Great listen with with humour

I enjoyed this series very much. It's a nice change of pace from serious tones many novels follow. A good story told through decent characters with witty, sometimes silly humour which I totally enjoyed. The first book was free so nothing to lose to check out really. I thought the narrator was casted well as well.

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Incredibly Entertaining

To be honest, this translation of Book One of Sam Feuerbach's German fantasy novel series isn't particularly captivating. The book follows - in parallel:
• the adventures of a hardluck, bullied, and ostracized medieval teenager ('Farin') who inadvertantly gets semi-possessed by a philosophical sarcastic daemon he names 'Stinker';
• and a magically-gifted abused orphan "Waif Girl" in a distant city (named 'Aross') who may be a reincarnated prophetess.

The mysterious villainous cult plaguing the kingdom (called "The Necorers") is interesting but not particularly worrying, Feuerbach's feudal lord/peasantry setting is well-described but unoriginal, and the tales are paced nicely with well-scripted combat.. but are fairly pedestrian.
The real strength of the book is an admirably lighthearted (and often laugh-out-loud funny) mood that reminded me simultaneously of intellectually clever 'Monty Python' humor and the satirical writing of Douglas ('Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy') Adams.

Contributing to the raucous fun delivered by this book is brilliantly deadpan narration by Gildart Jackson. The reader's sense of comedic timing and immediate understanding of the author's intent results in a spot-on cerebrally humorous tone - building on commendable diction, timbre, and cadence [it's too bad that his chosen character voices are often indistinguishable and he reads much too slowly (listen at 1.20X)]..
Regardless, Jackson frequently reminded me of the brilliant Stephen Fry.

This 8/10 star audiobook definitely has deficiencies, but is good enough to prompt me to go on with the series. Even were Audible to ask for a Credit (it's a 'Plus' selection at the moment), it would be worth it.

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Enjoyed the story, narrator is one of the best

I discovered Gildart Jackson listening to Tai-Pan, where he delivered a magnificent performance. I chose this book to listen to him narrate and I wasn’t disappointed. Enjoyed the story as well.

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got the next book already

fascinating. adequately descriptive and intriguing. feels very grounded and reasonable for fantasy, which I appreciate. I'm impatient to get started on book 2 as my curiosity is being held captive

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outstanding story

loved it start to finish, the plot is logical and there hasn't yet heen a moment where id say, "that'd never happen" "that makes no sense."

despite this the twists and the unexpected events are genuinely shocking and if you have good foresight sometimes you can even deuce things before the protagonist. granted I've been wrong sometimes and when answer is revealed I go, "why didn't I think of that!" the book captivating. I'll definitely be reading the next 3 volumes

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I laughed a lot!

Despite the nasty violence, the Monty Python style of humour made me not put the book down. Very clever. The narrator is my absolute favourite and I’m never disappointed with the books he narrates. I found this one from listening to Peter Grainger books.

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unexpected GEM!

downloaded this book,as an included with membership, and was blown away! I would have happily paid for it, right up my alley, already bought vol2.

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*very interesting headline*

I thought the narration was great and I really liked the sarcasm and plethora of oxymorons. really enjoyed this book, had some good laughs.

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an optional heading is required

it's like star wars meets black adder. eight more words of this review are required

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Lots of character

I’m not a critic. I enjoyed the performance of the narrator. The characters in the story were all distinguishable by voice and remained consistent. The story line kept my attention and I look forward to the next book in this series.

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