Christopher Hawke

Perfect

Revisado: 11-11-23

Fantastic story, wonderfully written as always by David Weber. Narration is so spot on. this is exactly what you're looking for when listening to an audio book by your favorite author

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Not ruined

Revisado: 02-17-23

Interesting style of narration, it threw me off at first but I got used to it and it worked just fine for the book. I would call this style constantly exuberate. there's no flat reading at all, it's all with massive maximum emotion in everything.
The text itself was excellent. a very exciting pickup from the series.

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When voice acting and production ruins it

Revisado: 01-13-23

it was a terrible struggle to listen to. The narrator has a great voice and is a great reader but there were times when completely different voices were used for the same characters, even in the same conversation! The narration switched from between Winnie the Pooh to a European villain. The narration lacked consistency. The voices lacked consistency. I don't know what happened here, there were times when the sound volume and pitched changed, nearly mid-sentence. The whole thing just sounded amateurish and I just don't get it, the previous books weren't like that and you would think that this book deserved way better.
Putting aside the book wrecking terribleness of the narration, this is as good as the first book in the series, nearly the best one yet. It was a weird juxtaposition to be getting into some of the best parts of the series and have the narration just go south like this.

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Great Story and finally buttoned up narration

Revisado: 12-17-22

Finally the narration team responsible for this title got it together. In The last installment of the series, we had a new narrator. An extremely experienced and usually excellent narrator, but it all went south and ruined the entire book pretty much. This is the same narrator, except this time the voices make a bit more sense, since the last installment it seems the narrator chose a better voice for one of the main characters (Merlin) and I guess the people responsible for editing this decided to use the same voices this time instead of having a character sound five different ways throughout the book. Bravo! The writing wasn't ruined this time! I can't imagine what caused the last one to be so terrible, and then this one works out pretty well. But whatever caused all that to be straightened out, thank you!
As for the work itself, the written word, I enjoyed it. The think about works from this author is that you either like them or you don't, they are wordy, and the author plays out every little bit of conversation and intrigue which not everybody likes, but I really do. I will say that I can't argue that this one is about the slowest and wordiest in the author's history but okay, luckily I like that.

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When a narrator can ruin it all

Revisado: 10-23-22

I would have thought a book by this author would get better. A great book but the reader used an array of accents for the main characters. There was very little consistency. The protagonist 'Merlin' used three accents and three different timbres of voice. It was ridiculous and took a good book and made it bad. Totally ruined the experience.

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Amazing

Revisado: 11-16-19

Amazing. Exactly the kind of story that I normally do not like but it was fabulous I was hooked on every word. the voice actor who read the story was amazing, one of the best I've ever heard. She really brought the story to life. Left me wanting more and I hope that there are sequels to this book!

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A Knockout

Revisado: 11-12-19

This story is exceptional. The writing is exceptional. I enjoyed this immensely. The narration is flawless and she who did it was skilled and talented. a thoroughly enjoyable listen. and something that I will come back to probably many times.

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Learning plus Enjoyment

Revisado: 11-12-19

I thoroughly enjoyed this historical documentary. well narrated and extremely informative I learned and was fascinated the whole time learning about this history.

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A Real Struggle

Revisado: 11-12-19

Haphazard story which would seem on conclusion to be intentional but honestly it was just chaotic and difficult to listen to. The voice actor who did the narration was obviously skilled and had consistent voices but I felt like the voices used were completely wrong for the whole thing. it almost felt like someone was reading me a science fiction novel in a completely out of place noir style voice. overall, terrible.

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