Very enjoyable story, terrible narration

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The final part of an excellent trilogy by an author who is a very popular German novelist. I patricularly enjoy that all her books I have read so far are based upon trades such as glass blowing, hair collecting, champagne production etc - a pleasant change from upstairs/downstairs and gentry/royalty type historical novels. The details of the trades are fascinating, and of course European based. The translations seem good but oh how the narrator ruins the books. I’ve read all the others as Kindle books but since I had a free trial of Kindle Unlimited I thought I’d try listening to the free audiobook version and swapped halfway through. The linkage between the two versions works well and the narration started at the top of the page I had just read. Unfortunately the narrator has a very strong American accent. The firrst few words seemed so mechanically read that I started wondering if Alexa or Siri was reading it to me. Then the dialogue started... I couldn’t believe my ears it was so bad - slow whiny spoilt brat American voices - for novels rooted very firmly in Europe. I have no objection to American accents for the narration of American novels, if anything it improves them, but this really jarred and totally ruined the beautiful German or European atmosphere of the novels. I am thankful I discovered the writer via print books first and I am going back to the print version immediately.

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