Author: Demelza Carlton
Narrator: Mary Sarah
Length: 4 hours 27 minutes
Series: Romance a Medieval Fairytale, Book 4
Publisher: Demelza Carlton
Released: Aug. 28, 2020
Genre: Fantasy; Romance
Twelve princesses. One wounded soldier. A mystery that must be solved.
Once upon a time…
Princess Bianca is sent with her sisters to the summer palace, a place no maiden has ever returned from. While her sisters seem perfectly happy, she has only one desire: Escape.
Vasco, a wounded soldier on his way home from war, stumbles across the summer palace and sets out to solve the mystery no man has managed to yet. If only they let him live long enough…
Can the fair maiden and the wounded soldier uncover the sinister secret before it’s too late?
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USA Today bestselling author Demelza Carlton has always loved the ocean, but on her first snorkelling trip she found she was afraid of fish.
She has since swum with sea lions, sharks and sea cucumbers and stood on spray-drenched cliffs over a seething sea as a seven-metre cyclonic swell surged in, shattering a shipwreck below.
Sensationalist spin? No – Demelza tends to take a camera with her so she can capture and share the moment later; shipwrecks, sharks and all.
Demelza now lives in Perth, Western Australia, the shark attack capital of the world.
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Voice Arts Award Nominee, Mary Sarah has garnered attention for her powerfully evocative, multi-character work which spans time and place.
With a penchant for dialects and love of culture, Sarah has spanned the globe working with rich characters set across genres of the classics, historical fiction, medieval romance, poetry, fantasy, non-fiction and children’s literature. Relz Reviewz states in reference to Tamara Leigh’s ‘The Unveiling,“ her mellifluous tones, superb voicing of emotions in dialogue and varied and accurate accents of both male and female make her a pure joy to listen to,” while her narration of “A Lady in the Smoke,” was cited as, “masterly!”
Classically trained at The Riverside Shakespeare Academy and The Royal Shakespeare Company, Sarah loves to get to the heart of words in order to release their power and finds great comfort in the beauty of stories to transform and speak to us.! Sarah loves the power of story telling to awaken our hearts.
Says author Claudy Conn (Lady X), “Her acting is simply sublime.”
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Since I wasn’t familiar with Twelve Dancing Pincinsses, the first thing I did was search for the synopsis. After that I felt more comfortable listening to the story.
However, the first thing I listened to didn’t catch my attention favorably. In fact, it made me wonder about the content of the book, since it felt unnecessarily sexual in nature.
But I was pleased to discover that the story moved on and caught my attention. There is a mystery to be solved. And mysteries always work for me. We have Vasco, a lonely soldier, who meets a witch who shares that there is a puzzle to be solved. She suggests that he may want to head to the palace and see if he can tell the King why the princesses need new dancing slippers each day. The ladies are locked in their bedroom each night, yet each morning their shoes are worn and need replaced.
But will he be able to solve this on his own? Or will he find one of the beautiful princesses needs to offer her unusual powers to this mystery?
With the exception of the beginning and the very end, I found this easy to listen to and quite enjoyable.
Narrator: Was hard to understand until I got used to her, then I enjoyed her voice. And it felt perfect for fairytales.
Rating: ☆☆☆1/2
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