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Wild Magic
- The Immortals, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tamora Pierce
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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In the medieval and fantastic realm of Tortall, Keladry of Mindelan (known as Kel) is the first girl to take advantage of the decree that permits females to train for knighthood. Up against the traditional hazing of pages and a grueling schedule, Kel faces only one real roadblock: Lord Wyldon, the training master of pages and squires. He is absolutely against girls becoming knights. But Kel is not a girl to underestimate.
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Publisher's Summary
When Daine comes down from the mountains, she carries with her two things: a dark secret about her own past, and a strangely powerful magic that even she doesn't understand.
Soon Daine has a job working for Onua, the queen's horsemistress, who is astonished at the girl's way with animals. It's almost as if she can speak to them....
Daine and Onua travel to Pirate's Swoop, where Daine finds herself swept into a war that threatens all of Tortall, a war where magic is one of the main weapons.
The wall between the worlds is cracking.
The magical creatures are returning.
Now Daine must master her own magic, and face her own dark memories, if she is to save her new home from destruction.
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- Billie M Leiske
- 2023-02-24
8th time listening
This series is one of my favorite series but even better with the full cast audio doing the voices. Dane is incredible and getting to know her, her spunk, her love of animals and her friendships are addicting to listen too. Tamora has a way of bringing us on a journey and making us fall in love with the characters. Love that she gave us a continued relationship with Tortal and some of our favorite characters from The Lioness series too. 5 stars indeed!
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- Tori
- 2022-12-31
Love this book
Love this book and love how they have different people playing the different characters. Absolutely perfect!
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- Kate
- 2022-04-08
Great series!
I love this series!! I found it in elementary school library (many years ago haha) and was hooked from the moment I started reading. I was SO excited to see that the author was narrating, but I do have to say she is a little robotic sounding. The rest of the cast is terrific at bringing life and emotion to the characters, but I do wish the author's narration was a little more smooth. Overall it's still 100% worth listening to 😊
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- Heather
- 2021-05-11
Childhood Fave Come to Life
To get back into reading I've sought out old favorites, and what a find to see a fully cast recording to bring this wonderful story all back to life. Inner child is ecstatic. love!
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- Cody S
- 2021-04-15
In Love
I can’t rate this high enough. Beautifully written, beautifully read. Listening to this was an absolute delight.
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- Crystal Fenerty
- 2020-10-22
Good except for narrator.
Loved the different voices and emotions. What I did not like was the narrator’s way of reading. Every word was slow and spaced apart. Was like hearing someone who has trouble reading and has to clearly say each word and pronounce it exactly. It is almost like listening to some autistic reading, except my cousin is autistic and reads better then this. Really really detracts from the story. Still trying to finish listening to the book but not sure I will.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2019-02-16
absolutely amazing!
This was one of the most wonderful adventures I have ever been on. I look forward to the next 3 books and highly recommend this to anyone who is seeking a new adventure.
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- Lauren
- 2018-09-18
Great Story, Great Cast
Such a great story and a thrill to have a cast recording! If you're looking for some light fantasy, this is for you. #Audible1
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- Kindle Customer
- 2018-03-02
Exceptional
I loved it. I read the book as a child and am incredibly pleased by the performance of Tamora Pierce and Full Cast Audio. This is now one of my favourite audio books.
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- S. L. Garner
- 2005-04-07
Doesn't do the book justice.
I was a bit disappointed in the audio version of this wonderful book. I will forever worship Tamora Pierce for her writing skills. In fact this book, when it came out, was one of the first fantasy novels that I read as a pre-teen. To this day, as an adult, I still buy every book she publishes, and read them all at least once a year. This audio version, however, fails to do justice to her novel. The narration was extremely stilted and over-enunciated to the point of sounding like a machine. It lacked any sort of inflection, especially when heard up against the exuberance of the character actors. An audio book read by an ensemble cast can be great if done well, but this one had the feel of an acting troupe that hadn?t run their lines enough. The pacing was off, and it lacked cohesion as a whole. The overall effect was very distracting. I?m not disappointed that I bought this audio book because I just love the story that much, but I do hope that the next one is better.
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- Patti
- 2005-04-02
Wild Magic
I read Wild Magic years ago, it was the first book of Tamora Pierce's that I tried and is still my favorite of hers. After the wonderful job Trini Alvarado had done with the other books in the Tortall series I was very disappointed to see she was not reading this one. My worries were confirmed as I listened to book. I love Ms. Pierce's writing but her narration is very dull and uneven, couple that with the overacting of some of the actors and you have a very distracting and childish production. They did not totally ruin the book for me but they in no way enhanced it either. Trini Alvarado's reading kept this supposedly for young adult series a light fantasy that adults could enjoy as well. While the full cast audio production of Wild Magic turned a fun,light fantasy into a childs book. 4 1/2 stars for the story 1 star for the narration.
