A Prince's Errand

Tales of the Amulet, Book 1

By: Dan Zangari, Robert Zangari

Narrated by: Michael Kramer

Length: 40 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

The multi-award wining novel A Prince's Errand, book one of Tales of the Amulet, begins an exciting new epic fantasy saga.

Long ago, men harnessed the Channels of Power, creating tevisrals: devices capable of manifesting magic. But men weren't the only ones to accomplish such feats. Dragons crafted the most sophisticated tevisrals. These shaped the world, defining civilization of man and elf alike.

Over the centuries, the people of Kalda have fallen into a dark age, where elves are estranged from men and dragons have retreated into legend. Tevisrals are scarce, and men are willing to trade everything for them. But there are some who wish to bury the past, and in their lands, possessing tevisrals is tantamount to treason.

Still, daring men scour the world in search of Kalda's past. One such man, the scholar Krindal, seeks an ancient order known as the Keepers of Truth and Might. He yearns for their knowledge, long feared lost.

Prince Kaescis Midivar also searches for these Keepers. The assassination of his uncle, the emperor of Mindolarn, killed his hopes of peace with his empire's enemies. His empire's survival hinges upon unearthing the Keepers' secrets.

An aging warrior Cornar Dol'shir longs to be home with his wife. But his retirement must wait, as his band of adventurers is recruited to help find the Keepers' hidden temple on the Isle of Klindala.

Haunted by his tragic past, Iltar, the Son of Adrin, does not join in the search for the Keepers. Instead, he seeks to unravel the mysteries held within a volume of prophecy foretelling the advent of the Unspoken One and the return of the Crimson Eye. His search takes him to the Empire of Mindolarn, where all is not as it seems.

An ancient war was won by a simple amulet. It brought peace, but in the wrong hands, it could spell a doom, the likes of which no world has ever seen.

May the Crimson Eye remain hidden for all time!

©2018 LOK Publishing, LLC (P)2020 LOK Publishing, LLC

Great book

I was hesitant when the story first started but the story sucked me in pretty quickly.

An epic read for any fantasy fan

The story was well realized, with great beats and prose. I thoroughly enjoyed the character work and world-building. Yep, 9/10 for me, the only thing that doesn’t make it perfect, was there was a little slowness in the pacing in the 2/3 of the book, but besides that, amazing read!

Slow start but wonderful finish

I read a few reviews before purchasing this audiobook and I almost didn’t buy it because of those reviews. I’m certainly glad I took a chance on this one! Some reviewers stated that this book couldn’t even be saved by the astounding Michael Kramer. They said the book was written badly. Those people were either 1- Wrong or 2- not familiar with epic fantasy novels or 3- didn’t listen to the entire book. I say this because the book was fantastic. Yes the background lore and world building took some time, but what do you expect from a 35+ hour long audiobook. If you want a story to unfold properly and for everyone to understand what the heck is going on in the book then these things need to be explained and take a little time.

What I’m getting at is if you like Robert Jordan books, Brandon Sanderson books and types of series like those that that have written then I would most definitely buy this audiobook and give it a try. Once you get through the initial world building and character backgrounds the story envelopes you and you will have a hard time pausing long enough to give your order to the drive thru attendant.

Looking forward to more.

bit of a slow start, but after the first few chapters I really enjoyed this one.

great epic

this was worth the credit. it started a little slow but what a finnish. the characters where a little hard to learn but once I got it really helped. I actually went back and relisted to parts to better understand.

Didn’t know what to expect

This story starts off griping and continued clear to the end. Great start to the series. Can’t wait to see where this journey takes me!!

3.5 stars

I have trouble reviewing this book, because I can't really pinpoint why I didn't like it. I listened to the audio book.

1. It took me quite aways, maybe 10 to 30 chapters to get into this.
2. Michael Kramer's voice on the in-between characters, almost lulled me to sleep. The characters voices were great. I don't remember having this issue with him while listening to SA, but when RoW comes out I will pay attention, and come back and change this if my option changes.
3. Similar names. To me there was a lot of similar names that I had a hard time differentiating.
4. It's called A Prince's Errand, but I almost think the title should have something to do with necromancy, unless something changes in the future books that I am not aware of yet.
5. There isn't enough heart around the deaths, for me, if that makes sense.
6. There is only one character that I truly like, not true, there's 2, but of all the characters in this story, I feel I should connect to more of them. I am not a big fan of one of the main characters.

I like the premise of the story, Evil coming to conquer good.
The world building is decent, I would love to see Dalgilur on screen. And a town called Damnir, is just funny.

If there is a kickstarter for book 2, I am still in and here's why:
The author acknowledges that this was back written, ( if that's even a terminology). Meaning it was written after the main book for the series was already thought out. I want to get to that main book, because that might be, where all of the things I haven't liked so far, come together.
That's my review. I hope you like the book more that I did, it's a beast!

Boy What a Story

I was able to run into both authors at the mall, great guys! Signed the book for me and give me some advice on writing. They were AWSOME . I decided to buy the book because we got along so well. Also, the cover looked amazing and he told me the story was about what if the teacher was the chosen one! And that pulled me in right away! Although with it being so long and me working such long hours, I decide to also get it on Audible so that I could listen to it while I worked! This book is amazing I highly recommend it one of the best long fantasies I’ve read! Can’t say enough about it get it now!

A Spectacular Tale!

I expected this book to be good. I did not expect it to be THIS good! I listened to the audiobook, and it felt like I was listening to a parallel book in Sanderson's Stormlight Archives. Not because of any plot rip-offs, but because of the style, pacing, and just the overall feel, the way it played in my head. Each plot thread was woven methodically to create a masterpiece of story, and the worldbuilding was done with great finesse. I could feel and see the world, the scenes as they unfolded. The magic system is less formulaic than Sanderson, not a particularly hard system, but it was executed perfectly. If you've ever read R.A. Salvatore, it will seem close to that, which honestly, was so well devised that it seemed like this was the way it was supposed to be. Prince Kaescis Midivar, and Cornar felt the most real to me right from the beginning and their motivations made sense all the way through. Iltar grew on me as well and by the end was one of my favorites. The slow reveal of detail through the opening line in each chapter provided a sense of mystery and wonder to the story, again not unlike Sanderson or Jordan. I love stories with lots of lore! Being read by Michael Kramer only added to the Sanderson/Jordan feel. His narration was PERFECT. Thank you for writing this story!

Good but could have been more

While I really enjoyed this book and the world/story, it could have used more female pov chapters.