Alice

Overrated

Revisado: 05-14-18

Im not sure why this book has so many 5 stars and overwhelming gd reviews. It must be because most of those ppl are either young and have yet to experience true fantasy storytelling, or just dont know what depth and quality means?

Its not a bad book, at all. I enjoyed some of it. The problem with it is that it has no depth of the characters, and is incredibly fast pacing and skipping big gaps in timeline where the author 'tells' us how to feel. Its like Lord of the Rings. Its got dwarfs and elves and humans, trols goblins and other beasts , just with different names ofc. But this book is LotR shortened to 10 chapters! B4 u get to know one charated ur off, the story skips a few months or more, and ur told in 2 line what happened in that period of time. You are told how to feel about the romance between the 2 main charaters, which I just couldnt get into at all, because I wasnt there when it happened!!!

Its told in third person, which is never great for these types of books, from my POV at least. I couldnt connect with any of them because of that and the skipping months ahead almost for each chapter. Its also predictable.

Overall I havent decided if I want to read the next book yet, because this one just felt like such great potential with a huge world building opportunity, but it feels like the author gave up and just wanted to finish and skip all the details and backgrounds. This book was ok, but mayhap it gets better in the second one!



Review for the audiobook version read by Douglas Pullar:

All things considered not too bad a performance, except for the fact that he is way too low when he uses his female voices and whispers, couldnt hear half of it, and oposite, very loud when he yells something. Also the word Hir, which is the name of the land there, he promounces like HER. Throughout the book specially in the beginning that word is there a lot and its like the word occult in the followups by Terry Goodkind, it drives u fucking mad to the point wher eu want to throw the book away. >I< would pronounce it Hiirr or something like that, not her. In many places it sounds just stupid and it honestly pissed me off because I felt like it ruined the book a lot. But if this is the way the author wishes it to be pronounced then its not the narrators fault.
Low amount of different voices for all the characters. (less)

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Brilliant story!

Revisado: 02-03-18

Would you consider the audio edition of Words of Radiance to be better than the print version?

No audio book is ever better than a real book, what a silly question is that.

What other book might you compare Words of Radiance to and why?

Paksenarion. One of my all time fave books, and written with pure ferfect brilliance. this series comes very close so far!

What does Michael Kramer and Kate Reading bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Different ways to pronounce names. Luckily there was no (wrongly) anoying pronounced Sadius for Kate in this book I think yay.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yep, went on alot of xtra runs just to read more of it :D

Any additional comments?

Great book and story, can highly recommend this series!

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Great book

Revisado: 01-12-18

What does Michael Kramer and Kate Reading bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Love being able to read a book while riding my bike and running!

Any additional comments?

I wish the 2 reading it would coordinate, and decide how to pronounce names etc, so that we dnt get some anoyingly silly name in the end when Kate pronounce Sadius all wrong, when we have just heard throughout the whole book so far how Michael pronounce it other way. Luckily this was only one chapter in this book taht she had to speak his name, but i fear Ill end up correcting her a lot in book 2 now ><

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