A good all rounder not brilliant

A good all rounder certainly not brilliant but entertaining right from start to right at the end

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Exactly what I needed

A fantastic story that is made even by its excellent narration. The pace of the story is just right and the balance between emotion, romance lore and action have clearly been well thought out.
It's early days yet but so far this is my favourite fantasy book of 2020. Can't wait for book 2!

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Gréât story with pace

Well worth it and free, à gréât story, good characters within and not a story based on computer games to ruin it - just a well told elven/ human story of struggle and war and without a gruesome edge 👍

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Fantastic

A slow start a good balance between fantasy and the added romance
A good voice smooth and clear add the right amount of excitement and sadness
Hope there is a next novel to continue

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A enjoyable listen if you like slow builds

This was a free book but none the worse for that. It was an easy listen, the narration was well done, and the plot and lore were well thought out.

Some of the plot was a little obvious if you’ve been around the genre much, and the hero is given to Hamlet-like pondering before doing anything, but that didn’t stop the overall feeling of a well-written book.

Will probably use a credit for part 2 now.

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Enjoyable and easy on the ears

I read a lot of these fantasy stories - it eases my day … I enjoy them and have my favs - this included in my subscription- . So I gave it a try - …. Can’t complain , was throughly enjoyable. Not up there with Robert. Jordan or Michael J Sullivan or my absolute favourite David R Slayton . But throughly enjoyable!

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Elvish — good ish

I ran out of credits and so trawled the included in your membership section. I downloaded loaded 6 audio books and Elvish was the best. I did not get past chapter three on the others. Elvish I kept my attention to the end. I found the reader’s performance very good. The story had all the key elements I look for in an audio book to be listened to while commuting to work. Hero, dastardly enemies, love interest and double crosses. Yes it’s all here. Being critical this was somewhat slow for me. I’d have preferred 50 less interest on the romance elements and 50 more action.

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Fantastic Story

Enjoyed every moment and couldn’t stop listening, I love how the writing portrays each character.

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GREAT!

Loved the performance of the voice actor. The story was interestingly written and didn’t follow a traditional fantasy character arc. I enjoyed my whole time, I wondered in the middle where the plot was and what the focus of the story was but I did actually end up powering though a small section in the middle and it was soooo worth it!!!!

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A silly slow burn

I enjoyed the worldbuilding, I enjoyed the general storyline - although it is reasonably predictable. But man, I feel like the slow burn was so forced, especially towards the end, that it turned the characters from more or less likeable (if rather pompous) into just blithering idiots who dramatically affected the turn of events by not spending an extra 3.5 seconds TALKING to one another (or, alternatively, using their brains to come to reasonable conclusios). And having the entire storyline hinge on that silliness was... just too much for me. Left it unfinished with only a few chapters to go. Sad, because I quite enjoyed it otherwise!

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