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Age of Death (Dramatized Adaptation)

By: Michael J. Sullivan
Narrated by: Amanda Forstrom, Bradley Smith, Colleen Delany, Kimberly Gilbert, Nanette Savard, Nora Achrati, Terence Aselford, Tia Shearer, Todd Scofield, Tracy Olivera, Yasmin Tuazon
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Winter blankets the land, and more than just hope has died. Prevented from invading the Fhrey homeland by the tower of Avempartha, the western army seeks a way across the Nidwalden River before the fane obtains the secret of dragons. As time runs out for both humanity and the mystic Suri, the only chance for the living rests with the dead. Having made their fateful choice, can a handful of misfits do the impossible, or are they forever lost to an inescapable grave? Do gods truly exist? Is it possible to know the future? And what lies beyond the veil of death?  

In the tradition of Virgil's Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Milton's Paradise Lost, the most epic of tales transcend the world of the living. It's time to see what lies in Elan's Age of Death.  

From Michael J. Sullivan (New York Times, USA Today, and Washington Post best-selling author) comes the second to the last installment in the epic fantasy series Legends of the First Empire. The series chronicles a pivotal point in Elan's history when humans rise against the Fhrey who they once saw as gods. 

Set 3,000 years before the Riyria tales, Legends is a stand-alone fantasy series that is independent of all other Elan stories. That said, if you do listen to the other books, you'll see lies revealed and the truth about historical figures unmasked.  

Performed by Terence Aselford; Yasmin Tuazon; Nora Achrati; Tia Shearer; Bradley Smith; Tracy Olivera; Todd Scofield; Kimberly Gilbert; Colleen Delany; Amanda Forstrom; Nanette Savard; Zeke Alton; Matthew Schleigh; Evan Casey; Marni Penning; Joe Mallon; Eric Messner; Chris Stinson; Michael John Casey; Jessica Lauren Ball; Audrey Berteaux; Carolyn Kashner; Christopher Walker; Matthew Bassett; Nick DePinto; David Harris; Scott McCormick; Lilly Beacon; Rose Elizabeth Supan; Mort Shelby; Karen Novack; Richard Rohan; Robbie Gay.

©2020 Riyria Enterprises, LLC (P)2022 Graphic Audio LLC

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I found the backround noise overwhelming and I resented having an advert in the middle of my book

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Regret trying 'dramatized adaptation'

To start with the positives... I did enjoy listening to a book where the (many) characters typical of a fantasy novel were voiced by separate performers and I did enjoy the pace improvement that the resulting absence of 'she said' 'he said' caused (your eye just glosses over them when you are reading but in traditional narration they are inevitably clunky). I think these would be fun for an ensemble to record at a table reading to get a good dynamic between the characters and that flows through to the 'read'.

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Those positives notwithstanding, I've just requested my first ever book return because of the mounting negatives.

- Shouty.
- Overly loud background effects.
- Rushed, emotionless narration (not just quick but 'ugh, let's get through all this boring narration' quick).
- Inappropriately dramatic 'danger music' in the background when it was just transitional narration or backstory (ie: there was no drama in the scene)
- Random effects (water falling when they are inside a castle, something that sounded like an engine revving that I think was supposed to be growling?).
- Odd choice of special focus sound effects (and mystery absence of much more focal/important ones).

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- Advertising in the middle of the story - for both the production company and a random other author. Rude! That sort of thing belongs at the end, not right in the middle of the narrative. So jarring.

I bought three of them in anticipation of loving it but I've requested returns on them all and gone back and purchased the good ol' trusty narrated versions instead.

A bit sorry I was spontaneous in grabbing them, I should have read the reviews where others have picked up many of the same things (and some extras that clearly I was yet to encounter before I gave up)

Hope Michael J Sullivan got reasonably compensated for these butchered versions of his work which compete directly with the better ones.

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To much background noise

To much background noise, don’t buy the dramatised adaptation. The different voices are great but the annoying waterfall or and music is to much.

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