Post a Comment. Geissinger February 27, Geissinger Download and read book is easy. Read more. September 26, Info about the book Author: Lynn Flewelling. Series: Unknown. Languge: English.
Users who have this book I have the Ebook I have the Paperbook. Users who want this book I want the Ebook I want the Paperbook. What readers are saying What do you think? Write your own comment on this book! What do you think? Happy listening! The first time I read this book I finished in it a day. I've read it several times since then, so when Lynn announced on her LJ that there was an audiobook I was excited.
Her books were so good that I caught myself trying to read them in traffic, so this was a safer way to enjoy it.
The story holds up being an audiobook. It keeps the listener's attention even while doing something else. Sometimes with audiobooks I find that I get lost in the task that I'm doing along with listening. I didn't find that with this book at all, in fact I was coming up with reasons to drive just a little bit more so I could listen a little longer.
I did notice some editing problems, several times two takes of the same sentence were included in the finished product. It took me out of the moment, but Lynn's wonderful world brought me back in quickly enough. If you haven't read any of the Nightrunner books, you should get these. They are an addicting series and listening them is much safer than trying to read in the car.
I can't wait for White Road. I'm going to be getting the paper book and the audiobook, just in case I can't put it down. Had no issues with the first or the second oh, but the third it started to straggle and become predictable. If you began listening to the Nightrunner series with Books as narrated by Raymond Todd, you might find the sudden switch of narrator jarring. Adam Danoff pronounces some names and places a bit differently and character voices are a bit different. This does not make Danoff's performance in any way less enjoyable than Todd's.
It merely means that there will be an adjustment period. If you're nervous about switching between the two narrators, I recommend a break of a month or two between finishing Todd's narration and moving on to Danoff's. The differences will be much less obvious.
Danoff has a very pleasant voice to listen to. He clearly distinguishes between the different characters so that it is always clear which character is speaking. He keeps a good pace and captures the mood of the book well. As for the story itself, Shadows Return is very different from the previous books. Seregil and Alec are not especially active in this book--at least not in the sense of nightrunning.
I don't wish to go into too much spoilery detail, but this book is graphic on the slavery, mental manipulation, and violence. I found the story difficult to listen to, but valuable in that it delves into part of the oracle's prophecy regarding Alec and brings Seregil a little closer to resolving his unhappy past. Shadows Return is my least favorite book in the series, but only because I found it so emotionally draining.
It is still a good book. Like all of Lynn's books, this one was a phenomenal adventure! Its amazing how she brings you into a world so real you would think she had actually been there. The adventure continues and I was on the edge of every word for this entire story. If your looking to dive into an intense and memorable experience I suggest you open your ears to this adventure! On a side note to those of you who have listened to the other Nightrunner books: This is Narrated by Adam Danoff who isn't the original narrator of the other 3 books.
It takes a bit of getting used to in the beginning. His pronunciation of many of the commonly used words and names are different.
Overlook these and just be as grateful as I was to see Audible adding another one of Lynn's Books to the collection. I honestly thought that no narrator could be worse at reading this series than the last one, Raymond Todd. But once again I overestimate the competence of fellow humans.
Not only did Adam Danoff pick up where Todd left off, he raised the level of utter incompetence by a good bit. This guy pronounced a good quantity of words incorrectly including not being able to read the same common possessives as Todd , but he read at a pace like the hounds of bell were chasing him. Which they should have been just for the crime of his butchery of basic English. The Nightrunner series takes an interesting turn with this volume, providing an emotional roller coaster and a long path to what becomes desperately desired resolution.
I found it highly worthwhile as a unique part of the whole epic, but individually it was not an easy read. Not because it was poorly written, far from it, but it departs widely from the adventurous and occasionally light-hearted intrigue that dominates the first three volumes and plunges headlong into dark and deadly waters.
As with most of the books in the series, it sets up a great many things that unfold in future volumes. The switch in readers to Adam Danoff is quite jarring at first, especially given that his pronunciation of some of the setting-specific vocabulary--particularly place names and even character names--is drastically different from what we heard in earlier volumes.
A modicum of research, however, reveals that these are the pronunciations that author always intended. After the stresses of the previous 2 books, our heroes return in service to Queen and Country.
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