Pacing Problem not solved

I have to be honest - I was rooting for Aaron to get this book right. The setting was there, and everything needed to make a good compelling third instalment was there was well.

However, despite Travis Baldree's spectacular narration, this book falls flat on its face. There are a multitude of reasons for this, but the main one being that Aaron has not fixed the issues with the last two novels.

First and foremost, the dialogue is terrible. Everyone *sounds* the same. There are no differences when it comes to male or female, young of old. At least in the first book, Mender Jeffers had some differences in the way he spoke to everyone else.

Secondly, the pacing. The pacing is slow at best, and the author takes a few detours that add very little to the overall story, and this just makes an already short book, a meandering one.

Thirdly, the over-descriptiveness of the whole thing. The prose is beautiful - don't get me wrong. However, when you spend so much time describing the most mundane things, you are not spending that time talking about what is actually happening. For a lot of the book, trying to follow what happened chronologically was difficult. I found myself having to rewind and re-listen to the narration because I was confused as to who did what where.

I did not want to give this such a low rating, especially because Travis is one of the best narrators out there. However, even he could not save this train-wreck of an instalment.

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