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

holly crappy story tell

The book and story are good but the narrator is the worst I have ever heard. This guy can't even pronounce the names properly. He should have listened the other people before him to say names and place to get them right. I find my self yelling at the radio because he cant say people and place names right, and he almost turned me off the series. But i want to know how the series turns out. This book should be rerecord with some the persomform the first 2 book.

Bring back the 1st Narrator.

This narrator often mispronounced names, titles and had bad accent. He seemed very unfamiliar with titles ie; Adjutant. Obviously NO military experience. This setied requires some military understanding.

Its true. All of it.

This guy...
I just cant...
It hurts to listen to...
Please make it stop...
Oh God...
Fucking hell is this 15 words yet?

Inconsistent pronunciation

New narrator was rough. He should have listened to the previous readings to be consistent about how the words were being pronounced.

Melodramatic reading ruins this

The narrator is trying too hard and is overacting. It was a huge distraction.
What's even worse is that he stresses the wrong words in sentences and mispronounced all the names and places.

Narrator also ignores WRITTEN instructions in the book tone such as "he said, flatly" .

David W. should care about how his books are read

What did you like about this audiobook?

I actually like Keven Collins the narrater but not this time. Kevin listen to a previous book or two for the tone of the book and pronunciation. You were so over the top and messed up simple words, We deserved better from you David and the publisher.

How has the book increased your interest in the subject matter?

It did not

Does the author present information in a way that is interesting and insightful, and if so, how does he achieve this?

No

What did you find wrong about the narrator's performance?

Homework is important

Do you have any additional comments?

When you change a narrator twice is a series with characters we love. You should care more about the people who buy your books

Better narrater then the last book

Six books in the series and 4 narraters! Collins did a better job (some missed pronuniations that buged me) then The last books narrater Keating (every one sounded like they were 80 years old). It's time to end the series don't turn it into Robert Jordan's Wheel of time.

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.