Enjoyable Listen

For those complaining about the narration, shame on you. It is the Welsh accent and should be the one used for this story. (It is not a sub-continent accent.)

I enjoyed the story. It is unrushed and contemplative. The history and fantasy was well balanced.

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A truly wonderful 1st book in this lead into Arthurian legend. A truly great back story for Merlin and his origins.

The narrator’s accent is just right for this tale of legend. The story is well developed and does not suffer from overly imagined and contrived conflict. Strong characters, both male and female and blessedly without today’s trashy preaching to the diversity and inclusion gods. Organically built relationships. Unfortunately some of the reviewers don’t seem to understand the time in which this story is set and the melting pot of religious beliefs this world was of both pagan/Druid and Christian. Looking forward to the live action retelling of this which is currently being filmed.

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Story is good, but I cannot handle the accent

The story is good and the narrator is very well spoken, but sometimes she sounds like she has a sub-continent accent, and I cannot listen to a Celtic/English story with a non-UK accent :(

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Not the endless knott

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Endless Knott was wonderful, my expectations were not met in this
I crept waiting but this stayed in the realms of conversations with a focus on anthropology .
Never developing to an interesting story.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Wanda McCaddon?

Wanda performed well enough.

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

It promised to develop it just never developed.

Any additional comments?

Left disappointed

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Good Story Suffering from Narration

I usually adore English narrators but this is like listening to a Queens Christmas board cast that never ends. The narrator kept on changing the heroines name from Charis to Harris for some strange reason.

A good narrator knows when to change characters this narrator kept the childish girl voice for all the females and sometimes for the King!

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The narrator has destroyed this book

Worst telling of this story ever. Going back to reading the book , I can't take anymore of her voice.

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19 hrs and 17 mins of my life I won't get back...

This book was SO boring. While the technical writing was quite good, there is NO conflict in this book. I almost abandoned it but it had so many good reviews I thought surely if I stuck with it the author would finally introduce the conflict and the real story would kick off. This never happened. The depictions of Atlantis was pretty interesting, but the entire second half of this book took a nosedive. Taliesin started off as this Promised One trope with druidic powers, but then suddenly gets converted to Christianity for no reason and for no purpose. Like everything else, it was just a thing that happened which did not drive the plot in anyway. There was no character growth surrounding the religious conversion, no conflict that comes of it, so what was the point of even including it? Surely the editor could have shaved off a nice bit of the too-long word count and remove that entire subplot(?) that was not even a subplot. This gives me the impression that the author is trying to insert the religion into the book just for the sake of it, which is bad writing and annoying as a reader. There was no character building - the Charis and Taliesin were both Mary Sues for the entire book and did not fundamentally change in any way though there were ample opportunities.

All of that combined to annoy me that I stuck with it hoping for some actual plot.

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Great Story, poor performance by Audible

I really enjoyed this book so I went to get the rest of the series. But I find on Audible while books 2 and 4 are available that book 3 which was when I started, is no longer available in my country. I understand but not happy that there are reasons some legitimate reasons a book is not available. But missing just the final book that is advertised on the cover as a trilogy which was previously available and is no longer? I feel ripped off that I was planning to listen to the whole series but this is not longer possible,

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