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Silence

Unbound, Book 2

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Silence

By: Nicoli Gonnella
Narrated by: Travis Baldree
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A sacrifice made. A Primordial defeated. The hard part starts now.

Felix had risked everything to stop the threat of the Unending Maw. Except instead of death, he and his Companion Pit were transported to the deadly Void, a place far worse than the Foglands. The Maw is there with them, bonded somehow to Felix in a way none of them understand, but all of them hate.

The three must navigate the desolate expanse of the dark Void, contending with voidbeasts, marauders, and the creeping influence of the Maw itself. It will take everything that Felix has—and more—merely to survive, let alone escape.

All choices have consequences.

©2022 Nicoli Gonnella (P)2022 Mountaindale Press Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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great read would trim and it to anyone good story line great characters thanks heeps

good read

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liked this one still, a different pace to the 1st but further view into the world and main character and a few of the side characters. excited to hear about felix and pit in the 3rd book!

enjoyable if shorter

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A very detailed and intriguing world with good characters. Pacing can be quite slow but the voice performance really helps alleviate this.
Good fun for patient fans of the genre.

Well told story, but can drag along sometimes

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Really enjoyed the book. The characters are developed well and the relationships between them come to life and evolve. Enough stats to satisfy and not bog it down. Lore and overarching plot slowly revealed. Lots of action and daring do. The performance was stellar and brought the story to an extra level.

Great fun read/listing

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Overall: The narration is the only thing that makes it worth while making it through.

Performance: As above.

Story: If your thing is listening to a narcissist gaslight her victim while he interacts with characters that (as a reader) there's no point engaging with, then this is the book for you. If you skip it, here's what you need to know: Felix's white knight syndrome grows, he gets some levels, and a quest.

Completely Skippable

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It’s such a shame this book — ‘Silence’, Book 2 of the ‘Unbound’ series — is less than half the length of Book 1. I feel like it violates the principle of “Start as you mean to go on” a fair bit..

26hrs 44 minutes in Book 1 vs only 13hrs 10mins in Book 2, while the author talks on social media about currently working on Book 5 and 7.

The ‘Cradle’ series went up in length over time. The ‘Primal Hunter’ only shaved less than an hour off of Book 1’s 20hr runtime for their own Book 2.

I suppose the shorter time would not have bugged me as much if it felt like the overall story or main character had advanced more in Book 2 than solving the immediate problem presented by the cliffhanger ending of Book 1. And so now, despite the trials of Book 2, it feels as though the MC is at back at the same place progression-wise they were at the end of Book 1. Like Book 2 was one giant “interlude’.

The non-main character sections feel like they were purely there as an afterthought to set up a later book. But that they’d all been put into stasis mode with some token activity until the main character could get back to them later. If you cut their sections out of Book 2 entirely and pinned them to the start of Book 3 or 4 or whenever they meet the main character again, it would have not broken the flow of the main character’s sections in this book at all.

Or just, you know, that time spent on the sections from the non-main character viewpoint could have been paid off in this very same novel if the book had been even a quarter closer in length to Book 1 than it is 🙃

I’m left unsatisfied. Not in a “I can’t wait to find out what happens next” way, but instead in a “not happy with my purchase” way.

Travis was great as Narrator though. Can’t fault the book there. 💯

Far too short continuation of Book 1, but it would have made a worthy Part 1 of a Book 2

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it very much read like a prolonged intermission. we meet new character that are essentially discarded at the end. we learn new things about the world, but with barely any interconnection to deepen our understanding of the world.

I recommend picking this up when the third book release, as it was a disappointment continuation from first book.

Intermission

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