Once in a Blue Moon [Dramatized Adaptation]

The Forest Kingdom Saga, Book 5

De: Simon R. Green

Narrado por: Andy Brownstein, Andy Clemence, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, David Jourdan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Eric Singdahlsen, Evan Casey, full cast

Duración: 16 h y 52 m

Resumen del Editor

Twice upon a time, Prince Rupert and Princess Julia saved the Forest Kingdom. They have earned the right to live happily ever after. But there’s a blue moon on the rise.....

Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes.

Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives. But Hawk and Fisher believe there’s another motive behind the abductions, one connected to a case they worked in Haven many years ago — a case they refuse to discuss.

They have no choice but to return to the Forest Kingdom, to be Prince Rupert and Princess Julia one last time in one last story — of the kind of things that happen only once in a blue moon.....

Narrated by: Andy Brownstein, Andy Clemence, Bradley Smith, Casie Platt, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Christopher Walker, Colleen Delany, David Coyne, David Jourdan, Elizabeth Jernigan, Eric Messner, Eric Singdahlsen, Evan Casey, Jacob Yeh, James Konicek, Jeff Allin, Joe Brack, John Dow, Jonathan Watkins, Ken Jackson, Lily Beacon, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Matthew McGee, Michael Glenn, Michael John Casey, Mort Shelby, Nanette Savard, Nick DePinto, Ren Kasey, Richard Rohan, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Scott McCormick, Steven Wannall, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Thomas Penny, Tim Getman, Yasmin Tuazon

©2014 Simon R. Green (P)2021 Graphic Audio

The Ending they deserved...

I remember reading Hawk And Fisher: Wolf In The Fold when it was first published in 1990 and, speaking as a totally bias fan of the characters (I've followed the story ever since) and Simon R. Green's work in general, this is the book we've been waiting for. A rip-roaring, sword-and-sorcery, humor-filled, balls-to-the-wall, all-out Big Beat Down, pitting Rupert and Julia against the incarnations of evil One More Time.

It's rare to enjoy a single book. let alone a whole bloody series where, once all is said and done, there aren't any nagging plot holes when you reach The Ever-loving End. I'm happy to confirm however, that Green did it not only with his excellent Deathstalker Saga and Secret Histories/Nightside novels, but also with this tale of Rupert and Julia and their legendary love that even demons fear.

Much like Green's Owen Deathstalker and Hazel d'Ark, and John Taylor and Shotgun Suzi, and Eddie Drood and the wild witch of the woods Molly Metcalf, I'll miss anticipating the next novel, the next part of the story. The desire for more literary adventures with beloved characters once their tale comes to a close is real. Once you reach those dreaded words "The End" and know your travels, across thousands of pages, with them is complete and you have to go your separate ways.

It leaves an ache deep in your heart, where you keep memories of all things you hold dear, even (as is the case here, with Rupert, Julia, Chappie, and the Dragon) when you can't imagine a better way for them to travel from the pages... and back into legend.

Where they belong. :)