Godsland Epic Fantasy Bundle

Godsland Series, Books 1 Through 9

By: Brian Rathbone

Narrated by: Chris Snelgrove

Clean Fantasy Adventure for Teens and Adults

Catrin Volker dreams of a peaceful life training horses. It's not to be. Comets appear in the night skies, announcing the return of a goddess. While trying to save her friend from bullies, Catrin unknowingly triggers powerful, ancient magic and fulfills a prophecy that says she will destroy entire nations. Her quest for peace captures the imagination with fantastical landscapes, magic, and dragons.

The Dawning of Power trilogy: Call of the Herald, Inherited Danger, Dragon Ore

The Balance of Power trilogy: Regent, Feral, Regal

The Artifacts of Power trilogy: The Fifth Magic, Dragonhold, The Seventh Magic

©2014 White Wolf Press, LLC (P)2016 White Wolf Press, LLC

It is OK.

I am still struggling through. It is not a bad story, just a so-so story. The narration is horrible and makes it difficult to listen to. All because of one character, Benjen. I do not know why Chris Snelgrove chose the voice he did but it sounded like blackface. I cringed every time I heard the character.

It's okay. A good value for a credit.

Lots if repetition and disjointed in places. Not a big fan of narrator but overall worth it.

Midway through confusion

So... the base story in the beginning has more texture that can be inferred by the listener, but as the books progress it becomes just a series of names without context. No personality development, no underlying motivations. The characters either LOVE the protagonist or HATE her.

As the story progresses, it's actually difficult to delineate how much time has passed, who is married to whom, which child belongs to which person/couple and unless you have a indelible memory and are binge listening over a weekend is HIGHLY likely to be confusing.

Character explanation/development could be better, LESS CRYING FROM THE MAIN CHARACHTER EVERY CHAPTER as the savior of all might make sense..... Honestly it's a cliche of a female herald that she OPENLY WEEP at every downturn. Weak crutch and fallacy.


EDIT: If anyone can search a text version of this series do a search for "brought tears to Katrin's eyes" guessing it will be in the 100's if not 1000's"

Who did what?

*This is my take on the 1-9 book version* Some how or another the narrator managed to run sentences together in a way that made it hard for me to keep up with what was going on. And the names of those folks! Whew! They sounded quite close to me. This book reminds me of the Three Stooges: who is on first and so forth. in any event this was a heckuva good listen and I enjoyed it bunches. It wasn't epic but headed that way.

So far...it's wonderful!

I haven't finished it all yet, but so far it has me totally immersed in a world of wonder, magic, superstition, science and characters that have you laughing, crying, furious, vengeful, and intrigued. In a world that is ruled by superstition and prophecy, the author has you going from one adventure to the next wondering what amazing thing will happen only to find that what you think is a wonderful thing is but a fraction of the whole picture. Its beyond your wildest imagination. I can't wait to hear what comes next in this epic adventure!!!!!