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A review by sammystarbuck
The Sapphire Rose by David Eddings
4.0
Another good story, and a satisfying end to the trilogy.
The narration of the audio book on the other hand, was once again terrible. At least he tried to keep it interesting by coming up with new and different ways to mess up the narration with each book. The odd pauses and inflections in inappropriate places made his sound like a discount William Shatner, and his continuous mispronunciation of even common every day words was grating to say the least. His insistence on pronouncing worship as warship had me picturing churches full of frigates and destroyers every time the story mentioned religious practices. which was on average once every page or two...
New for this particular volume was using the wrong voice for characters (men became women from time to time, and small children started speaking like gruff old knights).
I'm glad I got to finish the story, but seriously, do yourselves a favour and read this one in print. Seriously.
The narration of the audio book on the other hand, was once again terrible. At least he tried to keep it interesting by coming up with new and different ways to mess up the narration with each book. The odd pauses and inflections in inappropriate places made his sound like a discount William Shatner, and his continuous mispronunciation of even common every day words was grating to say the least. His insistence on pronouncing worship as warship had me picturing churches full of frigates and destroyers every time the story mentioned religious practices. which was on average once every page or two...
New for this particular volume was using the wrong voice for characters (men became women from time to time, and small children started speaking like gruff old knights).
I'm glad I got to finish the story, but seriously, do yourselves a favour and read this one in print. Seriously.