Sanctuary

Dragon Jousters, Book 3

By: Mercedes Lackey

Narrated by: Ryan Burke

Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's Summary

The dragon-boy once known as Vetch has returned to his homeland of Alta to reclaim his birthright, only to discover that Alta is under the thrall of evil Priest-Kings. Gathering troops of dragon riders by his side, Vetch raises an army in the sanctuary of the desert to rid his land of both war and magical domination once and for all.

©2005 Mercedes R. Lackey (P)2019 Tantor

Decent story, terrible reader choices

The first two books are by far the best, while the third limps along toward the expected but unjustifiably delayed conclusion. Worth a read, but the author seems to have been at a loss of where to source drama and by the third book falls mainly on puffed up lovers’ spats, unbelievable coincidences, and literal exposition-by-Oracle. Alas.

Much more so than those disappointments though, the narration for this books really takes away from the rich world Lackey has managed to build. The man has three accents he can muster, and all of them are cartoonishly exaggerated Britons. As jarring (read distractingly inappropriate) as it was to see those accents deployed in ancient Egypt, what made it worse was the entire lack of consistency. There were two main nations and he could not even decide which would be mostly English and which mostly Scottish. Instead he seems to have assigned accents roughly by class instead of region/nation and then went - bizarrely - for full blown Shrek for the one ancient Grecian analog living in Alta. More upsetting is how he ignores (in real time) any clues about narration/ dialogue delivery from the text, as though he’s never read any of this before the recording. Finally, he’s not even consistent by character. It’s one thing to have accents assigned regardless of place. It’s quite another to then have those random accents BE all over the place. Honestly, I think I blame the director, who should have told him to make other choices, to actually read the book, etc.

Excellent series...

Great story,,,,the narrator is excellent. Mercedes never disappoints,,, The storyline follows and you know these people as if they are friends or does lol.

Can't Get Enough

Loved everything about it. It had the perfect balance of everything that makee a good book. Jumping into the next one with both feet.

Excellent series!

Mercedes Lackey never fails to hit a written home run. Her insight into human behavior combined with well-fleshed out characters sets the reader on a wild rollercoaster of emotions. I cannot wait for the 4th book, Aerie, to be released as an audio book. Huzzah, Ms. Lackey! You never disappoint.

Oh, oh so Awesome!

This series has been a winner from the start. Each character has been developed to really bring you into this story. I was so glad to see some returning characters from previous stories, Thank you. Please continue bringing more to us quickly.

good story. enjoyed the reader

nothing deep here, but enjoyable and fine world building. this is third in series and I liked it well enough to read the fourth.

not the best narrator, really good story though

when he is is talking as the main character, he is too soft spoken to hear and his character accents are not always the same for the same character.

Turned into a teen romance

It was an okay conclusion. It turned into a teen romance novel, when originally it could have been so much more.

still a good series

this book is pretty good but the climax with the magi just feels anti climatic, all that build up then boom they are just all gone I dunno I just expected more

easy listening

love this author and this series. the reader has a great voice and does accents so you can tell the different characters!

Brilliant

This is one of the best books I have listened too in a very long time