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  • King's Dark Tidings, Book 4
  • Written by: Kel Kade
  • Narrated by: Nick Podehl
  • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (477 ratings)

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Kingdoms and Chaos

Written by: Kel Kade
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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Publisher's Summary

The future of the Ashaiian haven, the newly founded Kingdom of Cael, is anything but secured. Rezkin must seek recognition from the King of Gendishen if his people are to maintain possession of their island home and the enchanted secret it contains.

In an unexpected twist, events overtake Rezkin, and he is thrust into a frustrating adventure to seek a worthless prize. He finds that his carefully constructed reputation as an indomitable foe has consequences as others seek to use his strengths for their own gain. Meanwhile, friends are confronted with too many truths, power and strength might be more than some desire, loyalties and friendships are tested, and at least one of Rezkin’s friends might be headed for a miserable demise.

©2018 Kel Kade (P)2018 Podium Publishing

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Hoped for better

I’m someone who will finish a book/series usually regardless of some complaints against it, which is what I did here (finishing up to the most recent book).

Books and series aren’t always going to give you exactly what you’d prefer as you’re not the writer, and I respect that. There were a number of odd things about this series though, and a handful of them were quite off-putting.

The books trudge along slowly through a plot that honestly seems very poorly pieced together. There are a few moments where things tie up and it feels like the foreshadowing and intricacy has been brought to a higher level, but for the most part many aspects of the storyline could have been far better set up. The action is predictable in victory and the characters are never in real danger. The relationships are abrupt and detached and character development for the most part is sluggish and then jarring when it does happen. The female characters are mostly incredibly annoying and everyone bows and scrapes around an indomitable protagonist, this makes the storyline quite boring at times in its predictability. The books seems mostly like a parade of the protagonist’s male gloriousness and prowess, effortlessly seducing all the women around him and moving through society with very little issue. The plot line seems set up in a series of laundry list quests with the larger story line only really emerging in the later books with even that seeming very weak.

I really think that Rezkin could have experienced a better character development curve by book 4, yet nothing really has changed, just weak hints that something is there without a timely reveal and solution to the few issues. The only real surprise in the series has been the cliffhanger at the end of this one. I had honestly just hoped for more, and there is so much good within the pages of these books and such an intriguing base, it just hasn’t been woven as intricately as I think was possible.

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Nick Podehl is still great at least.

I just can't take Frisha anymore. What an absolutely shit character. Conversation between Frisha and Lady Gatarand should be played on loop to pedophiles in jail 24/7. Thats how bad it is. It's just not worth it. And if other reviews here and on reddit are anything to go by, she rushed the next book so she could go back to Shroud of Prophecy, a mediocre shit show with a terrible main character.

I get it, she has a publisher for that book and its more money but its a shit book. This was your masterpiece (minus Frisha, of course) but you ruined it for a payday. Enjoy fading into obscurity.

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listened to all 4 books in about a week and a half

Great series if enjoy Overpowered main characters.
Ending was not what I expected. Only a small let down, but that was mostly biased as I wanted it to my way.

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Hard to put down

Fascinating story, can’t wait to read the next one! Nick is the best narrator you could ask for too!

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Solid Entry

So I still struggle with some of the female characters and the way they are written. That aside I do like the intricacies of the plot.

The story has been driving forward nicely, but the lead needs more setbacks or some failures.

It’s crazy during some of the scenes that no one ever shows the true horror of what was done to Rez as a child.

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wrote the series into the ground

This was a good series but now all the interactions between the characters are toxic and annoying. I could stomach the caty, pathetic behavior for one book but it's gotten out of hand. The auther has destroyed frisha and malceious characters and made them completely insufferable. Also a bunch of the accents were dreadful, normally Nick Podehl has top class narration but I found his choice for the accents poor.

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Frisia sucks

I like the series and the book but the character Frisia is just so annoying and bad.

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Fun book

This series got better and better. Where is the next book? The ending was so good

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All over the place

The storyline jumps all over the place and at time seems like it isn’t even in order or introduces a storyline with absolutely no preamble. With that said, it had some really good parts, has answered some important questions and has continued the momentum of the previous books.

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Decent Progression

the story moves along nicely, just wish a few of the story tendrils would tie off at some point. still a solid listen, as always Nick does his magic and makes the story fun to listen to.

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