And the Irish brogue Kellgren gives him is amazing. He’s Georgie’s love interest, and he’s such a romantic, dashing figure. Rounding out the cast are her best friend Belinda, who is equally poor and survives through a succession of wealthy boyfriends, as well as her completely disastrous maid, Queenie. She’s the daughter of a duke and an actress, and it’s fun to see her interact with her stuffy and impossible sister-in-law Fig as well as her mother, who’s constantly flitting from man to man, and her grandfather, a former Cockney policeman. Georgie is 34th in line to the throne and trying to scrape by after her family lost their fortune in the Crash of 1929. The main appeal, though, is definitely the characters. Just listen to a sample, and you’ll see exactly what I mean.Īs for the books themselves, they weren’t overly elaborate or complex mysteries (though it was rare I figured them out in advance), but they were fun to read. Seriously, I can’t recommend these audiobooks enough, and I definitely have plans to check out more of Kellgren’s narration. It’s almost unbelievable that it’s just one person doing the whole production. Katherine Kellgren just did a phenomenal job creating a voice for Georgie, and then using different accents and characterizations to voice the other characters.
I don’t listen to a lot of fiction audiobooks, but I thought these were amazing.
While I definitely prefer the audio, I did wind up reading these in a mix of print and audio since I can fly through them so quickly in print and my library didn’t have audio copies, so I had to burn through some Audible credits. I read the first one sometime last year and thought it was just ok, but then she suggested listening to the second one on audio when I asked for recommendations, and I got completely hooked. My sister is obsessed with these books (there are 12 so far) and easily convinced me to read them since we have pretty similar reading tastes. I didn’t anticipate getting sucked into another series so soon after reading The Bridgerton books by Julia Quinn, but I started listening to the audiobooks in the Royal Spyness series by Rhys Bowen, and before I knew it I had enough for another series blog post!
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