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Bones of the Hills

By: Conn Iggulden
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
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Summary

The powerful and exhilarating third novel in Conn Iggulden's number-one best-selling Conqueror series, following the life and adventures of the mighty Genghis Khan.

The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe (whom listeners have been following in Wolf of the Plains and Lords of the Bow, has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains. His emissaries are mutilated or killed; his trading gestures rebuffed.

So, dividing his armies, using his sons as generals of the various divisions, he sends them out simultaneously in many directions, ranging as far as modern Iran and Iraq.

As well as discovering new territories, exacting tribute from conquered peoples, laying waste the cities which resist, this policy is also a way of diffusing the rivalries between his sons and heirs and working out who should succeed the khan.

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An action packed audio hit.

Takes Genghis from a local warlord to a world player. All the main characters are developed and deepened within the known historical facts and background. Igulden's historical knowledge of the period is intervoven into the story maintaining the sense of historical awe of what the mongul empire was capable of. The narration is excellent and consistent across the story. Above all, it is a roller coaster of a story with plenty of action. suspense and intrigue. A big thumbs up to a master storyteller.

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Wonderful rendition!

A fantastic tale of tragedy. Beautifully read. So expressive I felt that I could smell the sweat and mutton fat.

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Chapters are awful on audible, unlistenable

I don’t know why this book specifically isn’t configured correctly on audible but it’s a terrible listening experience. Can’t play until end of chapter because actually each audible chapter is atleast 3 chapters of the book so if you fall asleep whilst listening etc you miss hours of content and can’t find where you were up to.

Really just a terrible experience which is such a shame.

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Historically inaccurate

Although a novel and therefore not a true story it takes the bones of truth and dresses them in a different animal’s meat all held together by yet another animal’s skin, the results beast is a rather pleasing one

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Bad boy

Genguis was a bad mother fcuker. RIP TO THE REAL ONES PLAYA. X x x

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Great book

Awesome book, Conn Iggulden beats Cornwell any day of the week in the genre of historical fiction in my opinion. The only thing that prevented me from giving this book 5/5 was that the narration was slightly worse than the previous book. No idea why they keep changing the narrator; a smudge disruptive for the listener...

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Great story well told

Brilliant series and well read by Rupert. Alas, they have changed the narrator again for the next book in the series. Why do they keep doing this :(

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Gripping from start to finish

Another brilliant listen. Both this and the Emporer series are fascinating reads. Both of them excellently told.

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Great follow on in the series

Great performance on the voice acting and a well received story!

There are luls in the storyline but to be expected with such descriptiveness

Overall a great listen

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Brilliant.

The narration is brilliant. Really felt I could see all that was happening. Have already read the series this added so much more.

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