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Don't Let The Movie Stop You From Reading

Revisado: 03-10-22

I've just gone through this book a second time after staring my initial journey through the Dark Tower over two years ago. I suddenly got the itch to go through the tower again and this is a necessary read, I feel.
It helps a lot that it's also been my favorite King book so far.


It lovingly takes a lot of classic tropes and presents them in King's classic style. The narration is perfect and there are times that a line will give me chills or I'll have to go back and listen to it a couple of times just for the appreciation of it.

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Second Time Through The Tower

Revisado: 01-28-22

In my family there are a lot of readers and quite a few count themselves as King fans. I'm younger and started reading King much later, but when I decided to start his DT series, I decided to go all in. I found a good guide online to help me read any books that run parallel or short stories to help me understand it better. It took me over a year to get all the way through and I don't regret it for a moment.

I've waited about three years since I originally finished the series and I finally began it again. I'm so taken aback by this book and only love it all the more. It's amazing to remember how confused I used to be and how abstract the start felt. It's a labor of love to get into DT, but if you are a King fan, you absolutely must.

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Great way to learn gangsta rap history

Revisado: 02-25-20

The audiobook is wonderfully long and so informative. I highly recommend listening to the book while you can also listen to songs and albums that are being talked about. The story felt very interactive this way.

There is a lot to be talked about in the timeline, so expect a lot of back and forth in the years. Generally, the story moves forward as you get the full picture painted for you of these men's lives, histories, and struggles.

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Good to finally get this on Audible

Revisado: 02-12-20

When the title released on Audible in October, I quickly re-listened to the Half Orcs series to refresh my memory of all that had happened. This book takes place 5 years after the end of Sliver of Redemption and keeps Dalglish's quick pace. The story flows easily and new characters introduced don't feel out of place in the series.

I was extremely saddened by the narrator. It seemed as if there was no pre-reading done before recording and there were multiple problems across the entire audiobook. It may have been enough to get me to return the purchase and just read the book instead, however the story was too enthralling to put it off. The volume control would be all over the place and on occasion the mic would be bumped and deliver a frightful jump with how loudly I had to turn my volume up to hear sometimes. Pretty early on, it seemed like the poor guy caught a case of the sniffles and kept it to the end.

There are some good qualities to the narration and with training and proper equipment, he could improve his skills.

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It's hard to find the ARG without someone guiding.

Revisado: 12-17-19

There is so much more to this Audible Original that doesn't get a chance to be spotted. People will be directed here by outside influences due to the ARG nature of the deeper stories that are hardly detectable along the path of the story.

As a stand alone tale, the first 2/3rds of the audio book is pretty intriguing and keeps you on your toes, but I find the final 1/3rd to be lacking. In the final stretch, I distinctly feel like I must have missed something and the ending leaves me extremely lost. There are some parts that I needed to listen to over again before I understood.

It did serve very well to gain my interest in the ARG, and I look forward to see what this leads to.

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Now things really kick off

Revisado: 12-10-19

This book is split into two parts. The first introduces characters that readers of Dalglish's works will recognize and builds up to the tensions of the first two books on the series. The second part is the meat of the story and sets into motion events in the later books.

Dalglish's quick pace continues and keeps you turning the pages. By the time the book ends, you will want the next book lined up so you can charge straight into it.

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Repeat Listening

Revisado: 12-05-19

If the Half Orcs series is the first works of Dalglish you have read, then it flows along quick and entertaining. This second installment of Half Orcs focuses on the two paths the brothers take and builds up what is to come in the following books.

If you come into this book after reading the Shadowdance series, you are in for a rougher ride. You can tell that this is one of Dalglish's earlier works and there can be times where it leaves something to be desired.

"The Cost of Betrayal" is a quick paced, dark fantasy that drives forward the story and timeline of this world. It is important to remember that while the tone can be very morbid at times, it is to build into what comes in later books.

I always enjoy C.J. McAllister's performance, especially in his dialogs where it can be easily followed who is speaking.

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This is where it started for me!

Revisado: 11-09-19

I found David Dalglish on accident and started with this novel as my first. His style is quick paced and the story moves quickly as you get thrown into a world as if the reader is familiar. It's not difficult to follow and soon enough, things do get familiar.

I'm writing a review now that I have finished reading all of his books here so far, and coming right out of "Dance of Chaos" into the first line of this book was exhilarating.

There are a lot of books to go through, but the pay-off was incredible. I started with Half-Orcs and then went to the World Breaker series. After that, Paladins, and then Shadowdance. I've also gotten my friends to get into it and we've all read in different orders and it's exciting to see the different ways we each reacted to these separate, but interlocked characters.

Half-Orcs can be a lot to go through for the first time, but I think if you like it enough, keep going to Dalglish's other books!

Additionally, this is actually my favorite narrator across all the books and I was sad to never see him come back. It's something to be extra excited about in my second listen.

This book serves as the background to the characters you meet in this series and helps to expand upon familiar characters to Dalglish's other books. It's a dark tale of redemption that has to start somewhere.

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Short and sweet

Revisado: 08-22-17

It was a good story to play in the background. The pacing was good and it was cute.

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Fantastic!

Revisado: 06-01-17

When I began reading this on my own, I struggled a bit to get understand S.K.'s writing voice. This is only the second book of his I've finished. The narrator put so much life and emotion into his heading. I couldn't stop listening! I'll be giving it another go again in the future.

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