White Sand: Volume Three [Dramatized Adaptation]

White Sand, Book 3

By: Brandon Sanderson

Narrated by: Terence Aselford, Alexander Strain, Dawn Ursula, Yasmin Tuazon, Scott McCormick, Bradley Smith, Jason B McIntosh, Holly Vagley, Nick DePinto, Joe Mallon, KenYatta Rogers, Frank Britton, Ken Jackson, Steve Wannall, full cast

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's Summary

Underpowered and overwhelmed, Kenton tries to hold the Sand Masters together as forces political and personal conspire against them. 

Now, in one final push, Kenton must tap the most dangerous depths of his own abilities to combat the enemies within his own guild and discover the truth behind the ambush that killed his father and almost destroyed the Sand Masters for good.

Performed by Terence Aselford, Alexander Strain, Dawn Ursula, Yasmin Tuazon, Scott McCormick, Bradley Smith, Jason B McIntosh, Holly Vagley, Nick DePinto, Joe Mallon, KenYatta Rogers, Frank Britton, Ken Jackson, Steve Wannall, Duyen Washington, Eric Messner, Thomas Keegan, Michael John Casey, Todd Scofield, Michael Glenn, James Lewis, Alejandro Ruiz, Nora Achrati, Andy Brownstein, Paul Reisman, Matthew Bassett, Jonathon Church, Peter Holdway, Chris Genebach, Richard Rohan, Chris Davenport, Tia Shearer, Joy Jones.

©2019 Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC (P)2019 Graphic Audio, LLC

not a bad story but not really a full book

i enjoyed the book overall but parts were predictable. On top of that, it blows my mind how much repeating of the storyline happens in these books. White Sands is a good story but i will not be buying another "graphic audio" book.... nowhere near worth the 3 credits.

The performances really brought the story to life!

I didn't care much for the graphic novel format, but decided to give the Graphic Audio version a try. The performances really brought it to life. Now I want to listen to the Graphic Audio versions of all the cosmere books.

Decent story, horrible audiobook

The effects are super distracting, the voice actors display breaks in character, just overall something I would never choose to listen to if there was a option to listen to the default version of the book, good story but a horrible audio book

cool way of storytelling. graphic audio is unique.

I'll definitely be trying out some other graphic audio series. it brought the books to Life

Amazing Concept, will buy more, but...

The sounds are WAY too loud. They are overwhelmingly loud. I want to love this. The actors are a little cheesy at times but solid overall. The concept of transitions and movie sfx is fantastic. But my goodness, I need to be able to hear what is being said. If I can’t clearly hear the voices then I’m missing the story. It’s like I’m blind. Please make some serious adjustments to your levels, and then I’ll be able to recommend this incredible content to everyone!

The entire series could have been 1 Book

While the overall story is good, the entire story could have been made into one book. The ending leaves the feeling of the series continuing.

good performance, but this was padded out

the performance was well done, but this last book feels padded out so they could get a third book out of it.

Kenton's voice

The voice actors in this are all pretty great. Except for one. Kenton's voice was just unbearable when he wasn't speaking Dynastic. I can usually get over a not so great voice, but I was never able to do this with his voice. The only real flaw throughout all three volumes. Story is amazing.

loved these characters

The background noises were a little loud, but story was engaging, very well performed,great voices

This is the best White Sand volume, but

White Sand was our least favorite Cosmere series by a far. Predictable, generic, but palatable.

Kris was probably our favorite character. Kenton was fine, but it felt like he suffered from being an overly generic protagonist. I won't claim that kenton doesn't have a personality, but he doesn't have the complexity that I've grown to expect. I also think that the narrator did him a disservice in this regard.

The voice acting was good! It was just a touch cheesy at times. And, again, Kenton sounded too much like a bland white protagonist. He grew a bit more snooty over time, which I appreciated because it added SOME flavor to our main good guy.

Brando Sando is usually faultless about this, but: A lot of the side characters feel less like fleshed out characters, and felt more like dominoes set up for Kenton to knock over. There are some twists, but outside of that, every character seemed to exist for their one purpose or their one contribution to the plot line.

Because we knew that every character had their function to the story, we were rarely surprised by any twists. That's because we could take a look at all of the characters that haven't done a plot thing yet, and guess which one best worked for upcoming plot things. Like the assassins. By the time that Kenton figured it out, we had narrowed down our suspects to two possible people.

There was also a scene towards the end where Kenton seemed to just show up and save the day. Perhaps we missed something, but he seemed to just pop up, and it felt very convenient.

Speaking of that, the ending is satisfying, but it all felt too convenient. White Sand 1-3 felt like a series of Kenton marking of his To-Do list for 10 days while enjoying plot armor.

I liked White Sand! I love Sanderson's work so much that I'm going through the whole Cosmere. I just needed extra space to explain my criticisms of White Sand because they're so specific.