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Crown of Vengeance

The Dragon Prophecy, Book 1

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Crown of Vengeance

By: Mercedes Lackey, James Mallory
Narrated by: Kate Rudd, Christopher Lane
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Summary

Crown of Vengeance begins a new epic fantasy saga from New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.

She is the unwanted spawn of a mad king and queen, her lands lost before her birth; her family - her very name - erased from history. Cursed by many, yet protected by an even greater curse.

She was born on a night of storm and terror, raised in protected concealment, then banished from the only home she had ever known - an ancient enemy's final stroke in a war begun centuries before.

Secret studies of hidden lore reveal the truth of the prophecy that heralded her coming. Dark dreams teach lessons of war and duty, of strategy and magecraft that she could not learn in a thousand lifetimes.

She does not have a thousand lifetimes. She has just one - and time is running out. For the prophecy spoke not just of her, but of a great Darkness that would destroy the elven kingdoms. A Darkness that is coming ever closer.

She is Vieliessar Farcarinon and she must save her people. Even if she must shatter custom and destroy the world she was born to rule.

©2012 Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Fantasy
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The story was pretty good, but Christopher Lane was awful. I know he was going for atmospheric Shakespearean, but what he delivered was Tim Curry doing Shakespeare style in his Hammer Horror days with a weird american accent. Lane was so distracting I struggled to follow what he was saying. I'm about to start the second book, and if he's done it again, I shall have to give up on the series, at least in audio.

The naming convention used meant 3 or was it 4 of the main characters had similarly pronounced names, so tracking who was who was distractingly difficult at times, especially as the FMC was on the opposite side of the other 3.

Normally, I find the use of zombies in a story to be incredibly lazy (it's impossible to be original in any way when it comes to zombies), especially as the main plot line, but in this story, it was well used, which was actually impressive,especially as the ending was a bit, um..... ok.

Another frustrating thing that is never (in my experience) addressed when it comes to narration, are scene changes. This story jumps around a lot, and with the naming issue, got very confusing at times. If little cues were added (for thoose books that only have a break of severalnextra blank lines, or a printed line or whatever to signify the break of scene and/or character and/or time, it would help so much.

Overall, it was passably diverting and I'm really hoping that Lane did not repeat that truly awful performance in the second book.

the naming convention used was confusing in audio

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it took ages to build up to a rather poor and disappointing ending. poor and a real slog to get through.

not that impressed at all.

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