
The Parched Sea
Forgotten Realms: The Harpers, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Marty Moran
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By:
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Troy Denning
Determined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the great desert. As tribe after tribe fall to the intruders, only a single woman, Rhua, sees the true danger - but what sheik will heed the advice of an outcast witch?
Ruha finds help from an unexpected source. The Harpers, guardians of liberty throughout the Realms, have sent an agent to counter the Zhentarim. If she can help this stranger win the trust of the sheikhs, perhaps he can overcome the tribes’ ancestral rivalries and drive the invaders from the desert.
©1991 TSR, Inc., c. 2011 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















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Narrator was awful
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Would you try another book from Troy Denning and/or Marty Moran?
I was really hoping for some epic fantasy and some back-story on the Harpers. What I got was a war story about how a girl saves her people from an invading force. The reader was terrible and had unnatural pauses, poor voice differentiation between characters and a flat, unemotional sound. I don't know how anyone could have rated this piece 5 stars.How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
The story would have been better with more back-story on the Harpers and some epic fantasy adventure. By epic fantasy adventure I mean having a hero/heroine travel to strange new places, encounter new races or monsters, crawl through a few dungeons or ruins and save the world.How could the performance have been better?
Hire a new reader.Where's my epic fantasy?
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Not what I expected and enjoyable
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It was ok.
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I will black list him from any further purchases on the future. Not one single accent, not one time did he change pitch, timbre or tempo of his voice during battle. I'm confident he's very good at bedtime stories because his testing style could put a meth head to sleep. I challenge you to do better good sir. I just don't think he realizes what an action packed story sounds like.
Good story, boring narration.
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Zhentarim are evil and the Harper's met this evil head on. along with a witch.
Both the writing and narration is top notch!
Excellent adventure!
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Troy Denning was still a sorta Ok writer--not the talentless hack he became when he started working on Star Wars.
In this case, he has set a novel in the desert. Weis and Hickman had written a non-D&D trilogy set among desert dwellers a few years before which I had read just before this book. It made The Parched Sea seem pretty shallow.
Fortunately, the next Harper book was by Elaine Cunningham, an actually talented and imaginative writer with skill and depth.
If you're looking for a Lawrence of Arabia epic, it is not here. This is the mission of a solo spy out to stop an invasion of another country by his enemies.
Marty Moran needs to work on his pronunciation. Several words (common, normal words, not some fantasy weird ones) are clearly unfamiliar to him, and he clearly didn't bother to find out what the preferred pronunciation was--rather he bulldozed through it.
It has been 30+ years since I read this book, and it can be 30+ years before I revisit it again, if ever.
Ah 1991... When Troy Denning was still sorta OK
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so bad it's good?
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I’d suggest passing on this one.
Fine, but not great
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struggled to finish.. nothing redeeming about it.
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