Kristal L. Fye Jozefik

The interweaving of history and fantasy was perfect

Revisado: 01-30-24

The story and narrator are both exactly as one could wish. The story is engaging, and my obsessive googling of facts during the story showed that historical details held true. This is a red for fantasy or history lovers.

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A nice story

Revisado: 08-21-23

If you have younger people interested in fantasy, this is a perfect story. It isn’t revolutionary writing. The characters aren’t deep, there are a lot of tropes and the book is riddled with Great Coincidences to further the plot. But it’s a nice light read and a pleasant story.

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Very Weak

Revisado: 08-16-23

I tried to make it through the first book and could not manage it. The story is very weak, predictable, and convenient. There are good bones, but I have to assume the author just doesn’t have enough experience yet. I didn’t look the author up, but I would deduce they are very young. The writing style makes it almost impossible to immerse oneself in the story. The constant “He said”/“She said” is jarring, and the frequent attempts to insert light banter is forced and annoying. I can tolerate romance if it isn’t the main story line, but the romance in this book is like reading young fanfic.

The narrator has a very pleasant voice, but his inflections and ability to portray characters is lackluster.

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Entertaining

Revisado: 11-20-22

Will Wight never disappoints. The books are like watching an action movie. Fast, entertaining, and easy on the spirit.

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Truly delightful

Revisado: 08-21-20

From the colorful characters, to the absence of the poor martyr main character trope, to the great story, this book was refreshing and truly enjoyable. I was so pleased with it I immediately restarted the book after the end. Nice easy fantasy with an interesting magic system. Thank you Michael Manning and Tim Gerard Reynolds! I want the other books before 2021. Give us some COVID mercy, Mr. Reynolds, and talk faster.

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Narration is intolerable

Revisado: 04-22-20

This might be a passable book. The narration is so bad I honestly can’t tell. I made it to chapter 16 before throwing in the towel. Women are portrayed in the usual two dimensional fantasy roles. Crafty, smart sexy lady. Crafty, smart, atypical, but sexy if you're a real man women. Scrappy, street-smart thief/fighter who takes the poor young man under their quirky, loving wings so he, I assume, grows and surpassed them in skill and wisdom but still manages to stay humble. Sigh.

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Almost gave up with the narrator’s phrasing

Revisado: 03-18-20

I have enjoyed every Karen Miller book. They are unique enough to be captivating. The narrator for this book wasn't a great pick. In her attempt to make unique male voices she fell flat and her phrase pacing was problematic.

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Intolerable Narration

Revisado: 03-28-19

What happened to Scott Brick? I hate to denigrate Larry McKeever, he’s probably a nice person, but who on earth ever listened to him read and thought he would be a worthy narrator of anything but perhaps technical documentation? The Foundation books have been favorites of mine since the 80s, and even my love of an old, comfortable favorite couldn’t withstand the narrator’s robotic, stilted attempt. Robots are important to an Asimov fan, but this is taking it too literally.

If you are more stoic than I, and if you’re just discovering these books and need the closure you might get through it. It is a wonderful book, and it is sad Asimov’s last book isn’t the treasure it should be.

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A missed opportunity

Revisado: 11-13-18

I usually like sci fi/fantasy used as an exercise in societal examination but these books seem created as a canvas for a rather sexist author (is he Mormon?) to make sure everyone knows just how marvelous he is. The hardest points to swallow are a tie between the ‘see how kind and egalitarian I am even when it causes other people pain or discomfort’ moments and the ‘when Joseph says it, you just know it’s clever/perfect/funny/exactly correct’ phrasing (no joke, that’s almost verbatim) which is repeated almost every chapter when one person dares to question this messiah’s mad genius.

The adoration and fawning from literally everyone would have been acceptable had this book been a satire, but alas, no. Just everyone making sure we know how truly intelligent, fun, kind, innovative, generous, compassionate, strong, resilient, humorous, sexy, fair, courageous, bold, gentle, and disciplined this humble
average joe is.

Didn’t fully hate it, and not quite at full on contempt - More at an eye roll level. I consider the premise a missed opportunity. Ok if you just need background noise. I hope the author matures. Maybe he can hit the target next series.

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The best of many recorded versions

Revisado: 02-19-18

The story is fantastic, as it has to be to survive 200 years, and this is hands down the best audible version.

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