Bastial Explosion

The Rhythm of Rivalry, Book 3

De: B. T. Narro

Narrado por: Lesley Ann Fogle

Duración: 8 h y 44 m

Resumen del Editor

As Effie and her roommates learn firsthand the true savagery of their enemies, anger and grief threaten to overtake them. While dealing with internal turmoil, each student also must come to terms with his or her role in battle - and soon.

The Krepps have twice the numbers of Kyrro, and the frightfully strong creatures are eager to kill. After managing to anger the entire Academy during his introduction, Zoke learns that behaving like a Krepp makes him more of an outcast with his new allies in Kyrro than he was with his own race. With his sister Zeti on the opposing side as the gruesome events of war unfold, soon the only thing the siblings have in common is a waning hope that they won't see each other on the battlefield. But before a clash of unprecedented proportions can occur, something unheard of is discovered lingering deep below Tenred that may change everything.

©2013 B.T. Narro (P)2014 B.T. Narro

As always a fantastic story, BUT...

As always, B.T Narrow has written an encapsulating page-turner of a novel, and as always I was fully enchanted whilst reading. HOWEVER during the times I listened to the audible narration I struggled immensely to tolerate the narrator. The drastic Switch of voice and accents from Simon Vance to Lesley Ann Fogle would have been tolerable, if she had at least attempted to match the narrating tones of her predecessors. However, every single character spoke with a tone not only different from the tones portrayed to them in previous books, but legitimately opposite tones. It was as if all the characters had developed personalities opposite of those that they posessed in the books prior. In short, while the story was wonderful, the narrator quickly became intolerable, as the manner in which she personified the characters was in my opinion, detrimental to the entire background of the story.

they are getting better!

each book trials and deeper and deeper into the story. it's getting to the point where I'm truely invested in the characters and I'm afraid for when something takes a turn for the worse

listening to this novel got me hooked

Bastial Explosion is the third novel in the series The Rhythm of Rivalry written by B.T. Narro. This novel follows the wartime activities of a group of students, both human and of other races. The students at this academy learn special skills such as potion making, fighting, magic, and psyche. They are sent on missions because of the academy is a critical component of the war effort. In addition, the novel follows the movements of two of the enemy species, Krepps. One of the Krepps is allied with the humans that are the main characters and novel is exploring his adjustment to living amongst the humans.

First and foremost, one of the biggest issues that I have with this novel, is that it cannot stand alone. At the beginning, different races were being introduced by name as if the reader should already know them. This would have been the case if I had read the first two books. As I had not, I needed to do some research on the internet to get an idea of what the premise of the whole series was and get familiar with some basics that were mentioned. As soon as I did that, I felt much better about the entire book, but I definitely felt as if I was missing some things. It was as if, I has started a novel in the middle. Similarly, the end of was abrupt without much conclusion in this novel.

However, listening to this novel got me hooked. While some of the dialogue and romantic motivations were a little juvenile, the action in the novel is captivating and the world building pretty great. My mind did not wander and I was anxious to see what happened next. I think the character development could be improved. Sometime they seemed a little flat and their actions simply plot devices.

While Lesley Ann Fogle did a great job with the different voices, there were two aspects of the narration that bothered me a lot. First, and minor, at least in the beginning, I noticed an echo-y quality to the sound, implying that the narrator was sitting in a room were the sound carries. It was distracting and probably a production quality issue. Second, and more important, the ends of chapters were not read with any finality. At the end of every chapter, it seemed like the conversations were chopped off. While this might be partially the fault of the author, a narrator should be able to accomplish this. With the long pause between chapters and I kept thinking that my phone app had shut down. Overall, I think reading the previous novels would've helped me feel secure in my knowledge about what was going on and reading, rather than listening to the audiobook, would have been a better experience for me.

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Disappointed after the wonderful first two books

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I don't know,miss tricky. I enjoyed the first two narrators, but not this one. She wasn't bad, but I felt like I was lost and she couldn't keep my attention when compared to the others. The stage was set by male narrators and I think that really threw me. I really like the series, but almost couldn't complete this title...

Any additional comments?

I was provided a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Don't get me wrong, I was in love with this series until now. This title and narration makes it really tough to decide if I want to invest my time and money for the next title in the series.

Why Change the Narrator in a Series?

Why in the world did the production company change narrators mid Series? This has ruined the whole story. This narrator ALONE has caused me to rethink buying the rest of the books... I listened to samples for the last 2 books in the series & He's worse than this gal. I'm sorry but Nigel was doing a superb job & then this? Yes, the story WAS great. However, when you get a person who reads her parts like she's reading out of a Encyclopedia & has nothing but boredom to look forward to, then PAY THE EXTRA $$ or HOLD the Book Until the previous Narrator can Get back into production & read the series the RIGHT WAY! SMH!

Review

Once again a story that could have been fun and exciting was ruined by a truly awful narrator.