The Wood Nymph and the Cranky Saint

The Royal Wizard of Yurt

By: C. Dale Brittain

Narrated by: Eric Vincent

Caught between renegade magic and cranky religion, what's a poor wizard supposed to do? When the King of Yurt goes on vacation, leaving his Royal Wizard Daimbert in charge, he is faced with the escalating crises of the cranky saint of the shrine of the Holy Toe, an all-too-beguiling wood nymph, bizarre horned rabbits, a scandalous duchess, the royal nephew's mid-life crisis, and a monstrous creature made with spells they never taught at the wizards' school. Daimbert had hoped - he thought - for a little more excitement and adventure, but at this rate the king won't have a kingdom to come home to.

©1993 C. Dale Brittain (P)2013 C. Dale Brittain

Light and Enjoyable

Quite an enjoyable book; short with plenty of lighthearted humor and good characterization. I continue to enjoy this world where Christianity and magic coexist in a relatively peaceful way. The ending felt a bit rushed, but overall it was an excellent followup to A Bad Spell in Yurt! Would certainly recommend if one enjoyed it's predecessor.

Just as good as the first

My only complaint is the inexplicable loud music in chapter 37. This made it hard to hear the narrator without adding to the story. Thankfully, it goes away before the end of the chapter.

fantasti

I thoroughly enjoy the story of yurt. The author and narrator are both first class.

Very Entertaining

This reading is almost as good as the first book. The only problem I had was that the music on one of the chapters was so loud I couldn't hear the reader.

I feel bad for an excellent narrator

This second Yurt installment had a great interesting and complex story that had me always guessing. Although these stories are told from a wizards point of view, and it's stated in the stories that wizards and priests don't usually get along, I really appreciate the author giving The Church a respectable place in these stories. I know I'll probably get a few "unhelpful" votes by the mere fact I'm stating I'm a Christian, but if you like me also enjoy stories about the fantastic, and are a Believer, this should appeal to you as well, even if you're not, it's in no way preachy.

My only gripe is in the editing of this audiobook: it's as if they removed every-single pause causing much of the story to sound like one long run on sentence. The narrator is excellent, does amazing voices, and inflicts great emotion, so I feel really bad to knock a star off in performance category, but it was extremely distracting!!

Overall a very enjoyable listen.