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Title: The Last King's Amulet
Subtitle: The Price of Freedom
Author: Chris Northern
Narrator: Matt Franklin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
Language: English
Release date: 08-31-15
Publisher: chris northern
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Epic
Publisher's Summary:
My name is Sumto, and everyone thinks I am a gambling, lazy, good-for-nothing drunk. Frankly, I think they have a point. Right now I may have to join the army and fight in a war I am frankly too corpulent to cope with.
Still, it looks like being a small, short war. So that's got to be as bad as things get. Am I right?
Trained in his youth for war and politics, Sumto is interested in neither. As the son of a Patron, he should gather clients, acquire wealth, learn magic, husband a political power base and take his place amongst the Assembly of Patrons, the rulers of the city. Sumto would rather gather friends, acquire books, learn history, husband a hangover and take his place at the gambling tables. That is not going to be an option for much longer.
Unknown to Sumto, everything is about to change. There is a war in the north and Sumto is about to become a very unwilling participant.
Members Reviews:
The other review that said this work was horrible was completely and unequivocally wrong
I enjoyed the transformations of Sumpto and his tale greatly. I am disappointed that audible doesn't have the sequels available.
Occasionally there were quirks or notions of Sumpto that conflicted with his previous character in ways I cannot truly describe.
A minor irritation: some lines are repeated leaving you wondering if the editing was done incorrectly.
The narration was great!
Where to start, this book was definitely not my cuppa tea I had this book as a freebie from Kindle for a couple of yearsbook has a cool cover and the blurb sounded interesting. so when I saw the audio was available for review I thought cool, great time to give this one a shot.I really wished I had passed on it. Sumto, the main character describes himself as a gambling, lazy, good for nothing drunk.. and it is a quite accurate description, in fact it might be a bit to nice.personally I found him to be a completely useless person. I did not like him and could not for the life of me figure out why people kept saving his life. I was also extremely bored..at about the 25% point I upped the reading speed on the app to 1.5x just to get through this. When I initially read the blurb this book sounded interesting but unfortunately it was not. Because I was bored and could not find it in myself to care about Sumto or any of the situations he found himself in my mind wandered a lot while listening and most of what I heard was forgettable.
The narrator Matt Franklin is the only reason this book received more than a 1 star rating. I would say his narration was solid 4 stars, he did an excellent job differentiating the voices of the characters, and I look forward to listening to other books that he narrates.
Audiobook was provided for review by the author.
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Good story, good voicing, poor editing.
Is there anything you would change about this book?
The editing. Dead space seems to have been cut from the beginning of sentences and then jammed up against the last word of the previous sentence causing really terrible pacing.
Any additional comments?
The main detractor from this production is the editing. While listening, you get the sense that every sentence was individually recorded and cut together.
