Shame about the performance!

I read this book when it came out and wished it would make it in to an audible version. I wish now they hadn't bothered! Such a terrible crime to do this to such a great book. I only finished it because the story itself was worth it! Any chance you could try it again with a better narrator and production team? Such a missed opportunity!

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Great story. Poor narration.

I had previously read the book but many many years ago.

I found the plot still fresh and interesting.

However, the narration was extremely bad, with poor tone and incorrect emphasis frequently used on wrong words.

Story 9/10
Narration 2/10

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compelling

narrator was more then adequate and was able to exhibit a range of characters

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Just as good as I remembered

I read this book a good 15 years ago and was delighted to find an audio version now as an adult.
The author overused the word 'Alien' which was a little upsetting considering the context of the novel.
The child sexuality was uncomfortable but not distasteful, it may offend sensitive readers but fully represented the folk lore.

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So many unusual twists and turns!

I loved everything about this and nothing I disliked.

So many events but all intermingling, along with some huge slaps of ‘oh my life’! Kept me riveted.

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True class

Superb book by a superb author, gripping and exciting. The story builds from the beginning and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

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amazing fantasy story.

amazing fantasy story that is gripping and leaves you on the edge of your seat.

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Loved this as a big Stephen King fan!

I really enjoyed this book for the second time. I don't usually read fantasy books but this was more horror I thought. I thought the narrator was excellent and I was totally hooked from start to finish. I usually read lots of Stephen King and found some of the style reminiscent and it was disturbing enough to make you think. I loved the references to mythology, older texts and even Shakespeare!

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Better performance than feared

I very much enjoyed this. Sure, the main characters are a bunch of unfeasibly wholesome clichés, but i found the plot intriguing, and filled with well-researched folklore, which the author leads to an unexpected (to me at least) conclusion about their nature and source - it read to me like the novelisation of a late 80s/early 90s blockbuster movie that never was, complete with all the tropes of the period. Genuinely nightmarish and dark at times, too. Having read several negative reviews here about the reading by Tim Flavin, i was pleasantly surprised - i thought he did a good job once he'd settled into it. The imagery, characters, and action came across clearly to me, and his East Coast American accent seemed entirely appropriate to the location. He did struggle a bit with some of the non-US accents, particularly Irish, but i think it would have been bizarre if the whole thing was read by a British actor, as some suggested. One oddity - i hear a lot of mispronunciations in audiobook performances, but one that seems to recur among American readers is pronouncing 'shone', as in the past tense of 'shine', as 'shown' rather than 'shonn'. Is this really how it's said in the States?

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Maybe not the best introduction to the author

This was my first time reading Feist. It was an ok story, I found the characters a bit flat and didn't really warm to any of them. The story was quite slow and some of the dialogue seemed very drawn out and seemed to hold the story up, rather than move it along. Other than that it wasn't too bad.

Expertly narrated with lots of seemless variation in characters voices and accents.

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