The Orc King

Transitions, Book I

By: R. A. Salvatore

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall

Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Drizzt is back, and facing a world changed forever!

An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can't last long. The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he's worked to build.

But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World. Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. And it won't be easy.

This book wasn't just the next installment in the long-running saga of the famous dark elf, but the beginning of a bold new trilogy that will help change the face of the Forgotten Realms world forever.

TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC

Don't forget to listen to more adventures of the Forgotten Realms.

©2008 R. A. Salvatore (P)2009 Random House

Unfortunate victor isnt the reader

Listening to the ever book prior to this as victor as the reader, someone who put a lot of emotion and depth into the characters. The new reader put me away from the book, he doesn’t bring emotion or depth, constantly mispronouncing names and words and it ruins the experience and dulls the story. I hope victor comes back and reads this books I’d even rebuy them if he did.

you'll get used to it

It's hard to get used to a different reader. At first i hated it,but got over it.

Why the change?

Mark Bramhall has ruined this book. This is the 18th book in this series and he is a new reader. I understand there will be some differences, but this is just terrible. Not only are a plethora of words pronounced differently and or wrong, but he gives completely different accents to races, the absolute wrong accent in some cases.

Is there no requirement for research from prior readers in order to carry the story correctly?

16 of the last 17 books in this series were read by Victor Bevine, 1 was read by another person and that had me confused as that person could not even pronounce Drizzt. Luckily that book was part of the Sellsword series and Drizzt wasn’t in it much. His pronunciation was DriTzz, the T before the ZZ, that is really terrible and should have been corrected. But it was only one book.

Mark Bramhall at least pronounces Drizzt correctly. However he is terrible.

I wish there were more options.

P.S. I have read these books and now I am trying to enjoy listening to them while I am working and other things like driving.

I just can’t understand how there is no requirement for a new reader to listen to a few books from a prior author in order to more closely understand how the stories have been set up.


TERRIBLE!


I would give the performance zero stars if it were an option.

the character development in this book is fantasic

the person reading this book embraced the langiages and differemt characters fantastically. youll love the character progression of your favorite companions

another excellent book

I completely love all these books. on to the next exciting adventure. none of these books in the forgotten realms series has disappointed

Narration not so good

Narration not so good. Pretty much all the previous series had the same guy and I do t like the change.

Great but an adjustment.

this is one of my favorite books in the series however it takes a while to get used to the new narrator. Mark Bramhall does a great job but when Victor Bevine has been doing the audio books up to this point it can take a while to get used to the new voice and new pronunciation of some of the characters names

Different Narrator

Had problems with the Names, Mispronouncing them. sounded like a College instructor after a long day. Very poor voices, And it just felt like he just droned on reading, no excitement in voices at exciting parts. please get the past Narrator. This was a struggle to listen to, story is great as always. Just was tough to get through listening to him. Lowering stars due to narrator.

Great work, Mark Bramhall did just fine.

Great addition to the story, Bramhall did a fantastic job minus some mispronunciaton of names.

I had to listen with the story sped up

Great story. I had to listen to it faster to handle the narrator when i set playback speed to 1.10 faster it felt much better to listen to.