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The Orc King

Transitions, Book I

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The Orc King

By: R.A. Salvatore
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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About this listen

 Drizzt is back in this exciting new trilogy from R.A. Salvatore!

An uneasy peace between the dwarves of Mithral Hall and the orcs of the newly established Kingdom of Many-Arrows can't last long. The orc tribes united under Obould begin to fight each other, and Bruenor is determined to finish the war that nearly killed him and almost destroyed everything he's worked to build. But it will take more than swords and axes to bring a lasting peace to the Spine of the World. Powerful individuals on both sides may have to change the way they see each other. They may have to start to talk. But it won't be easy.

TM & ©2023 Wizards of the Coast LLC©2008 R. A. Salvatore; (P)2009 Random House Action & Adventure Dragons & Mythical Creatures Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction Mythology Emotionally Gripping War

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The narrator's voice sounds like it is putting his face to sleep. The pronunciation of his words may be a little more true to how they should be pronounced but sound so off-putting and gross. Who picked this guy as a narrator, he is like a human text book! Boring and technical.

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Get a computer to read the book, it would beat this narrator and his monotonous drone.

Great story, horrible narrator

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More great adventures from the Drizzt saga, but the narration is painful and difficult to listen to.

You will barely recognise names you’re used to hearing from countless other Drizzt novels as they’re nearly all pronounced so profoundly different it is very confusing as you decipher who is meant to be who.

The majority of the narration is monotonous with little of the energy added by Victor Bevin.

It is also difficult to tell who is meant to be speaking as many of the characters are performed in the same voice.

If it wasn’t an essential part of the story arc I would skip altogether.

Wonderful story - shocking narration

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Love the series, but when the new narrator turns Drizzt's suspicions into drisssppicions I was put off buying the rest of them. Fortunately it's only these three, but I'm going to buy the physical books and come back when Victor is narrating again and would suggest the same to anyone else.

Drisssssuspicions

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The story is very good as always.

But it is a BIG issue, the narrator changed the pronunciation of many of the characters names.

He is a good narrator no doubt. BUT someone should have told him NOT to change the way the names a pronounced.

The new narrator did a bad job

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Being this far into The Legend Of Drizzt, it is pretty clear to me that R. A. Salvatore cannot do me wrong, but this choice of narrator was a poor decision. I do not know if there was a particular reason why Victor Become was not used for this trilogy, as he has done a masterful job with the previous books, but Mark Bramhall did not draw me in to this story. He has poor timing, strange pronunciations for lore words (like names), and off-putting accents for the characters.

I cannot wait to get through the Transitions trilogy, so that I can once again get to the true narrator of Drizzt.

Great story, bad narrator

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