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The Magic That Binds

Haelan, Book 1

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The Magic That Binds

By: AJ Sherwood
Narrated by: Eric London, Jamal Roque, Philip Alces
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About this listen

All Dag Gates wants is a place to call home. (And to practice magic freely.)

All Stefan Bjorne wants is peace in his adoptive country. (And less paperwork.)

All Mikkel Vinters wants is both of them. (No, really, he could do wedding bells.)

So why, pray tell, is half the magical community set on denying them all their wishes?

©2023 AJ Sherwood (P)2024 Podium Audio Fantasy Fiction Literature & Fiction Paranormal Paranormal Romance Romance Science Fiction & Fantasy Magic

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I enjoyed this book, it held my interest from start to finish. The characters are interesting and very likeable and the story itself has enough to hold the readers interest all the way through. The one big negative is the narration, given that two of the three main characters are Scandinavian and none of the narrators managed to get within a thousand miles of a decent (or believable) accent, I can only give an overall four stars .

an interesting story

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enjoyable story and likeable characters with all the standard aj Sherwood characteristics. If you like Bel etc then you will like these three main characters. The narration is not good, while Dag is okay and that narrator okay, the others do random accents not only for their own characters but for side characters. Guards sound like muppet characters and at one point I swear one of Mikkel's business partners has a touch of Ludo from the Labyrinth.

liked the world building

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Loved the characters, would have liked a more satisfactory/bigger squish of the villains. Enjoyed the three narrators’ performances, they were v good.

If you enjoyed this, I think the author’s Mage’s Guide to Human Familiars has the slight edge on this - also 3 men and magic :)

Enjoyable story

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Loved the book, loved the audiobook, but narration could be better when it came to the voice of Mikael (not sure of spelling of name). He is meant to be Scandinavian, but his accent changed throughout. One minute it was heavily African, the next like an elderly heavy smoker. What it wasn’t was Scandinavian. It wasn’t great. However, the sound quality was excellent and the rest of the voices, even Stefan who was also Scandinavian, was consistent and good. Overall, a nice book to listen to.

Excellent story, narration good, but accents dodgy

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Story was entertaining and enjoyable but narration peformance was off. Dag's narrator was good but Stefan's sounded like elderly gentelman and Mikkel's was clipped and almost monotone in it's sound - lack of emotion, felt stalled and stifled. There was so much that was not delivered to listener due to tone of voice and lack sincerity towards book's caracters

Amazing story but narration...

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