Limits of Power

Paladin's Legacy, Book 4

By: Elizabeth Moon

Narrated by: Angela Dawe

Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Elizabeth Moon is back with the fourth adventure in her best-selling fantasy epic. Moon brilliantly weaves a colorful tapestry of action, betrayal, love, and magic set in a richly imagined world that stands alongside those of such fantasy masters as George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb.

The unthinkable has occurred in the kingdom of Lyonya. The queen of the Elves - known as the Lady - is dead, murdered by former elves twisted by dark powers. Now the Lady’s half-elven grandson must heal the mistrust between elf and human before their enemies strike again. Yet as he struggles to make ready for an attack, an even greater threat looms across the Eight Kingdoms.Throughout the north, magic is reappearing after centuries of absence, emerging without warning in family after family - rich and poor alike. In some areas, the religious strictures against magery remain in place, and fanatical followers are stamping out magery by killing whoever displays the merest sign of it - even children. And as unrest spreads, one very determined traitor works to undo any effort at peace - no matter how many lives it costs. With the future hanging in the balance, it is only the dedication of a few resolute heroes who can turn the tides...if they can survive.

©2013 Elizabeth Moon (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Love the books can't stand this particular reader.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The previous books were far better read by Jennifer Van Dyke and Susan Erickson despite some inconsistencies in pronunciation of names and places. Don't even get me started on the ongoing snafu with the different accents for every 'foreign' character that switch around from french to eastern european to spanish to irish and back again depending on the reader. I know the narrators are performance artists with different styles and accent specialties, but some attempt at consistency from actually listening to the previous books might be of help.

worst reading of my whole library.

where this lady learned to read should be shut down. what a comedy of mispronounced words. its a crime. this is one of my favorite books in the series.

Good story, but I prefer the other narrator

The story is well written, and a great addition to the series. This narrator pronounces many of the names differently than the narrator of the previous books in the series. She is talented in differentiating a wide variety of character voices. The one thing the narrator could improve upon is varying the pitch of her voice more, to make it sound more natural. I found it difficult to listen for extended periods of time to the duotone pitch.

Horrible voice acting

Changing voice actor mid series is a bad call. This one tries to immitate the first and comes upp whiny instead of doing her own thing. This saddens me for I love this series.

Limits of Power

Loved the story and the many parts. Was glad to find Paks back in the tale

Great story, lots of detail and adventure.

The narrator is different than the other books and pronounces things much differently which is distracting and sometimes confusing.

Don't like Angela Dawe

Where does Limits of Power rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I got it because the story left me hanging, and I really liked it.

How could the performance have been better?

If someone contracts to read a book that is an ongoing series, the least that "professional" could do is listen to the previous books. Angela Dawe pronounces everything, from place names to people names and everything else, differently from the previous books. It's driving me nuts trying to figure out who/what/where she's talking about. I'll finish it because I love the series, but I'll certainly not seek out Angela Dawe as a narrator.

Why different narrators?

I really wish they had not switched narrators up every book in this series. Especially since each one pronounces names differently! The narrator for this one is so bad. She sounds so wooden!

This book is great in terms of building the plot line and the tension of where it is all going. You can really see in these how much Moon has grown as a writer since the Deed of Paksenarrion. It's a shame it's hard to listen to.

consistency please

yet another narrator with different pronunciations. if you can't keep same narrator make a pronunciation list for those of us previous listeners.

Horrible narration

This is Brooke four out of five. I listen to the duration of the previous three books. Why didn't this read or listen to the pronunciations use consistently in the previous three books? I thought the reader of book 3 was bad: boy was I wrong.