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King of Duels

The Wandering Inn, Book 16

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King of Duels

By: pirateaba
Narrated by: Erin Bennett
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About this listen

King of Duels marks the passing of the torch from our beloved Andrea Parsneau to a new narrator. Erin Bennett, a Golden Voice narrator, will continue to bring the magic of The Wandering Inn to life.

The world is full of adventures, big and small.

From exploring the [Garden of Sanctuary] to the depths of the sea, there are countless fascinating discoveries to be made. Not just in the places people go, but in the things they create... or recreate from Earth. Chocolate, lifting weights, and alcohol all flow through The Wandering Inn with unexpected consequences at times.

However, there's also war, [Assassins], and scams that ruin or destroy lives. For every monster, there is an adventurer. The Stitch Witch may creep forward, and the King of Destruction continues his rampage across nations, but there will always be a champion who steps forward.

Featuring a foreword from Andrea Parsneau.

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The new narrator grew on me but why could we not just focus on fantasy? Those sections were great. The other stuff was just unnecessary.

Not as good as previous

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The story was good but the new narrator made it hard to stay interested. Andrea brought energy to the characters but the new girl made it sound drab and boring.

Hard to stay interested

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I was a little hesitant with the narrator change but Andrea Parsneau’s heartfelt message and Erin Bennetts voice acting skills and willingness to maintain character fidelity are amazing. Love these books and thankfully for the effort put forth for audio listeners.

Smooth Narrator Swap

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Why you change a narrator at book 16? Dunno. But it’s jarring and ruins the story

Narrator takes you out of the story

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some voices changed a bit with the switch in narrator but she did a very good job, I could tell who it was from just the narrators voice acting which is impressive considering the number of characters and taking over for somebody else

narrator did a good job

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The new narrators feels really monotone. it kept taking me out of the story, then it took me over half the book too get used to it

Story’s good not a fan of the new narrator

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The new narrator is okay. First 8-9 hours are a bit hard to listen to as it’s hard to tell the drakes apart, Bird is way overdone, some main characters have lost their distinctness and the storyline doesn’t flow between character speech and narration, so the pauses between each are quite noticeable.

At about 12 hours in, and when listened to at 1.2x speed however, is not too bad.

While the narration doesn’t pull you into the story as Andrea did, it does get smoother with speed, and the transition less noticeable. Erin starts to sound a bit more like Erin too and some of the other characters speak with more feeling than in the start.

All in all, will continue listening till the end as the writing itself is solid as always.

Narration a bit disjointed

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Andrea may have left but erin stepped up and has done a wonderful job looking forward to the next book release

a new chapter

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1.2 speed does make the reader sound more like Andrea. It starts slow and I found the reader hard to focus on, but it picked up. I gather Andrea burnt out and handed over to the new reader. It's a lot of characters but there has definitely been some attempt to keep continuity in the voices, at least of races and regional accents. The reader sounds breathy. There is a lot of sibilance (hissing/lisping), which might be a recording quality issue.

I've already read ahead for this book so the content wasn't new to me but I still enjoyed it. I saw one comment that the book has agenda but I don't think so. It touches on gender/sexuality/consent, mainly in one themed section that shows a lot of different characters and places with contasting takes, which I interpret as world/character building. The orientations of certain characters are still open to interpretation at this point. I headcannoned Erin as asexual/demisexual ever since it was mentioned that she was more attracted to an online chess player she'd never seen than any of the guys she knew.

Adjusting to new narrator but gets better

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the new voice actor is good. she does some voices a bit different but they are still good

new

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