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The Grave of Valor

A Reincarnation Progression Fantasy (Adelheid, Book 4)

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The Grave of Valor

By: D.C. Haenlin
Narrated by: Erin Bateman, Christopher Harbour
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War is but an Opportunity

After experiencing death and an irreversible transformation, Adelheid must juggle between hiding her new inhuman nature with her wish to become the next ruler of the Vuldar Empire. Her greatest rival for the throne, William von Vuldar, has already joined the battlefield, but she has to play catch up. She must use all resources and grab every opportunity to join the war and rise above.

However, only those in war will learn that everything has a cost.

©2024 D.C. Haenlin (P)2024 Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Action & Adventure Epic Fantasy War
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It was fine but...

I enjoyed the story, though I feel the momentum that was building up speed as each book was released is beginning to falter a bit.

The parts where Adelheid was working to understand her new nature were interesting. The lore tidbits on vampires in Veles were also very riveting. Adelheid and William's military sojourn in the beast kingdom was interesting. Adelheid's ruin's explorations were a wealth of good world-building. Character interactions kept me engaged, Though I wish there were more interactions with Rowan and Herrea.

I believe the recap chapter at the start was a waste of time and thus a waste of runtime in the audiobook because normally you wouldn't start a series of books from the middle point. If you started this book you should be well versed with the previous ones.

Once again, Fathers are depicted as either trash people, cold and unfeeling or with no info on them at all. The only exceptions are Prince Fredrick who is dead but we get flashbacks of and Count Avery who is only seen in the second book. Don't get me started on Mothers. Are you telling me in a world where magic is commonplace, there have been no strides in the magical medical field to ensure safe childbearing? It is like the author is allergic to the nuclear family or at the very least parents being good to their children. I get that the structure of the Vuldar Empire's noble system makes it cutthroat, but come on good parental love can go a long way to producing well-adjusted and capable children.

Though I understand the logic behind it, I still feel the name Adelheid used to rechristen the vampire species was just clinical, bland and boring. Nosferatu was a perfectly viable name, kindred could have worked well too, hell vrykolakas or katakhanade was there if you wanted a more Greek flavour. So many cooler sounding names and she chooses what she chooses because of math.

The new female narrator was just bad. Except for Matilda, none of the other character's voices came close to the original female narrator. Adelheid was the worst because her outside voice sounded like a grown woman even though Adelheid is still physically a child. I wouldn't have minded if her inside voice was a grown woman's voice and her outside voice was childlike, in fact, that would make perfect sense, but this narrator didn't make an effort. The male voice actor tried, but it wasn't perfect by any stretch, because it's clear he just placed his spin on the male characters like the female narrator, I hated the Emporer's new voice. In the end, it's like these narrators didn't care to listen to the previous works and just said "I'm a do my own thing."

In the end, I've gone from rabidly craving the next instalment to cautiously curious to see what happens next.



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Narrators Switched

The narrator switch was ok from my point of view, since I didn’t go back and listen to the previous books.
I imagine it would be a lot more jarring if I did.

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There is a new va

So there is a glaring issue on this one and its the new va who has a very odd cadence or maybe lilt to her voice thats super jarring if your coming right to book 4 from book 3. Theres no way around it its terrible for Addie in particular. Some of the voices she uses for the other characters are okay but this a real downgrade in quality and it may be worth it to just read it instead. Story is amazing as usual.

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amazing

wow that wad a great book I can't wait for the next one to come out. new people doing the voice acting for this book at first I did not like but they grew on me and by the end of the book it was fine

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Filler book you can skip without missing anything.

A filler book at best with no importance or progression of the storyline. Can’t wait for the next book to hopefully continue the story. The author needs to really stick to a definite narrative on what this (vampire but not vampire but vampires did exist but they were dragon vampires BS) just choose a story and stick to it.

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Narrator issues

I'm unsure why the narrators changed, however the previous narrators were superior. the new male narrator was fine, the female narrator rarely changed her voice for different characters. Some characters like Silver, the accent changed from scene to scene which really toke me out of the story. I really enjoyed the story but hope if these narrators stay the same moving forward, work on changing up the accents and remembering which character had which accent.

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4 books is still really good

The books are short but good. I like the characters and the mc. The political aspect is compelling and competently written. A bit of a wait between the books so the short recap is actually really helpful. Joggles the memory.

The big con I have is that some of the awkward phrasing and way of writing is bleeding in from the other series. In there I understand it's aping the style and writing of translated Xianxia. Which is the key here. It's not actually good writing or english. Hence I'd prefer it be kept separate from this series when not necessary. This is my only real critique and what I wish the author would improved on.

I got used to the narrator switch by the end The male voice is good. The female is decent but preferred the previous one.

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Same amazing writing, very unfortunate narration

As usual I love the story, but after going back though the whole series’s audiobooks I cannot help but be disappointed..

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amazing but....

story was amazing but Im not a big fan of the new female narrator she is not horrible but doesn't fit the characters like the last one did and a lot emotion is missing as well

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Awesome

I absolutely love this series! I just with the author was more interactive I couldn’t find anything about releases. I just hope we don’t have to wait another year for the next one

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