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A Shadow on the Glass
- The View From the Mirror Quartet, Book 1
- Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
- Series: View From the Mirror, Book 1
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Classics
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Publisher's Summary
Once there were three worlds, each with their own human species. Then, fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charon. Desperate, on the edge of extinction, they changed the balance between the worlds forever. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled heritage, is forced to steal an ancient relic in repayment of a debt. It turns out to be the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has ever seen. At the same time, Llian, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery. Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret that offers each species survival, or extinction!
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- Scott S.
- 03-13-12
Not quite good enough.
I really wanted to like this book. I seem to be currently waiting for the next installment of 3 or 4 different series. I was looking for a series of books that were already complete, and this story looked like a good one. I listened to the preview before downloading, and the narrator seemed to have a good voice, and I was excited to get started.
Unfortunately, I listened through this story, and never seemed to get into it. I kept listening, hoping it would get better as many books do, but it never did. Initially the story seemed to have promise. I liked both the characters of Llian and especially Karan. But soon Llian began to seem like a spoiled kid, and I lost interest in his part of the story. I continued to like Karan, but her story seemed jumbled and tedious. In one scene she is being chased by creatures through a swamp. The description of her struggle goes on forever. Just when you think it can't go any longer, she is suddenly free and the story takes up days later. Another thing that lacked was the magic in the story. Some sort of mind fighting between the characters that made little sense.
The last thing I didn't care for was the narrator. While I initially thought this would be a strength of the book, I soon found out I was wrong. Cartwright has a decent voice that was initially pleasing to listen too, but I started to notice that he continually stopped to swallow, and make noises that seemed like he was licking his lips. It became very distracting. I have never heard anything like it before in an audiobook.
Overall, this book had promise, it just never seemed to fulfill it.
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- Jennifer L
- 09-13-10
Fabulous Read
This book is full of wonderful drawn characters, who exude warmth. You can feel their pain, sorrow and joys. I didn't want it to end. So much so that when it did I went right away and downloaded the next book. My daughters (age 11) loved it too. Especially since she is dyslexic and finds reading difficult. I make them listen to these books in the car and they love them.
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- Mary Blake
- 08-14-10
Excellent series
This is a most excellent fantasy series. I've listened to hundreds, probably thousands, of Audible hours over the past few years and this is one of my favorites. The world Ian Irvine has created is well defined and completely believable. He keeps the tension tight throughout the four books: you are never bored. The plot is seldom predictable and the character development is extensive. There is a good balance between dreadful moments when things go all wrong for the heros, and "happy sigh" moments when things go just right. The reader is perfect with a rich variety of voices that are never annoying. The first book can be a bit tedious sometimes as the heroine is running for her life through most of it, but the other three books have a much better variety of action.
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- John
- 06-06-12
Almost as Frustrating as Robin Hobb
Being an avid reader (listener) of fantasy books, I've grown to expect certain tropes. They don't NEED to be applied, they're just classic storytelling elements that have worked in the past. Tried and true, as it were. Sometimes effective authors can turn those tropes on their head and create shocking endings or amusing reversals of expectations. In any event, Ian Irvine sets up a massive amount of commonly used tropes early on in the book that come to absolutely no payoff, ironic or not. Reading this book is like feeling a sneeze coming on, then having nothing happen. I understand that this is the first novel in a series of, like, four, but the first novel was so off-putting that I really don't want to go on to the next one.
For example: early on in the novel, we're told that one of the main characters has a sort of empathic magic; able to sense the feelings of others and project her own feelings into the minds of others. At no point during the story is this talent used in any way that would benefit her. In fact, she becomes a complete liability precisely due to this magic. What's more is that during the first act of the novel, she's constantly ridiculed as a useless member of the Fantasy Quest until she finds herself alone. Here we might expect that hitherto useless magic to become a boon to her survival. Perhaps she could project feelings of pacifism onto her pursuers. But no. That doesn't happen. Instead she becomes Chuck Norris, Houdini, and Davy Crockett all rolled into one and her magic is never really used. And the only time her talents aid her in any way is a newly discovered spell that we're never told about until she thinks to use it. It almost seemed like the author was making things up as he went along.
