Ship of Magic

The Liveship Traders, Book 1

De: Robin Hobb

Narrado por: Anne Flosnik

Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships---rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her---a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim.

For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence. But the fate of the Vestrit family---and the ship---may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will.

©1999 Robin Hobb (P)2010 Tantor

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The characterizations are consistently superb.... Kudos to the author and encore!” ( Booklist, Starred Review)

Annoying Narrator Solution - 1.5 Speed!

If you could sum up Ship of Magic in three words, what would they be?

Creative, Different, Intriging

Would you be willing to try another one of Anne Flosnik’s performances?

Unfortunately, I will have to. I will listen to books that she does because I like the authors

Any additional comments?

The narrator is slow, hurts words, and can be incredibly annoying in her style. I found a solution though. If you listen at 1.5 speed, her long drawn out words are normal and you can stand to get through the book and it's like listening to it at normal speed.

Speed up the playback... 1.2 - 1.3 is way better.

the playback speed is adjustable. speed it up some and the narration is way better and more exciting during the suspenseful parts. over 1.3 and I feel like it's just too fast. But may be she should do more children's fantasy, great for that. Love the story. So great my family has started the Elderlings series based solely on my expressions listening.

Beware

Watch out. None of the character story lines are resolved (even partially) until the end of the trilogy. I would never have started it if I had known, but the series was recommended to me and I bought it without reading the reviews. A mistake I rarely make.

Plus the narrator, as most reviews have stated, is horrendous. She will drive you crazy, so maybe just read the book.

That said, Robin has created a great world and good characters. I will now have to read all three novels to find out what happens, which really irks me. It's so sad that SciFi readers nowadays are willing to put up with that sort of writing. There's no reason at least some of the story lines can't be written to end in the first book in order to give the reader some satisfaction.

FREAKIN AWESOME!!!

If your personality doesn't clash with the narrators (i think she's awesome) and your an audio fantasy book junky (like me) you WILL love this book.

Good but not Great

Predictable plot and once you learn a character they become predictable in every other scene. Narration was excellent. Good characters and an interesting world to explore along with Althea are what kept me reading until the conclusion of the predictable conclusion with the pirates. Will read the next book as I like how the book is opening up to expand on the characters and hopefully it won't be as predictable and the characters will be more entertaining. 7/10