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Fun Story, Good Performance, Horrible Editing

Revisado: 03-16-23

Understanding that this is not high literature, it's a good story, with many stories interwoven into the main threads. The main characters are complex and aren't safe from these dire times. The performance is solid and appropriate, and remarkably consistent for a really long performance.

The problem, and it's a big one, is that the story will be moving along, and all of the sudden you're thinking that it's really really familiar. That's because it is. Parts of the book get spliced in, and I'm still not clear if I'm missing parts of the story. That starts around 50 hours in, and keeps going off and on throughout.

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Was Glad when it ended

Revisado: 11-04-21

The narrator is just so bad. The character might recall the slitting of wounded Welshmen's throats, but the tone is so light, airy and Pollyanna that it just doesn't work. The guy is absolutely tone deaf and it ruins the character, Gerald Warbow.

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Weak Story, Weaker Narration

Revisado: 03-16-21

At this point I'm invested. But Gerald Warbow us becoming a less gritty, less complex character, too easily overcoming his trials. Things are working out too easily for him, and he's so virtuous that he's above the political games going on around him, that rarely seem to affect him directly. The world around him is lacking color and the overall depth of this story is lacking.

The reader would be fine for an inexperienced dandy of the 17th or 18th century, but he provides no grit you'd expect of a hard killer and warrior, and very little variation from king to queen to nobleman to common archer. He over enunciated throughout, and really detracts from the story telling.

If you've read books 1 & 2, I guess you might as well see it through. But if you're about to start book one, just know it goes downhill fairly quickly.

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Good Story; Simple Writing; Poor Narration

Revisado: 10-27-20

I'm a junky for the genre, so I finished it, but the writing was overly simple at times, which was really highlighted by a narrator who was more of a reader than a performer. He didn't get the subtlety of accentuation.

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Plot Devices Abound

Revisado: 09-14-18

This books seemed like it may have been written by the same people who write the audio description of television shows for the blind. It's too wordy. And then there are these ridiculously contrived plot devices like a device that restricts memories in the lead character, and allows them to come through when they need the story to progress.

The dialogue seems formulaic, which makes the characters, who should be deep and we'll developed given the length of the book, seem shallow and one dimensional.

I struggled to finish, and I was glad when it was over.

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Whisper Talker

Revisado: 08-18-18

I love this genre, and in other series, I normally start the next book in the same day, but I found Fin Gall tough to finish, and I'm not sure I'll go on to the next book. There are a ton of names, which makes it tough to follow for a while, partly because so many of them are Gaelic and they kind of blend together. Overall, it's a good story, and not what I have a problem with.

The performer is a whisper talker and doesn't capture the right affect for what's going on in the story. His accents aren't great; particularly for the female Irish characters, but I'd get over that too if it wasn't for the whisper talking.

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