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Valkyrie Rising

Viking Blood and Blade Saga, Book 5

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Valkyrie Rising

By: Peter Gibbons
Narrated by: Paul Metcalfe
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If you like Bernard Cornwell, Conn Iggulden, Simon Scarrow, and David Gemmell, you will love this Viking adventure saga packed with battles, vengeance, blood, and gore.

878 AD, Norway. The fight to secure Harald Fairhair’s throne is over, but one last battle sends a crew of Viking Warriors on a desperate, blood-soaked quest.

Hundr, a Northman with a dog's name...a crew of battle hardened warriors...and a voyage that will determine the fate of Ragnarok itself.

The crew of the warship Seaworm sail the Whale Road across Viking Europe in search of a spear said to have been forged for Odin himself. Ragnhild, Hundr’s sword-sister and Valkyrie Priestess, must recover the mythical weapon if she is to be restored to her order. The Burned Man stands in their way, a vicious warlord bent on vengeance who will stop at nothing to kill Hundr and his old friend Einar the Brawler.

Hundr must join the war for King Alfred’s nascent Kingdom of England and venture home, to the great city of Novgorod. Can he survive brutal attacks and vicious shield wall battles in this fast paced adventure with striking characters and bloodthirsty action?

Valkyrie Rising continues the unmissable Viking historical fiction saga series which began with award-winning author Peter Gibbons' debut novel Viking Blood and Blade.

©2023 Peter Gibbons (P)2023 Peter Gibbons Action & Adventure Fiction Historical Fiction Viking Warrior Royalty Norse Adventure Valkyrie England King

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amazing story, so addictive literally cannot get ebough, just wish the narrator would pronounce Jarl and Valkyrie correctly...

brilliant

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Ive just downloaded and listened to the first four books non stop and really enjoyed them …therefore I cannot believe the narrator has been change to someone with a very heavy regional accent… so much so I can’t understand some words … combined with his accents on different characters and pronunciation I just can’t listen to it.
First time ever I’ve returned an audible book !
I’m loving the books so far but it is such a change in narrator I can’t continue.

Oh no …. I can’t listen anymore

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shame about the change in narrator, spoilt a great story, the warriors are ageing but thier legend grows, and hunda returns to novgorod.

Great series

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Yet again a good story in the series but I couldn't finish the listen and trust me i kept trying. Change in Narrator was the worse decision ever and if the author gave the thumbs up for it I'm shocked. If he didn't then he needs to sack his management team!

Buy the book and lest see what the next new narrator is like for the next installment. Fingers crossed he's better than Paul

I went out and bought the book!

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As a serious it has been enjoyable but the narration in each book has deteariated as to the point of awful on the last volume.
probably the worst group of narratives I've ever heard on Audiobook

As a serious it has been enjoyable..But

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I found it difficult to concentrate on the story as I was distracted every time I heard the title 'Jarl' pronounced as jarl when in the four previous books it was pronounced 'Yarl' by the narrator Nicholas Jordan, this was also the same with the name Hundr. Which in this book was pronounced as Hundra, and Valkyrie was also pronounced differently in the previous books. I am disappointed with these pronunciations, and I would like to know the reasons why this has occurred. I wonder if other listeners felt this way also.

Valkyrie Rising

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Brilliant although disappointed in the change of narrator. He was good but not as good as the original

Love these

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As others have said, the narrator can’t pronounce Jarl and Valkyrie properly which got on my nerves a lot. Surely that should’ve been picked up when he couldn’t say the title of the book properly.

Poor narration, great story

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Peter Gibbons has once again given us an enjoyable romp with plenty of twists and turns as Hundr and company travel the Whale Road on a quest to retrieve an important artefact, getting into all sorts of binds along the way.
The downside with this particular audiobook, in the series, is the change of narrator and with that, the change in voices of the main character’s which lack the nuanced characterisation provided by the previous narrator. I could have coped with this but, when adding in the mispronunciation of various Norse terms (of which there are, unsurprisingly, quite a few) by pronouncing, for example, a hard ‘J’ instead of the soft nordic/germanic ‘j’ as ‘ya’ e.g: for brynja (br-in-ya) instead of BrinJar; einherjar (ein-he-rya) instead of einhedJar. This simple error, I found to be particularly jarring (with a hard ‘J’).
The narration, however, is not all bad and does manage to carry the story along but, I would have preferred a continuation of the story by the previous narrator.

An entertaining story frustrated by a change of narrator.

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I was quite prepared to go through the whole series but this will be the last as the change in narrator and his character voices I just can't get on with.

Yeah the change in narrator has killed it for me.

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