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Deceptions

Written by: Craig Alanson
Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
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Koren Bladewell now knows he is a wizard, but he is lost in the wilderness, cut off from help, and unable to use his powers. The enemy is poised at the border with an overwhelming invasion force, and it will take wizards, soldiers and a young, untested princess to hold off defeat long enough for Koren to be trained and grow into his power. But he might not wish to help those who deceived him and destroyed his life.

©2018 Craig Alanson (P)2018 Podium Publishing

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An Excellent third book in a series.

This book was the perfect way to sum up the build up of the previous two books. it was excellent.

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Great story but ended to quickly!!!

It felt as if the author intended to write a four book series about the war but by the end of book two found it tedious and ended everything at book 3. A lot of the expectations and set up in the first two books were trashed leaving me at least, wanting more out of the story. I couldn’t complaint about anything else though.

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Fantasy trilogy firs

I liked the story. This is not Science Fiction (It is ridiculous that Science Fiction and Fantasy are categorized together, they really need to be separated). And don’t worry, Craig Allison can write different genres as other authors do.
So this is a Fantasy trilogy. The first book, as you expected, is the introductions, it sets the time as medieval with wizards, spells, magic, knights and a princess, and portals opening with the threat of demons from another universe. The narrator is fine and he warms up to the material by the 5th chapter.



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Good but not great

I loved the first two books of this series but the ending left something to be desired. Everything happened very quickly so much so that I found myself thinking “Wait that’s it? It’s over?”. I still loved the characters and world building however the depiction of the enemy and demon I believe should have been more fear invoking. The performance itself was very good apart from the times when you can hear the audio change where things must have been edited. Overall it’s a decent ending to an amazing series . I thoroughly enjoyed this series and if you’re looking for an easy teen fantasy listen this is for you.

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Absolutely great series!

really an amazing series I loved every minute of all three books I sure recommend these I could not put them down even when I was busy doing something else shopping or whatever I was thinking about the book and the characters and what was happening to them LOL highly highly recommend this series I would start with look one and do the series in order!!! *****

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great series bad ending

the last half of the book super predictable it feels like he ran out of time and just went for the easy ending full of standard tropes. the series was so good and it ended with him writing one of the most tragic stories ever.

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Charming

This was one of my first audio book series. Quite captivating. I had difficulty 'setting it down.' Lots is fun. Good twists and turns. A few too many 'Ums.' The reading was very good. Perhaps especially suited to a young teenage audience? Thank you.

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good story bad editing

the editing is very bad. You can tell when pieces are added as the voice changes along with the volume. it is very disturbing and breaks immersion.

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EXCELLENT TRILOGY

If you like fantasy then you will love this. Credits well spent.

No regrets here.

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Great ending to a soketimed frustrating series.

Loved all three books. But have to admit that I was really frustrated with the progression of the first two books. Im glad that the issues with how Koren wad treated have been answered and handled best they cab with the third book. Now i almost wish for a fourth book or more just to have more in this universe.

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