In a similar vein, the author also gives us another protagonist, a master storyteller and historian. Early on we're given the impression that he's somewhat naive and short-sighted, and that his talents would only serve him in civilized areas. Normal fantasy logic would indicate that his story-telling abilities, while unused and undervalued at first, would come in handy later on. Maybe some oft-ignored bit of trivia would aid in solving a puzzle, getting our heroes out of a nasty scrape. Perhaps he would know some language many others don't, and be able to talk his way into getting aid from an unlikely source. He seemed to have an eidetic memory, maybe he'll be really good at memorizing and interpreting an old journal they find. But none of that ever happened. Instead nothing happened.
Well, nothing that's set up in the beginning of the book, at least. He's completely useless at the beginning of the book and he remains completely useless at the end of the book. Nothing changes. He doesn't learn how to defend himself, his talent affords him nothing of surpassing helpfulness, and every moment of heroism he has could be described as An Ordinary Person in an Extraordinary Situation. There was no reason for him to be a scribe or a storyteller at all. He could have been a janitor for all the help his on-the-job skills gave him.
Also, there seems to be a theme of People in Charge all being huge, manipulative jerks. They all act like entitled teenagers, lying, whining, and imposing their will upon people with less bullishness they they. Again, none of them seem to learn a lesson on civility towards their subordinates, even when faced with extraordinary evidence of their own failings.
My final complaint would be that the action never lets up. Normally that would be a good thing. David Gemmell, Brandon Sanderson, and Joe Abercrombie are all authors whose books have high levels of action, and I enjoy all of them. The key difference is that they're all experts at building up tension and releasing it with a climactic action scene. This could be done chapter by chapter, it could be done over a series of chapters, but the point is there must be a "room temperature" for the action scenes to have any impact. In this book, we're given two or three chapters of exposition, then a chase ensues and literally DOES NOT STOP until halfway through the book. After a brief respite, it starts up again and doesn't stop until the end of the book. Since the characters are so busy running around back and forth, they're given scant opportunity to talk, think, or grow in many ways. They become one-dimensional archetypes of The Cold, Mercurial Warrior Woman, The Clumsy, Effeminate Scribe, or the The Ruthless, Conflicted Wizard.
It's not all bad. There are some moments of high suspense. And I did find myself warming to the male protagonist, who remained naively well-meaning throughout. At the end of the book, though, no one's grown (unless you count going insane), no one's learned anything (in a cosmic, game-changing kind of way), and the balance of power - which was ridiculously unbalanced to begin with - retained the status quo from beginning to end.
I don't recommend it.
The voice actor was good, though.
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- Summer
- 06-12-18
lazy author doesn't bother with consistent rules
performance was great.
characters literally go from helpless against a regular criminal to scaring off powerful immortals and back to helpless without any explanation. the author makes no effort at consistency or character development just throws characters into the next encounter without bothering to apply logic or reason to the surrounding situation. I suffered through the whole book just to see if some underlying logic would be revealed but unfortunately it ended the same lazy fashion.
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- Clare
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compelling and fascinating
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- John
- 06-09-11
Good book and excellent narration
I read this book about 10 years ago. I also read book 2 and half of book 3. I dercided to start again from the beginning and also decided to go for the audio book. The book itself is very good & I don't read many books, let alone a number of books in a series. The thing that made this audio book even better was the narration. The first thing I always do now when looking for an audio book is to listen to the sample and read reviews of the narration. As far as I am concerned the narration is a very big part of the book. No matter how good the story is, if the narration is monotone and boring you simply woin't finish the book.
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I would highly recommend this book and the narrator.
