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Never disappointed

Revisado: 04-20-25

Unlike some series tha tend to wane after several books, This 7th installment didn't disappoint. The characters continue to grow as we keep learning about them. The stakes get higher and the action keeps coming. And the narration is, as always, Top Knotch. I'm only sad I have to wait for the next book

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Lovely story, narrator didn't work for me

Revisado: 12-20-24

I feel like the main narrator went to the Christopher Walken school of sentence pacing and inflection. I wish I had read it myself, or that one of the interlude narrators had done the whole story.

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crappy portrayal of women

Revisado: 10-25-24

I made it about 45 minutes into the audiobook - i guess that's 1/3 of the way into section 1? - before getting too bored to continue.

I was going to expound on that to warn people away, but nah. Don't care enough, other than:

Girlfriend of MC assumed he r*ped women while pirating, and was cool with that (explicitly stated so, using the r word) but he was like "no chicks were avail there, but if I'd had the chance I'd have been last in the line for r*ping, which gross, so oh well"

And still what got me was the boredom even more than THAT abominable exchange.

Chicks are supposedly in power, which they spend all their time on harassing the men for being cheating jerks

don't let anyone fool you into thinking these are "powerful" women

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Told from the perspective of a cat wizard

Revisado: 01-15-24

TWs: death, and harm to animals.
Sensitive readers note: the main characters have to deal with deaths and they are not gentle and offscreen. One primarily (but deeply) affects the main character; another is very traumatic and spelled out in detail.

Outside of those horrifying moments, this is a mostly positive and wholesome story. It's fun living inside a cat's head, and as a cat owner, I found the majority of the cat-isms to be very accurate! (with the exception that cats are partially color blind, seeing mainly blue and yellow; one can handwave the descriptions of red or green things as a special skill the wizards have, perhaps)

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Now I know why it's recommended everywhere

Revisado: 05-29-23

Every time I see a post asking "what audiobook is better than its paper version", this book is always the top answer with dozens or hundreds of votes, depending on how much attention the post gets. I finally bit the bullet and tried it out. A chapter or two in, I thought, "oh, it's Ray Porter's phenomenal acting." Then, around chapter..... 5?.... it hit. They were right. I finished this 16 hour audio book in 2 days of listening.

Fun story, endearing characters, minimal cussing and adult moments and no on-screen violence, so i don't feel bad sharing it with my teens.

Absolutely recommend to ask sci fi fans.

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best thing Will has done yet

Revisado: 04-15-23

A fun space romp imagining what would happen if everyone in the story was max leveled.


I love Travis Baldree's acting.

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Book Great. Narration decent, but lots of issues

Revisado: 04-26-22

Love the Dresden series, and this is no exception.
I had little time to finish the physical book, so I got this audio to listen to in the car. I honestly didn't look at who the narrator was for this when i purchased the audiobook. And the name didn't hit me until I heard the ending.
Then I was SHOCKED that this was supposedly a professionally produced audiobook.
The narration felt like it was all done without any takes. Several instances of awkward pauses in the middle of a sentence. I don't so much mind hearing a narrator breathe in. We all do it. But there was so much that could have been cut out. I'm pretty sure there were a few mispronounced words as well.
But It was the pasty mouth noises that almost drove me batty. I really feel like this could have been edited out somewhat with a good audio engineer with some kind of noise limiter or noise gate.
I do like the acting and the characterization James brings to the work, but unfortunately that was overshadowed by all of the clicks and sticky mouth and breath noises. it is just SO distracting.
I don't feel like he had a good producer to have him re-take some of the reads, or not enough of them.
I don't fault James for the reading as much as I do his producers.

If you can get over the mouth noises, it's a good story.
I won't/cant' listen to another Dresden novel if narrated and produced by the same people.
I'm back to the hard copies, no matter how long it takes me.

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Travis Baldree = Ze Frank.

Revisado: 05-20-21

Enjoyed kindle books, switched to audio; narrator rocks, sounds just like zefrank, which is funny.

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A good, fun book.

Revisado: 10-17-18

The book was engaging and fun. The narrator was masterful in his performance and had me laughing out loud several times. Great character differentiation. Definitely going to get the next book.

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