Great listen

Hearing Tom Lockland shouting his war shout hives me goose bumps
can be hard to know when the perspective has changed.

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another good epic

after a slow start it really didn't really get that good until a third of the way through.
the book itself was more of a aftermath of the first book as well as a prologue of sorts to the next one.
I really look forward to it.

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Great entertainment

Great series just getting better and better with every book. One of the best in the genre

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Brilliant Story - Inconsistent Narrator

What did you like most about The Fell Sword?

Morgan Mortimer

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Fell Sword?

The final battle.

Did Matthew Wolf do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

I think that Matthew is a wonderful narrator. But he is inconsistent in some ways, for example he is pronouncing some names from The Red Night differently in The Fell Sword such as the Knight Gawain is has been changed to Gavin, it causes confusion. But Matthew has become one of my favorite narrators.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Yes

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Unfortunately not as strong as the first book

Very good narrator, with a wide catalogue of convincing accents. Unfortunately the story is weaker in this book,.and, like the first, errs a little too much on the winning side, few bold narrative shifts or tragedies. The author feels disinclined to remind the reader of how morally flawed the company actually is.

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Very enjoyable

Really enjoyed this second book in the series; nice ideas, good characters, great narration (aside from the distinctly odd pronunciation of certain words: wyvern (wivvern), demesne (demezzny), brazier (brassiere), destrier (destriay), hypercaust (hippocaust) to name but a few; quite jarring).

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A good series

Narration is great, with the second book personalities develop further although there are some disappearing characters which is a pity.
I have really enjoyed the this series and hopefully I will get the 3rd book if they change narrator back to Matthew Wolf. The 3rd book has a different guy and it ruins the story of 1 & 2.

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Good story, spotty pronunciation

A genuinely engaging story, following on from "The Red Knight", populated with well-drawn and believable characters. The occasional bad simile, but in a tale of this size it's almost bound to happen. Generally well-narrated, but one or two words get mangled - my pet hate is 'deh-mez-ney' (rhyming with Disney) for demesne (deh-mean), but it is a relatively small grumble.

Can't wait for "The Dread Wyrm"!

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The plot thickens

If you could sum up The Fell Sword in three words, what would they be?

The plot thickens

Who was your favorite character and why?

Too many to single out just one, as the minor ones to the major ones have a role to play

Which scene did you most enjoy?

Where a young mage discovers his powers for the first time and as a result a miscreant becomes rather crispy

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

laugh at times

Any additional comments?

The plot thickens as they say.
The Red Knight is back and what a welcome return it is, along with his company of honorable and not so honorable knights and hangers on. This time rather than fighting the wild (monsters to you and me) they are employed to rescue the Emperor of a faded empire. So there is betrayal, assassins, spies, explosions and dark deeds aplenty. Of course that is just part of the story as while this is going on, other events are fueling the bigger story and new players emerge with their own agenda. Just to whet appetite there is more violence, magic, skullduggery, betrayals on many levels from kings and queens downwards to peasant rebel soliders turning on their own. All created with an eye for detail that shows the writer's undoubted knowledge of the medieval time period. Now while this is a fantastic fantasy it is clearly built taking influences from French chivalric knights good, bad and down right crazy, Scottish Highlanders, Vikings as royal guards, Native American Indians to Eastern steppe horseman. At times the pace slows a little but in the right places as a book of this size needs a breather in places so again more praise for such a good writer as if it was battle after battle things would get boring. Unlike many writers Cameron is not scared to kill his major characters off and the main one seems to spend a lot of his time damaged in way or another..One person who I think will have a huge part to play is the mysterious "Mr Smythe" bit of a spoiler alert that sorry.
But this series is shaping very nicely and will only get better. As the Archer Willful Murder has been known to say "Mark my words...."

Bring on part 3,4,5,6????

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Fantastic Fantasy!

This is fantasy at its best - yet one of the most amazing parts is the realism of its battles.

This is among the top 5 of the epic fantasy genre.

Matthew Wolf is perfect in his narration.

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