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Another gem series by Alex Bedsoe

Reviewed: 11-04-24

Alex Bledsoe is my new favorite author, discovered via his then free Eddie lacrosse sword, jockey series. The author is masterful at character creation and developing the reader in his finally detailed settings.

Stephen Rudnicki, with his buttery man vocals, is a masterful voice actor and narrator.

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Skip this repetitive fluff

Reviewed: 05-07-24

I really wanted to like this, I really did! I’m a big believer in cold plunge and sauna. I’ve studied the science behind it. I was hoping to have another tool in my wheelhouse that I could listen to clean some insights or at least inspire me to do my daily cult fund or a sauna when I’m just not feeling like it. The writing is extremely repetitive, it’s surface level fluff, and I gained nothing new from it. I think the worst crime is that it repeats phrases over and over again in different chapter. Were they trying to extend the length of the book? There are much better resources out there, such as the Huberman Lab podcast,and other researchers that can give you more of a scientific breakdown or at least deeper guidelines this is a published work with no oversight or critique by anyone with writing and publishing experience.

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Play this WHILE eating to slow, savor, satisfy, satiate

Reviewed: 05-04-23

Play this WHILE eating to slow, savor, satisfy, satiate.

Do you multi-task constantly! Do you answer email, scroll in your phone, or watch videos or TV while eating? Down to eat, or even eat while standing up, and realize all of a sudden that the food is gone and you didn’t even taste it? Do you suspect that you overeat?

Significantly impact your life in a positive way am I playing this short audio while you are eating. Remind you to chew slowly, to taste, to close your eyes and savor the texture, the flavor, and the experience of eating.

Get back into your body, eat slowly, improve digestion, reduce the volume of food you eat, make better choices, and enjoy the act of eating more as you actually eat less.

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Narrator can only do so much with verbose dialogue

Reviewed: 03-26-23

I am a long time fan of remedy Feist. I have read and listened to other books of his over and over again and enjoy them more and found a little nuggets with each repetition of reading.

Unfortunately for me, this book is very George Lucas-esqe when it comes to dialogue. The plot drags at times and there’s often way too much dialogue and instead of making the characters compelling, it feels pedantic.

Instead of a sweeping epic fantasy, this is a fairly predictable book. In some ways I consi it “edutainment.” The author obviously did a ton of research and does a great job of explaining the social structures, sailing, and other social structure and crafts. This book is simply not my cup of tea.

The narrator did what he could to add gravity, excitement, and vibrant personality to the characters.

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I am on my fifth listen. If you want to change, this is your guide.

Reviewed: 03-09-23

I have listened to this book cover to cover five times now. It’s listen I clean yet more information to help me hack my own life, change my habits, continue to improve the quality of my life, and get more consistent over time.

James clear exactly quite a good reader. I slow down the narration to 80% of full speed so that I can really absorb the dance information that is being presented. I went to the authors site and downloaded the supplemental materials, which are incredibly helpful. And I like getting his weekly newsletter in my inbox to keep me on track and hacking my own life, making it better over time.

Excellent reading, excellent content, Actionable information, and will result in your own life.

I only caveat is that I did not enjoy the initial chapter where he goes through his history of a terrible injury and recovering from it. I didn’t find it relevant or necessary to all the other amazing Contant that follows.

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Paperback favorite brought to life in audio

Reviewed: 02-01-23

There are some books that you will go back to over and over again. Often times you will lean more hints, more foreshadowing, more details, on the second, 3rd fourth, and so on read. Or in this case, listen. Raymond E Feist Is one of my favorite authors and this is a wonderful modern day fantasy novel with compelling characters, eerie fantasy figures, a solid plot, and excellent dialogue. The reading as well executed. Two big thumbs up!

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Audible and Blackstone audio, we need more in this series!

Reviewed: 12-05-22

Join me is by far one of my favorite writers and I own several of her series around the meta-humans. This version the series, “the many colored land,” mixes all of my favorite elements of science fiction and fantasy. Engaging characters, excellent plot devices, stupendous world building, Smart and accessible dialogue. I was perfectly happy with the narrators rendition of this wonderful work. Please please please, Blackstone audio, please continue with this series on audiobook. We need “the non-born king,““the adversary,“ and the three books in the intervention series, In this fast paced digital world where everyone is moving and driving all the time, please make these wonderful works of Julian and May available to her great many fans!

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Meet Eddie Lacrosse, a wise cracking medieval super sleuth

Reviewed: 06-25-22

Full disclosure, I read these books out of order. This is the third Bledsoe book about any lacrosse that I have read, however, each book stand on it alone and nothing was lost in reading them out of order.

Eddie lacrosse is a sympathetic protagonist. And noble who walked away from his land and title after a desolate loss, he was a mercenary and now is a sword for hire. He is a medieval wisecracking supersleuth. All of the characters written by Eric Bledsoe are so fallible and so relatable, you even managed to have sympathy for many of the bad guys.

One of the things I love the most about the Eddie lacrosse series is that the dialogue is written in modern grenade cooler, with Nidio references. This makes the characters, their mindset, their motivation, their foils, very relatable.

There is a mystery, swashbuckling action, and some heart wrenching pieces that will delight one and all.

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Eddie LaCrosse is my new fave anti-hero!

Reviewed: 06-19-22

This was the second story I read from the Eddie LaCrosse series from Alex Bledsoe.

LaCrosse's medieval times detective is a cross between the wize-cracking Harry Dresden and the investigatory genius, Sherlock Holmes, with a healthy heaping of D'Artagnan thrown in.

First, I love Bledsoe's dialogue-writing style, using modern syntax and vernacular, and his tongue-in-cheek clever way of using a modern phrases reverse-engineered to reference a medieval staple.

Bledsoe's characters are interesting, complex, and the plot never plods. Pure entertainment from start to finish. Also, Stefan Rudnicki is, as always, exceptional. His buttery man-vocals and timing are spot on.

Invest in the Eddie Lacrosse series - you'll love it!

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Another exceptional novel by Eric Bledsoe with excellent narration

Reviewed: 06-15-22

This is modern-day-medieval period piece. What does that mean? The setting is medieval/fantasy, but Alex Bledsoe uses current modern vernacular in his dialogue, so the characters are more human, more relatable, to our modern minds. His characters are engaging, his protagonist sympathetic, and human as they struggle with their own failures and doubts.

The narration is excellent! I love this narrator so much, his timing, his deep voice that just drips with honey, but I’m going to try to find even more books narrated by him!

I accidentally started with this book, book 2 in the series, instead of the first book, and then went on to "Burn Me Deadly," not realizing this was part of a series. It didn't matter - Bledsoe's books each stand on their own, even in a series.

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