Before I picked up this 80+ hour behemoth, I read a lot of reviews. Even the ones who claimed that it was substandard, said it was a great deal because they got 30 hours into an 80 hour series.
I’m going to go against half of this.
It’s an amazing deal, even if you only get 30 hours into it… this is true.
But I’m going to go on record by saying that although this isn’t A+ material, and I say that with all love because I really did enjoy this story, it averages at B+ (which isn’t bad!)
Even better, that’s an average. It does start off a bit awkward (but better than a lot of other audio books I picked up over the years), it has a small slump, in my opinion, around the 30 hour mark, the last half (and this is a FORTY HOUR HALF) is white good.
The author is an amazing world builder, and his characters are truly worth rooting for… even the not-so-friendly ones. 😉
The narrator put so much life into these characters, it’s hard to believe it’s actually one person playing all those voices. Every character is extraordinary individual, and the voice acting is incredible.
My advice to you:. Get this. If you stay for the whole 83 hours, you will agree with everything I said above. It was well worth the ride.
if you only get half way through, it’s still the best deal for an audio book I’ve ever seen.
And if nothing else makes a difference, I have listened to well over 200 audio books in the past 5 years:. this is the very first review I’ve ever written. It mattered.