Krondor the Betrayal

Book One of the Riftwar Legacy

De: Raymond E. Feist

Narrado por: Peter Joyce

The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle...

New York Times bestselling fantasist Raymond E. Feist returns to a beleaguered realm of wonders and magic-where war is an enduring legacy; where blood swells the rivers and nourishes the land. Attend to this hitherto untold chapter in the violent history of Midkemia -- a towering saga of great conflicts, brave acts and insidious intrigues. It is the story of a traitor who rejects the brutality of his warlike kind and casts his lot with the human targets of their fierce aggression. It tells of mysterious deaths and sinister machinations -- and signs of a time when the fate of many civilizations rested in the able, unfaltering hands of RiftWar veterans Squire Locklear and cunning their-turned-squire Jimmy the Hand. It chronicles the powerful awakening of Owyn -- apprentice magician of untried strengths -- and celebrates the selfless achievements of Pug, the great sorcerer of two worlds. Welcome now to astonishing new corners of a world you have not yet fully explored-and prepare to experience true excitement, blood chilling terror...and the triumph born from the doom aimed at the beating heart of a kingdom.

5 stars for fans of the Game

loved this game as a child... this book was an excellent remastering of that experience

Books in a series...

The story is fantastic... but this is book 11ish in the series. The narrator came up with his own pronunciations instead of listening to book one and keeping the continuity.

Good listen.

The only parts, I really found conflict with, was the fact that the reader of the saga did not pronounce the names, and places correctly. Example, Aruta, Not Arutha; And some of the names of the places I was guessing at the proper names, stated from the rift wars saga.

Based on a video-game, fyi

This book is counterpart to an old PC game (Betrayal at Krondor) based off of the original 4 books. I'm not certain, but I think the game was made and then the book was written as an enhancement to the story. It's an extremely dated game, but a solid classic RPG, if you can get over the age. It's very much written like a video-game, jumping from quest-giver to quest-giver but it has a certain quality and depth compared to similarly styled works.('The Madalorian' for example)

Peter Joyce is fantastic! I don't care about his pronunciations, regardless of how I originally read the names. I just assume they are old-english pronunciations that I was unaware of when I first read these books. It adds to the world-building in my opinion. Not to mention the overall quality of his voice ages up for it - I have no idea what Mr. Joyce looks like, but he sounds like he's about 8 feet tall with a personality larger than life!

Not bad

Probably one of my least favorite of the rift war saga. But still worth a read.

Great Story well read and well written

Raymond E. Feist delivers a great tale, while Peter Joyce delivers a stellar performance bringing the words to life.

Best so far!

Of the dozen or so books by Feist I have listened to, I would say this was the best so far; A few small mysteries running in-tandem with the main story, favorite characters returning, and even an ending which was both good and slightly sad. Looking forward to tge rest of this series.

Great Book but not so great narrator

I love the book. The story was well written. However the narrator totally butchered all the names of the characters and cities from the original rift war saga books narration.

the continuation of the krondor story

i knew i would love this. I've read the previous series. 5 stars. And 5 stars for this one as well. I look forward to reading the rest of this series!

An Unforgettable Story of a Classic Computer Game

When Dynamix released "Betrayal at Krondor", I could not wait to play it. The time was 1995, a full 2 years after the game had been released. My reasons for playing the game were much different than other players of the day. I wanted to play the game because I had met Feist in the late 80s, in a small writer's cafe San Diego.

He spoke to a group of us. I was a published short story writer and military journalist, then. I wanted more. I wanted to be an author. At the time that I played the game, I felt "Betrayal at Krondor" was a masterpiece. Dynamix created an detailed video of an old, creaky book that splayed open an introduction of the adventure you were about to start. I began to play a game, developed much like a book. As I played, I watched my characters grow as I moved forward along the storyline of the game.

Krondor, The Betrayal more than follows the game, it enhances and adds much more detail to the world that I played, delving even deeper into thr motivating thoughts, feeling and actions of Raymond E. Feist's world.

As I listened to Peter Joyce's rendition of "Keondor the Betrayal", it took me a little while to adjust to his storytelling style. By the end of this audiobook presentation, I grew to appreciate his change of intonation, voice and inflection used in his illustration of eachband every character. In pondering R.E. Feist's novels, I began to wonder how well they might play into today's offering's of Series-based programming. I could see how eell the Riftwar Saga could introduce a worldwide audirnce and perhaps renewed interest in the series that R.E. Feist started so many decades ago.