Winds of Fury

Valdemar: The Mage Winds, Book 3

De: Mercedes Lackey

Narrado por: Karen White

No longer the willful novice of Winds of Fate, Princess Herald Elspeth has completed her magical training. She returns to her homeland with her beloved partner, Darkwind. Will they be strong enough to confront the magical evil that is threatening their land?

©1993 Mercedes R. Lackey (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Another great tale of Vladimir

This is the third in the Mage Winds series. I love the Vladimir stories. The narrator was not properly prepared as she mispronounced names and used inappropriate accenting.

Good story.

Would you listen to Winds of Fury again? Why?

Probably listen again. Interesting enough to re-listen to catch the parts you miss.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Heroine, a person learning her way in life.

I read it when young, this was better!

Absolutely great love the voices .love the pronunciation , love the performance. We all have slightly different ways we pronounce these names in our heads when we read them I think they did an excellent job in finding the middle ground.

A great story.

Overall Karen White was okay an narrator. Her voices were decent, but she pronounced some names differently than other narrators and differently than I did when I read the books.

Fantastic book

I LOVE all of The Heralds of Valdemar books, the author is really talented.

Great story, unfortunate narration.

This is a fitting conclusion to the Winds trilogy, which leads into more tales from Valdemar in the Storm trilogy. Unfortunately, the narration provided detracts from me truly loving this recording. Misty Lackey began weaving her story of the world of Velgarth and the Kingdom of Valdemar almost 40 (!) years ago. Through many novels, novellas, and short stories, Lackey has captivated fans for decades, and because she has been such a prolific writer - of not only fiction, but songs based on the nations, people and other creatures inhabiting the world she created - there is a plethora of information, including audio recordings (songs) that feature the pronunciation of various names of people, places & creatures many of which were written by the author. I can understand artistic license in a vocal performance, which is why I'm not going to be too critical of the accents chosen for different characters, except to say that some choices really took me out of the story. For example, I always thought of the Shinʻaʻin & Taleʻeʻdras either as a native american or even perhaps a bedouin type of people so I thought that their accents would be similar to some native american peoples or even having a middle eastern accent given the bedouin leaning of how the clans are described. The narrator's choice to give Firesong, Darkwind and other Hawkbrothers the odd mashup and changing accents sounding almost Russian or Slavic at times really threw me out of the story. One name the narrator completely mangled for me was Elspeth's companion's name - Gwena.

Strong finish

A very strong finish to a series that had a weak start, at least as far as the narration. Karen White really turned her narrative abilities on this story around between the first book which had me questioning if I could finish the series and the last.

The story its self is the completion of the story of grown up Elspeth, heir. She changed throughout the whole of the trilogy and began to mature. In this book you really see how much as she returns home with her new powers and strange friends and jumps strait into the war that has been threatening her whole life.

Well narrated

Only issue I had was the reader swapping ‘merc’ for ‘mere’. Otherwise well acted and read.

book 3

love the storyline. narrator did a decent job. must read all 3 to keep track.

Great story, acceptably read

This series is easily one of my favorites from the author. It combines a compelling magical world with just enough of a first-contact story to satisfy my other preference.

The narration is nice, but I submit that it would not have been necessary to read every single OCR mistake without questioning it.