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Crystal Awakening

Auteur(s): Andrew Rowe, Kayleigh Nicol
Narrateur(s): Travis Baldree, Emily Lawrence
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A team of adventurers enters an epic trial of wits, magic, and monsters in this thrilling new fantasy series set within the Arcane Ascension universe.

Parties attempting to claim the treasures of the Tortoise Spire of Dalenos are usually composed of six professional climbers. But following a near-disastrous climb, Team Guiding Star Legacy finds itself two challengers short. With Nieve as the frontline fighter, Sage as the strategist, Lani as the healer, and Emiko as the spellcaster, they need a couple powerful allies to round out the squad.

The first new recruit, Hane, is a fighting and stealth specialist, while the second, Aldis, has quite the talent for teleportation magic. Though their individual reasons for scaling the spire vary—wealth, fame, favor—the team’s shared goal is thus: fight, win, ascend, and repeat. All in the hopes of one day making it to the top, where the goddess awaits to grant them the objects of their deepest desires.

To achieve this goal, they must master escalating levels of fire and ice, dangerous creatures, and confounding illusions. Whether facing a threat to their bodies, their magic, or their minds, each of the climbers accepts the risks. And bending the rules is part of the challenge. Some call this cheating; others call it winning.

But no test is ever straightforward. Because Guiding Star Legacy is being judged, and their next contest is one they aren’t meant to survive. Ascend or fall, the quest is only just beginning.

©2022 Andrew Rowe (P)2022 Podium Audio

Ce que les critiques en disent

"Nicol’s fantasy novel offers a promising start to a new spinoff series, set in former role-playing game designer Rowe’s popular Arcane Ascension world...surprising elements and shocking twists [lead] to a harrowing final life-and-death battle and [set] up an intriguing premise for a continuing series....Fans of anime, RPGs, and the authors’ previous work will be eager to follow Guiding Star Legacy’s further adventures." —Kirkus Reviews

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  • 4 out of 5 stars
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A Perfect Addition to the Greater Series

This is another great addition to Andrew Rowe’s universe. I was a bit sceptical about the co-writing as I am a big fan of Rowe’s writing style, but Nicol’s addition brought a new, slightly darker dimension to the story which I am definitely a fan of.

As for the story itself, fantastic. It took darker turns toward the end which I was certainly not expecting, but definitely enjoyed greatly.

I highly recommend this book if you are looking an amazing fantasy story which skims the bounds of a greater universe!

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    2 out of 5 stars
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Never was able to finish

I love Andrew Rowe and his world building but despite my multiple attempts at reading this serie not nothing substantial happens that makes me wonder "And then what ? will they won't they". compared to Arcane ascension, Broken mirror and Sacred swords this just has nothing happening and the characters means nothing to me.. which makes me think there's something I don't get about this story, I'm afraid I'll be missing out some big information as it's in the same universe as the other series I love

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No story development

It felt like the book started in the middle of a tale, two dimensional characters that I couldn’t care less about. I’ve read all of Andrew’s books, and this is the first I offer a poor rating to. The desperation to press pronouns makes for a confusing read at best. I will not read any more collaborations of Rowes in the future, I barely made it through this confusing mess

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Poor story, worse ending.

I found myself disliking all but one of the main characters thoughout 90% of the book. All redeeming moments were nearly ruined by the last six chapters of the story.

Additionally, the performance choice of having two different voices for each character, depending on who's viewpoint the chapter was being told from was ill-considered. Both performers did an excellent job during their respective turns but the back and forth made listening not enjoyable, especially on Travis' chapters, as he had fewer chapters and the change for them was abrupt and unpleasant.

I didn't find any of the adventures interesting largely because of the forced banter and poor choices constantly happening but the setup in the epilogue gives me hope that the next book may still be worth a listen.

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Amazing

One Of my favourite authors and one of my favourite voice actors. Was an instant purchase for me without regret.
I can’t wait for October for book 2!

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Fun adventure, narrators need to organize.

TLDR; Great book; performers need to organize.

Great Adventure, characters are interesting and the way the story is written makes you feel like you know them.

However, narrators need to at least say names and nouns the same way. Would be better if each character didn't have two voices.

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Excellent Story, Narration Missteps

Another excellent addition to this ever growing world! I enjoyed that we got to spend some more time in the spires, got new characters, and cannot wait to see how this fits into the larger universe.

While I enjoyed the narrators and thought they did a good job overall, it appears that proper attention was not given to replicating the pronunciations of certain words as they have been pronounced previously (specifically the name of the goddess and the names of the countries). I found this difference in pronunciations quite jarring and would break the immersion of the experience. Hopefully this is rectified for future books in this series and narrators are given pronunciation guides and/or listen to the previous books in order to ensure pronunciation uniformity across the multiple series in this universe.

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Boring stuff happens to ppl you don't care about..

Boring stuff happens to characters you don't care about that, and it doesn't really build the world for the other books.

Kept listening, hoping it would get better, but it doesn't.

If you're going with the Audible version, the male narrator is ok, but I found the female narrator can be somewhat sibilant, and it's pretty painful at times.

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    4 out of 5 stars
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Great story bad Narrative

Another great story added to the universe Andrew Rowe created. I strongly recommend this story, it's another epic adventure. The narrative was not well directed, They pick 2 amazing narrators So the potential was very high, unfortunately, They each read their own chapter Alternating and making the voices for every character in that chapter creating overlapping Voices. I found this to be very confusing. I imagine the story in my head as the story gets tolled, so having two voices for the same character was a bad production choice. This could have easily been fixed by making Travis read all the male voices and Emily read all the female voices. Would have made the story far more enjoyable to listen to. I do hope this gets fixed for any following books.

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Fell in love with all the characters

Took me a little bit to get into the story but once I did I just fell in love with all the characters and their interactions. The way the perspective shifts from character to character through the story gives you an insight into each character's motivations, goals and feelings. Really enjoyed it!

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