The Powder Mage Novella Collection #1

Stories from the Powder Mage Universe

By: Brian McClellan

Narrated by: Julie Hoverson

Enter a new world or return to see old friends in four Powder Mage Universe novellas featuring Erika, Tamas, Adamat, Taniel, Ka-poel, and Ben Styke.

©2014 Brian McClellan (P)2016 Brian McClellan

story: meh; narration: horrid

The stories were okay, nothing special. But I REALLY struggled to listen to the whole thing. All the male voices sounded like overly-dramatic, overly-enunciating, snooty pirates. No actual pirate characters.

amazing storytelling

absolutely fell in love with the powdermage world and leaves me wanting more and more

McClellan is an excellent storyteller his skill shines in these select short stories.

McClellan is an excellent storyteller his skill shines in these select short stories about the powder mage universe.

Narrator is terrible

Every time she spoke, it was like my fingernails were being pulled out of my skin whole. Her voice acting was absolutely terrible and she continually missed pronounced the names from the original narrator of the book. Which was super annoying. This was almost worth returning the book because of it.

I loved the story's

I loved the most of story's, the murder at the kinnin hotel dragged at times but other wise the story's were great. I didn't like the person who narrated because all the names were pronounced differently

Great books for the powder mage fan

The performance would have gotten more stars but the narrator kept pronouncing names wrong I've listened to graphic audio versions and they pronounc everything correctly

well that was fun

a review requires fifteen words. I have only a few more to go. Good stories. Will listen again someday

They’re both wrong.

Everyone is taking the narrator through the coals over her mispronunciations, but according to the author they’re both wrong. According to Brian McClellan, he pronounces Tamas as ‘Thomas’.

That notwithstanding, I still don’t enjoy her as much as a narrator. She’s not BAD, but I don’t like how she places emphasis. Sometimes she feels more like how I would read a story to my children when they were younger. Not all the time, but I think that’s where my dissatisfactions comes from with her.

Do I dislike her enough not to listen to the rest of the stories? In the near future, sadly yes. Maybe I can come back to the series after a break, but I couldn’t handle more of her right now.

Wrong narrator

The narrator was the wrong narrator for this type of setting and missed the mark so very very badly, if the same narrator is used for the second collection i will not be listening to it.

Reads slow

Play it on 1.25x, Julie Hoverson reads slow but does a good job otherwise. I wish names were pronounced the same as in the main trilogy but perhaps this is more aligned with the author since he's more involved here. These novellas as individual works are slightly better than any of the trilogy books. The setting is better than most and I hope Mr. McClellan continues writing within it.