Dissolution

Forgotten Realms: War of the Spider Queen, Book 1

By: Richard Lee Byers

Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor

Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

The War of the Spider Queen begins here.

While their whole world is changing around them, four dark elves struggle against different enemies. Yet their paths will lead them all to the most terrifying discovery in the long history of the drow and set them on a quest to save not only Menzoberranzan but the entire dark elf race from Dissolution....

©2002 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Great Fantasy - Heavy Magic

Great performance. The story deals heavily with magic for better or worse depending on taste.

a decent read

it was a fun reintroduction to the Drow underdark. I was not overly impressed but I enjoyed it. I just wish the female characters were as interesting as the men.

Great Story but I Preferred Reading It

I read this story a couple decades ago and really enjoyed it. The plotting ways of the drow is on full display in this side series. The mystery element is something less explored in the FR books, so the sleuthing too is welcome.

The narration is very good but doesn’t fit the series. Going from an American male narrator to an English female makes for a jarring change. Established characters sound and are performed quite differently, and not something I could really embrace. Were this change to occur in Daughter of the Drow, with less familiar characters and a true female lead character, it would have been better. However, the fault lies with the publisher, NOT the narrator. If someone cast Taylor Swift to play Stevie Wonder in a biographical film it wouldn’t be her fault.

Worth purchase good series

If you could sum up Dissolution in three words, what would they be?

Intriguing Ruthless entertaining

What was one of the most memorable moments of Dissolution?

Final climax battle

Have you listened to any of Rosalyn Landor’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

No but really like her reading giving charters differnt voices and so forth

Any additional comments?

Really enjoyed the book will get next in series

Thumbs up

The narrator is excellent . I felt engaged throughout the story will definitely listen to the rest in series

difficult but fun.

i had to listen some parts over. but it was a fun to listen too

Great!

Great from start to finish. I can't not recommend this book enough. Characters have depth and goals. The plot has a clear path as it occurs but not able to be predicted. Worth any readers time.

Good series, average narration

I'll preface this with saying that I've listened to a lot of different narrators. Rosalyn Landor was pretty average. Good book and good series delving into drow society, but if you're looking for exciting narration, you'll be disappointed.

Great story, miserable narration

Annoying voices for the characters. Sometimes gets the voice wrong during dialogue and it’s confusing because until you figure out which character was supposed to be speaking.

Story itself is great, when you can ignore the narrator... Overall vaguely disappointed but still going to listen to her reading the next five books, so... yeah.

Another great story

I love this story, it gives a close look at the Drow race and a detailed explanation of their culture and very interesting characters.