Bloodline

Cradle, Book 9

By: Will Wight

Narrated by: Travis Baldree

Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

It’s time to go back home.

In the years since Lindon left Sacred Valley, he has attained power beyond anything his family thought possible. Now he’ll have to put those powers to the test, because a Dreadgod is on its way.

Lindon and his allies set out to evacuate the valley before the arrival of the Wandering Titan, but their sacred arts are weakened by an ancient curse. They’ll have to persuade the squabbling inhabitants of Sacred Valley to leave behind their home and set off into the outside world.

But it has been a long time since Lindon left, and more has changed than he realized.

He has always sought power to save his family…but now he might be too late.

©2021 Hidden Gnome Publishing (P)2021 Audible, Inc.

It's good.

It is good and I hate that it's over.
that's all you need to know.

An effort in frustration.

Beware Spoilers.

Not even Travis could salvage this book even though he made a valiant effort. For most of the book we have Lindon and the gang trying to help evacuate Sacred Valley. Mostly though this involves the extreme frustration of seeing the gang trying to humblebeg prideful petty tyrants to see reason, then getting repeatedly stabbed in the back for the effort while not fighting back or doing so nonlethally.

The hamfisted moralizing in the face of a local apocalypse is honestly insulting. Who really thinks killing some backstabbing murderous idiots firmly in the way of saving thousands is so bad they might regret it for the rest of their lives? In this world? It's not like they are some reborn teen idiots from earth or anything either... But no, because the opponents are only Jades that would stain their own honor too much somehow, as if evil is related to cultivation level somehow. Sure give them a chance, a second chance even but don't let them try to kill/torture you, everyone you care for and doom all innocents without even raising your damn voice. Every time they adressed these morons with "Honored Elder" I seriously wanted to reach across spacetime as slap some damn sense into them.

Then we have the escalation of conflict. I guess we can extrapolate that Lindon will probably be that last molecule of matter in the multiverse that makes the scales land on the right side somehow, but at this moment it really feels like his ability to contribute against the real threats is so miniscule as to be irrelevant to anyone tbh.

The last third of the book was decent at least but it can't carry the early parts of pure frustrating idiocy nor make up for the lack of satisfaction overall. This book ends up just setting up for future books and being an effort in frustration.

Like watching LeBron go 1-on-1 with a 3 yr old

This book is chock full of what I like to call "manufactured drama"
By that I mean, realistically the situation should present no mystery/problem whatsoever ...but in order to try make the story interesting the author introduces some completely unrealistic condition to "spice things up"

Will is the GOAT, and I am a fan ...but this book is disappointing
It's at least 60% filler ...It becomes less fluffy towards the end, but on a whole nothing that important really happens in this book

U cud def skip this one without missing anything

10/10

As with all books in this series Will Wight did an absolutely stellar job writing this one. I don’t even have to say anything about the narrator, Travis Baldree is my all time favorite and as usual killed it. Overall 5 stars all around, my only complaint(because it’s so good) is I wish the audiobook was longer!! XD

Disappointed

I love this series. This book feels like it was written by someone else though.

80% filler

You can definitely skip this one

Gotta say Travis did an excellent job as usual tho.

The great next chapter in a great story - buy it

There seem to be a lot of reviews taking issue with the story that I don't understand. I think people get fixated on the "end" rather than the journey, and you miss out on enjoying the journey.

One of the things I love most about these books is they feel like one continuous story. They happen to be broken into books but they feel more like chapters to me. In this chapter, we learn more about the characters we love, their struggles, their personalities, their advancement. It's everything I've come to love from this story.

Sometimes the chapters (books) wrap more story arcs than others and seed more or less new ones. That's just the way writing is going. This book didn't wrap the sheer volume of things that came together in the last book, but that doesn't make it any less satisfying or enjoyable.

If you're looking for a grand resolution, not the book for you. If you're interested in another turn with all the characters you love from Cradle, you're going to love this book.

I'm glad Will can keep a steady pace, I'll preorder the next as soon as it's ready.

Perfect!

Will and Travis are the power couple from hell when it comes to writing and narration.
This book was well worth the wait. I loved it. im already waiting impatiently for the next one!
it was a great story that kept my attention while doing a little more world building to bring everything together.
I love this book. This whole series ought to be a mandatory read/listen.

Finally home!

I devoured this book, and now im sitting here feeling abit disappointed. Its a really good book, but it feels like the story hardly moved forward at all.

It's OK. How short or long it too short or long?

I'm conflicted after listening to this book. I like the series overall, but man I wish there was more of a point. The series needs more of a The adventures of title than anything. As long as this series took to get here, I hope it doesn't drag out or just suddenly end.

It's good but after waiting a bit too long for the new titles to come out, I can't help but lose interest over time. I can say that I was more vested in the first few books than I am now.

For this book, the middle dragged too much and was fluffed out pretty bad. I would have rather not have had an overly dragged out evacuation effort ( I was not a fan of the 1/2 a book to try to evacuate a bunch of low level jades even though I have a gold army ) and focused more on the family aspect and helping them and the last fight or leveling up. I can think of many other ways the book could have helped move the story without the fluff it had.

I did enjoy the battles, action and family time the book did have. The last battle was pretty good. I enjoyed what may come with the ending provided and will follow the series. I hope to see Lindon power up and move past the Cradle soon as all hell seems to be unleashed there already and it needs to end and start season 2.

Great continuation of a fantastic series

This is by far the greatest series in the market. This book is a compelling tale of Lindon returning to his village. OH HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED!

I won't spoil the rest for you...


Word of warning, if you like sleep and are trying to be productive, do not get this book! (I'll probably relisten to this multiple times)

Nailed it again.

Another hit, enjoyed every one so far and this did not disappoint finished it on day one.

The story advances...

...and in what a way! An excellent installment to an already 5 star series.

Somehow, Will Wight manages to surpass himself with every new book. The story is captivating from the get go and doesn't let up until the very end! There are many characters to follow in this book and while Lindon is still the main character I felt like we got enough "screen time" with the members of the main team considering the length of the book and the amount of action.

Audio performance is excellent as always but to say that the editing is lacking is an understatement. I don't know why did the editor decide to add dead space between words in the middle(!!!) of a sentence but it completely threw the timing off.

Fantastic book all-in-all and I'm sure I will listen to it many more times!

A Good refocusing

I wanted more development but that could only happen with a longer book , Travis does his usual great job and the plot sets up the following book nicely. Worth it and looking froward to what follows.

I do wish every book was double the size as theres so much to explore and cradle is a awesome series

Good but short

Same great characters, setting and all the rest but very very short. Looking forward to the next book again

Another excellent addition

Travis is golden as always. Story has great pacing and IMO a fantastic plot. ThumbsUp

Amazingly good!

This latest addition to Cradle does not dissapoint. You know one of those books that gives you butterflies ? This is that book! Advice listen to all cradle and enjoy!

Another Excellent addition.

A superb instalment of an exceptional series. Travis Baldtree's delivery is also outstanding. This book is one of the easiest recommendations I'll ever make and I can't wait for the next one!

very disappointed!

Decent story development and interesting power progression. Good narration. However... heavily let down by the weak character development left a child returned years later... as a child.

good book bad performance

I think Travis was great in the previous books but for some reason for about half of this book he pauses in random places in sentences which is really frustrating and took me out of the book.