Venom's Taste Audiobook By Lisa Smedman cover art

Venom's Taste

Forgotten Realms: House of Serpents, Book 1

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

Venom's Taste

By: Lisa Smedman
Narrated by: John Pruden
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $19.95

Buy for $19.95

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Enter the mysterious world of the snake-like yuan-ti....

Hlondeth - A city populated by the humanoid serpents known as the yuan-ti, and ruled by House Extaminos...

This powerful House of Serpents is the ultimate target of The Pox, a human cult whose members worship the goddess of plague and disease, and who begins to work the deadly will of Sibyl's Chosen, a dangerous cabal of yuan-ti who will turn every human in the city into a freakish tainted one, unless Dediana, a yuan-ti half-blood, can stop them all.

©2004 Wizards of the Coast, LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Mythology
All stars
Most relevant  
I purchased the physical copy of these books & read them in the past. It was based on a civilization in the Faerun territory of Chult which is unusual to get a glimpse at even though the Yuan-ti are a fascinating culture of serpent people.
Also, this series displays a little known D&D class called the Psion which is like a Mind wizard which is also fascinating and different. This entire series is a truly exceptional work.
I say all this to fortify my frustrations with those who created and produced this audiobook series AGAIN using a narrator that would be better off reading cheap Western novels with his Southern accent rather than trying to read a book series based on Fantastic places, creatures and exotic words he can hardly pronounce.
What's the difference between Fantasy novel readers and any other genre book reader that we deserve such terrible narrators seemingly desperate for menial performance work?

Good Story, Lousy Narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Nothing special here. But an enjoyable forgotten realms . Decent narration. Good book if its on sale.

Solid...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was an interesting book. I liked the Psionics aspect and John Pruden is one of my favorite narrators.
Looking forward to the next books in the series to see how the main character develops his talents!!

Really enjoyed new series with favorite Narrator!!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.