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Mother of Learning Arc 1
- Mother of Learning, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jack Voraces
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
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Summary
Zorian Kazinski has all the time in the world to get stronger, and he plans on taking full advantage of it.
A teenage mage of humble birth and slightly above-average skill, Zorian is attending his third year of education at Cyoria's magical academy. A driven and quiet young man, he is consumed by a desire to ensure his own future and free himself of the influence of his family, resenting the Kazinskis for favoring his brothers over him. Consequently, Zorian has no time for pointless distractions, much less other people's problems.
As it happens, though, time is something he is about to get plenty of.
On the eve of Cyoria's annual summer festival, Zorian is murdered, then abruptly brought back to the beginning of the month, just before he was about to take the train to school. Finding himself trapped in a time loop with no clear end or exit, he will have to look both within and without to unravel the mystery set before him. He does have to unravel it, too, because the loop clearly wasn’t made for his sake, and in a world of magic even a time traveler isn't safe from those who wish him ill.
Fortunately for Zorian, repetition is the mother of learning….
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- Pau
- 23-12-21
Can't get into the narrator, although it gets bett
Why do all characters either scream or seem to be constipated? Plus all those weird accents...I don't get it, why do it? it ges better as the book progresses though
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- Texnik
- 27-02-22
A long one
A few things to keep in mind about this story.
1. This first audiobook doesn't end with the kind of closure you might expect from a book. Some might call it a cliffhanger, but to be fair it's just a good story taking its time to tell the story properly.
2. The narration is very.. idiosyncratic. He's talented, but it took me a few hours to get used to the cringy dialogue, childlike tone and excess of odd Scottish/Irish accents. I honestly thought I'd quit, but I'm glad I didn't.
At first, the story feels like it lacks substance, and the sentences are overly convoluted, but it gets a lot better. The time-loop repetition is quite well done and gives you many angles to look at the main character's situation. If you like seeing things from different perspectives (despite it being written from only one PoV), this is your book.
3. The main character grows. And there's depth to that growth. And the story doesn't fixate on his idiosyncrasies for very long. His angst goes away quickly enough.
4. It's good and very well paced. I hated it when I started it, but now that it's over I feel an odd sense of satisfaction despite the story being nowhere near done or tied up. Definitely one I'll check again later. (Later edit: now that I've completed the whole written story, I am so very sad it couldn't go on for longer. It was beautifully done and one of my favourite fantasy stories)
5. The setup is quite unique. The main character is more of a sidelines guy because of his personality. Analytical and exceptionally cautious. He doesn't make stupid mistakes.
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- laura
- 25-12-21
One Of My Favorites!
I love this story, I've read it multiple times and still find new things to like.
Having the option to enjoy this in audio format is an absolute delight, and I may or may not have binged the whole thing in a couple of days.
The narration is top notch, and I love the character voices.
If you like the premise of this story I highly recommend giving this a listen!
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- David
- 23-12-21
Amazing story, iffy narration
I love this story. I’ve read it at least ten times. Perhaps thats why the narration puts me off so much. The author has a good voice that he uses for narrative text and the main character.
However, he uses a variety of silly sounding accents for each character that almost all feel a bit fake and out of place to me. Most characters are a variation of welsh, irish, scottish, or an odd sounding chinese. More subtle voice variations would have worked a lot better.
Also its Kael, NOT Kyle xD.
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- Jethro Rhys Wilkinson
- 13-05-22
Narration ruins it
I had to stop listening halfway through the second chapter and return the book. The narrator's accents are terrible.
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- Benjamin Hartmann
- 08-03-22
Weird way to read a book
So after 1 hour I was so annoyed with the Reader I had to give it back. He reads like there are hundreds of Comma’s, so you got weird pauses everywhere….
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- MadEnoughNoMore
- 03-01-22
Terrible Narrator
Loved the book, which I read before listening to this. I'm so glad I did because I'd never have given it a chance.
The Irish accent given to one of the characters is unintelligible and the female voices are so high pitched at places to be that I couldn't make out what was being said.
I'd say give this a miss and read the book.
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- jamie l scott
- 02-01-22
Amazing
This book is awesome the story starts off a slow with a boy going to a school for mages but events suddenly take a turn for the worse and ends up being pulled into a time loop and starts to methodically improve his skills and figure out what’s going on and also improves as a person. Highly recommend this book and cannot wait for the rest of the story to be released the narrator also does an excellent job with great characterisations very enjoyable to listen to.
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- WireBear
- 31-12-21
One of my new favourite books. Highly recommend.
For a book heavily based on time looping, it keeped the story fresh and interesting. Narrator (Jack Voraces)did a fantastic job, he pulled off the comedy moments while also giving the characters depth. in the nature of the time loop i can imagine that it gets a tad...repetitive, but Jack narrated each section with care, i will be checking out other books he has narrated. If you like books that describe magic, its strengths and weaknesses as well as the protagonist developing there skills, i think you will like this book. Dominic writes really engaging characters and despite the dangers of time loop repetitiveness, he really makes each chapter a key piece in the story. I would definitely recommend this book, 5 🌟 i can't waith for the sequel.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-02-22
Narrator drags down a great story
I've read most of Arc 1 before on RR. Thoroughly enjoyed the story over there, only stopped reading for lack of time so was excited to pick it back up here. That quickly changed.
MC's younger sister features heavily and the voice given to her is a shrill, garbled mess. Half the characters have truly terrible "Irish" accents, and others have very stereotypical, poorly achieved regional accents.
Podium usually produce great work. This is pretty disappointing, especially considering the original quality of the book.
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