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The Wizard's Crown

By: Michael G. Manning
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Will’s journey from naïve apprentice to a mature wizard is almost complete, and his ever-growing mastery has reached unseen heights.

But his power does not exist in a vacuum. His rising star threatens to eclipse the existing powers and a new balance must be found, one that either accepts his primacy or extinguishes his light.

After Will’s resounding successes in the war with Darrow, the king plots to eliminate his young rival. Driven to desperation, Will is forced to negotiate for scraps between four brokers of power:

An ancient lich driven by vengeance, the fae queen—to whom all are just pawns in a deadly game, a nervous lord of Hell—because Will may have killed his predecessor, twice, and a primal beast—feared above all.

With mortal enemies as his allies, Will must survive to face the king...and the deadly secret he plans to unleash. Ancient foes have risen and the final battle has begun. With the world hanging in the balance, king and wizard clash, but only one can wear the Wizard’s Crown.

©2022 Michael G. Manning (P)2022 Podium Audio

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Fallen off

Many audio issues, Selenes name is pronounced many different ways for a section near the start, audio levels seem to change where there are very obvious cuts in the reading. The overall story has a very empty ending, this is the last book for the series yet there are so many unsatisfactory aspects that all seem to be dumped into the last chapter. I loved the first 4 books and now I finish feeling like I don't want to visit the series knowing the conclusion. I leave underwhelmed and very disappointed

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man the author really assasinated the characters

tthis book honestly felt like the author wanted tragedy so much they were willing to compleatly change every main character into a spite filled parody of themselves cause muh drama and sad endings

i used to say this was my favorate book series i ever saw now with this book i hate this series

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Amazing book and great narrator but many issues

The book series has been great so far, I'm loving this entry so far however. As good as this narrator is, there are some glaring mistakes in this and the last book of the series. For example, pronunciation of certain names has been changing from chapter to chapter and a few times so far (also present in the last book) phones charging/notifications sounds can be heard in the background. For me these issues are annoying but don't detract from the experience too much. But I'd like to bring attention to them as they are mistakes that would have been fairly easy to prevent.
Overall great book and narrator but semi-plagued by editing/pronunciation errors

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Narration quality dropped significantly

I'm only three chapters in and have heard several phone charging noises. The narrator also also pronounced celene as "Aislen" "Celaine" and "Celene" within two chapters. the phone sounds were a thing in the last book but I'd thought it was a simple slip up.

very disappointed with the editor/narrator for not catching this and hope they revise this audiobook, along with Disciple of war.

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Anything you think you know about characters -forget it

I found this one hard to get through whereas I got through the earlier ones so quickly. I really disliked the storyline for Celine and Will. A little disappointed with the end.

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Stop at book 4

I loved this series until this book, author did a complete 180 with every single character, nothing made sense and it was a horrid way to end it.

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Dumb as bro

how you kill an epic series... Exactly like this gaaaah. This was one of my favorate series of all and this last book made me wish someone else wrote it. Sooo disappointing after 4 epic books

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Initially really disappointed... but..

I actually thought this was the last book of the series, and was devastated that it was ending as it did.. I loved all four previous books and it felt like everything that had been building up all just fell apart and the story was rushed through to provide some sort of ending. I've laughed and cried through all of them and was so disappointed... BUT .. it turns out there IS more to the story, with another book out .. Wizard in Exile (Wrath of the Storm king book 1) .. so maybe there is a better ending coming through. Fingers crossed!

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No, that can't be the ending

Please tell me there's more! It can't honestly be the end. I'm in utter shock. If that's the ending I don't like it.

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OMG THERE'S MORE! It's still coming, realise to Audible August 2023!
It's a new series, "Wrath of the Stormking" book 1 is "Wizard in Exile".

I still think book 5 of this series ended poorly though, it was more like reading the end of a chapter than the conclusion of a series. But I'm glad to hear there's more to come! I'll have to saver the next book so Manning stays ahead of me. (Haha, not likely)

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A great romance turns to nothing.

In my opinion, it did not feel like the previous 4 books and was a brutally sad ending for one of my favourite series.

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