Ron

I feel I have to comment, and put a little context.

The Series: is excellent and well written, however it does tend to drag a little, I know this era is where most of the meat will be, but at the rate he's going it will take him about 30 books just to take over safehold never mind the G-baba

The Narration: I understand it is hard to keep the same narrator through an entire series like this, I imagine its really tough to schedule, but for god's sake do a professional job of it. The first narrator sets the tone and all others must honor that tone or it will turn readers off. The switch from first to second narrator was not too bad, most pronunciations, accents and inflection were similar, the only criticism is that the second narrator is obviously far far older then the first and it throws you a bit, especially when the vast majority of the characters are supposed to be very young. Lastly the latest narrator Kevin Collins should never have been allowed to narrate anything, he has done no research he listened to none of the previous books to understand pronunciation, and he over acts in the extreme, it does not matter if he is listing a dinner menu everything is of earth shattering importance, I don't want to crush the poor guy but you really should burn this copy re-do the whole book six with the first narrator and send a new copy to every poor soul who had the poor judgement to buy this thing. To be fair it is in no way all his fault, there are producers, recording techs and god knows how many other people involved in these recordings and Weber himself, were none of them paying any attention to this, do we matter so little, for pete's sake he pronounced just about every character and place completely differently then anyone else!

I will listen to the rest of the book since I usually listen to them during my commute and I just want to get this over with but I positively grit my teeth through the whole thing, I wish Merlin Athross??? could just PICA(apparently now pronounced Pike-A, instead of Peak-A) this thing better.

Lastly i'm not kidding when I say this Macmillian Audio, Audible and David Weber should apologize for this utter disaster ASAP, this is just not right.

This is a backfill book, but it fills in the holes in the story nicely, however I would have prefered that Stirling cut back and forth and stayed on the same timeline it would be less jolting