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A review by shanellewrites
Child of the Prophecy by Juliet Marillier
3.0
Unfortunately, not a great development/installment of the Sevenwaters series.
While I did not factor this in to my rating, I do want to note that the audiobook is the worst audiobook I have ever listened to. It's hard to know how much of it was due to technical difficulties when the narrator was recording, how much was poor audio editing, or what, but I really do not recommend listening to this book on audio at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with the narrator. They are talented and I enjoyed listening to them. There were some pronunciations that were incorrect, or varied from pronunciations used in the two previous audiobooks, but the biggest issue was that parts of the text that sounded like they had been edited in from a completely different session. They were very loud and really took me out of the story, and from about a quarter of the book through to the end, they happened what felt like every 10-20 minutes. Clearly there was no quality control, or the producers/publishers decided they didn't want to spend the money to either remedy or redo it.
In terms of the actual story, writing, and characters, they all felt much weaker than Daughter of the Forest in particular. I don't know how the next books in the series will measure up, but I really, really hope that they are more in line with the first two than with this one.
While I did not factor this in to my rating, I do want to note that the audiobook is the worst audiobook I have ever listened to. It's hard to know how much of it was due to technical difficulties when the narrator was recording, how much was poor audio editing, or what, but I really do not recommend listening to this book on audio at all. To be clear, I don't have a problem with the narrator. They are talented and I enjoyed listening to them. There were some pronunciations that were incorrect, or varied from pronunciations used in the two previous audiobooks, but the biggest issue was that parts of the text that sounded like they had been edited in from a completely different session. They were very loud and really took me out of the story, and from about a quarter of the book through to the end, they happened what felt like every 10-20 minutes. Clearly there was no quality control, or the producers/publishers decided they didn't want to spend the money to either remedy or redo it.
In terms of the actual story, writing, and characters, they all felt much weaker than Daughter of the Forest in particular. I don't know how the next books in the series will measure up, but I really, really hope that they are more in line with the first two than with this one.