Maker's Curse

Millennium's Rule, Book 4

By: Trudi Canavan

Narrated by: Grant Cartwright, Hannah Norris

Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

International number one best-selling author Trudi Canavan returns with the final novel in the Millennium's Rule series - her most powerful and thrilling adventure yet.

Rielle is now the Maker, restorer of worlds. She has lost count of the number of worlds she has been sent to save.

Tyen has cast off his old identity. No longer a spy, he now attempts to teach new sorcerers and find ways to counteract the war machines that are spreading throughout the worlds.

But when an old enemy brings news of something worse than magically dead worlds and dangerous sorcerers – a threat unlike anything the worlds have faced before – Rielle and Tyen must reunite if they are to have any chance of saving humanity.

©2020 Trudi Canavan (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Critic reviews

"Her easy, flowing style makes for effortless reading...Delightful worldbuilding...Vivid and enjoyable." (SFX)

Needed proofreading

This is the first (thankfully!) audiobook that had numerous repeat passages and a segment where the performer chuckled at her mixing up of accents. A distractingly nuisance. Storyline continued from previous book was entertaining enough though.

Satisfying listen!

I found Makers Curse to be very satisfying, and I love how the lore and world was expanded through this fourth installment of millenniums rule!

Great book - mistakes in recording

Loved the story as usual with any of Trudi Canavans books, but quite a few editing/recording mistakes happening throughout the book where they repeated the sentence or even the paragraph after making a mistake

Worthy conclusion to great series

As with the other books in the Millenium's Rule series, Maker's Curse is a captivating tale that through continuous shifts of narrator (lead character) explores the plots and storyline far more fully than with a single narrator.

I do wish the narrators would have paid a little more attention to pronouncing the names of characters uniformly - and that the recording studio would have spent more time cleaning up the recording. Several times there are bigger or smaller overlaps the same text being repeated, and in one place there is even an outburst and giggle from the female narrator that clearly isn't part of the script.

The story itself is so interesting and well crafted - and unpredictable in its most crucial details. Definitely a book and series I will listen to many, many more times.

two readers cause confusion

if only the two readers would agree on how to pronounce the characters' names, would rate 5 all across

nice conclusion book

It Ties up some loose ends. and does a nice job continuing a story I believed already finished. Has a reasonable pace. I enjoyed it.

both wraps up loose ends and creates new potential

The first arc of this book is awesome, revisiting old places and characters and wrapping things up there nicely. I wish there would have been more time spent in those places though, because they felt like much more interesting scenarios than the sudden huge change in scale and consequence in the rest of the book.
I wish some characters had gotten better happy endings and sendoffs, so hopefully this wont be the last book in the series!

As for narraration, the voice actors did a fantastic job as always, but there were a ton of technical issues. There were outtakes that weren't edited out, leading to some funny moments when you least expect them, but there were also whole minutes of dialogue that would suddenly repeat so smoothly I thought the characters were just talking in circles. I've never experienced these kinds of errors in all the books I've read on Audible, but they didn't break my enjoyment of the book.

Love!

I have listened to every Trudi Canavan book in the audible library and everyone single one is amazing! This one like the others was the same and did not disappoint!

Good book but with audio edit problems

I liked the book, but it did not really live up to the hype I had from the previous book.

The reader performance was fair, but the audio editing was actually really bad!
Unnaturally long pauses, repeats (up to two minutes once) and even included a laugh after misspronouncing a word.

Have they listened to the result at all?

Good Characters. OK Story

It had the great characters that I know Trudi for. It lacked a good plot. Should of finished a few books ago. I wasn't a fan of the magic system. Basically the whole series was over taken by the over arching magic system. Performance has quite a few of notable errors including repeats. I feel it may have been rush from the push back of the release date. Go read Age of the Five or the Black Magicians trilogy.