Darkwell

Forgotten Realms: Moonshae Trilogy, Book 3

De: Douglas Niles

Narrado por: Dara Rosenberg

The final title from the first Forgotten Realms trilogy ever published, now in audio!

Published in 1989, Darkwell was the final novel in the first trilogy ever set in the Forgotten Realms world. Unavailable for the past several years, this title is now being brought back in an audiobook edition. The other two titles in this trilogy will also be rereleased in the same season so that readers may easily compile the entire trilogy.

©2004 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Great Ending To This Series

All questions were answered and everything was pulled together for a great ending to a fun series. I highly recommend.

Bad narration.

Although the narration was clear the pronunciation of curtain words were way off. The choppy reading was irritating and the voice itself graded on my nerves. Then there's the fact that the voice seemed to be cut in a multitude of places as though rerecorded.

Okay story marred by a poor performance

The whole Moonshae Trilogy needs to be re-recorded. The trilogy is riddled with mispronunciations. I can live with mispronouncing a proper noun, especially with the weird names of the Forgotten Realms. However, she continues to make some of the same mistakes throughout the series; though sometimes a word is pronounced correctly one time and incorrectly another time. They are usually mispronounced homographs, words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings.

Additionally, it often sounds like she is reading to children. And there are clearly portions which have been edited and a new recording spliced in. The changes in sound and tone of her voice are jarring when it happens. Overall, it left me with a feeling of just power through and be done with the audiobooks rather than enjoy them.

Narration Still Ruining a Great Book

I loved this book when it first came out, so I purchased the trilogy on Audible. That was a huge waste of money. It's the third book, and the narrator is still saying Fuh-folk when 5 seconds on the internet will tell you Ffolk is pronounced Folk. Total waste of money!

great book

amazing books. the editing could use work in the audio though. sometimes the voice will change completely for a second.

Nostalgia Over Content

I think my nostalgia for this series was bigger than my appreciation for it today, after listening to all the books again. I have to say this narrator is really painful to listen to for this book. I researched her and sampled some of her other works and she's good enough. It's just in this presentation, she's overly nasal and whiny to a horrible degree, with bad cues and off putting, incorrect emphasis most times.

I barely made it through the entire book on willpower alone but the story just wasn't worth it, overly laden with tropes and having no real depth.Oh, well. C for effort.