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The Demon Awakens

By: R. A. Salvatore
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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In The Demon Awakens, best-selling author R. A. Salvatore creates an astonishing new world for listeners to explore - and an intrepid hero to lead the way: Elbryan Wynden, who must confront the dark tides of destiny in his epic search for justice and peace....

A great evil has awakened in the land of Corona, a terrible demon determined to spread death and misery. His goblin armies and fearsome giants ravage the settlements of the frontier, and in the small village of Dundallis their merciless attack leaves behind two shattered orphans: Pony and her lifelong friend, the youth Elbryan. Taken in by elves, Elbryan is raised to become a formidable ranger - a fateful role that will lead him into harrowing confrontation.

Meanwhile, on a far-off island, a shower of gemstones will fall onto the black-sand shores. These heaven-sent stones carry within them an incredible power - the key to all that is good in the world and all that is evil, and it is up to one young monk to liberate them from the corrupt monastery that harvests them. Pray that they don't fall into the wrong clawed hands....

©1996 R. A. Salvatore (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Narrator puts you to sleep. Annoying voice.

I absolutely love Salvatore, I have all of his works in my personal library.

Unfortunately this narrator makes it incredibly hard to finish the first book of the saga, let alone buy anymore.

Sounds like he should have stayed in theatre doing renditions of Shakespeare, not reading Salvatore.

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good character development

MC development was good, but the development of the secondary characters in thia first part of the trilogy was a welcome aspect.

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my favorite of Salvatore's works so far

I still don't care for Salvatore's perspective Choice sometimes it can make things a little more confusing but the world he has created in this book is great very unique and extremely deep not just a cookie cutter fantasy world also the reading of it isn't very good

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Another amazing book amazingly read for me!

Wasn't sure if it would be good But the author is usually never a fail and the reader is simply my favorite to listen to. Thanks again for making work another world for me lol.

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An ABSOLUTE jewel. R.A Salvatore always delivers.

The DEMON WARS saga is an ABSOLUTE jewel. Deep, complex and delicious to hear. dont miss it.

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Mature and good for teenagers and adults alike

This is a very interesting fantasy for many reasons. It seems mature even if it clearly is sort of a young adults fantasy novel. It also have some thoughts on the nature of evil and about being a good person. It almost feel a bit "catholic" but I don't think R.A. Salvatore belongs to the Church. I liked it very much.
Will listen to the next book with great interest.

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I enjoy this series

I read this book years ago and really enjoyed them. Listening to them now, I didn’t like the story as much as I used to but it was still good. The reader did a good job with his voices and expressions into the book. I do recommend the series.

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the amazing story

i love this book. it was my first Salvatore book. but the audio leaves a lot to be desired. The narrator barely does voices so the women sound like men and so forth.

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Awesome

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Would recommend very highly all of them. Most Read. No more to say.

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loved it

I really enjoyed this story, it had a lot of character development which is typical in the Salvatore books, and you will really like the characters.

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