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Dark Moon
- Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
- Length: 12 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years, and the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted and weary of bloodshed. But the foremost of the Dukes, Sirano of Romark, possessed the Eldarin Pearl and was determined to unravel its secrets.
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- Ian
- 30-03-18
Great Story
This is another great story but spoiled by the delivery and mispronounced words and inconsistent use of the name of one of the lead characters
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- Patrick
- 05-04-18
The narrator belched
how can someone so obviously talented do such a half arsed job . the narrator burps at one point, and makes so many mistakes during reading the book it makes you wonder if English is his first language.
don't get me wrong quite a good narration in some ways but at times he obviously wasn't reading a story he was just reading a shopping list .
weird
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- Matt Peacock
- 17-05-18
What a shame.
I really enjoyed this book when I read it a long time ago. Therefore I was excited to see that it had a brand new audiobook version. I've managed 4 hours but I cannot suffer it any longer. The narration is quite honestly terrible. There is absolutely zero emotion, "evil" characters are given stereotypical goblin-esque voices which create about as much malice and intent as a rock. Inflections and tone never match the scene. Timing and pacing is poor. It's just bad.
Avoid this one and just re-read the book. That is what I'm going to do.
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- Gemma Chapman
- 03-05-18
Good story ruined by poor narration
Poor choice of narrator really lets this story down. The most annoying factor was that the narrator gives one of the main protagonists what I can only describe as a goblin voice. I read the novel over 20 years ago and it certainly wasn't the voice I'd imagined for the character. Other voices also like characatures. I feel the narrator's style would be best suited to comedic rather than heroic fantasy. In addition, the narrator doesn't appear to have read the book before reading it aloud for the narration and you end up with situations were the tone of voice he chooses is belied by the writing, e.g. when Karis said something that the narrator read as angry, followed by the words "she said, surprised at the lack of anger in her voice" This happens more than once; and as one of the previous reviewers mention, the narrator actually belches at one point! Overall, good story, but disappointing voice acting.
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- Jay
- 16-05-20
great story, but not a great narration
it's a good book I've read many times so was pleased to have it read to me while I potter around the house on lockdown. but the guy reading the story brings almost no life to it and it made it very hard to enjoy. I'll read the book again next time I want to enjoy the story.
ps don't let that put you off gemmel books as a lot of them are amazing and narrated really well, just not this one unfortunately.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-12-19
Appalling narration
Love the book as I love just about all David Gemmells work, but what idiot decided that Homer Todiwala would be a good narrator for this or any of Gemmells books. Did they actually get him to try out first or just gave him the job? His first language is obviously not English, mispronunciations, a really annoying nasal voice for many characters. He really butchers this story. Stick to reading this book it's far better. This is something that I've unfortunately found with Gemmells publishers/ family, whoever decides on the narrator. So many awsome books but read by too many different narrators some of mediocre talent. Very disappointed in them.
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- Mr. Ian N
- 20-10-19
worst narration I have ever heard.
This is a great story, spoiled by the worst narration I have ever heard. Some of the pronunciations were dreadful. There
should be some form of quality control, but seems to be missing.
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- dan
- 26-05-22
Great story, terrible narration.
I wish I read the reviews on this one before purchase, it’s a great story, but the narrator does a terrible job of telling the story, he seems to have found a way to make every character sound like the snake from jungle book, or an ent for lord of the rings, I couldn’t finish listening to it in the end as I found myself becoming increasingly frustrated with him.
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- Mr D B Lord
- 22-05-22
Dreadful narrator
I love Gemmell's books, but the narrator was extremely poor. His mis-pronunciation of so many common English words makes you think that his vocbulary must be sorely lacking. He reads some sentences with the intonation as though the sentence has finished, then he realises the sentence is continuing so he just adds the words on the end. The worst narrator I've ever heard.
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- Avid
- 17-05-22
Very poor oration
I love the book and author. Unfortunately the narrator was awful to my ears.
Pronouncing words wrong which shouldn't have got through editing scarred instead of scared as the first example of this (twice in as many lines).
The voices he gave made most of the characters sound like imbeciles.
Very disappointed.
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- Atalpu
- 28-07-18
Good story, not so good narration
The story is a fine one by the late great David Gemmell. The narration, sadly, is subpar and makes it a real chore to listen to. I'm on the fence about returning the book because of it, but might struggle on. Almost all other Gemmell books, which have finally become available in the last year or so have mostly excellent narration (except for the Sigarni Hawk Queen and Rigante series). I don't know, if the money ran out for professional readers or what made them change their selection, but it's really sad. Gemmell's stories deserved better than this.
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- Marshal Harris
- 22-05-18
I'm a HUGE David Gemmel fan.
The story here is great, but the narration is terrible. It sounds like Homer had to rerecord every sentence individually and then patch them back together. the pauses and tonal inflections are all off and tend to send confusing. Stay away from this narrator, not the author. I struggled through it, but my fandom is greater than the narrator's failures. It will not be so for many.
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- pg77
- 04-04-19
AMAZING story....worst narration ever
Another Gemmell gem….but holy hell did the narrator do his best to try and ruin it. Pretty much every paragraph of the book has an error in it. Scarred and Scared and different words believe it or not, with different meanings. Prescience is not pronounce pre-science. Sentences were read all jerks with emphasis in weird places and…my favorite….he let out a huge burp in the middle of a character voice that was not indicated in the script ….and just left it there. I’m amazed that this version of the narration even went to publication. They must have been in a rush. If you can get through it though…..Gemmell is amazing.
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- Les
- 25-09-18
Choppy,over enouncig narrator
Narration!!! There are looooong pauses between sentences you could drive a truck through. Words mispronounced. Voices that do not fit characters which get reused for other characters confusing the listener. Over enouncing narrator (kinda reminds me of overacting actors).
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- Paul Billups
- 25-03-18
Loved it
I loved it and didn't want it to end. I fell in love with the characters every last one of them. I will listen to it again.
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- Michael Prater
- 07-08-21
Amazing work, not so good narrator
I am a huge D. Gemmell fan. I appreciate the narrator and the work he put into this project, but he was not right for this book. Most of his character voices grate across the ear, especially the Daroth. I am sure there are many works this narrator would be perfect for, but this was not one of them.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-01-21
Some good some awful voices/reading
The Daces voice is awful, old people, other main characters have the same annoying character voice. Other minor characters sounded great. Quite a lot of miss reading too. See legend for a good audio book.