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The Forest House
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She was Eilan, the daughter of a Druidic warleader and gifted with visions. In a land struggling to survive both Roman conquerors and her own people's enemies, surely fate had marked her to become a priestess of the Forest House.
But first Eilan had chosen a different, forbidden path - to love Gaius, a soldier of mixed blood among the legions sent to subdue her country. So she must hide a terrible secret when she is anointed as the new High Priestess. With mighty enemies poised to usurp the wealth of magic the Forest House sheltered, Eilan could only trust in the power of the great Goddess to find her destiny amidst the treacherous labyrinth in which fate had placed her.
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- A. Sentoni
- 10-26-10
Re-recorded and highly effective
This is not a reissue/transfer of the unabridged cassette tapes that were originally produced. Everything about this new recording is outstanding. Rosalyn Landor is an absolutely, perfectly beautiful interpreter of these characters and words. In fact, she's so wonderful, I wish she had also been engaged to rerecord The Mists of Avalon as well; she is really *that* good! This story, though slighter than Mists, is a wonderful tale and forerunner to the main novel of the saga. If you've heard the cassettes and haven't really cared for them, I urge to you get this new recording and hear this beautiful story for the "first time."
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- Marion M Miller
- 01-08-14
Good story, stay with it and you will enjoy it
Would you listen to The Forest House again? Why?
Yes, it is a large book and has a lot of details to get through in the first 5 chapters. If Rosalyn Landor had not made it so easy to stay with it, I may not have finished it. But after those first 5 chapters you have a great understanding of what is happening, time frame, and the lead people in the book. Then it gets good and I am going to read the next one of these books.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Forest House?
Beltane Fires
What does Rosalyn Landor bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
She has a rich and engaging way of sharing a story that makes you feel like you are experiencing it. Very easy to listen to and like I stated above, without her reading this story I would have put it down.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?
Beltane, The Lady
Any additional comments?
Problem I have is finding out which is the next real book in this as there are two with Avalon that could be the next one. It is important with this novel to stay with the time frame so if you could make that happen it would be a great improvement. You have the series which are numbered, but the confusion is with the Lady of Avalon and the final book as the producer's information doesn't tell you where in the timeline they fall.
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- Jennifer S Lewis
- 12-21-15
Could only stand it for 20 minutes
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The narrator was so annoying I just couldn't take it. The women's lines sound like men, and men's lines sound like old nuns. egad.
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- Kari Aspenes
- 04-19-15
Bad narrator.
All the male caracters sound old and pompous regardless of age. A big big negative!
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- alison
- 07-27-14
Enjoyable book
What did you like best about The Forest House? What did you like least?
Good story, a little slow in places, but still held interest.
What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)
Good ending, and leads you into the next book.
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- Belladoni
- 04-08-19
Disappointing
I wanted to give this book a chance as I consider 'The Mists of Avalon' to be a masterwork. After seven chapters I had to bail out of this profoundly unengaging novel---totally opposite from the 'Mists' which pulled me in from the first page.
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- Nickalas
- 05-13-19
Amazing writing, story, and narration
The forest house is the prequel to the mists of avalon. I enjoyed both books and want to reread the latter to see more of the connections between the two.
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- MikelMask
- 08-17-18
Emotionally Draining
I cannot recommend this audio book any more highly. The story kept me enthralled and the narrator was fantastic. I early on recognized that the story was derived from plot of Bellini's Norma which only made the inescapable ending more emotional for me. I liked this audio book so much that I have already purchased the next two books in the series, especially because they are performed by the same narrator.
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- GrannyDeb
- 06-06-18
Narration is awful. I have tried twice
I just cannot abide this narrator. Overly enunciated like an English Lit teacher reading from a textbook.
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- Amanda
- 04-26-13
Awesome book, narcoleptic reading...
Would you try another book from Marion Zimmer Bradley and/or Rosalyn Landor?
I read the book years ago and it is amazing and a great prequal to the Mists of Avalon. The woman reading though, put me out within 3 minutes every time I pressed play. Of course I'd read/listen to another book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, but not if Rosalyn Landor's name is attached to it.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Her voice just made me sleepy.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The story!
