Midst Toil and Tribulation

Safehold Series, Book 6

By: David Weber

Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins

Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

David Weber's New York Times bestselling Safehold series of military Science Fiction adventure, which began with Off Armageddon Reef, continues with Midst Toil and Tribulation

WAR AND FAMINE

Once the Church of God Awaiting dominated all the kingdoms of Safehold. Then, after centuries of stasis, the island kingdom of Charis began to defy the edicts of Mother Church—egged on, some say, by the mysterious warrior-monk Merlin Athrawes, who enjoys the Charisian royal family's absolute trust.

What vanishingly few people know is that Merlin is the cybernetic avatar of a young woman a thousand years dead, felled in the war in which aliens destroyed Earth...and that since awakening, his task has been to restart the history of the long-hidden human race.

Now, reeling from the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis's declaration of independence, the Republic of Siddermark slides into chaos. The Church has engineered a rebellion, and Siddermark's all-important harvest is at risk. King Cayleb and Queen Sharleyan struggle to stabilize their ally, which will mean sending troops—but, even more importantly, preventing famine. For mass starvation in Safehold's breadbasket is a threat even more ominous than civil war...

©2012 David Weber (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

this narrator truly sucks

love the series. Having trouble with the overly melodramatic narrator that can't pronounce anything with any consistency with previous narrators.

I would happily buy a version with either of the previous narrators, preferably Oliver Wyman, the first narrator.

great story. narrator needs to study more

Narrator sometimes threw me out of the story with his bad pronunciation of the word demesne. The writing drew me back in.

Good story, bad narration

First: how hard can it be to spend an hour listening to the original
Narrator to make sure there is continuity in pronunciation? Even a half an hour? This bugs the hell out of me.
This is a great story line, even though there is a bit too much battle detail which tends to bog down the flow of the story.
This narrator makes no voice differentiation between characters, which leads to confusion throughout this recording. Maybe someday they will have The original narrator re-record this mess.

Great read

so very good. I love this series and the string character development. each story tied together so well.

For real? Again? Terrible narration.

Well, I guess this is a great way to get people back into reading the real thing. I mean, Weber is long winded. But I also loved the Wheel of Time so it's kinda in my wheelhouse.

But they went too far in the opposite direction. The last guy put absolutely zero emotion into the narration. This guy? Wow.

Every. Single. Word. Is. EMOTION. Seriously, it's exhausting. Now I've blown two credits on books I can't listen to because of terrible narration.

Good Story - Terrible Narrator!

Any additional comments?

Terrible editing and narration. The narrator pronounces almost all names different from all the previous books. Why didn't he listen to some of the previous book to understand how the names were pronounced? And, why didn't the editors correct this! Poor, poor, poor job! Good story, but it's lost in the miserable reading!

Really?!?

Would you try another book from David Weber and/or Kevin T. Collins?

Maybe. It depends on the narrator.

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator could have listened to the previous books to get pronounciation correct.

Was Midst Toil and Tribulation worth the listening time?

I am not sure. It was very grating to the ear.

Any additional comments?

Have the narrator listen to the previous books and rerecord. When the name of main characters and places are pronounced differently after five previous books, it is very annoying.

why the terrible voice actor why

the performer is so terrible the last was so much better. it makes the book worse

Annoying narrator

Would you try another book from David Weber and/or Kevin T. Collins?

I love the series, but this narrator was extremely annoying!

The narrator obvious did not listen to any of the previous books because he changed the pronunciations of place and character names, a long with some common words that I have never heard pronounced the way he did.

The narrator also tried to use the pitch and pace of his voice to convey dramatic moments in the story. The effect he actually conveyed was a really bad ham actor.

I'll be watching for this one to come out with a different narrator.

The Safehold Saga Continues

What did you like best about this story?

I thought it had a good storyline. I liked the budding romance between Hektor and Irys.

Would you be willing to try another one of Kevin T. Collins’s performances?

NO, I wouldn't want to listen to another narration by Kevin T. Collins. I found his voice whiney and extremely annoying at times especially with the misprounciation of names and words as established in previous books of this series. It got a little better as the story continued or else I became more innured to his presentation.