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- Julia Page
- 2017-07-05
Love the book, don't love the narration
I always love Tamora Pierce's books. The writing is solid and her heroines are powerful and relatable. I loved this book when I read it for myself, but I'm not a fan of the way they handled the audiobook version. Personally, I found the rotating cast and broadly performed narration distracting. This recording is clearly geared towards much younger readers, possibly younger than I would suggest read this book in the first place. Bottom line: great book, good narration if you want to entertain a child, but ultimately not to this consumer's taste.
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- Mazer
- 2015-02-13
What a sad use of a great story
What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?
I think it needs to be redone narrated by someone new. My vote is for one speaker who can do characters like Jim Dale, Simon Vance or Terry Donnelly. The method of having the characters played by different actors really fails here.
What did you like best about this story?
I love this story and have for many years. I think it is a great young adult series with vivid characters and strong female leads. As a young girl it made me look critically at my relationship to the world in a way that helped me to grow and take ownership of myself.
What didn’t you like about Tamora Pierce’s performance?
I was dismayed to find that Tamora Pierce is a terrible narrator! Listening to this audio book has been extremely painful. Also, the acting of the general cast was atrocious! Who ever directed this or envisioned it should be ashamed of themselves. I think they categorically ruined a good story. The female lead has the winiest most dis-empowered voice in an audio book I have ever heard. her voice ruined a bright and growing character.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
I was very disappointed.
Any additional comments?
I hope to hear soon that someone is going to rerecord this series and revive it from the unfortunate state it is currently in.
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- Cathy
- 2009-02-01
The Immortals series: One of my favorite
Wild Magic: The Immortals series are one of my favorite Tamora Pierce books and audiobooks. I've read many reviews that criticise Daine. "She's too whiny ..." Well, I love fourteen year old kids and that's exactly Daine's character. Imagine you have been an outcast because of your never knowing your father, living in a village where everyone looks down on you because you are "illegitimate" even while your mother selflessly heals the sick. Then when murdering bandits attack your family and the village people ignores your family. The village hunts you down to kill you. all this happens to a fourteen year old kid before she begins the story.
Daine becomes a more heroic character once she has the support of caring people. It's unrealistic to compare her to Alanna, another heroic character. I love Alanna but she is almost to perfect. Daine is a more realistic teen. I love her character because she shows the possibility of every child who is loved and supported having a chance to grow up sane. This book should appeal to many middle school kids who feel abused. (and how many middle scholers do you know who don't feel a little unloved.) It really is a favorite of mine because I love middle school kids, even the challenging ones. With kind nurturing they can grow into some pretty fine people.
I eagerly await the fourth book performed as an audiobok for this series.
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- Lejla
- 2005-11-02
The rest of the book is better than the sample
I've read and re read this book so many times there are bits I know of by heart. I really enjoyed the audio eventhough it was more the lack of other choices that made me choose it. After I heard a tad bit more than the sample and got used to the pronounciations I fell in love with it.
I like the full cast and it is not at all distracting.
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- Coffeegirl32
- 2016-01-12
Great Story...Awful Recording.
Let me start by saying I'm a huge Tamora Pierce fan and have been for many years. Wild Magic was the first book I read of hers and has a special place in my heart.
That being said...this audio version is horrific. I loved Trini Alvarado's reading of the Alanna series and couldn't wait to hear her do this series. When I realized the author herself was doing the narrating I figured she would make it even better. Not so much. She's a great writer but a terrible narrator. She seemed bored and unfamiliar with her own work! The Full Cast Audio team made a wonderful book sound like a cartoonish mess. The main characters voice was whiny and like nails on a chalkboard. The rest of the characters were not much better and the random music between chapters was distracting.
I really wish there was a different audio version of this book with just one narrator who actually enjoys telling the story.
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- Rdal
- 2005-04-12
Predictable and Boring
If your older than 12 don't waste your time.
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- Steven Casper
- 2008-06-18
Couldn't Finish It
After Alanna I wanted to give Pierce another chance, with one of her later novels, so unfortunately I got Wild Magic.
I can't even review the story, the narration was so distracting and bad that maybe an hour or two into it I just couldn't go on.
The idea of having multiple voice-actors doing the speaking parts was novel and could have been good. The problem was that the main narrator, the "she said/she thought/etc." narrator, was TERRIBLE. She sounded like she was reading a script and doing so badly. Clipped words, over-enunciations, obvious separations between words. It felt like a bad reading, not a narration.
I just couldn't handle it anymore. So even though I don't know whether or not Wild Magic is worth a read, I can say that this particular audio recording of the book is not worth the money... or time.
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- Natalie Johnson
- 2007-08-19
Daine is much too whiny!
Yes, even though I adore Mrs. Pierce, I don't particularly like her narrating. However, it is something I got used to and can live with. What made me cringe was the reader playing Daine. Good grief! What a whiner! Even though she can be described as horrible, a true fan of Mrs. Pierce's work (which I am) would not regret this still interesting audiobook.
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