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The Novice
- Summoner, Book 1
- Narrated by: Dominic Thorburn
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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- anthony
- 30-05-16
Fantastic
This is a great start to what is going to be a fantastic series. There are parts of this book that remind me of Harry Potter, David A Wells and Robert Jordan / Brandon Sanderson if you like any of these then you are going to love this. The narrator isn't someone I have Hurd before but never the less does a good job. I have already got book 2.
9 people found this helpful
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- Jody
- 03-01-18
Brilliant Audiobook
The actors voices are brilliant and the story flows really well. Thrilling, exciting and mysterious. Seriously recommend!
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- Intecam
- 20-06-16
BRILLIANT STORY!
Really good except for a few mispronounced words - a bit annoying but that might be the OCD. Otherwise a fantastic story.
3 people found this helpful
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- Martin
- 08-08-19
Classic light but epic fantasy world stuff
Ideal if you love The Kingkiller Chronicals, Codex Alera and Harry Potter books and need a new fix
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- Johnny106
- 22-07-19
The Summoner, Books are Fantastic
I have now read/listened to all four books, on this occasion I read/listened to them in order. However, if you wanted to you could read the Prequel 1st, then books 1, 2 & 3. The correct order is The Novice, The Inquisitions, The Battlemage then the prequel, The Outcast. Although you can read the Outcast 1st, its written to be read last, the reason i think is that although it explains lots, there is also lots of twists, which you may not get if you read it 1st.
Now, the books, fantastic characters, super story line and great twists. I read/listened to all four books in four weeks. I found the story line to be a mix of Harry Potter, meets Lord of the Rings, meets Game of Thrones.
The writer has spent a lot of time, making sure that the story flows. This along with the twists and fantastic characters, makes them a must read.
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- Stef
- 06-04-18
great but short
Great book, good carachters, but it seemed to be over in a blink an eye.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-06-17
Great story, but variable audio quality
Loved the story, and the narration was pretty great, but it was let down with the technical quality of the recording.
The volume was variable at times, with either too-quiet or uncomfortably loud sections, and, while it might not worry everyone, often you could hear wet mouth noises as the narrator spoke! I had to grit my teeth to bear it, but it often sounded like he was too close to the microphone, and needed to have more to drink while recording! Yuck!
While it didn't ruin the audiobook, it'll make me think twice about listening to it again in the future.
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- j
- 19-07-16
pretty mediocre
the book starts off ok enough, but after a while the story loses its way and just becomes monotonous to listen to. The narration is poorly edited with a lot of line flubbs, poor pronunciation of words all over and dry delivery making it a chore to to listen to.
dropped after 4 hours.
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- Leanne
- 17-07-19
Dope series
I have just fished your series (apart from the prequel) and think the begging is so important for a good story I’d love to write a book as good as this myself. AMAZING STORY!
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- A. Byrne
- 15-06-19
music very off putting
music that plays at start and end is loud and jarring
otherwise there are no issues
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- Joao Taborda
- 08-04-22
Nice entangling kids mage story
The Novice, the 1st book of the Summoner trilogy is a nice mage story, with a lot of similarities to Harry Potter and those alike.
Fletcher is a young kid who get to know magic and his powers.
I liked it a lot!
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- Kris Hutchison
- 14-02-22
Great story with nice complexity
I get so sick of the old story of the main character ending up being a secret prince or princess and not just a worthless peasant after all.
And I so over the old fashioned way of writing fantasy that gives characters all their personality traits based on their race.
It is really nice to get a modern view of humanity in a fantasy setting.
I will definitely be reading whatever books there are in this series
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- Kindle Customer
- 10-06-21
Cliché fantasy when it's worst.
So many cliches that you already know what's going to happen before it happens. It feels like the first book someone wrote as a fourteen-year old boy, newly familiarized with fantasy. I couldn't finish it. Can't recommend. Great performance though.
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- Ranger_1997
- 27-07-19
Can't wait to star on book 2
Its a good story and can't wait to hear the other Two books the only bad thing i noticed is the narrators. I dont know what to call it other than ''Mouthwater sounds'' every time he ends a sentence you can hear it. And it infuriates me. But I Will still buy the Two other books so that i can finish this amazing story. And I think of is as a mix between Summoner by Eric Vall and World of warcraft but thats just My opinion
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-01-19
Weak
This isn't a book for a self-respecting fantasy fan.
The plot is very predictable and drags unmercifully.
Not to mention the fact that characters and motivations are so vague that it's hard to understand what the book is acually about. There are 60h multi plot books easier to digest than this.
The only thing that is remotely passable is the voices and performance although it is a bit monotonous.
Over all I would not recommend unless you are scraping the bottom of the fiction barrel.
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- Rishi
- 27-01-18
Awesomely executed
The narration is flawless and the book has a very compelling storyline. It is one of the better audiobooks I have listened to. However I feel some characters are somewhat two dimensional...
Overall a must have book.
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- Jacques
- 07-02-17
Great Start!
A very good start to a promising series. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys fantasy and new and innovative magic systems! Great performance by the Narrator aswell!