
The Paths of the Dead
Book One of the Viscount of Adrilankha
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Narrated by:
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Kevin Stillwell
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By:
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Steven Brust
The long-awaited sequel to The Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After.
Two hundred years after Adron’s Disaster, in which Dragaera City was accidentally reduced to an ocean of chaos by an experiment in wizardry gone wrong, the Empire isn’t what it used to be. Deprived at a single blow of their Emperor, of the Orb that is the focus of the Empire’s power, of their capital city with its Impe-rial bureaucracy, and of a great many of their late fellow citizens, the surviving Dragaerans have been limping through a long Interregnum, bereft even of the simple magic and sorcery they were accustomed to use in everyday life.
Now the descendants and successors of the great ad-venturers Khaavren, Pel, Aerich, and Tazendra are growing up in this seemingly diminished world, convinced, like their elders, that the age of adventures is over and nothing interesting will ever happen to them. They are, of course, wrong.
For even deprived of magic, Dragaerans fight, plot, and conspire as they breathe, and so do their still-powerful gods. The enemies of the Empire prowl at its edges, in-scrutable doings are up at Dzur Mountain...and, unex-pectedly, a surviving Phoenix Heir, young Zerika, is discovered—setting off a chain of swashbuckling events that will remake the world yet again.
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Stillwell: brought those people to life
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Excellent fantasy series with memorable characters
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, it's a great book with amazing narration, Kevin Stillwell does an amazing jobWho was your favorite character and why?
I really like MorrolanHave you listened to any of Kevin Stillwell’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes, it's as well narrated as the rest of his work!Amazing Series, and amazing narration!!!
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Great with yo much detail
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An excellent addition to the Khaavren Romances
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very enjoyable
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Burst usuall tells a very compelling interesting story. This is like a passive aggressive slap at his publishers and audience .
Loved his other books hate this one
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I give up.
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This is the story of how Zerika, with a little help from her adventurous friends, went to the Paths of the Dead to obtain the Orb which would restore the empire to its former glory — a story referred to in the other Brust books. Most of The Paths of the Dead is set-up for this event which takes relatively few pages at the end. There is also some history on Morrolan and a few other characters that Brust fans are familiar with.
But all of those folks get upstaged by the real main character in The Paths of the Dead: the narrator. If you’ve read the previous KHAAVREN ROMANCES, you know that Brust is parodying Alexandre Dumas. His narrator, a historian named Paarfi, is pompous and wordy, constantly interjecting information, opinions, and explanations about his writing style in his pretentious tone. This is often very funny and I chuckled frequently, especially at the beginning of the story when it was all new to me. However, after a while, it becomes repetitive and tedious. For example, while Paarfi regularly insists that he’s being brief and sparing us unnecessary details, he actually does the opposite which, of course, is meant to be humorously ironic. But it gets irritating when he records numerous conversations that go something like this:
Irksome, but I want to read more Brust
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