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Narrated by:
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Homer Todiwala
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By:
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David Gemmell
About this listen
The peaceful Eldarin were the last of three ancient races. The mystical Oltor, healers and poets, had fallen before the dread power of the cruel and sadistic Daroth. Yet in one awesome night, the invincible Daroth had vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities, their armies, their terror. The Great Northern Desert was their only legacy. Not a trace remained for a thousand years....
The War of the Pearl had raged for seven years, and the armies of the four Duchies were exhausted and weary of bloodshed. But the foremost of the Dukes, Sirano of Romark, possessed the Eldarin Pearl and was determined to unravel its secrets.
Then, on one unforgettable day, a dark moon rose above the Great Northern Desert, and a black tidal wave swept across the land. In moments the desert had vanished beneath lush fields and forests, and a great city could be seen glittering in the morning sunlight. From this city reemerged the blood-hungry Daroth, powerful and immortal, immune to spear and sword. They had only one desire: to rid the world of humankind forever. Now the fate of the human race rests on the talents of three heroes: Karis, warrior woman and strategist; Tarantio, the deadliest swordsman of the age; and Duvodas the Healer, who will learn a terrible truth.
Read by Homer Todiwala.
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- Patrick
- 05-04-18
The narrator belched
how can someone so obviously talented do such a half arsed job . the narrator burps at one point, and makes so many mistakes during reading the book it makes you wonder if English is his first language.
don't get me wrong quite a good narration in some ways but at times he obviously wasn't reading a story he was just reading a shopping list .
weird
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- Matt Peacock
- 17-05-18
What a shame.
I really enjoyed this book when I read it a long time ago. Therefore I was excited to see that it had a brand new audiobook version. I've managed 4 hours but I cannot suffer it any longer. The narration is quite honestly terrible. There is absolutely zero emotion, "evil" characters are given stereotypical goblin-esque voices which create about as much malice and intent as a rock. Inflections and tone never match the scene. Timing and pacing is poor. It's just bad.
Avoid this one and just re-read the book. That is what I'm going to do.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-02-23
Poor narrator
Very poor English for an English man.
Although some of the voices were well done
The goblin voice of Dace was irritating and broke any immersion into such a brilliant story!
Disappointing and needs to be re-recorded.
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- David Connolly
- 28-01-19
great story...poor narration
every mispronounced word or silent gap in the middle of a. sentance made me wince and dragged me out the tale. which was a real shame
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- Daniel Jarvie
- 09-07-22
Disappointing.
After reading the book a while ago, I purchased on Audible but was disappointed with the narration. The voices didn’t match the characters, especially Dace, the alter ego psychopath. Felt like I was wading through just to get it finished at times. I’ll stick to my old paperback copy of this one!!
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- Primeexample
- 23-12-24
Gemmell let down by atrocious narration
As always, Gemmell is a hugely entertaining, emotional and easy read. However Homer Todiwala's narration is simply unfit. As some others have said, he mispronounces many words (scared instead of "scarred", pre-science instead of "prescience" are two examples), randomly stops in the middle of sentences, and at two points, actually burps into the microphone (no, this was not a characterisation, nor was it part of the text). I think he's a potentially good narrator. His voice has a lovely timbre, and his choice of the Indian accent for Duvodas was nice. He does a great "commoner" accent too. However, he obviously did minimal prep for this role as it sounds like he's unfamiliar with the text. Character voices were his first and only choices (Dace and the Daroth are particularly bad), and his Scottish (?) accent for the inventor character is awful. Do these recordings not have a director? If yes, I would lay 50% of the blame at the feet of said director. If no, someone get this man a director next time. Lastly, whoever was the sound engineer/producer... You really dropped the ball on those two burps. One was very small and easily missed. I would've forgiven that. But the second was a literal belch into my ears and could have VERY easily been edited out.
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- Mark Cummins
- 03-12-18
Great book
I loved the story, narration was really terrible he mispronounced several words consistently and burped!
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Ian
- 22-10-20
Not Gemmell’s finest, but poorly narrated
I love Gemmell, and this is not his greatest book, but as a fan of the genre it’s still entertaining. Unfortunately the narration is poor, particularly the accents, and it makes the story much less enjoyable.
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- Chris Davies
- 23-02-19
Poor
Very poor narration, lots of mispronunciations but on the bright side it was nice to see black adders lord flashheart appear as vint.
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- Mr. David Drage
- 17-11-22
Good book, poor narrator!
The book was very enjoyable. The reader was terrible. He mispronounced many common English words which lifted listener out of the story, also his characterisation was very poor, making most of the characters sound alike.
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