The Orc King

Transitions, Book I

By: R. A. Salvatore

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Drizzt is back, and facing a world changed forever!

An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can't last long. The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he's worked to build.

But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World. Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. And it won't be easy.

This book wasn't just the next installment in the long-running saga of the famous dark elf, but the beginning of a bold new trilogy that will help change the face of the Forgotten Realms world forever.

TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

Don't forget to listen to more adventures of the Forgotten Realms.

©2008 R. A. Salvatore (P)2009 Random House

great book 10/10

there's not much I can say if your this far into the series you know the great thematic. I live in do long to make sure he and cattybree finally tie the knot

Terrible Narrator, Where is Victor Bevine

What disappointed you about The Orc King?

The narrator is absolutely awful!!! I cannot state this strongly enough, Victor Bevine does an amazing job but this person does terrible voices and does not tone the emotion in any of the characters correctly.

What did you like best about this story?

The writing of R.A. Salvatore is flawless as usual.

Would you be willing to try another one of Mark Bramhall’s performances?

No no no no no, absolutely not!!!

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Orc King?

anything read by Mark Bramhall...

Any additional comments?

Please, oh please just use Victor Bevine! His tone and ability to capture the emotions and intensity of any situation is second to none.

Why change narrators - AGAIN!

Books 1-19, with the exception of book 16 all were narrated by the same person. Then in this book - bam. A new narrator. And guess what, the new narrator apparently hasn't listened to any of the previous books. Every character's name, and I mean every single one is pronounced differently in this book. I get circumstances may cause a change in a narrator in a long series like this but crap at least make an effort to pronounce names the same as in the previous 19 books. It is like he is trying to be different on purpose. It is so bad that I had to stop and replay certain parts to make sure I knew who they were talking about. Early in the book he even used the wrong name - not mispronounced - but the wrong name for a character. It is so bad that I doubt will continue the series. Especially after learning that this guy is narrating the next two as well. Then in book 23 Victor Bevine comes back.

Narrator gets an F from me!

good book, narrator needs alot of work

Narrator needs to go back and listen to the other books and listen to the way names of characters, weapons and cities are pronounced before butchering them.

Change in reader

The new reader isn't terrible but when the entire series so far has been read by one reader it is annoying to switch and suddenly have all the characters have different voices and differently pronounced names. I am not sure why the change for only 3 books, but it would be nice for victor bevine to do these 3 books as well. If it hadn't been for the change I probably would not have minded the new reader.

good book but not the preferred narrator

not a huge fan of the narrator. That is possibly due to his altered pronunciation of alot of the names in comparison to Victor Bevine who narrated the first 6 series

What I think of book "The Orc King"

Sorry but should have stuck to Victor for reading. He read the last 17 books and was great at it where as Mark miss pronunciates names and some times put to much emphasis on other words. Other then the reader the story was amazing.

Awesome book, decent narrator.

Not a fan of this narrator. they should have stuck with Victor bevine. The difference in tone and pronunciation is very noticable.

My first 4 star for a Drizzt tale.

unfortunately, Mark bramhall's performance on this story was the reason for the less than five star review. after listening to so many drizzt tales read by Victor Bevine I found myself being taken out of the story's mood quite often spy the way that Mark pronounced a lot of the names of characters, places, and items. Victor pronounces all of the names the same way I do, the same way I'm sure most people do whereas mark over accentuates a lot of the names in the story to the point we're at first I didn't even know what he was talking about... trying to make things sound way more Mystikal and foreign. great story though and a wonderful addition to the saga... I am a little bummed that I have to go through two more books with this narrator to get back to Victor's narration... you would think that these production companies would air on the side of consistency...

just not the same without Victor

good book. okay-ish narrator.

as with a lot of other reviews, the narrator's mispronounciations of common names really throws off the feel of the story.