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- Tasha Walsh
- 06-13-20
Great truth within
I've just read this the 3rd time. So special! always. it holds a great truth!
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- Ms. Jane E. Walters
- 02-15-20
Inspiring
I read Mists of Avalon years ago as I have always been interested in the spirituality of the women in my ancestry. I believe in their magic, which is bought to life in this series, and inspires an inherent need to rekindle what was lost when the male dominant thinking took over.. Bradley seems very knowledgeable about all these secret, mystical ways that lost their value along with the value of what women can be at their very best. These stories speak to an empty space within us. I am hoping that the rest of the series is made available to audible soon. In my opinion Bradley is a great writer, and her stories are rich, deep and compelling.
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- Treehugger
- 11-17-19
Good epic story
This tale is set in iron age times by the sound of it (I'm not quite sure - several decades or even perhaps a century before the reign of king Arthur?)
It relates the story of a family of druids. The young daughter of the chief druid and a Roman soldier fall in love, but since the Romans are the enemy oppressors, they are forbidden to each other. So that gives a bit of tension and direction to the story. There is a house in the forest which shelters Pagan priestesses and 2 of the druid's daughters begin training there. The book is full of well-researched details of the times and plenty of folklore and magic.
The narrator is very well spoken and enunciates carefully, helping the text along with her carefully expressive delivery. She makes perhaps rather too much of an effort sometimes, as if she's reading a children's book to a class, so that all the male characters are rather overexaggerated and sound like pompous elephants! Apart from this, I can see that she's trying very hard and so this is an enjoyable book to listen to.
It's a good read for fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley (as I am) and I like novels set in the past, as we get a good feel for all the details of the time. This book is a little slow paced perhaps, with not very much going on and very slow to heat up to its lukewarm best. So it's not exactly gripping, and I actually laid it down several times and started other audiobooks in between listening to it,
It only really grabbed my attention when Caillean went to Glastonbury Tor to begin a House of Maidens on what would later become the Isle of Avalon. She actually meets the very ancient Joseph of Arimathea, who is referred to with reverence in the Mists of Avalon. Up till this point I spent the whole of the book waiting for some link to Avalon!
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- CantVal
- 09-03-19
Shame about the narration
Although this story is not quite As good as the Mists of Avalon it is a great pity that the narrator of the Mists was not used for this as it would have been so much the better for it
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- jenny wren
- 03-01-16
Prequel to Mists of Avalon
What do you think the narrator could have done better?
I found the narrator's male voices irritating because they all sounded pompous and old. You don't have to try and sound like a man if you're reading a male character's speech.
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- Kathy9
- 03-26-23
The Forest House
A wonderful novel which gave me some background of The Mists of Avalon. Story is riveting.
Spoiled only by the narration, sounds like it was being narrated by a computer, not pausing between chapters to draw breath, never mind sentences.
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- Anonymous User
- 12-15-20
Beautiful
It took me a little while to get into this, the to begin I Found it hard to listen to the narrator. However 30 minutes in I was hooked. Beautiful story and beautiful performance. Please listen
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- Claudia
- 08-26-23
great introduction to the Avalon series
not as involving as Mists of Avalon but a great introduction to the saga.
satisfactory story telling.
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- Róisín O'Connor
- 07-29-23
Great story, poor narration.
The nation for Forest house to be re-recorded. This narrator has no feeling for the tone of the writing, and her attempt at voices,
particularly male ones, are terrible and get in the way of the text. I tried for a third of the book, but am defeated.
The narrator for the Mists of Avalon was superb. Why not use her again?
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- mrs s pilgrim
- 05-12-23
Boring
After reading The Mists Of Avalon countless times I thought I was in for a treat. However this book lacks any depth. Characters are shallow. Very simple storyline which seemed to have little point other than to introduce you to the founding of Avalon. Narrator is monotone and every male character sounds like an English Lord!
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- Mira M.
- 04-05-22
Fascinating story
The story is fascinating, the characters showed with all their facets, strenghts and weaknesses.
The mix of religion, power and its abuse as temporary today as it was then.
Very well written and told, An absolute Go for me.
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