
The Child Prince
The Artifactor, Book 1
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Cheridah Best
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Honor Raconteur
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Sevana Warran, reigning prodigy Artifactor of the age, has absolutely no desire to selflessly serve her fellow man. She wants, in fact, to be left alone so that she can putter about in her workroom.
But her efforts in avoiding other people prove to be in vain. The reigning family of Windamere is no longer sitting upon the throne and the Council has instead taken power. The sole hope of avoiding the evil machinations of the Council is Bellomi Dragonmanovich, Prince of Windamere. As a 21-year-old cursed into the body of a perpetual eight-year-old, he lacks the power and ability to stop the Council.
Sevana, after a judicious review of the situation, decides that she cannot let things continue. If she did, she'd never be left alone and would instead be buried in paperwork if the Council has anything to say about it. So she kidnaps the prince from where he was locked away in the palace and sets about breaking his curse.
Prince and Artifactor quickly realize that simply breaking the curse won't be enough to free Windamere from the Council. It will take training, cunning, allies, information, and more than just a little magic if they are to reclaim the throne.
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If you could sum up The Child Prince in three words, what would they be?
Interesting story, political intrigue et al, interesting plot.What did you like best about this story?
Magic system and charactersWhat three words best describe Cheridah Best’s performance?
She doesn't allow a dialogue to flow, from character to character.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Sometimes.Any additional comments?
Narrator needs to listen to a conversation, then emulate that when she is reproducing it.Good Story
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Well crafted story, but for younger audience
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Fun but a bit longer than needed
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Good start
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A good story
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Go on,try it!
Give it a whirl, its quite good.
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Fun listen!
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A favorite go-to series
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Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Cheridah Best?
Not sure. Perhaps a male narrator. She just read in a really drawn out fashion, that drove me a little crazy. Luckily I was listening on my Droid app so I could put on speed read at 1.5x. That seemed to work much better, making her sound like she was speaking at a normal speed. I did really enjoy some of her voices. BUT Bel's grown up voice sounded like his childs voice. His child voice was quite good, for a child, but for an adult it was really bad. This made it very hard for me to picture him as grown up when he sounded like a four year old. All in all I think she was an OK narrator, but could have used a better editor/ producer to guild her. And perhaps this book just wasn't aa good fit for her...Any additional comments?
This is a long book. Honestly it could have been shorter but it wasn't. Which I'm still debating with myself about. I kind of just viewed it as a TV series, with multiple episodes and the length worked in its favor then. I also enjoyed it much better with that mindset.Took me awhile to get through...
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The story itself is good, not amazing but good. The Characters are solid and well defined.
good story, narration isn't good
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