Moonchild

Completely Annotated Edition

De: Aleister Crowley

Narrado por: Graham Dunlop

A year or so before the beginning of World War I, a young woman named Lisa la Giuffria is seduced by a white magician, Cyril Grey, and persuaded into helping him in a magical battle with a black magician and his black lodge. Grey is attempting to raise the level of his force by impregnating the girl with the soul of an ethereal being — the moonchild. To achieve this, she will have to be kept in a secluded environment, and many preparatory magical rituals will be carried out. The black magician Douglas is bent on destroying Grey’s plan. However, Grey's ultimate motives may not be what they appear. The moonchild rituals are carried out in southern Italy, but the occult organizations are based in Paris and England. At the end of the book, the war breaks out, and the white magicians support the Allies, while the black magicians support the Central Powers.

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Worst read I have ever hear after 400 books

Graham Dunlop encounters the word "divan" 3 times in the first 9 chapters. Every time he pronounces it differently. He pronounces "tigress" with the emphasis on the *second* syllable. He often stresses the wrong parts of sentences out of misunderstanding. The worst part? He does two, maybe two and a half voices. He does a deep voice, which is clearly an electronic effect. Then he does a higher voice with two minor variations. One is *supposed* to be female? Here's the problem -- he does two and half voices over a multitude of characters. 9 chapters in, I had to restart the book becuase I was confiued who was who. The book itself is fun, I'm not going to pretend it's more than that,,, but Graham Dunlop's terrible reading and the total lack of editing make this a very, VERY challenging listen. Would not recommend.