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Out of the Shadows
- Star Wars: The High Republic
- Narrated by: Keylor Leigh
- Series: Star Wars: The High Republic
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Teen & Young Adult, Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Stay away... Bad. Just bad.
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Underwhelming
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okay for kids, a bit weird though.
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Publisher's Summary
Another exciting adventure from the number one New York Times best-selling series!
The darkest secrets are the hardest to bring to light....
Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end in sight. She's been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom's death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help but gets sidetracked when she's drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested....
Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh has been summoned to Coruscant, but with no idea of why or by whom. She and her Padawan, Imri Cantaros, arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas - and are asked to assist with the property dispute on the frontier. But why? What is so important about an empty patch of space?
The answer will lead Vernestra to a new understanding of her abilities and take Syl back to the past...and to truths that will finally come out of the shadows.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-09-09
Far Far away from the quality we're used too...
Bad editing
no intensity during action scenes
did not used pronunciation etablished in others book.
no sound effect and no music
not enough voice acting to identify whom talking
story did'nt had much to the Canon.
very disappointing for a SW audiobook...
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-08-27
Disappointing
I was very much looking forward to the continuing adventures set out in the previous book. Unfortunately what I got was an uninspired teen drama.
To go along with this, while no personal offence to the narrator, the performance fell well below what I have come to expect from audible books in the Star Wars universe. I don’t think this series is in her wheelhouse.
I also need to state that the editing and production was quite weak. No sound effects, essentially no music, again all well below the standards I am accustomed to and expect from an audible Star Wars production. That and the jumps from chapter to chapter were just jarring. Just poor editing.
Quite disappointed all around with this one sadly.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-08-22
Buy the book not the audio
This was a disappointing departure from the typical star wars audiobook. The narrator didn’t use the established Pronunciation of names of key characters and groups. She had little to no Inflection in her voice making the book drawn out and boring. I was only able to finish the book by listening to it at high speed.
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- TheBuilder
- 2021-08-19
Rough start, great journey!
A rocky start in my opinion, but it was quite enjoyable throughout and it has some potentially interesting setups for the coming wave of High Republic books
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- anonymous
- 2021-08-19
Good story, bad audiobook structure
I'll start by saying I enjoyed the story. It was neat, I'd read it again.
I don't know if I'd listen to it again.
For one thing, whoever oversees the star wars audiobooks needs to sit the readers down and make sure that all the names are pronounced the same across the books. The way she pronounces Marchion is different from the first three. This is a stupid mistake.
Secondly, the cut pacing of the chapters is garbage. There's not even half a second between the last word in the chapter and the beginning of the following chapter. It's like running the words together it's so bad.
The last three high republic books did not have these problems. Whoever oversaw this one seriously dropped the ball.
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- Gregory Stringer
- 2021-08-08
not the best in the series
drones on , plot a bit weak, chartters not very likeable. good performance. but some jumps In dialog
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- Alex
- 2021-07-27
Severe drop in quality for Star Wars audiobooks
I haven't finished the book yet but wanted to warn others who are used to the usual quality that Star Wars audiobooks provide. This audiobook does not utilize sound effects, white noise or music. They play a bit of music at the very beginning but that's it just solid narration. The narrator is also kinda flat with her performance so don't expect any range in terms of character voices. Just a warning before you go into this audiobook that it's not like the usual Star Wars books.
46 people found this helpful
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- Joshua J.
- 2021-07-29
Decent story, horrible audiobook…
First and foremost:
If you get hired to narrate a Star Wars book..Maybe listen to one before you record your performance. The narrator is clearly not familiar with Star Wars, or at least the other High Republic books/audiobooks. So many mispronunciations that would’ve been easily fixed with a little bit of familiarization.. or I don’t know, someone on the production team paying attention.
This production feels like a last minute school project that was quickly thrown together. It is the first audiobook that I have experienced in the past decade that does not make good use of music and/or sound effects to enhance the storytelling experience. To make matters worse, the narrator does no voice acting and gives very little in their voice inflection. What we end up with is a bare bones near and monotone audiobook that is a chore to listen to.
With all current audiobooks being enhanced and preformed in a way that elevates the story there is no excuse for this, especially for Star Wars book.
27 people found this helpful
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- Aron Y.
