The Redhead Plays Her Hand (Redhead #3)

I can\’t say who was more foolish: Grace for wasting her time with boy toy Jack or me for buying all 3 books in this series before starting a long road trip. I spent a lot of time hitting the fast forward button, hoping in vain for the good part that never happened.

Let me start by saying I love Alice Clayton’s Hudson Valley Series—which I have listened to multiple times—but it took me a long time to get through the Redhead trilogy. Finally, after a few years, I started listening to the third book and immediately remembered why I had been putting off listening to it. I think Keili Lefkovitz is probably quite talented but she was the wrong choice for this series. Dead. Wrong. She doesn’t even meet the what one would think is the most basic requirement for this piece: Speaking in a British accent for a British character. I mean, when the dialogue specifically references his cute British accent while she’s speaking in a very American accent you can’t help but wonder who the eff thought this was the appropriate choice. Again, I don’t think the narrator isn’t talented or that her job is by any means easy, but I don’t believe she was the right choice. There are some narrators with really annoying habits or tones of voice, but I can’t think of another time that a voice actor’s interpretation of characters was so disjointed from my own. Why do Grace and Holly sound like Rosie O’Donnell? I mean, their incredibly juvenile banter/nicknames is on Ms Clayton but these 30-something Hollywood hotties sound like a 50 year-old Rosie O’Donnell. The character’s voices also lack distinction from one another, making it difficult to discern which one is speaking.

It’s taken me a while (like seven years) but I finally finished this series and listened to this book. I re-listened to the first two books to make sure I got the full experience. The books certainly decreased in funny as they came along. And this book was most definitely deeper, more emotional and somber, as well as the least funny of the series. Yes I understand that deeper things had to come forward to make a more well rounded ending to the story. My issue is that it seemed to drag. I read along and found myself searching for things I figured would happen, in order to move things along. It wasn’t a bad book or story, I just felt it needed something so the story didn’t seem mired in issues.

Rough ride ahead for the two main characters, but thank goodness for happy endings. You can\’t help but be frustrated with these two for not seeing the bad apples and finding a way to make it work sooner, but it all works out in the end. A good finish to the series.

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