• Storm of the Dead

  • Forgotten Realms: The Lady Penitent, Book 2
  • By: Lisa Smedman
  • Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
  • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (100 ratings)

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Storm of the Dead

By: Lisa Smedman
Narrated by: Dara Rosenberg
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Publisher's summary

Drow god vs. Drow god! When Lolth and Eilistraee, two drow goddesses, compete for control of the dark elves of Faern, more than just the drow are caught in the middle. Though the drow will survive their game, what's at stake is the very nature of what it means to be a dark elf.

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the story

I love this Trilogy I read it in paperback 10 years ago or so and had no problem listening to it for a second time. well written and fast moving. if you love the drow and forgotten realms don't forget this one.

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interesting story, terrible narration

Narrator has a weird cadence almost like she's reading to kindergartners.

Also features cartoonish level overacting in nearly every bit of dialogue.

Narrator constantly mispronouncing words.... "headless" of danger instead of "heedless" of danger... stressing the wrong syllable in "conversant"... can't even pronounce "penitent" correctly and that word gets used over and over.

Its outright bad, not what would be expected of a professional narrator. It seriously really distracts from what would otherwise be an interesting story.

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Horrible narration

Why does it seem like the narrator is getting worse as the series progresses? Constantly mispronouncing words, using the wrong words, and just awful voices. And for goodness sake, it’s the title of the series, it’s “Penitent” not “Pentanent”!!

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Poor reading, editing

The story is pretty good so far. My issue with this installment, just like my issue with the first, is with the narration. The narrator’s voice lacks any kind of gravitas. Her voice changes for the different characters seem extremely forced. There are many strange pronunciations of words and the obvious, jarring edits where a completely different woman’s voice adds in lines that were obviously missed in the original recording. Not sure why the original reader couldn’t record the edits but I expect better from an audible production

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I wish I had purchased the book and not the audio

story was great overall, but the performance absolutely dreadful, had to listen to it a bit faster, just so I can get through it, despite being interested, the narration was absolutely atrocious. If I see her name on anything else, I probably will avoid it then the narrator, not the author.

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Great Story. Horrible Narration.

Loved the story and characters so much. The drow are my favorite race in all of Faerûn so I try to read anything and everything having to do with the dark elves. The narrator is the only downside. Not only does she mispronounce words she also interupts the story by butchering the flow of sentences and paragraphs. Many of the side characters sound like lost ignorant idiots. If you can ignore all the narration issues the book should be enjoyable. Just remember there are 3 books in this series and she narrates them all.

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