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reanne 's review for:
The High Druid's Blade
by Terry Brooks
DID NOT FINISH
I was listening to this book on CD, and on the 3rd CD, it started acting weird, like something was wrong with the file, but I wasn't enjoying the book enough to bother figuring out the problem, so I guess I'm DNFing it.
There was an awful lot of explaining worldbuilding, which really bogs down a book in the beginning. Seems like if you're familiar with the world, you should already know a lot of it, and for someone like me who isn't, it was just so much blablabla druids blablabla elfstones blablabla STOP EXPLAINING AND DO SOMETHING!
The action at the beginning, with the guy rescuing his sister, was good. Except A, it was pretty obvious the bad guy had targeted her for some specific reason, so they were kind of dumb to assume he'd leave her alone, and B, a lot of time following that was spent on boring training scenes.
Also, I didn't like the narrator. He read old people just fine, but he really didn't do well with young people. The young druid Paxon meets, especially, sounds a lot like a wizened old mentor for a guy in his early 20s. It's always distracting to have the book telling you one thing and the narrator's performance telling you something different.
There was an awful lot of explaining worldbuilding, which really bogs down a book in the beginning. Seems like if you're familiar with the world, you should already know a lot of it, and for someone like me who isn't, it was just so much blablabla druids blablabla elfstones blablabla STOP EXPLAINING AND DO SOMETHING!
The action at the beginning, with the guy rescuing his sister, was good. Except A, it was pretty obvious the bad guy had targeted her for some specific reason, so they were kind of dumb to assume he'd leave her alone, and B, a lot of time following that was spent on boring training scenes.
Also, I didn't like the narrator. He read old people just fine, but he really didn't do well with young people. The young druid Paxon meets, especially, sounds a lot like a wizened old mentor for a guy in his early 20s. It's always distracting to have the book telling you one thing and the narrator's performance telling you something different.