Decent listen for a junior novel!

Worth listening to, as it fills in quite a few bits of back story to do with the main adult High repubic novels!

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Disappointing performance

Considering there have been multiple titles in this series, you would think the reader would have listened to a couple before recording to ensure consistency, but it doesn’t seem so. So many mispronunciations of words and very little character variation.

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Decent story reader almost robotic

The reader uses different pronunciation of main names and groups used in pervious books
At times the reader sounds very robotic and male voices still sound femanine breaking some of the emersion

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Solid Story, Frustrating Narration

Another good High Republic series novel, however this particular title is very let down by the narrator. A lot of the time it feels like someone is reading from a script with random bits of punctuation smattered throughout.
I would recommend a sample before purchasing.

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Fantastic Ending

The first 20% is good, the last 20% excellent! The middle is a little slow. Sylvestri is meant to be the main character, but Vern and Nan steal the show.

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Badly narrated

I really enjoyed the story in this book. Not quite as action packed as the previous 2 but overall introduced some great characters and wasn't overly focussed on the Jedi unlike the previous entries in the series.
The first 2 narrated by Mark Thompson were way more entertaining and played more like a radio drama with all the sound effects and excellent voices Mark did for all the different characters. However this book had none of the bells and whistles I had grown accustomed to and felt very flat. The narrator didn't put half as much energy into the reading as Thompson does and didn't build up any excitement or sense of dread that the previous books did.
Even just adding some low background music would have improved this story tenfold. I listened to the other 2 entries one after the other and found myself hooked but with this installment I found myself having to take alot of breaks just to break up the monotony of the narration which is a shame.
I'm very much looking forward to the next Mark Thompson read book though and feel all the High Republic books should have the same high production values as Light of the Jedi as even though it's very jarring and a bit of sensory overload at first, once you get used to everything that's going on it sucks you in and leaves you wanting more!
Please, no more bland narration! It's not doing the stories any justice!

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Story Great, reading not so much

The story is really good, so no faults with that. Might even be best story in high republic collection so far. (I'm going cornerlochically)

The annoying thing is the voice actor/reader pronounces names of main factions/characters completely different to previous books. This might not annoy you but it really bugged me. Blame doesn't fully lie on the actor as clearly it would have gone through multiple checks, but overall have to rate it down for it. The only other critique would be that the voice actor doesn't really distinguish much between characters, and doesn't attempt a lower voice for male characters. Whereas in previous books the actor has done something different for the opposite gender.

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Great story, poor performance from the actor

Unlike the 4 previous books, I felt that this was acted poorly and somehow narrated masterfully. I enjoyed the story and new characters, but when the actor started acting the voices, I found they were hardly distinguishable with the worst example of poor voice acting being the matriarch. I thoroughly enjoyed the actor's narration as their voice sounds amazing, but unfortunately, I do not feel that the acting is on par with previous Star Wars books, especially the newer Temptest runner.

p.s Also, can you leave at least two seconds before jumping to the next chapter, it's disconcerting when a major event happens at the end of the chapter which is immediately followed up by Chapter xxx instead of leaving the reader a breath to absorb the event.

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Average - tied up loose ends

Really average. Takes a while to get used to the narrator. She is amazing but it takes a bit.

It also skips chapters far too quickly and at times impossible to know who is who.

Overall a decent story because it is Star Wars. Otherwise its a dry romance.

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i cant feel the fizz

This one just didnt quite feel like star wars to me, i seemed to be missing the "fizz" im currently about half way through and im still struggling to get into the story. which is a big shame, the other high republic novels have been amazing!

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