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Dominion

A Coldfire Novella

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Dominion

By: C. S. Friedman
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Four hundred years after mankind's arrival on Erna, the undead sorcerer Gerald Tarrant travels north in search of a legend. For it is rumored there is a forest where the fae has become so powerful that it devours all who enter it, and he means to test its power.

This novella prequel to C.S. Friedman's best-selling Coldfire Trilogy (Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows) offers fans of the series a tale of Tarrant's secret history, while new readers will enjoy a chilling introduction to one of High Fantasy's most fascinating—and deadly—worlds.

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Brilliant Storytelling • Creative Worldbuilding • Excellent Performance • Complex Anti-hero • Dark Chills
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This novella fills in a couple details in Gerald Tarrant's history. Well written, like the Coldfire Trilogy. You should read them all.

So I met C. S. Friedman online

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The Coldfire trilogy was great. This little add-on was just too short and unnecessary. It was well done but it really did not add much to the whole story.

Too short to matter.

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I really like Friedman's work. That being said, this novella doesn't add much to the dark sun trilogy. It's just a bit of exposition about Gerald Tarrant's origins and original motivations.

Weirdly short and unsatisfying

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Great story made even better by Bray. If you are an author and you want your audio book to do well, hire Bray! The story has me hooked and I will be continuing on.

R. C. Bray brings any character to life!

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Is there anything you would change about this book?

I wish it was longer.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Dominion?

The confrontation between Gerald and Faith.

Would you be willing to try another one of R. C. Bray’s performances?

No. He spoke in a fairly sinister monotone. Sinister is about right for the tone of the book, but the monotone was awful. I stopped listening and read it off the Kindle.

Do you think Dominion needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

Yes, please! Because the Coldfire trilogy was brilliant and it's always exciting for the author to come at it from different angles.

Any additional comments?

The story is great. The performance was not, but if you're the sort with no time or inclination to read, then I'd go ahead and buy the audiobook.

Great story, dull performance.

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Good story for this line, but less than 1/2 the size of the others in this storyline.

Good, but short.

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While normally I would suggest people read this before the rest of the Coldfire series, I can't say that here. While this book was fine it did not really do a good job of really getting me interested in the world or the characters.

Years ago I read the Coldfire books and really loved the first one. Listening to this one brought back a lot of memories but if I was going to suggest it, I would do so only to people who enjoyed the first book.

It is what it is

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what a great intro into the saga I am about to dive into! see you there, this was enjoyable all the way through.

A++ so great!

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The performance was excellent of him, and the story wasn't bad, but the use of foul language a few times, when actually it did nothing to add to the story, nor serve the authors otherwise excellent grasp of the English language and storytelling, was a breath of stupid, uselessness! If this is how "the one god", in her story, accepts his worshippers, then he isn't much of one!! I'll pass on the rest of the series for certain.

It's good, but....

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A fitting start to a great Trilogy. Well worth a listen. what would you do with the Fae

Prequel to Coldfire Trilogy

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