• Black Wizards

  • Forgotten Realms: Moonshae Trilogy, Book 2
  • By: Douglas Niles
  • Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
  • Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (94 ratings)

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Black Wizards

By: Douglas Niles
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
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Publisher's summary

One of the first Forgotten Realms titles ever published!

In this, the sequel to Darkwalker on Moonshae, the Moonshae isles are under the threat of sinister forces. A council of dark sorcerers has usurped the High King. The druid Robyn and the Prince Tristan must join forces with the Goddess for a showdown with the dreaded black wizards.

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Good Douglas Niles Book

Where does Black Wizards rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Enjoyed the characters and always a fan of Douglas Niles.

What about Dara Rosenberg’s performance did you like?

I enjoyed her voice and the characters a lot. Second book I have heard narrated by her and she does not disappoint.

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The narrator made this very distracting.

Great storyline. The narrator was clear, however her enunciations of certain words were incorrect, the break up in the voices was distracting and her choppy reading was irritating.

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Narration Just as Hideous as First Book

I loved this book when it first came out, so I purchased the trilogy on Audible. That was a huge waste of money. I couldn't get past the 1st chapter with the narrator saying Fuh-folk when 5 seconds on the internet will tell you Ffolk is pronounced Folk. The narrator also pronounced Bhaal not as Ball but Buh-hall. Truly terrible making me stop listening after 1 chapter.

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Narrator has a few issues

The story is mostly good except for a few annoying things about the characters being a bit slow. The narrator seems to go in and out and really needs to say the dialogue in a different speech pattern, the other be she uses is extremely annoying. Also she seems to mispronounce pretty basic words quite a lot.

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worst narrator ever.. ruined the experience

The story isn't bad for gamer fiction, but the narrator seemed to have no idea what she was reading, never changed her tone or inflection from battle to romance to introspection, not to mention pronunciation mistakes. Imagine listening to someone reading Silence of The Lambs like Mary Poppins!

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Good story, bad reading

I don't know if it was early in Dara Roseburg's career or what, but her reading style is broken and disjointed. So much so that it is sometimes difficult to even enjoy the story, and her pronunciation mistakes and littered thought the entire book. I'm hoping by the third one she has improved, but if the second is any indication, it's unlikely. great sorry, mediocre reading.

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Narrator not very good

I thought this book was decent generic fantasy, nothing special but entertaining. The narrator might be the worst I have heard, she mispronounced words, had a whiney annoying voice at times and the sound volume seemed to go up and down.

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Narrator so bad could not listen to the story

Would you try another book from Douglas Niles and/or Dara Rosenberg?

I own many books by Douglas Niles, but i won't be buying any more books narrated by Dara Rosenberg

Would you be willing to try another one of Dara Rosenberg’s performances?

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Good story, poor narration

While the story itself was excellent and what I have come to expect from Douglas Niles, the narration was a struggle for me to listen to. There were several mispronunciations and odd pauses throughout the story that left me feeling like the narrator was simply rushing through to finish the job and had no interest in actually telling the story.

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A New High King, Another Battle But War Is Not

We learn of the High King and find out a greater power is contributing to the problems in the Moonshae. I highly recommend this book.

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