The Congruent Mage

The Congruent Mage, Book 6

De: Dave Schroeder

Narrado por: Peter Kenny

Young wizards Eynon and Merry struggle to save their friends from a trio of wizard-assassins in the next installment of The Congruent Mage series.

©2022 Dave Schroeder (P)2022 Podium Audio

good ideas, not the greatest writing

story concept is good, but everything happens to fast and the character development is unrealistic.

Like floating down the stream

Merrily merrily, nice people, taking a roll in the hay, casting magic all over the place. And on and on they talk. Makes me glad I skipped books 3 and 4.

ehhh

this series is "ok", as is this book. the author is more than a little fixated on sex which makes it not a children's book, but the solutions to problems are simplistic enough for a children's book. it's an adequate story. if the sex were removed it would be a good middle school story.

Peter Kenny ruined book six for me!

I enjoyed the first five books. Peter Kenny narrated all 6 novels. For the first five. He pronounced the one of the main characters Eynon one way. For some unknown reason. He changed the pronunciation for the sixth. It was like fingernails on a chalkboard everytime He said his name... which is alot!

Don't think I can finish it.

This series really started out great but this last installment felt disjointed. Way too many points of view taking away from the main characters. It felt like watching commercials for 40 minutes of the hour and 20 minutes of movie. This is the last book for me.

Writing for the sake of writing

This series should have ended after book 5. Would have been an easy wrap up. Book 6 feels like it was written just for the sake of writing something, anything, even if bad. And it was bad. Boring story. Long monotonous dialog that adds no value. There is pretty much nothing about the story or characters that I cared about. Bottom line - a generally overall boring story.

I'll say this about the whole series - While it did not really bother me, I do agree with another reviewer that the author seems sex obsessed. Way more sexual innuendo than I ever read in any story. While it does not bother me, it is so much that it is noticeable. It does tone down a little after the first couple books but not enough.

Narrators note: I LOVE listening to Peter Kenny. Have loved every story he has read. Except this one. Kenny commits the ultimate narrator sin in reading - changing the pronunciation of the main character. The first 5 books we have Eynon pronounced "Eye-Non". Suddenly in book 6 he changes it to "Ay-Non". WTF? If the author tells you that you have been pronouncing it wrong the first 5 books, too bad, stick with it at this point. This is something that should never happen and I cannot give Kenny any more than 1 star because of this.