Good story, annoying narration

Enjoyed the story, though I felt like I wanted a bit more depth from the characters. My main frustration was with the narration - when doing the dialogue and the voices it was excellent, but when reading the rest of the story the narrator was constantly making every single tiny thing overly dramatic. It's like how you'd read to a child, or someone who has zero attention span. Others might enjoy that style of speaking but I found it incredibly annoying and never quite managed to get past it.

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Amazing world building and storytelling

Absolutely fantastic book.
I found a little slow to get going but then I really appreciated the depth of world building later on in the story.
Narration was great but did occasionally feel a bit like an adult reading a story to a child - however, I can forgive and get over that for the quality of everything else!

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Excellent!

A very captivating story that was read and performed perfectly! I’ll be heading straight for book two.

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Good solid book

Like other reviewers said, it's a slow start but gets better. Listened to the book in a few days so thinking on it, it gets a lot better.
Great idea for a story, read other books with similar ideas but this goes further. Excited to read the next book. Only gave 4 stars for story as I didn't like the character development of some of the main characters but gave five overall as I think that is probably just me being picky.

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Immense world building

Slow to start but when it gets its hooks in it just keeps getting better and better!

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Twists & Turns

brilliant story full of twists and turns. The story is an amazing take on the Vampire mythology and the slow demise of powerful nations

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Slow to start, but!

Slow to start, as with a few other reviews I nearly gave up initially, I am glad I did not. It is not my favourite book or even the best one I have read recently, however it is a very entertaining one, this is why I read fantasy.

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Perfect

Every now and then you find a gem of a book and this book is one of those gems. The combination of Jen Williams's excellent story and jot Davies's narration is perfect. They are both new to me but are now amongst my favourites. Already started book 2. Perfect.

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So original - genre fusion at its best

Brilliant story that doesn’t pause for a second and the mix of genres, I found, kept me guessing at where this could go.

Narration was also superb - one of the very few narrators I have heard actually shout when the story required it.......excellent :)

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Stunning and inventive

it has been very hard for me to get into new authors, so entrenched I have been in my love of Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Terry Pratchett, James Barclay and David Gemmell.

I have now added Jen Williams to that list. I loved every moment of this story, and eagerly await my next credit so I can get my hands on the second book.

immediately fascinating characters, a believable and well envisioned fantasy world, and a story that made me want to just keep listening added up to make this one of the best things I've listened to in a long time.

I have to give a mention to the excellent narrator also. who brought the characters truly to life.

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