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Soulstar

Kingston Cycle, Book 3

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Soulstar

By: C. Polk
Narrated by: Robin Miles
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With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt this thrilling final volume.

For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that would have her imprisoned by the state. But when Grace Hensley comes knocking on Clan Thorpe's door, Robins days of hiding are at an end. As freed witches flood the streets of Kingston, scrambling to reintegrate with a kingdom that destroyed their lives, Robin begins to plot a course that will ensure a freer, juster Aeland. At the same time, she has to face her long-bottled feelings for the childhood love that vanished into an asylum 20 years ago.

Can Robin find happiness among the rising tides of revolution? Can Kingston survive the blizzards that threaten, the desperate monarchy, and the birth throes of democracy? Find out as the Kingston Cycle comes to an end.

©2021 C.L. Polk (P)2021 Recorded Books Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy Magic

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The final book in the trilogy. Whilst I really enjoyed the first two audiobooks, I really struggled with the narration in this one. It’s not clear why the narrator chose to read in an accent that was not her native accent. I found the narration jarring in a way that overshadowed the book itself. All in all, a really exciting trilogy.  Perhaps worth using a different narrator for this book. I considered swapping to the book but stuck with the audiobook in the end. 

Poor narration detracted from the story

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I was so looking forward to getting my 'ears on' to sadly conclude this amazing (thus far) trilogy by C.L.Polk. The books have been very well written & the narration for the first 2 books was spot on. I've only just started this last book & am only about an hour into it (just!) & I'm really, really, really, really struggling with the awful narrator!! Perhaps she's just having a bad day' but following on from Moira Quirk (who read book 2 superbly well), this new narrator, Robin Miles, is really so very bad. Her accents are so all over the shop for the protagonists - sometimes Jamaican, Nigerian, South African, & a strange conglomeration of all, etc.(.. it's truly jarring to my ear & putting me off listening & enjoying.

I'm sure Robin does a fine job voicing other books, but she's completely robbed me of my one delight - which is listening to excellent audiobooks.

Furthermore, there's one character - Zelland - who we believe to be male, is continually referred to add he, she, her, him... so one begins to question whether or not Zelland is a man or a woman!! come on, audible... fix this please!

CL Polk has written a fantastic trio with this series & has won herself a new fan (and I, a new author to explore!)

qq horrid narration nearly ruined it your me!!

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The plot was less original and certainly more predictable than the previous books in the series. The political characters and movements seemed precise stereotypes while the relationship between the heroine, Robin, and her ‘spouse’ probably achieved the opposite of the author’s intent. Rather than allowing the reader to relate to a ‘non binary’ romance, the impossibility of visualising the spouse figure at all made the effort of doing so more like solving a mathematical problem than reading a story and the relationship itself a remote hypothetical rather than a human experience.

Evocative but disengaging

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I hate to do this as I enjoyed the previous two books.

I thought Robin was a Black Welsh lady. The narrator’s accent is all over the place and nothing like how Robin was portrayed before. By the time I got to the fourth chapter I gave up and I’d already restarted the audiobook three times hoping it would get better.

I’m going to read the book instead because I’m really looking forward to seeing how it all pans out.

I googled the narrator out of curiosity and she has won awards and is very well regarded, so I’m not sure what happened here. I later checked and I own and have enjoyed a few books that Robin Miles narrated; so this one must just be a blip.

Disappointed with the narration, couldn’t finish the story

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The narrators is concentrating so hard on her British accent that the emphasis is in all the wrong places and the meaning of the sentence is often lost.
She’s a great actress in her normal voice (she’s narrated other books well) , and her Caribbean accent for some characters is good, but the odd black country / cockney fusion of the main character voice is just awful .

The narrators fake British accent is unlistenable

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