The Wanderer

long twisting path

(5 stars)

jaded_grl

the readers all did a good job. the book has a few different readers, but they all do a fine job with the characters and quality of sound. there are two chapters where the characters speak in french and it is not clear what was discussed. those two spots are critical to understanding the story! i found the text online for the book with a translation in the footnotes, free. this is a LONG story and at about chapter 14 i thought it was ending and them was shocked to find out it had barely begun. there are many twists and revelations that keep you interested. there is one VERY long discussion on suicide/religion that was so tedious i gave up and fast forwarded because it contained no information related to the story, just something the writer must have had strong feelings about. this book is a romance SECOND and a mystery first. who is she? where is she from? why is she hiding? why does she refuse help from handsome young men?

just started listening

(0 stars)

dahszil

after several chapters i stopped listening. it just seemed like a bunch of unnecessary craziness. i can only predict that the lady incognito had good reason to be so. what i could never understand why the british writers were "so into "lily white"skin" when Wilberforce and other abolitionists fought against enslavement of Africans in the late 18th and early 19th century and did win their cause. It seems that Frances Burney was concerned with independent aristocratic women. Mary Wollstonecraft towers over Burney as from the poor on up, womens rights advocate and social reformer. btw, is there a way to just delete this "review"?

Loved it!

(5 stars)

Gil

Amazing book and beautifully narrated 👌 I’m sad that Frances Burney hasn’t written any more novels for me to read or listen to (this being the fourth and last that I enjoyed), but they seem to be each better than the former If you like this type of novels, this one’s a gem

Too long but good.

(3.5 stars)

VR

The story was very good and it ended well, however for my personal taste it took way too long to get to the end of the story. It had a good summation but I would have liked to hear more of the fate of some of the characters at the end.

long but worth the wait

(4.5 stars)

Hospitable Georgian

This was a very long book full of many twists and turns. There were many times I would want it over, then I would get sucked back in to the story. It was great! It was long but worth the wait. Read on!

Great book!

(5 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

All the readers did a great job. what an intense book. There are many plays upon feminism & masulinism which are really interesting to hear. Very long book, but well worth the pay off.

(5 stars)

sara

roxanna nazari did such an excellent job reading the majority of this text - even during long back and forth conversations with no dialogue tags, her voicing was subtlety differentiated

Very Good rendition

(5 stars)

Lea Choi

Delightful rendition. There are just a few parts in French, but it doesn’t disturb the listeners’ ability to understand the plot if they don’t know French.