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trackofwords's review
4.0
The city of Shadowvel lies outside the borders of Neferatia, yet to Neferata’s eyes it benefits greatly from its proximity to her realm. Displeased with the city and its prideful citizens, she intends to see it destroyed, and employs her prodigious talent for manipulation to make it so.
It’s quite a close focus story, with just three characters, no narration, no real action but plenty of enjoyable dialogue. With Emma Gregory’s gleeful performance really bringing out the inhuman savagery behind Neferata’s smoothly civilised facade, this delivers one of the best depictions of the character yet.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/12/20/quick-review-black-atonement-david-annandale/
It’s quite a close focus story, with just three characters, no narration, no real action but plenty of enjoyable dialogue. With Emma Gregory’s gleeful performance really bringing out the inhuman savagery behind Neferata’s smoothly civilised facade, this delivers one of the best depictions of the character yet.
Read the full review at https://www.trackofwords.com/2018/12/20/quick-review-black-atonement-david-annandale/
glace's review
4.0
Another example of why I like the Mortarch of Blood. She is petty, and has a huge ego, but she is very clever and is a potent magic user. She is too cynical to think that there is credit to those who value virtue for it's own sake, and that is plainly demonstrated in this short drama. Well done to Annandale, the voice cast, and the sound editing team!
mal_eficent's review
4.0
I’m not typically a fan of audio books, but I had a long train journey and felt like trying something new. The Black Library audio dramas sounded more like my cup of tea than typically audio books, and it definitely delivered.
The background sound and multiple voices really helped keep my attention and let me track what was happening very easily. As expected of BL the sound quality was amazing and atmospheric. It’s definitely gotten me interested in what other audio dramas BL have on offer.
The difference between Nagadron’s voice and the actual roaring was a little jarring, I must admit. I presume the choice of a more childish voice was to create a contrast between the character and their actions - as a cool skeleton dragon filled with skulls, they are every inch the bloodthirsty monster they should be. It’s an interesting voice that I’m not sure the actress pulled off entirely, and as she speaks for quite a lot of the short story it got a little annoying. That’s my only criticism of the drama, honestly.
It was an excellent and exciting peek into the lore of Shyish, that makes me want to pick up a few more short stories that involve Nagash’s cohort. The setting fit what I’ve come to expect from AoS: it’s a mix of typically fantasy and tragedy that reminds me in *some* respect of old Sagas and Tolkien. There is, though, a dash of the melodramatic about it that pushes it a little bit into over the top - which isn’t always a bad thing!
The background sound and multiple voices really helped keep my attention and let me track what was happening very easily. As expected of BL the sound quality was amazing and atmospheric. It’s definitely gotten me interested in what other audio dramas BL have on offer.
The difference between Nagadron’s voice and the actual roaring was a little jarring, I must admit. I presume the choice of a more childish voice was to create a contrast between the character and their actions - as a cool skeleton dragon filled with skulls, they are every inch the bloodthirsty monster they should be. It’s an interesting voice that I’m not sure the actress pulled off entirely, and as she speaks for quite a lot of the short story it got a little annoying. That’s my only criticism of the drama, honestly.
It was an excellent and exciting peek into the lore of Shyish, that makes me want to pick up a few more short stories that involve Nagash’s cohort. The setting fit what I’ve come to expect from AoS: it’s a mix of typically fantasy and tragedy that reminds me in *some* respect of old Sagas and Tolkien. There is, though, a dash of the melodramatic about it that pushes it a little bit into over the top - which isn’t always a bad thing!
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