First of all, I loved the story and the characters. By this, the second installment in the series, I have developed quite a tendre for Lucien.
Having said that, the narration detracted somewhat from the overall experience. I noticed a few issues in Book One, not enough to take me out of the story, but in this book it got a lot worse:
(a) The characters all sounded cartoonish. Amy came across as slow-witted and Charles as a 70-year old man with severe gout.
(b) The narrator had the unfortunate habit of becoming inaudible whenever he tried to soften Charles’ tone. I feel as if I missed half the story.
I see that the same narrator is used for upcoming books in the series and will have to decide whether I’d rather read them than listen to them.