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Great short history of this Roman figure. Really like this narrator guy

Revisado: 02-19-25

Concise, good story, nice interpretation and personal input, and great narration. Would read/listen to other books by author and narrator

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Difficult to pay attention or really care

Revisado: 12-24-24

I liked the Raven Shadows series although Blood Song was by far better than the books following and that story lost quality as it went on. I strained to pay attention listening to this first book of this series. It was kind of boring and it irritated me throughout. The premise I just don't find compelling, I know I know it's fantasy. But the thing about only certain people being able to metabolize drake blood and take full effect of it for oddly specific powers, depending on which color drake the blood is from, just seems silly, not well thought out, or just lame. Maybe it'll be explained why only some people are randomly "blessed" but so far don't care. The Ravens shadow series was ruined when they essentially assembled a team of X-men. The frequent witticisms from some characters seem contrived too. Also some of the lines are just so cringy and like I'm reading a book for teens. "Save the world", come on bro! Maybe the book is meant for teens idk. Narrator I enjoyed in the Ravens Shadow series but perhaps he wasn't as good in this book or I just found the story and dialogue boring. Don't exactly know who to blame but hard to focus

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Good. Narrator was great.

Revisado: 02-26-24

The story had a lot of momentum. The narrator was superb and was a great fit for the story. What is up with Steven King and the weird sex stuff he writes into his story. I don't see how it's relevant to the story nor makes it more compelling. Kinky guy that dude

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Kind of cliche

Revisado: 07-11-22

The story overall is enjoyable. It’s very good storytelling but Jesus why do you have to ruin it with the freakin people have all sorts of powers kind of stuff. It’s just completely stupid. Keeping it more limited to certain people possessing uniques abilities but not arbitrary. I’m surprised he hasn’t given someone the ability to fly yet. Also, the fact that Vaelin’s adolescent “niece” is a warrior to match grown men from the sixth order, allegedly the best fighters from the realm, makes it seem like a joke and just totally makes the training from the sixth order appear so trivial. Why oh why did you have to do all of these cliche things? Lamentations

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Mostly very good, but just one minor complaint

Revisado: 09-21-21

I find the story is great, it’s well written and captivating. The narrator does a great job and I very much enjoy listening to this series. I’m just slightly irritated with the variety of the “gifted”. They’re like the X-men where you got people that can go invisible, conjure storms, etc… I like my perception of it in the first book where it just seemed as if people were gifted with certain talents or uncanny mental acuity, such as heightened senses/awareness (blood song), extraordinary smithing skills, and I don’t remember what else. Like they were able to tap into some deeper subconsciousness (the “dark”). I know it’s fantasy so anything is fair game, but I think it better serves to have limits and rules to the possibilities or have some sort of explanation to them. I don’t know, I don’t have a problem with the lady conjuring fire and many of the other gifted. It could just be the collection of many different gifted into an Xmen-like team in Nortah’s band of misfits that’s bothering me

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Really good story, writing, and narration. Glad I started it

Revisado: 08-20-21

The story and writing was very good. I’d say it’s similar to the Name of the Wind, but still unique. And though i was initially somewhat averse to Steven Brands style of narration, because he didn’t alter his voice much from character to character, I really grew to appreciate it and didn’t find it hard to follow.

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Entertaining!

Revisado: 04-06-21

Pretty entertaining. A delight to listen to. Definitely a listen that is engaging and easy to focus to.
Looking forward to listen to the next two

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Sucks

Revisado: 01-23-21

It was just weirdo high school drama, mixed with telepathy stuff, and with King going into unnecessary and excessive detail with menstruation and teen sex. He seems to be disturbed. The characters felt incredibly cliché, the writing was nothing spectacular, and the story was disappointing. This was my first Steven King book that I read/listened to and I never heard of Carrie, so I didn’t know what to expect. I was expecting more horror, but it certainly was not that. Despite me not being familiar with Kings writing or the story itself, I could forecast most of the events and scenes within the first several chapters of the book. It was utterly predictable. The whole bringing in scientist to explain this phenomenon and describing the genetic cause of telepathy was tripe and pointless. Lol they found a TK gene that explains telepathic talent. One gene (or one mutation of a gene, I forget exactly) gives someone the ability to melt minds and move objects? I didn’t care for the narrator but can’t articulate well why that is. Her voice didn’t fit well with the story and I think she did a poor job modulating her voice for the different characters.

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