Scavengers

Darkthorn Academy, Book 2

By: Robyn Wideman

Narrated by: Vikas Adam

Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins

Publisher's Summary

The Menacing Misfits are back!

After successfully finishing his first year at Darkthorn Academy, Jack returns to Sunder with his new friend, Stannerios. Together, Jack and Stann intend to enjoy their summer preparing for their second year. But even in Sunder they aren’t safe, as they deal with street thugs and assassins. When Jack and Stann finally return to Darkthorn Academy and reunite with the rest of the team, they learn that things have changed. A new headmaster has been appointed and the rules for questers have changed drastically. Can they survive a second year at the academy or will they find a new path to success?

Books two includes even more gamelit aspects, including crafting, cultivation, a new bio-tech interface, and a few new mentors.

©2020 Robyn Wideman (P)2021 Podium Audio

Stilted

The story was great but the audio was very very stilted. There were long pauses that were unnecessary and gave the book an overall stilted feeling. It was like they pieced it all together from other recordings and didn't edit the pauses or gaps out.

narration is spotty

good story with character development just the pauses between conversations is extremely annoying and distracting

GNOMES RULE

Wasn't expecting that reference but a pleasant surprise none the less, truly a funny one

Just terrible

If you’re a young reader, this may be a good book. But if you are someone who appreciates nuance, intriguing rhetoric or any skillful writing, please be aware that my wife and I “hate-listened” to this book out of spite. It wouldn’t be so bad if the narrator was better, but between the writing style, over explaining everything and glossing over any details that are interesting, and the beach boy voice overs, it is just terrible.

Great second book

I cannot wait for the third book. I would even say, the second was better than the first book 🤓

Dang good story!

I had a hard time putting the last two books down. Spend the credit if you like a clean story without being to young adult. It is a coming of age series so it's expected to be about teens etc.

Great book, excellent character development!!! I need more

I love the route this book is taking. I gave 4 stars for performance because sometimes the pauses between voices was a little long. This is my first time reading a series by Robyn and I will definitely be checking out his other material.

Great story but mediocre narration

I've heard other stuff narrated by Vikas Adam and this is subpar for him. It's like he's making the dialogue sound as clunky as possible and using annoying voices intentionally.

The author made the choice to not use many contractions which sort of makes the flow of conversations not feel very natural. Normally a narrator would do their best to smooth it over but that's definitely not the case here.

I'll keep listening because I enjoy the story but the dialogue straight up makes me cringe sometimes.

about one of my favorite

Amazing book can't wait to listen to book 3. Vikas does an amazing job again.

well then

It is becoming more gamelit, which is fantastic.
Its a lot of fun. And good story. Enjoy your self with this.

Really enjoyed this book!

Listened to the book in a couple of days couldn’t put it down, great story and narration!! Easy to listen too and had me chuckling away..

Ok story ruined by stilted narration

I'm having to listen to this story at 1.6x speed just to deal with the strange gaps and brakes in dialogue. The narrator is now officially on my avoid list after this repeated issue.