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- Mr J G Whitehead
- 08-26-15
More than a mirror, more than simple fantasy
What did you like most about A Shadow on the Glass?
The World created by Ian Irvine is sprawling, sets the scene and introduces you to the complex world of Santhanar one of the three world. A fantasy of epic proportions. Characters with real depth and history. I really sense of foreboding is installed for the upcoming books.
What other book might you compare A Shadow on the Glass to, and why?
Mt first foray into the sprawling grand fantasy. Closest I can think in similarity are the space operas of Ian Banks just on the scale of things. Unfortunately showing my lack of reading in this area
What does Grant Cartwright bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
Grant brinks a power to emotional outburst of the characters, i real sense of frustration and viciousness to those that need it. His voice gives you more time to really imagine and see the world.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Do you know the Histories? the Great Tales? ...are you sure
Any additional comments?
A world that I've read all of the books set within it. deep and dark
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- Wayne
- 01-04-15
Slow start but really grows on you
Great book as I said the book took time to really get going but once it did it is a brilliant read
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- StuartJAtkinson
- 07-11-15
Epic
An epic and enthralling fantasy. One of my favourite novels of all time stumbled upon in the charity shops of Robin Hoods Bay, England.
I am always amazed by the depth of the world and subtlety of the magic, things lost in the new TV age. Every time I listen to or read this series again I find a new subplot, place of interest or small character to understand and consider.
It is rare I am able to reread books as I have an idetic memory but Ian Irvines books are rich enough that I can and I love them for it.
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- Ryan
- 04-21-15
gets me through my night shifts
Grant Cartwright has a true tellers voice, thoroughly enjoyed this reading and bought the rest of the quartet for a shadow on the glass and have now started on the well of echoes quartet! hoping the song of the tears trilogy isn't far from recording
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-02-22
Amazing
Amazing book! looking forward to the rest of this incredible series... on to the next I guess.
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- Wendy
- 05-23-19
wonderful listen and good story
fabulous narrator and a good story. Will definitely get the next book it was a pleasure and Ihaving had books ruined because of poor narrator this narrator is simply outstanding.
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- Caroline Owen
- 01-21-19
Brilliant
This book is brilliant.. An epic read with all the right elements of an adventure! I one hundred percent recommend it
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- Dan
- 11-14-18
An amazing book read amazingly well.
I read this story when I was younger and have loved listening to it again as an adult. An absolutely great story.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-05-19
Loved this telling
The story was told beautifully, making the images vivid. I loved the story line. Just downloaded the next one.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-08-20
not my cup of tea
The story is bit all over the place hard to get into in fact very hard ..very slow and dull events with nothing really happening at all , Mostly due to the very very poor narrator , maybe he is still learning but no tone to create a feel of who is talking in the story , like he is just reading the novel to himself , 4 hours in i had to stop , did not remmeber one line of what I heard or know what it was about or who was who with the dull reading ..would not recommend but maybe some will like it ..but much much better out there
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- Anonymous User
- 07-31-19
Wonderful book and great narrator
I love this world. I have read it a couple of times but have just listened to the audiobook for the first time and loved it! I love hearing an Australian narrator as well as the author is also Australian. Can’t wait to listen to the rest of the series!
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-14-21
Brilliant way to start the journey.
This series was recommended to me by a friend and I'm so thankful. I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the characters, and the promise of more to come.
Overall I found that it felt somewhat pretentious to start with, but utterly gripping by the end.
Thee performance for me wasn't as strong. I had a little trouble differentiating the characters by their voices, and for such a long and in-depth book as this, I find it absolutely vital to have that.
I look forward to completing the series.
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- Pipie
- 10-10-20
awesome
Loved it . a very busy and descriptive price of work. 👍 can't wait to hear more.
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- Ben
- 09-30-20
really tried to like it
but couldn't get on board with the characters and the way the story was told. The fantasy world seems to hold potential but the story telling couldn't carry it off for me. I got halfway through and gave up.