The Complete Wardstone Trilogy

De: M. R. Mathias

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Brothers torn by magic. A sorceress with dragony aspirations. A wolf king, a royal wizard, a squire fleeing with a coveted sword. What could possibly go wrong when they all collide in Highwander, where the very bedrock is formed of the powerful substance known as Wardstone? After reading all three of the Wardstone novels I find myself wanting more. I love Hyden, Mikahl, and Phen. This is a great fantasy trilogy. Well written and worth every penny. The characters may never leave me. - Liz Corwell Book One - The Sword and the Dragon Book Two - Kings, Queens, Heroes, and Fools Book Three - The Wizard and the Warlord Praise for, The Sword and the Dragon - Book One of The Wardstone Trilogy: Deemed one of the top 10 indie Fantasy releases of 2010 by Fantasy Book Critic, and listed in the first ever Publishers Weekly Indie Select issue, this 235k word epic title was originally written in longhand in a Texas prison cell by M. R. Mathias. - Digital Wizard Overall The Sword and the Dragon (A+) is an impressive debut - a traditional fantasy that manages to be fresh. It succeeds in offering a complete reading experience. See the full review here: fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com --Fantasy Book Critic Fans of Tolkien and CS Lewis will find much to enjoy to enjoy in M.R. Mathias' debut fantasy novel. This is a big book, with a steady flow throughout. Read this book. Take up your sword and get ready for a hugely enjoyable adventure. --Book Smart UK This is an epic fantasy, and I do mean epic. This book is LONG. I'm talking 200,000 plus words, here. Probably three times as long as Harry Potter. A fat fantasy, the kind you would expect from a Jordan or Tad Williams. One should not be put off by the price, because you do get your money's worth. -- Bestselling Author, B. V. Larson Praise for, Kings, Queens, Heroes, and Fools - Book Two of The Wardstone Trilogy: The battle scenes, brawls, mysteries, and adventures kept me turning page after page. Yet it was the close relationships between the main characters that makes this book transcend beyond adventure --Dr. Sheri Kaye Hoff It almost isn't fair to compare any Fantasy novel to Tolkien's trilogy but I'm going to say it: if you loved The Lord of the Rings, you will love this book... IF... you are not attempting to compare the two works. Come on, J.R.R. Tolkien's world is a whole different world than the world crafted by Mathias. If the fantasy genre is bigger than Tolkien (and I believe it is), then Mathias also deserves a place in the reader's heart. -- John Cardwell Amazon "Vine Voice' Reviewer Now that I am fully into the trilogy, I can state how amazed I am by the world building and the details. I am in awe of M.R.'s ability to work in details and descriptive passages without them ever being tedious or taking away from the story itself. That takes great talent and for this reason I am one of his biggest fans. Of course there are other reasons too, but I think he is one tremendously talented writer, and I hope he never stops. - Great Imaginations

Stories are great. Computer voice not good.

Enjoy the story throughout this series. Great characters and adventures but the computer voice was difficult to listen to. Way to monotone.

disappointed with AI reading

I did not enjoy the AI reading. names were frequently misspoken; intonations were not correct; too much monotone.
This story is very much a Lord of the Rings formula.

Great Story, Terrible Narration

I thought this would have been an awesome book had there been a good narrator instead of a virtual voice. The inflections were all wrong and completely threw me off. It was so distracting that it was hard to follow the story and stay immersed. This was my first virtual narration and I don't think I would ever purchase a book with virtual narration again. It ruined this book!

Awesome story but with an abrupt ending.

Did not enjoy the virtual voice due to mispronounced words and weird inflections. Would have been much better with a human reader.

Loved the characters and story. I would have preferred a more elaborate wrap up with some details about how everyone is doing in that one year later ending. I would have gladly listened to two or more chapters just to fill in those details.

excellent story!

having AI narrate it was a horrible plan. the inflection was all over the place, the pronunciation of names was ALL OVER THE PLACE, and good Lord can you differentiate the characters with a different accent or a different timber of your voice and be consistent? there were some very exciting scenes that I got knocked out of the experience because a name was mispronounced for a word was mispronounced and just completely took me out of the storyline. so, while I loved the story, it was really hard to stay engrossed in the storyline. still worth listening to but I feel like I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it on my own and come up with different voices for the different characters on my own.

Great story. Presentation was horrible. Full of mispronunciations, incorrect word cadence and pauses in wrong places.

The story was great. Whoever did the quality control on this audiobook should find a new line of work.

good story, terrible AI audio.

I wish It wouldn't have been done by ai. in fact, if it's ever re-done, I'll probably come back and listen.

I listen to books at work and the lack of character depth and the same monotone Ai voice was really difficult to follow. it messed up words, names, etc. Hard to follow who is who.

by the end of the first book I just left it on as background noise.

Don't like virtual voice

Virtual voice does not do a book justice! Due to that i had a hard time sticking with it.

nice story, BAD ROBOT!

this was s really nice adventure story.
it was utterly ruined by the computer voice butchering words and names over and over. A drunken 8th grader could've done a better job of narrating the tale!

The ai voice

The book set was good, the ai voice was not consistant with names and words, also the cadence was off often.