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Crystal Singer

By: Anne McCaffrey
Narrated by: Adrienne Barbeau
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Killashandra Ree has spent ten grueling years in musical training, anticipating interstellar celebrity as a vocal soloist. She is young, beautiful—and still without prospects. After learning that a flaw in her voice will prevent her from singing lead, she hears of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal is found. Mining this strange form of crystal is a dangerous occupation but to Killa, the risks are acceptable. Remarkably, her adaptation to crystal mining is unusually rapid and easy and Killashandra advances quickly. The problem is—few people who land on Ballybran ever leave.

©1994 Anne McCaffrey (P)1994 Phoenix Books, Inc. Action & Adventure Adventure Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Funny

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I’m such a fan and love Anne McCaffrey’s books. As others have mentioned I would like to listen to an unabridged version. I read this series decades ago and am revisiting them so a real treat. I’ll have to reread my old bartered copies again. Performance takes a bit of getting used to but not bad.

Abridged-

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the recording sounded like it it was done in an empty round via a radio.

recording

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I loved the book in my past but the narrator's speed and tone made it a hard listen I nearly stopped a couple of times.
I had to slow the playback down by 15% just to hear some of the words slowly enough.
I was as if the narrator was in a hurry.
plot line was great.

a great book not so great narration

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A great listen looking forward to the rest of the series even though this is the abridged version, I would recommend it.

Cystal singer

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Love Anne McCartney and have read the book in the past. Just find the audio quality really muffly compared to other downloads.

muffled audio

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