Storm Glass

By: Maria V. Snyder

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins

Publisher's summary

As a glassmaker and a magician-in-training, Opal Cowen understands trial by fire. Now it's time to test her mettle. Someone has sabotaged the Stormdancer clan's glass orbs, killing their most powerful magicians. The Stormdancers--particularly the mysterious and mercurial Kade--require Opal's unique talents to prevent it happening again.

But when the mission goes awry, Opal must tap in to a new kind of magic as stunningly potent as it is frightening. And the further she delves into the intrigue behind the glass and magic, the more distorted things appear.

With lives hanging in the balance - including her own - Opal must control powers she hadn't known she possessed...powers that might lead to disaster beyond anything she's ever known.

©2009 Maria V. Snyder (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

Compelling beginning

Like the story. It moves along speedily, heavy in action. Didn’t realize I was jumping in the middle of a world and existing story. I will read the next one.

Narrator drove me nuts!

I have to agree with the above reviews. It wasn't the narration, but the mispronunciation of so many names and places. If you're going to use 2 different narrators for the same series, please please please have them listen to previous pronunciations! Every time the narrator talked about the Davidians (which she mispronounced as "daveyedians") or curare (which should be pronounced "cure-are-ey" but she pronounced "cure-rare") it felt like nails on a chalkboard. AND - suddenly characters who previously had no accents have thick Slavic accents (i.e., Jenko).
It was very distracting.
The narration was just ok (besides the inconsistencies, that is).
Loved the actual content of the book though!

Great Story but the Narration Ruins It

Story is great but the narration simply ruined it. She pauses every few seconds then over exaggerates everything it was highly annoying. I couldn't even get through the whole book.

Lack of pronunciation continuity with Magic series

It was jarring to hear the pronunciation differences in key words in common with the Magic series. Curare, Davian, Booruby and more. I prefer this actor to the Magic series reader but wish the pronunciation was consistent. The story is a nice continuation of Snyder's world.

DON’T READ THIS BOOK

This is a good book with a good story but it is part of a trilogy. The problem is that the ending of the trilogy is the worst ending of any book I have ever read and I read a book every day. Some reviews of the third book will tell you it’s great and it’s about redemption and bla bla bla… spoiler alert she chooses the evil villain over the hero. I personally believe the author sat in an interview with a sociopath and narcissist and decided to write him into her book. My sister’s ex boyfriend literally said the same exact words the author wrote for his redemption speech. That was two weeks before he threatened to kill her for leaving him and a month before he tried to steal her son and now he is stalking her. Leaving little things around the property so we know he’s been there… you get the idea.
This ending is so bad it would be like that moment after 10 seasons of Bones where Palant has prevented Bones and Booth from getting married and he has killed Bones friend and Booth’s FBI buddy in horrible gruesome ways and Bones is going to go to jail for the murders and they are standing out side the church after Christine was christened and Booth goes for the car and a car pulls up and Bones get in and drives away and goes into hiding. Well in her version it’s not her dad in the car it’s Palant. It’s just twisted

I think the author need needs to see a psychiatrist and get some counseling

Loved it though a little confusing at times.

I love this book as much as I enjoyed the Study series. I starts 5 years after Fire Study with a secondary character taking the spotlight. My only problem with this book is that there are so many characters in it that I was getting confused with them all. I like to read along as I listen (usually) but I don't have the print of this book. I think it would be easier (for me) if I did have the actual book in hand. Otherwise, I did like the storyline and thought it was very imaginative. Great series for teens since the love scenes are not described and there are few of them.This narrator was not quite as enjoyable as Ms. Zackman from the first three because Jennifer Van Dyck didn't pronounce the word correctly (the same) and it just didn't sound right.I wish that the same narrator would have been used for the whole series even if they do have different main characters. I find this a lot with all kinds of books and sometimes the narrator is just not right for the part. Narrators should audition for the parts and be approved by the author and even get with the author to walk through the book and take notes as to what the author wants. It would make for better books and I'm sure audio sales would be a lot better. This is just my opinion.

Jennifer VanDyck is good narrator, however...

I wish Gabra Zackman had continued narraton for Opal Cowen trilogy. Love character voice continuity.

Story is alright. Performance is disappointing.

I've become accustomed to the voice actress in the first three novels in this universe and it is hard to hear another voice actress change accents and pronunciation of names.

Narrator Van Dyck is good, but

She mispronounced words that had me yelling at Audible.
"Sais" is pronounced "sighs " and "curare" is NOT Q-rare, but Q-R-ray.
Copse is pronounced "cops" not "copes." etc. just distracts from a good narration.

Was decent

With a different narrator for this boom, certain words & accents of characters changed from the first 3 books in series making it a little odd listening to.