and life is...now?

©2019 Portia MacIntosh (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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Quite possibly the worst read book I have even heard! It could have been a great, easy listen if Karen Cass had been narrating as she has for all of the Portia MacIntosh’s books that I have listened to before . This narrator was dreadful, made the story boring and performed the most shocking accents I have ever heard.

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One to avoid

I normally enjoy Portia’s books as light distraction, with no brain engagement required, but this one is quite awful. It’s like it’s been written by someone who hates women. The main woman is quite a pathetic character (not helped by the babyish wispy voice given to her by the narrator), she has really no redeeming qualities, she has one female friend and slags off all of the other women throughout the book. The other women are written in quite a hateful way or are just lacking any actual personality (Fiona). The male characters aren’t much better but at least they have a semblance of a back story. Nothing much happens in the story itself.
The accents have been mentioned in other reviews and they are laughably bad, Fiona’s welsh accent being the most painful to listen to closely followed by the man from Glasgow.
I wanted to like it but it was so bad!

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bait and switch

Thought it was a comedy but a few chapters in... attempted rape. So, no thanks.

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Skip this one

I normally love Portia MacIntosh's books but I couldn't believe this was by the same author. An absolute bore and a chore to get through. Do yourself a favour and skip this one. The narrator is also one of the worst I've ever heard.

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AWFUL NARRATION but good story

I love PORTIA MACINTOSH books and now I have listened to all of them up to date 4th Aug 2022.

The story was good but the narration and accents by Rachael Beresford were awful and that really does take away from the actual novel.

I am happy to know that all other books by Portia are narrated by the brilliant Karen Cass.

Karen Cass seems to bring the story and characters to life with so much joy and hilarity.

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Narrator ruins it

I’m going to have to give this one up!

I’ve listened to all the Portia Macintosh books and always found them sharp, witty and with interesting characters.

The main character in this one is depressing, prim and totally unlikeable. All of her friends seem unlikeable. It’s depressing and old fashioned and very prim and proper.

However, nothing is worse than the narration. Quite simply the worst I’ve heard. Makes the main character sounds depressed, sullen and cold as for the accents….almost worth listening to for a laugh. Welsh and Scottish awful but the scouse was unidentifiable.

Makes me not want to read any more of her books which is really disappointing.

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Whispering Narrator

The story was good but the narrator was just awful. Some of the worst accents I've ever heard the Scouser the Glaswegian and the Welsh were barely distinguishable. They all sounded the same. I don't understand why they pick narrators that really can't do accents. And when she spoke as the main character she did this breathy whispering voice which was just so annoying really detracted from the story.

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Couldn’t Finish due to the awful narrator

I can imagine the story was great as I’ve enjoyed all of Portia MacIntosh’s books. Unfortunately, I could not go any further than chapter 8 because the narrators voice grated so badly and the accents were appalling. I’ve decided just to read the book myself before the narrator ruined it any more !

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What a let down

Overall the story isn’t that bad. I love Portia’s books because they have a basic easy to follow story line that moves on quickly. They are good “ put your headphones on and get on with your house work/chores” listening. But… and this is a big but, and I am not trying to be mean but.. the narrator is awful. Her monotone voice from start to finish is almost unbearable to listen to. She is trying to do accents of Scottish, Welsh and Liverpudlian characters that are seriously the worst I have ever heard, especially the Welsh one!! It sounds Jamaican! The Scottish one does not sound any different to the other ones. The Liverpudlian one has some better moments.
I am really trying my hardest not to be mean and hurt anyones feelings but it is a bit of a slog to get through.
Karen cass is the narrator for all of Portias other books and she brings joy and excitement when it’s needed and sadness and melancholy when it’s needed and it always hits the right spot! This however is just not it!
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Difficult to listen to

I was so looking forward to another hilarious book by MacIntosh, but I was so disappointed. I hadn’t even got through the prologue and I wanted a refund. I tried to dub the voice for Karen’s but that was so hard once the appalling accents started. Please please please redo it with Karen’s voice, I didn’t laugh once through the whole book.

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