Sarah H

A good story, read well.

Revisado: 02-04-25

There are a lot of stories out there about adolescents going to magic boarding schools but no other series I’ve read with that general concept does such an excellent job integrating “real” mythology into the setting half as effectively as this one.

I loved it as a text book series first and was happily as pleased with the audio version, voices always fit the characters, who themselves are interesting and believable, and pacing was excellent.

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Excellent adaptation of classic graphic novels

Revisado: 08-03-20

I loved the Sandman comics (and related off-shoots) when I was younger, they were what I read instead of "superhero" comics, and having never listened to an audiobook adaptation of a comic book I wasn't sure what to expect.

I was blown away. While content was added, it was only ever for the purpose of bringing to live the visual side of the original comics, allowing the "written" aspects of the comic to still be almost word for word, yet simultaneously describing the imagery so vividly in combination that I could see the original panels of the graphic novel pages in my mind.

I could see how some listeners might find the additional content for those descriptions disruptive, but I felt it was done as smoothly and minimally as possible, maintaining the feel of the original comics and characters. Because the graphic novels are a series of separate, linked stories, I also thought the separation of the stories with breaks and "chapter headings" for lack of the correct descriptor also helped maintain the original feel of reading a graphic novel too.

I would be excited to listen to more.

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Good overall but very clearly for YA audiences

Revisado: 08-03-20

I didn't realize this was a YA book before selecting it, but it shows in the simplicity of the story and dialogue. While a good book for a YA, it is not good enough to stand up to older readers with said simplicity.
While otherwise quite good, I would never re-read this due to said simplicity. Cool concepts, but without the depth or elevation to make it a good book for an adult to re-read, or want to pursue the series of, as with those YA authors I continue to read even 20+ years later.

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Just mediocre

Revisado: 08-03-20

I keep getting recommended this author and similar, but in the end her writing is just okay...nothing grabbed me, and I got tired really fast about the first-person main character's "oooh early menopause, all the hormones" internal monologues. Not up to the standards of the more interesting stories of authors the software algorithms recommended it to me based on my purchases of, quite disappointing. Good narration did not make up for mediocre story.

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Disappointing...nothing seems to go anywhere

Revisado: 08-03-20

I kept waiting for the plot to go somewhere, and improve but ultimately the book was just mediocre and left me feeling ambivalent and disappointed.
Concepts and world-building/back-story are interesting but nothing builds from there, so it's not enough to make a good book all on its own.

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Excellent story, with better voices than book 1

Revisado: 07-28-16

I love the story, though there were some places where the differences between spoken and written words made things different or odd listening as compared to reading the passage from text one's self.
When I listened to the first book though, I found some voices for a few supporting characters to be weird and disruptively ridiculous-sounding. Thankfully I found those had been toned down and no longer detracted from the listening experience the way I'd found them to in the prior book. I am eagerly waiting for the release of book 3 as an audiobook.

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Some silly voices but great story

Revisado: 05-18-16

Honestly I didn't care for the voices used for the adult characters in many cases. Some didn't match the characters well (wrong accents, etc.), and others were goofy, squeaky or nasal just to differentiate them. Not the best to listen to in that sense since these were not all side characters ...some are present throughout every book.
But despite how much this bothered me, I really loved the story. This writer always impresses me, and I've read this series several times. It holds up well to being read, and is wonderfully long. A great audiobook for long workdays.

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