- 2021-07-28
Horrible Performance...
I haven't finished the story yet, but the performance is so disappointing I may not. I have loved the other High Republic books released, but the narrator of this book is vastly different than the others. There are numerous mispronunciations of key reoccurring characters, no effort put into voices, no music or scenes changes, and the narrator has an extremely limited emotional range. Honestly, it sounds like I'm listening to the TikTok voice read this book. I'm extremely disappointed.
27 people found this helpful
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-07-28
Couldn't finish it
Keylor is has no life and refuses to give different voices to different characters. I couldn't get through chapter 1 before switching to a different book read by Marc Thompson. It also had no music and no sfx. Get the book in physical form do not get the audible version.
22 people found this helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-07-28
Bad Narration
You can tell the narrator didn't listen to Light of the Jedi or Rising storm, or get the proper pronunciation for big names in the High Republic series. Such as the Nihil (Ny-hill) or Marshion Roh (not sure if that's how it's spelled but that's what it should sound like). I'm honestly probably going to finish the book after I've listened to the other few books I have a few more times.
16 people found this helpful
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- Jennifer
- 2021-07-27
The narration ruined this
The narrator mispronounces several major things early on and continues throughout. Not sure why they changed narrators, also the story is made harder to follow because she doesnt change her voice between characters, like at all.. I was excited for this book but half way through im just waiting for it to end. Huge drop in production quailty.
14 people found this helpful
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- Cole Schubert
- 2021-07-28
Disappointed with the audiobook
Penguin house audio dropped the bag with this audiobook. No sound effects or score.
13 people found this helpful
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- Ben Cook
- 2021-07-29
Horrible Narrator
You’d think that someone would’ve pulled this narrator aside and taught her how to pronounce character names - not a single one does she pronounce consistently to any other narrator in the high republic so far. Bland performance almost ruins the story - took me many tries to get started because of it. Narrator has a monotone delivery, lacks depth of any character, and doesn’t pronounce a single name correctly.
11 people found this helpful
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- Ashley
- 2021-07-29
A Mixed Bag
I was excited for "Out of the Shadows" because "Into the Dark" is one of my favorite stories from the High Republic era and I was looking forward to revisiting some of the characters we first met there. But while Reath Silas and Cohmac Vitus are in this book and Reath is a point-of-view character for some of it, Vernestra Rwoh and Sylvestri Yarrow are the main characters here. I probably shouldn't have been surprised since Vern and her padawan Imri Cantaros were main characters in Justina Ireland's first High Republic book, "A Test of Courage." But still, it was disappointing to realize how little focus we were going to get on Reath and Cohmac and how little they would sound like themselves.
That's one of my main complaints about this book, most of the characters who have been introduced previously in other stories sound out of character and flat, with the exceptions of Vernestra, Imri, and Nan. Up until now the series has been remarkably consistent in the way characters were handled from book to book and author to author. Here the returning characters feel like they lack any depth or personality. The characterizations weren't helped by the narrator, who does a pretty lackluster job. She uses the same voice for most of the characters, which gets confusing in spots. When she does vary her delivery it's for the adults who she reads in a slow, stilted manner that makes the dialog feel unnatural and choppy, so much so that I'm not sure whether the dialog was badly written or just badly read. That's a shame because there are some interesting new characters here and important things happen that are likely to impact future High Republic stories in a major way. Vernestra and Imri are highlights and I even warmed to Sylvestri Yarrow by the end of the book.
There's a lot of teen angst and some fraught teen romance in this story, neither of which were my cup of tea even when I was a teenager, but if they're yours you may enjoy that part more than I did. All in all, I wish I liked this book more than I do, but to me it's the weakest book in the series so far.
10 people found this helpful
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- brian
- 2021-07-27
A great effort in this series.
The story itself is excellent, covering the aftermath of The Rising Storm. Narrator is good, though mispronounces words at times. With no sound, and very little music, the audio book version is a bit of a let down. Hope other Star Wars audio titles have sound and music, as do most unabridged versions.
6 people found this helpful
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- Client d'Amazon
- 2022-01-04
Gripping Story
engaging story to develop characters of the high republic further but not as much production value as other entries.
didn't mind the narrator's voice but not as much range as other SW regulars