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The first three novels in New York Times best-selling author Peter V. Brett's groundbreaking Demon Cycle series - The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, and The Daylight War - set a new standard for heroic fantasy. The powerful saga of humans winnowed to the brink of extinction by night-stalking demons, and the survivors who fight back, has kept listeners breathless. Now the thrilling fourth volume, The Skull Throne, raises the stakes as it carries the action in shocking new directions.
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- Daniel
- 04-06-15
Does little to move the overall story along
Bottom Line: if you liked Robert Jordan’s meanderings, you will love this book. I however, was not a fan because this book did not move the overall story along. If some of the stories from this book were standalone novellas, they would be great. As a part of an overall series, however, there is little here of value.
I really liked the Warded Man. It was a great book. It was fast-paced and told an interesting story in an interesting setting. But the book created some false promises for the series—that the series would be fast-paced and focused on the survival of the human race. But instead of focusing on fulfilling the implicit promises of the Warded Man, we have a book focused on ancillary characters. As a result, there is little momentum and drive and little suspense. When it became clear that the main storyline wasn’t going anywhere, I ceased to care about the rest of the book because that part of the story didn't matter that much. Who cares if characters lived or died they will not have an impact on the larger story—the story I was invested in since the Warded Man?
This book didn’t need to exist as a standalone novel. Even though it is 700 pages long, very little happens in the overall story. It would have been much better as a couple ancillary novellas.
The narration of the story was quite good. I really like Pete Bradbury's work here.
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- Hannah
- 04-17-15
Filler book
What was most disappointing about Peter V. Brett’s story?
The story does not progress. It's like Brett read Game of Thrones and has tried to turn into Martin. This book is just an introduction of random new characters, weird sex depictions, and a political drama. Which, like Martin, has pointless death of a main character. I have listened to books 1-3 twice now but, will never listen to this again, and will recommended that other fans don't as well. Save your credit and your love of the series for the next book.
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- Cory
- 04-24-15
Filler and boredom.
This book does not deliver on any of the promise of the last book, skip it.
It feels like the author decided he needed to stretch the series and packed this books with chapter after chapter of unnecessary characters and dithering.
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- MissRed
- 04-05-15
Hm
A little let down, thought this 4th installment would be such an epic...but I felt the over abundance of sexual situations a bit distracting. I also felt that the story didn't really grab me until about 3 hours until its conclusion. The previous three had my attention after a single chapter in. I'll still await the next installment, but am a bit disappointed with the lack of dramatic developments. Less bad ass more politics; and political fantasy novels have never been a favorite of mine. :( aw well. Performance was stellar as usual though!!!
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- mctegla
- 09-21-15
Almost skipped but glad I didn't
Would you listen to The Skull Throne again? Why?
Yes. I've enjoyed all books in this series and there was a lot that had happened in this book that I am sure I could get more out of a second time around.
Any additional comments?
After reading all of the negative reviews or this book being "filler" or a "let down" I had prepared myself for this story have little substance. However as the story progressed I found myself thinking that it was exactly what I would expect for the next installment of the series. This book has a lot more character development of people other than Arlin which I really enjoyed (although Arlin and Jardir definitely play their own role in this as well). I'm not sure if people were disappointed that the focus was spread from Arlin to other characters such as Leesha, Rojer (and his wives), and Inevera. I really don't see how anyone would expect an action series like this that has already introduced many key characters and set up two warring nations without expecting further development. There is a lot more political plots than in previous books, but once again I don't see how you could expect this not to be present. I also have seen a few complaints about too much romance in this book, but I rolled my eyes more at Leesha and Jardir's relationship in the last book than I did during this whole story. While I normally find romance in books unnecessary, I really didn't not find it distracting in this book.
All in all, I wish that I did not let the reviews dissuade me or else I would have read this book much sooner. I enjoyed this book as much as the previous in this series.
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- K
- 05-10-15
A whole lot of filler
Not even sure if this was worth a credit. As many others have commented, not much happens to move along the story. The book easily could've been a quarter of the length and it wouldn't have sacrificed anything relevant. Not sure why Brett continues to drag out the story but it's a big deviation from the first two books and not in a good way.
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- Louis
- 04-04-15
Missed the mark
Would you try another book from Peter V. Brett and/or Pete Bradbury?
The other books in the series were good and moved the story forward. I didn't feel this book moved the overall story forward nor did it really fill in any gaps. The other books covered years where I believe this book covered several months. The narrator did a great job as always.
Would you be willing to try another book from Peter V. Brett? Why or why not?
I will read the next book because the overall story is good as along as the story isn't drawn out just to put more books in the series. Its one thing to have a long series with a good story line, its another to just ramble on to make the book long.
Have you listened to any of Pete Bradbury’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
Yes. As I said before the narrator did a great job as always.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
I enjoy the back stories of the main characters and have enjoyed the previous books in this series. I just feel this book fell short of the mark compared to the other books in this series.
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- Blazemithias
- 06-23-15
Fun and frustrating
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The book starts off great, his jumping from character to character can be agitating at best and infuriating at worst when the focus on characters that have never held a main part and are just thrown in so he has some one to kill off. As the book progressed it was like he felt the need to emulate how game of thrones reads with rampant death and chaos. Rather than following his own the progression of the main characters, he takes other characters that have been minor parts to the forefront. This would be fine except they are not there to carry over to other books but are filler. Half of the book could have been covered with minimal explanation for what happens with these characters and he could have focused more on the main characters. Then he puts in a nasty twist at the end. You won't be pleased. If you Like game of thrones then this might be a good filler book while waiting on that but it is a drastic change of focus and writing progression from his first 3 books.
I might not get any more of his books if this change in writing is going to be the new normal. I enjoy game of thrones but I don't like it when a writer feel the need to take up that style of story direction in the middle of an establish series.
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- BW
- 05-13-15
What a shame
How far this book has fallen from one of my all time favorites. 90% of it felt like filler intended to stretch the series just one more book.
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- Fantasy Reader
- 04-04-15
Not as expected, but still good
Alright so I do not want to spoil this book for anyone, but I want people to know a few things. The first thing is that Arlen and Jardir take a backseat for this book. The book is still great, but I wanted more of the warded man.
When you read this book it will be sad. Sure people die, but at the end of the book you will have this feeling of something bad is going to happen, even though bad things just happened. In a way it is a little worse than a cliffhanger since we now see a set up for the last book. This book will probably make you cry and then scream for the next.
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I honestly cant
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Could do without the commercials throughout it
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