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  • A Shadow on the Glass

  • The View From the Mirror Quartet, Book 1
  • By: Ian Irvine
  • Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
  • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (84 ratings)

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A Shadow on the Glass

By: Ian Irvine
Narrated by: Grant Cartwright
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Once there were three worlds, each with their own human species. Then, fleeing out of the void came a fourth species, the Charon. Desperate, on the edge of extinction, they changed the balance between the worlds forever. Karan, a sensitive with a troubled heritage, is forced to steal an ancient relic in repayment of a debt. It turns out to be the Mirror of Aachan, a twisted, deceitful thing that remembers everything it has ever seen. At the same time, Llian, a brilliant chronicler, is expelled from his college for uncovering a perilous mystery. Thrown together by fate, Karan and Llian are hunted across a world at war, for the Mirror contains a secret that offers each species survival, or extinction!

©2001 Ian Irvine (P)2010 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

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Loved this telling

The story was told beautifully, making the images vivid. I loved the story line. Just downloaded the next one.

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not my cup of tea

The story is bit all over the place hard to get into in fact very hard ..very slow and dull events with nothing really happening at all , Mostly due to the very very poor narrator , maybe he is still learning but no tone to create a feel of who is talking in the story , like he is just reading the novel to himself , 4 hours in i had to stop , did not remmeber one line of what I heard or know what it was about or who was who with the dull reading ..would not recommend but maybe some will like it ..but much much better out there

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Wonderful book and great narrator

I love this world. I have read it a couple of times but have just listened to the audiobook for the first time and loved it! I love hearing an Australian narrator as well as the author is also Australian. Can’t wait to listen to the rest of the series!

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This is an amazing Fantasy world(s)

A fantastic piece of writing, while the first quartet is clearly high fantasy, the rest of the series straddles the lime between high fantasy and Grimdark. Not crazy about the voice actor though. Someone that doesn't sound 16 would be nice.

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Brilliant way to start the journey.

This series was recommended to me by a friend and I'm so thankful. I thoroughly enjoyed the story, the characters, and the promise of more to come.

Overall I found that it felt somewhat pretentious to start with, but utterly gripping by the end.

Thee performance for me wasn't as strong. I had a little trouble differentiating the characters by their voices, and for such a long and in-depth book as this, I find it absolutely vital to have that.

I look forward to completing the series.

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awesome

Loved it . a very busy and descriptive price of work. 👍 can't wait to hear more.

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really tried to like it

but couldn't get on board with the characters and the way the story was told. The fantasy world seems to hold potential but the story telling couldn't carry it off for me. I got halfway through and gave up.

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