Aaron T Bonar

Easily the Worst Narrator in Dozens of Books

Revisado: 03-27-23

I enjoyed the story. not going ro win awards, but entertaining and if you enjoy the L5R setting you're going to enjoy this. in particular, I appreciated the empathetic portrayal of the "bad guy", Haru, in the passages where he is the protagonist. Those really fleshed him out as a human being, and added a lot to the story.

However, and as much as I hate singling people out harshly, the narrator here is absolutely terrible. She has a nice voice, and does a decent job voicing different haracters, but her reading cadence is so shockingly terrible it's difficult to even understand the sentences. She chops phrases apart, combines pieces here and there, it's agonizing. It's as... if she were required to... read... now the things that come later.

Holy crao, it's awful. I got through it because the story was compelling enough to continue, but wow.

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Best Audiobook I have Ever Experienced

Revisado: 05-12-21

Absolutely incredible. Deep, interesting, moving. Compelling and very human characters in extraordinary circumstances doing believable things. I cannot possibly recommend this more highly as a story.

Combine that story with absolutely top notch reading / audio performances by both readers, and this skyrockets to the top of audiobook list. Amazing, do not miss.

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The reader is outstanding. OUTSTANDING. Story less

Revisado: 11-17-19

The guy reading this is by far the most compelling reader I have ever heard. use of inflection, accents, everything supports the story in an outstanding way.

The first book is great. The second book good. The third book is where it becomes obvious the publisher asked him to stretch a three or four book series into six. The expositional dialogue is insufferable, I wound up skipping entire chapters of characters "reminding each other" of crap they all know, happened maybe yesterday (literally), and would have been traumatic enough to be burned into their memories to the day they died. Or explaining basic physics to the ship pilot, and I mean basic.At one point they literally explain how spinning things make stuff fly outward by giving the example of spinning a bucket of water, and the character still doesn't understand.

By book six any semblance of believably logical actions is gone. Completely ridiculous decisions to trust the goodwill of savage aliens not only in spite of ALL behavior up to that point, but in ways that are entirely unnecessary. There is maybe 100 pages of actual story, 1200 pages of stupid exposition failing to be disguised in dialogue, and maybe, maybe two pages of effective character progression.

Enjoy the first couple books. Read the cliffs notes to find out how it ends.

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