Olivia's Reviews > Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

Review of the audio book, read by Ann M. Richardson.

A narrator can make or break an audio book and Richardson very nearly broke this one for me. Her voice was just so boring. I think, think, I might have liked this book one or at least a half a star better if it had had a different narrator.

Other than that it was the little details that got me. No, I honestly didn't know much of anything about Arnold, Peggy, Lucy or Henry going into this book. But I do know that George and Martha Washington didn't have any children of their own so when the author states that their son died, it should have been their stepson. And when it's said that the two women were born the same year then not long after they were born 4 years apart... well, an editor should have caught both of these things but that's also on the author to know their source material too.

I do think it is hard to write about women of this time period because so much about them and their writings weren't preserved the way that of men was. But when you decided to write a book about women in this time, you take on that challenge.