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The Shadow Rising

Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'

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The Shadow Rising

Auteur(s): Robert Jordan
Narrateur(s): Rosamund Pike
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***Audio editing glitches present in an earlier version of this audiobook have now been corrected. Please redownload your audiobook for the best listening experience.***

Audie Award-winner Rosamund Pike returns for the fourth installment of the Wheel of Time series, The Shadow Rising. The winner of Best Female narrator for The Eye of the World delivers another mesmerizing performance.

"Rosamund Pike brings a fresh narration to the first book in the beloved Wheel of Time series. At 33 hours, this audiobook is no small undertaking, but Pike's impressive performance leaves listeners wanting more."—AudioFile on Eye of the World (Earphones Award winner)

“Through her smooth, dramatic performance, award-winning actor Rosamund Pike amplifies the new audiobook of book one in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series.”—BookPage on Eye of the World (Earphones Award winner)

The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!

In The Shadow Rising, the fourth novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor now wields the sword Callandor. He is both the Champion of Light and the Dragon Reborn. Now, he seeks answers to another prophecy that lies with the warrior people known as the Aiel to put him on the path of learning how to wield the One Power.

Accompanied by Moiraine Damodred, Rand arrives at the Aiel Waste and is granted permission by the Wise Ones to enter the sacred city of Rhuidean. After passing through a doorframe ter'angreal, Moiraine gains foresight while the Aiel await Rand's return, either with both arms marked by dragon symbols, validating his identity as He Who Comes With the Dawn, the Chief of Chiefs of all the Aiel—or to never emerge at all.

Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read.

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“From start to finish, the narrators are fresh and engaged as they draw out the story's humor and suspense.”—AudioFile

“Large and splendid. The saga reaches a new level of emotional impact.”—Chicago Sun-Times

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Rosamund Pike continues to knock it out of the park. I drew this book out over two months because I didn’t want it to end!

Great story, fantastic narration

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I think I may be in love with her voice. I hear her in my dreams. Beautiful.

Narration

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Rosamund Pike delivers a performance like very few I have heard. a masterpiece. each character has their voice and you cannot stop listening.

Amazing performance

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I’m so sad I’ve finished this audiobook already since I don’t know if or when Rosamund Pike will be narrating the next one. I’ve listened to the original audiobook recordings of the series and while they are dear to my heart, Rosamund Pike is a truly outstanding narrator. I often found that the climactic scenes would take me by surprise in the original recordings, not realizing that the action was coming to a head because the flat tone would not match the action being described. The previous narrators read the books; Pike performs. In this book, as well as the previous ones, Pike’s performance crackles with emotion and whether she is describing heartache or mischief or terror or any other experience Jordan puts his characters through, her tone and timbre is always utterly on point and deeply engaging. Every character is given its own distinct and appropriate voice. I honestly would forget that it was a single person giving voice to ancient Ogier and chattering innkeeper, haughty Aes Sedai and self-righteous Whitecloak, and of course the POV characters are all beautifully individuated. Her sonorous voice brings a depth and dignity to the writing that itself can be quite uneven, so I can forgive even the silly teenage romance drama bits and the dry political machinations that I used to find myself getting a bit impatient with or bored by. Finally, since my only experience with TWoT is via audiobook and therefore auditory, I appreciated the consistent pronunciation of the dozens of proper nouns (names, places, terms) across chapters and books, as inconsistency led to a lot of confusion and frustration with previous narrators. I eagerly await Pike’s next instalment!

Another outstanding performance

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I adore Rosamund's reading. She gives 100% every time! The huge array of accents & tones makes it that I know who is talking without need for clarification. This woman has extraordinary talent, she even sings and she puts a lot of work and emotion in her interpretation of the characters.
What I didn't like, compared to the previous 3 books, is the difference in volume. Sometimes, one can barely hear what is said, other times it is extremely loud and makes one jump. I understand that different volumes add to the magic and make the action unravel better, but this one was taken to the extreme. I would tone it down quite a bit, this was not an issue in the previous books.

Pure talent, every character sounds unique!

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Rosamund Pike is absolutely phenomenal at the narrator, she brings the story to life in ways I have never experienced.

Pike is amazing

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amazing book. Rosamund Pike makes the audiobook for me. I couldn't attend the other narrators. Please do more with her!

Rosamund pine brings the characters to life

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Chapter 5 - Questioners - Has parts in the audio that go dead. Aside from getting a paper copy to read it myself, I have no idea what is being said. It is really unfortunate since until now the book has been flawless.

Some parts have audio errors

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Narrating this series is a monstrous task. The sheer number of characters to keep track of from book to book is enormous; making them distinct, consistent, and memorable I'm sure takes tremendous attention to detail.

One can only laud Ms Pike for the read - it's very well coordinated and coherent in-and-of itself. Clearly, a lot of hard and very skilful work went into this recording. Brava!

The voice colour and characterizations are interesting if slightly more uniform in colour than one might have hoped. All characters from the major geography of the story have some regional accent from the British Isles, characters from another distinct region are clearly Nordic inspired, and yet another people sound deeply southern American. Fair and good, if not quite what I heard in my own head (I always heard Illianers speak with a Spanish inflection, for example, with Bayle Domon inspired somehow by Indigo Montoya - but I digress).

I love Ms. Pike's English diction: it's crystal, like Mozart opera sung well. If you know what I mean, then you know what I mean.

That said, (and this is just my humble opinion) Ms Pike's choices when interpreting Rand al'Thor in this volume often lack textual foundation - something that can't be said of her performances in earlier volumes.


Spoiler Alert -----------------------------------
In this book, Rand's tone moves from that of a reserved, overwhelmed, and bewildered young man grappling with tremendous authority and treacherous opponents to that of an emphatic lunatic with a quickly loosening grip on reality, and back again. Discussion about Rand's overall arc through the series aside, there simply isn't evidence in the text of this book to suggest such extreme swings when this happens.

Worse, it leaves little room for Rand's progression in subsequent books, as his "madness" increases - if Rand's characterization betrays this level of insanity this early, where else can Ms Pike take him?
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This is my only complaint thus far in an otherwise fabulous performance of a daunting Epic.

Hoping some choices are revisited in the next book

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These books have been given new life through Rosamund's reading. I can't say enough good things about it.

Brilliant!

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