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Scattered Suns
- The Saga of Seven Suns, Book 4
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 20 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Newly ascended to the Ildiran throne, Mage-Imperator Jora'h must quash the rebellion launched by his mad brother before the hydrogues destroy what is left of the empire. Assailed from all sides, Jora'h turns to his beloved half-human daughter, dispatching her on a desperate mission to make peace with the hydrogues.
Hope for humanity now rests with Jess Tamblyn, who continues to seed worlds with the watery wentals, the mortal enemies of the hydrogues. And on the ravaged planet of Theroc, home to a telepathic worldforest, a dead man is resurrected to prepare for the arrival of mysterious new allies in the fight.
But Chairman Basil Wenceslas's vendetta against the free-spirited Roamers has blinded him to danger closer to home - the soldier machines that make up the backbone of the Hansa fighting force. King Peter has long suspected that the compies, built with the help of the ancient Klikiss robots, cannot be trusted. Now the shocking proof comes when the Klikiss launch their long-planned extermination of all things flesh and blood. And in the ensuing battle, humans and Ildirans alike will face their darkest choices yet.
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"David Colacci's youthful, mildly expressive voice is a plus....Lots of action here, and a fully realized universe." ( AudioFile)
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- Karolis
- 15-03-24
Story and narration
The story is a bit stagnant compared to previous parts, but will finish the series as I am too invested now.
The narration however is pretty bad compared to the previous narrator. The accents are bad, when audio effects are used they are either too quiet or too loud, the names of the characters are terribly mispronounced
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Chris
- 06-03-21
Very, very good
The story is excellent. I have already read the whole series as well as the following, saga of shadows in paperback. It is still well worth revisiting the story in audio book as I loved the story so much.
A massive galactic plot with characters that you come to like, love and hate.
Addressing some of the criticism in other reviews of the narration. The first couple of hours are beyond frustrating with the different pronunciation of character names from the first three books.
I think you have to cut the narrator a little slack on this. He has taken over mid series from another narrator who did a fine job on the narration of the first three books. Taking the pronunciation of the first three books out of the equation. this narrator makes an excellent job, putting in a great deal of effort with voices and radio communications. None of the robotic passionless reading from a lot of narrators. Had this narrator been onboard from the start I would go as far as saying the series would have been better for it.
This said you will find the pronunciation for the first couple of hours annoying if you have listened to the first three books but get past that and accept it, and you will enjoy a really good narrator. The only reason I four stared and not five, the performance was the mentioned issues. But I half feel I'm being harsh.
I'm certainly going on again all the way to book 7.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Stephen M Ward
- 26-12-23
Poor narration
Such a shame that the narrator was changed from the previous books.
Apart from the new narrator not being nearly as interesting in his general narration he constantly mispronounces even simple words.
Also annoyingly he has completely changed the pronunciation of characters names from the previous books and weirdly managed to turn a whole civilisation into wannabe Shakespearian actors.
All of the above completely ruins what was previously an enthralling story.
Whoever made the decision to change narrators obviously has no interest in the author or his saga.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-11-24
great story ruined by the new narrator
Having already read the books some time past, myself and my partner were enjoying listening back through these.
That was until this book when, for whatever reason, they decided to change the narration, to someone who can't seem to pronounce anything correctly.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- stephen k
- 08-02-22
Unfortunate narration
The first three books of the series were well narrated and the story interesting - although perhaps the story is a little too long for the amount of content there.
In book four there is a new narrator. The overall narration quality is OK in that it is clear and well paced, but the attempts at accents for the Ildiran leadership in particular, plus some other characters, really detract from the enjoyment of the story.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- BroardSword
- 08-08-22
This story just gets better
This space opera is one of my all time favourites I have it in paperback and now in audio
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-06-23
Oh man :(
Got used to the new voice quicker than I thought and most of the name pronunciation changes…. But I can’t get past some like ‘E-a’ said like ‘E-ahhh’
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Count Wilhelm
- 02-09-21
Change of narrator slaughtered it.
As per the headline. Narrator changed after I'd gotten used to the previous one. He's absolutely rubbish at accents. Never mind pronunciations of various names and places. Crap
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