SPOILERS unblocked for that book only. No later book spoilers here.
Allow me to cherrypick the earlier thread for some relevant points....
Abyss, on 21 April 2023 - 01:53 PM, said:
QuickTidal, on 21 April 2023 - 01:06 PM, said:
Tiste Simeon, on 21 April 2023 - 01:01 PM, said:
This is clearly a wonderfully deep and well crafted world and I'm glad I'm going to stick with it...
I see the same thing from Abyss when he does Audiobooks, it's hard to suss out how names are spelt! LOL It's all good.
Glad you're sticking with it, it's so good as it gets properly going.
This is totally a thing and now I just embrace it.
Tiste Simeon, on 21 April 2023 - 05:29 PM, said:
Abyss, on 21 April 2023 - 01:52 PM, said:
The narrator is quite good. She's expressive and all but doesn't have a very wide range of voices. However, I'm finding that the way she tells the story means I'm not sure it matters, she has a good way with it so the voices are incidental.
That's my thinking on it and I'm liking her more each time I listen, you might feel differently.
The narrator Eva WIlhelm did a very good job with this. Considering she had to work with +/- eight POV voices and two distinct accents (Dominion and Empire), and managed to keep them all distinct and clear, 'very good' is impressive. There were a maybe 2-3 times where a large group conversation was just a bit harder to clearly follow who was speaking or thinking but for the actual text saying so, but those moments jumped out because she did solid work otherwise.
I was trying to figure out why her voice sounded familiar; a quick search showed she's a regular on Graphic Audio productions including the Eric Carter Necromancer series i'm a fan of.
There was not much action in this book, but the two significant scenes - Kiriel saving Valedan, and Alesso v cranky demon who only showed up to give Alesso someone to fight - were done well enough. To be fair, while the Kiriel scene is told in detail and gives the narrator opportunity to pace and pitch accordingly, Alesso's fight is told mostly thirdhand by people having borderline bored conversations around it, so her opportunity to crank up the narration was limited.
As earbooks go, this was a solid adaptation, no complaints.
More about the book itself nextpost.