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A review by sometimesleelynnreads
Cephrael's Hand by Melissa McPhail
4.0
Disclaimer: I received this audiobook as part of my participation in a blog tour with Audiobookworm Promotions. The tour is being sponsored by Podium Publishing. The gifting of this audiobook did not affect my opinion of it.
Okay I’m definitely a newbie to adult epic fantasy novels. They can be pretty dense and full of a lot of information that you need to pay attention to. It’s not an easy read, at least not for me. So it helped a lot that I was listening to this novel rather than reading it. So thank you so much to Podium Publishing for making this into an audiobook for the likes of people like me. Epic fantasy / high fantasy adult novels are best digested when someone is telling me the story than if I read it to myself.
Which brings me to my first point. Thank goodness Podehl was a great narrator. Especially for this kind of novel, that got super long, had difficult scenes that I needed to get through, and just was very long. He made it entertaining for me and I felt like he matches epic fantasy novels. I’m curious to see what his favorite genre of book is to narrate, but I definitely give him kudos for this one. I think he did an amazing job in this novel, and I am so glad he helped me pronounce a lot of the names that I wasn’t sure of. It just made it a lot more interesting.
Now, on the book itself. McPhail definitely knows how to write an adventure. I’m glad that she made this into a trilogy rather than one super long novel. Even though each main character’s plot could make their own novel if we really wanted it to be, I liked that McPhail intertwined their plotlines in this trilogy. I think I like Trell of the Tides mostly because of that moniker. But I was pretty into Prince Ean as well. I don’t know who my favorite was, but I was definitely intrigued with all of their journeys. I’m curious to see what happens in the second novel, and I’ll find out soon.
Okay I’m definitely a newbie to adult epic fantasy novels. They can be pretty dense and full of a lot of information that you need to pay attention to. It’s not an easy read, at least not for me. So it helped a lot that I was listening to this novel rather than reading it. So thank you so much to Podium Publishing for making this into an audiobook for the likes of people like me. Epic fantasy / high fantasy adult novels are best digested when someone is telling me the story than if I read it to myself.
Which brings me to my first point. Thank goodness Podehl was a great narrator. Especially for this kind of novel, that got super long, had difficult scenes that I needed to get through, and just was very long. He made it entertaining for me and I felt like he matches epic fantasy novels. I’m curious to see what his favorite genre of book is to narrate, but I definitely give him kudos for this one. I think he did an amazing job in this novel, and I am so glad he helped me pronounce a lot of the names that I wasn’t sure of. It just made it a lot more interesting.
Now, on the book itself. McPhail definitely knows how to write an adventure. I’m glad that she made this into a trilogy rather than one super long novel. Even though each main character’s plot could make their own novel if we really wanted it to be, I liked that McPhail intertwined their plotlines in this trilogy. I think I like Trell of the Tides mostly because of that moniker. But I was pretty into Prince Ean as well. I don’t know who my favorite was, but I was definitely intrigued with all of their journeys. I’m curious to see what happens in the second novel, and I’ll find out soon.