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Lovely, interesting story

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-20-25

I love that Rae, the main character, is written like a real person. I'm never distracted by awkwardness in the story. It makes sense and so do the rest of the characters. I lose myself in the story from beginning to end. I highly recommend it.

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This isn't an Outlander story

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 02-21-24

James Fraser is in this story for about a paragraph. Please remove this book from that series.

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R. C. Bray might be the best narrator out there.

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-13-23

This narrator could make terrible stories sound exciting, and this is not a terrible story.

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Great narrator

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-07-23

RC Bray might be my favorite narrator. I love that he makes conversations sound like conversations. Characters who are written as upset sound upset.

So many narrators sound serene all times no matter what's happening in the story or how the characters are written to feel at a given moment. I don't love that.

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I adore this series

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 12-04-23

I'm not going to be specific. I'm just going to say that the world is rich, the characters are believable, and the story engaging. I read "Thorn" and was hooked. I was very happy to find that it was the first of a trilogy.

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Dreadful

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 10-18-23

I don't love the teleplay presentation of this story. The last book wasn't as enjoyable as the first two, partly because the actor playing Lysander was so bad. At least he only had play of the story.

This Lysander is much worse and, unfortunately, has the majority of the story so far. They've given the role of a young man to an old one, which is bad enough, but he plays the role as if it were bad, bad Shakespeare instead of science fiction.

Edit:

It got better as I went on and was all pretty good before the middle. I enjoyed this.

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Great book

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5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 09-23-22

The narration is really great, with some strange things stuck in there that I find distracting. The woman ends sentences in the middle of them and then speaks the next part as if it were a whole sentence. However, she's been fairly consistent about the voices she uses for the various characters over the course of the series, which I appreciate.

Across the series, the male narrator is rock solid consistent with the voices of some specific characters and strangely inconsistent with others. For example, sometimes the Andorans have British accents and sometimes they don't. When they do, they often have extremely nasal voices as well.

Both of them go back and forth between pronunciations of the names of certain people and places. For the first four books, they mispronounced the name of one of the Forsaken (per its spelling), then pronounced it correctly for a few books, then went back to doing it wrong again. It's weird. They both also mispronounce ordinary words. Weird.

But like I said, it's distracting, but only because their overall work is excellent.

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Snow lands on top

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 07-30-22

I just finished it for the second or third time. I also intend to read it. It's *so* good.

This is a stand-alone prequel; it's not necessary to read the other stories before reading (listening to) this one.

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Awesome

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-27-22

There's nothing bad to say, and many good things, to say about Rosamund Pike's narration. She is, as always, great.

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Great story, wooden performers

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4 out of 5 stars
Performance
3 out of 5 stars
Story
5 out of 5 stars

Reviewed: 03-27-22

This is a very good series. I've finished all fourteen books now and have really enjoyed them: the stories, I mean. I'm not as enthusiastic about the performances. If the stories hadn't been so good, I might not have finished the series. I won't look for either actor again.

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