The Jamaica Station
Carlisle and Holbrooke Naval Adventures, Book 3
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The Jamaica Station
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Narrated by:
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David Lane Pusey
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By:
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Chris Durbin
About this listen
It is 1757, and the British navy is regrouping from a slow start to the Seven Years War.
A Spanish colonial governor and his family are pursued through the Caribbean by a pair of mysterious ships from the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. The British frigate Medina rescues the governor from his hurricane-wrecked ship, leading Captain Edward Carlisle and his first lieutenant George Holbrooke into a web of intrigue and half-truths. Are the Dutchmen operating under a letter of marque, or are they pirates, and why are they hunting the Spaniard? Only the diplomatic skills of Carlisle’s aristocratic wife, Lady Chiara, can solve the puzzle.
When Carlisle is injured, the young Holbrooke must grow up quickly. Under his leadership, Medina takes part in a one-sided battle with the French that will influence a young Horatio Nelson to choose the navy as a career.
The Jamaica Station follows the colonial post-captain and the Leeward Islands Squadron as the third of the Carlisle and Holbrooke naval adventures. The series will record the exploits of the two men through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies in the 1760s.
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good story
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The charge of narrator however is absolutely jarring. I understand that sometimes changes are forced but could the new chap have at least listened to the previous artist and made an effort with the accents?
I normally buy an entire series but the change is a real downgrade
Enjoyable story poor performance
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However…a new narrator and that all changes. I accept that sometimes a change is required but what I cannot and will not accept is the utter lack of any care and attention to the characters.
Carlisle (the principal char) is from Kentucky and much is made of his colonial background and thus the original narrator gave him the appropriate accent. Now, miraculously he has a full southern British accent which is ludicrous. It is clear that neither the new narrator or Audible took the trouble to ensure that there was any continuity in book 3.
This had absolutely ruined the experience and frankly they have a nerve marketing the rest of the audiobooks in this series.
How can you get the main character so wrong???
The other voices are equally as hopeless, somebody’s idea of what they should sound like, rather OTT frankly. All in all a very poor show from audible which has pretty much sunk what was promising to be an excellent series. If you wish to take a chance in book 3 then just buy that one before numbers 4 onwards. You may find it unlistenable too.
New reader…appalling voices
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Do not like the new narrator.
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