The Tunnels Beneath

The Aldoran Chronicles, Book 4

De: Michael Wisehart

Narrado por: Tim Gerard Reynolds

The award-winning epic fantasy series continues with this fourth volume of The Aldoran Chronicles.

Ayrion

Everything Ayrion has ever believed about his people is brought into question as an inconceivable heritage dating back millennia is revealed. Sent by the wizard Nyalis, Ayrion is tasked with not only returning to the Lost City—the one place that had forsaken him—but convincing his people to abandon who they are and leaving the only home they’ve ever known.

Adarra

With the possibility of an impending Tallosian invasion, Adarra finds herself whisked away in the middle of the night to join the ambassadorial team as they attempt to establish a dialogue between her people and the savage Northmen. Aboard a ship full of Sidaran Lancers, she sets sail for the Isle of Tallos, a place so hostile that only the bravest, or most foolish, dare venture.

Ty

After the return of the wizarding school of Aero’set, Ty and his companions begin to explore. Unfortunately, they find the city just as deadly as it is beautiful, and without anyone there to keep them in check, they once again find themselves in a battle for their lives.

Ferrin

With the threat of Sylas’s pursuit behind them, Ferrin and his companions leave Rhowynn and head east toward Sidara. An old promise to a cellmate has him traveling to Easthaven to find Azriel’s son. However, they barely make it out of Keldor when fate intervenes, and Ferrin and his companions find themselves heading in the opposite direction. For someone whose first instinct is to run and hide, Ferrin finds himself abandoning all reason as he risks all of their lives to defeat an enemy no one even believes to be real.

Please Note: If you have not yet listened to the first book in the Street Rats of Aramoor series, entitled Street Rats of Aramoor Volume 1 & 2, you need to put this book down and listen to it. The characters and storyline in that book play a very important role in this fourth addition to The Aldoran Chronicles.

©2022 Michael Wisehart (P)2023 Podium Audio

Mike and Tim once again killed it!

Again both the story and the narration were top notch. Only complaint is that it’s over, and have to wait for the next book. Great book highly recommend the series!

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!

This series only gets better and better! I haven’t had this much fun since MJ Sullivan’s Ryira! The World building is exceptional, the various main/side characters are absolutely fantastic, and you can feel the storylines converging but not wanting them too, for fear of an ending to this incredible journey!
Please tell me the next installment is soon!!!
(And that the prince doesn’t wed aryion’s girl lol)
I can’t wait to experience the power T grows in too, and Adorra? Who knew? That was a nice surprise.
Narration was of course, TEN flaming stars!

Another winner!

I am a huge fan of Michael Wisehart and the two series that he is currently writing - the Aldoran Chronicles and The Street Rats of Aramoor. Both of these series are set in the same world with the Street Rats series occurring about 20 years in the past.

I have finally realized that it is better for me to add a little bit of story detail in my review (I generally try to not give out spoilers) but the problem is that there has always been a pretty significant time lapse between books. Unfortunately, when you read as many books as I do it is sometimes hard to remember the details of the storyline of the prior book.

I thought that this was going to be the final book in the series, but as I got closer and closer to the end, I began to realize that there was no way that everything was going to be wrapped up in time.
One thing that surprised me was HOW the book ended. Yes, it is a kind of cliffhanger but more than that, it felt like it was just cut off. I felt like it was a weird place for an ending. Kind of like some editor said, "okay, that's enough for this book, let's end it here and use the rest for the next book."

We are again following the 4 main characters as they are on their individual journeys (Ferrin, Ty, Adarra, and Aryion). Ferrin and Aryion have teamed up after Aryion left Ty and his gang in Aero'set. Then, there is Adarra's storyline. She is traveling to an island on an ambassadorial mission to try to hold off an invasion.

Aryion has been given a quest and he runs into Ferrin and his group on their way to their new destination. The past several books have spent the time introducing and developing all of the secondary characters so at this time the reader (that would be me) already feels like we know them. Aryion convinces Ferrin's group to go with him to try to help convince the Upakan's to leave their home and relocate to the recently discovered wizard school Aero'set. Not a small task. Together, this group has 8 wielders to try to accomplish this goal.

Ty and his gang leave Aero'set and return home to find quite a few changes in Easthaven. They have learned to act like a team through all of their various skirmishes and obstacles and this time is no different. These poor kids never seem to be able to catch a break. I really enjoyed getting to see/hear the meeting between the two women in Ty's life. It is going to be fun watching the two of them figure things out.

I don't remember if the prior books had an Adarra POV. Regardless, she is Ty and Breen's sister and she ends up on an island of monsters and crazy violent people. This POV specifically is one that just kind of ends in the middle of a very dangerous circumstance.

I think that this might be my favorite book of the series. There is nonstop action from the very beginning (and I do mean NONSTOP) along with battles, monsters, and lots of drama. Above everything else though, the overarching theme of this book is friendship and loyalty. This crazy cast of characters have truly become teams and they are constantly showing attributes of sacrifice for their companions and a willingness to risk life and death for their friends.

It goes without saying that Tim Gerard Reynolds knocks it out of the park with his narration. This is one of those books that make it much more exciting to listen to versus reading. He really is amazing.

So, now the wait begins for book 5......

A good story, but the author is overly predictable

I like this series overall, and definitely want to see how the story ends. Unfortunately this author has certain literary devices he falls back upon over and over again which make his stories both annoying and predictable at times.

One of these devices is what I think of as "leave it to beaver" syndrome. By this I mean that whenever there is a kid in his story, the kid always does something stupid, and then the story centers around fixing the problem that the dumb kid created in the first place. This I find to be both annoying and predictable.

The second device he uses is that crisis scenarios are always too big for the characters to solve themselves. So somebody always has to rescue them. Why can't he ever just let the characters figure things out for themselves?

Despite these annoyances, the series is still worthwhile. But the twists are relatively few and far between. I've heard better. But I've also heard much worse.

Tim Reynolds performance is absolutely first rate though, and helps to make the annoying parts of the story listenable enough to keep me from losing interest.

Excellent!

I love the characters! The narrator is outstanding. An immersive story - can’t wait for the next instalment!

Great!

This book leaves you wanting the next book NOW! another great addition to the series.

Loved it!

Definitely my favorite fantasy series! Glad I listened to street rats first. I might go back and restart this series again. Looking forward to the next book!

It's an amazing progression of an awesome series!

This may have been my favorite book in the series thus far. I enjoyed the Adara arc emmensly, though the rest of the book was also equally captivating. Excellent writing as always! Just the right amount of detail without being overburdened by it.

The narration for this book was excellent. Tim has a gift with bringing books to life in a way that many fall short. There is a major difference between listening to a book being read to you and having it brought to life by a great narrator. Tim is essentially Ty with his magical flute!

fantastic!

An fantastic story to set up book 5 but at the same time has a satisfying ending! One of my favs in the serious! Cant wait for book 5!

Th saga contiuea

the story libe. book 4 is a little disjointed covering three separate heros at once.