Burden's Edge

Fury of a Rising Dragon Series, Book 1

By: Sever Bronny

Narrated by: Gary Furlong

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

When a young man chooses a forbidden calling, he must prove his worth...or watch his kingdom fall.

Sixteen-year-old Augum Stone is a warlock prodigy suffocating under the weight of expectations. Students idolize him. Nobles plot to exploit him. Commoners think he's a miracle-maker. And with invasion looming, his already war-weakened kingdom expects him to be its champion. But Augum doesn't want to be a pawn in someone else's game. He'll forge his own path: that of the Arcaner - not a warlock or a knight, but a lethal combination of both.

Legend says Arcaners once had the power to summon dragons. If true, it could change everything. Resurrecting the Arcaner path comes with consequences, however. Scandal. Malice. Treachery. And a harrowing test of character. He must survive. He must prove he's worthy of an ancient path. And he must save the kingdom...before it's too late.

©2017 Sever Bronny Ltd. (P)2018 Tantor

To much inner dialogue

I found myself skipping portions of the book because the main character spends to much time lost in his own head. And in my opinion, hinders the story progression. Almost a 5 star book.

Excellent Continuation

This story was great! I was worried after reading the other reviews and the new narrator but the narrator isn’t bad, he’s just different. Pronounced words much differently but its easy to get used to. The plot itself is just as action packed, if not more, than the first series books! Definitely feels like the characters are older and facing a different set of challenges

Good read

Slow but worth every minute. A tale that you will never forget. Reading the first books a must

Burden's Edge review

I like the story well enough. It didn't quite capture my imagination like the Arinthian Line series. I like the Arinthian Line narrator better.

Instantly sub par compared to The Arinthian Line

All of a sudden all of the characters have completely changed in personality. The new narrator does this series more harm than good. Half the time its hard to tell if he is narrating one of the many female roles or the male roles. Terrible idea to change narrators, especially going as far as to change the nationality of the narrator making all of the characters sound like they decided to have an accent from Dublin after already publishing 5 books, all of which had no discernable accent.

Enjoyable!

Most of the negative thoughts about the book revolve around the narrator. I thought he did a good job. The only issue for me was that some of the names / spells are pronounced differently than the first narrator.

Difference

While the new narrator is good, the inflection and characters voices are too similar. Will continue to listen however as I am thoroughly invested in this series.

Audio Performance

To be honest I enjoyed the original 3 books immensely and the narrator did not disappoint. It is always annoying when narrators are changed midway through a series. My best advice is if you’re coming directly from the first series is to wait a few months because the transition to a new narrator won’t be as shocking. All and all the new narrator still did a good job and the book is well done and worth the listen.

Disappointed in narrator change

While Gary Furlong overall is not a bad narrator, the change from the original Arinthian Line series narrator, Stefan Rudnicki, was disappointing. Furlong pronounces some key words differently than Rudnicki that was so hard to ignore. Also Furlong gave very monotone fight scenes that was so saddening because the epic duals and fight for survival is part of what makes the series so heart stopping and page turning (metaphorically). The BIGGEST issue I had at first was now all the characters have completely different accents!!!!! Part of why I fell in love with the characters, especially the supporting ones, was from the way Rudnicki made each individual character have unique way of speaking. Emphasis on certain words and tones conveying their emotions. Furlong completely changed it and it made it hard for me to even recognize some of the iconic characters from the Arinthian Line books. I want to say again, Furlong is a good narrator, I just want Rudnicki back.

Great

Reader was epic in his ability to keep voices on par with the people on the book. Made it a Great Read!!