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The Wizard Hunters

Fall of Ile-Rien, Book 1

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The Wizard Hunters

By: Martha Wells
Narrated by: Talmadge Ragan
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Ile-Rien is in peril. A mysterious army known only as the Gardier has surrounded the country, attacking in ominous black airships. Hope is not lost though, for a magical sphere created by Ile-Rien's greatest sorcerer may hold the key to defeating the faceless enemy. But the sphere is unpredictable and has already claimed several lives. When a magical spell goes disastrously awry, young Tremaine Valiarde and a brave band are transported to another world-a world of rough magics, evil mages, honorable warriors, and a secret Gardier base.

©2003 Martha Wells (P)2013 Tantor Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic Magic Users

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"The subsequent story seems intended to combine elements of high fantasy and cross-time travel, as if it were a collaborative work by Andre Norton and S. M. Stirling. Thanks to Wells' narrative skill and considerably above-average characterization, it largely succeeds in those intentions." ( Booklist)
Engaging Characters • Rich Worldbuilding • Comfortable Voice • Imaginative Adventure • Complex World • Perfect Pacing

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I love this author and this series and was looking forward to listening to this book instead of just enduring interminable rush hour traffic. Unfortunately the narrator has made sitting in rush hour seem even longer with her over enunciated and oddly emphasized reading. I an trying to finish this but don't know if I can.

Great story, awful to hear

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It took me a while to get into the story enough that I stopped hating the narrator, whose need to pronounce every terminal consonant added syllables and delays all over the place. “He couldntuh try again”. You’ll know if this is a thing that bothers you.

Wells has created another fascinating world with peoples and magics we don’t understand. I guess there’s a sequel to justify all the world-building, because it stopped a little abruptly, although the short-term goals we’re accomplished…

Good story, dense world

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I think this is a good story, but it is difficult… to get over… the narrator’s horribly timed… pauses mid-sentence. Every scene (be it dramatic or general information) and all the characters are read with little differentiation or inflection. Then there is the mispronunciation of words- names of places and people that were featured prominently in the 2 preceding novels. I cringed every time the narrator said “Ile-Rien”. I can only hope for improvement in the next novel, because the reading can’t get much worse!

If Siri read a book, this is what you would get

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A great start to a gripping trilogy. Well crafted, interesting characters and fascinating world building.

And it never fets boring.

Fast paced but not lacking in anything

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I wish I had bought the actual book instead of the Audible version. I have already gotten the Audible versions of other books in this series with the same narrator, and I sincerely wish I had not wasted the credits on them. There is no way I'll suffer through another book read by this narrator. Weird over-pronunciations, uneven pauses, bizarre word emphasis, and snail's pace of speaking ruined the experience of this book for me. It's like the narrator was reading a single word at a time without regard to how spoken language is supposed to sound. I finally sped it up to 1.5x, but even so, the narration was jerky, halting, and just plain strange. No one speaks like this in real life. No one.

I would have liked the book better if the narration had not jarred me out of the story so many times. Despite an undercurrent of a completely unnecessary romance, the world-building and magical system were interesting. The plot moved well, and the characters were well-developed.

The narration absolutely ruins the book, though.

Terrible narration, decent story

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