Jeremiah F

Great story, some weird narration

Revisado: 03-04-22

Beautiful story, Lawhead is masterful and does not disappoint in his well told stories. The narrator on this does decent on some things, but some of his accents that he tries are so painful to hear. Pronunciations change from the last narrator to this one and takes some getting used to, but the worst is the women. It's like if someone learned a Scottish accent while living in India, then got drunk and hit on the head. It's truly painful to listen to, and shows that subtler narrators are as always, the best.

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It's like riding a bike...after 7 years and a broken foot

Revisado: 07-23-20

Sometimes it's hard to get back in the swing of things. This book feels like someone picking back up the pieces of something they are good at, but after years of inaction and maybe an injury to boot. Harry is back, and I'm glad, but there are some rough spots. Jim Butcher seems to try to kick back in by bringing in dang near all the nostalgic good guys and baddies from books past, while raising the stakes at the same time-maybe he watched The Force Awakens and got inspired. It's fun at times, a little overdone in a places, but overall it still works if you don't think too hard.

James Marster's reading is excellent, with the caveat that he seems to have forgotten some of the voices he used several years ago for certain characters. None of it is that bad, but Carlos seems to have mostly lost his Mexican accent and sounds thicker, Mab is maybe back to using cat sith to speak for her and several other characters voices are just a little off. For most people who didn't just listen to 15 previous books in the last couple months preparing for Peace Talks, it's probably not much of an issue, and Marsters is good enough at this that I'm sure either we will adjust to the tweaked voices for the next books-providing Butcher doesn't wait years between the next ones.

Overall, I still liked the book, but this level of writing and editing is tolerable mainly because the fans are already here. If the first book had been like this I doubt i would have fallen in love with the series like I did. I do, however, have hope that this will smooth out after Butcher gets back into groove.

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