
The Bard's Blade
The Sorcerer's Song, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Andrew Kingston
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Tamsin Kennard
The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, best-selling author of the Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein.
Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but unknown. There, she's a renowned wine maker, and her betrothed, Lem, is a musician of rare talent. Their destiny has never been in question. Whatever life brings, they will face it together.
Then, a stranger crosses the wards into Vylari for the first time in centuries, bringing a dark prophecy that forces Lem and Mariyah down separate paths. How far will they have to go to stop a rising darkness and save their home? And how much of themselves will they have to give up along the way?
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
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Great story as usual! I love this author!
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A story to truly enjoy
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really enjoyed it!
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Bard's blade audio!
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Enjoyed the story
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Something new
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1. The two main characters are both idiots. They walk into a new world and are naive. But they get into situations that were just implausible.
2. The villains here were just so evil it was impossible to understand why they were acting so badly or follow their motives.
The bleakness of watching these two characters stupidly fall under the sway of one evil person after another on separate story tracks just left me depressed and angry at the characters for being dolts.
Big Downer
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"Dramatic moments" and major plot points depend on characters not taking 5 minutes to catch each other up: check.
The 2 narrators individually are ok. No real complaints about their performances. Honestly the author could have just stuck with the woman narrator. She had a larger range of character voices.
The ending is entirely predictable and could have been resolved better in any of a hundred ways.
Mediocre
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Yet this book felt more like a Disney cartoon than a book. The bad guys turned up to 11 and just being bad for badness sake. The main characters felt more like caricatures than characters. They kept making poor decisions and getting themselves involved in bad situations over and over. Once or twice can be explained by how sheltered they are. Yet several times over the course of a couple years of gaining experience. Oof. Was very hard to feel empathy or like them when they acted that way. Lots of eye rolling at some of the plot devices.
Much cringe. Disappointed.
Disappointment made real.
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Like waiting for paint to dry
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