They changed the narrator AGAIN !!! So now not only does everyone sound different, but the narrator pronounces names and words different too. This made it hard to immerse myself, especially coupled with the fact that this book is really slow and the amount of time taken to describe the workings of steam engines got REALLY boring. I already know about that crap and I don't need my leisure reads turning into a textbook. I going I could let the book drone on for 15 min at a time and on one person would still be blabbing about nothing.
There were very few parts where anything really happened and the rest just seemed like filler. Really hope the series picks up in the next book.

I continue to enjoy this on going saga. the reader is a better fit that the last one. he interpretation is more in line with the first performer which really set the stage so to speak

I have read the reviews. I disagree with several folks who have said that the story moves slowly. This ys how Weber writes. You get a detailed description if everything. What I don't disagree with was the terrible naration. In a ling series, u get that you may not be able to get the original actor, but this guy changed the pronunciation if all the main character names and place names. Not good. I wish producers would take that in account when dealing with a multivolume series.

I HATE the narrator! He gets so worked up over nothing! He's replace Scott Brick as the most irritating narrator!

EVERYTHING!!!

Yes, stopper up my ears so I didn't have to listen any more. Also, I'm returning the audible version and buying an ebook instead.

It's too bad the producers couldn't have stuck with the same narrator for the entire series.

The story itself is broad sweeping and ambitious. The scope of detail is breathtaking and the depth of the world remarkable. This is let down in places by the author not choosing to omit details which really don't fill in our picture much at all save for simple providing the full account of battles, which gets a bit tedious at times. The characters are wonderful and it's another good book in the series.

The narrator however is absolutely horrible. His breathy, heavy, overly dramatic portrayal of everything is almost unbearable. He voices sentences that the characters clearly say in jest as if they are serious and it's just so ghastly.

Horrible narrator; overly dramatic, mispronounced words and constantly hearing him gasping in the middle of sentences.

Story was ok, however mare by a narrator who couldn't be bothered to learn previous pronunciations for simple names, almost skipped this after the first few minutes

the narrator is too wrapped up in conveying emotion to pronounce words and names properly.

Dammed narrator ruined this book
20 odd hours of music pronunciation is enough
One word. Avoid. Read if possible.

When you come into the middle of a series as a narrator could you please check with previous narrations to make sure you get names correct. If you've listened to the first several books it can really take you out of the story when a new narrator pronounces all the main characters names wrong. Also when you get the names of places wrong it takes you a minute as a reader to place things. I love this series but this book with the narrator was very hard to get through.