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Pools of Darkness

By: Anne K. Brown, James M. Ward
Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
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Publisher's summary

In the sequel to The Pool of Radiance, a shapeshifter cat, an undead ghost-knight, and the minions of the evil god, Bane, join the heroes of Phlan as their city is once again threatened.

©1992 TSR, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

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Was this really written by professionals ?

This is the worst audio books I have ever heard. The characters are one-dimensional. The dialogue is awful. The voice acting is marginal. The childish and flamboyantly stupid main antagonist is laughable considering the intelligence cunning and discipline that would be required to survive as even an acolyte Red wizard of Thay.

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Reader Speaks Like She's Reading to a Toddler

This ridiculous over-dramatic reading isn't fit for Sesame Street. So bad I couldnt finish. Actually made me nauseous.

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Great fun.

Wish they would publish work like this again. Full of fantasy goodness with no agenda woven in the narrative.

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Barely okay...

The narrator is the real downfall. Super annoying and distracting. The actual story is so so at best. The writing is mediocre and sometimes ridiculous

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Great Story

I must admit, I thought it would be different. While I expected to see the heroes return from the first book. I did not expect that more than a decade had elapsed. It worked out well; however, with the party's heavy hitters trapped in a constant battle, providing encouragement and support, as all heroes must do, while waiting to be rescued. The introduction of the new characters was great and I look forward to seeing where they all end up.

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keeps crashing my kindle locks up won't open

locks up and crashes kindle sometimes won't open can't jump to chapters narrator tries to do voices and just should've read the book in her own voice

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Enjoyable! ultimately an enjoyable experience.

I think the story was good but the high pitched voices used for demons and dark wizard gave me "wicked witch" vibes so they never seemed very intimidating. More comical most times. A good story still.

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Outstanding narrator!

loved this audiobook, i can't wait to start on the next book in this series.

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more refined than the predecessor

the story did improve. nice mix of first and second edition d&d rules. i personally love the inclusion of a pit fiend in all of these early campaigns. even if it does wear a little thin. makes me appreciate the phaerimm and the beholder as boss monsters in other stories.

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militades

militades is a paladin of tyre how is he wielding a sword? However great book and great story telling overall. I've run out of forgotten realms books to listen to due to bad storytelling. I have ~80 novels in my collection. This was very refeshing.

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