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The Red Knight
- Narrated by: Matthew Wolf
- Series: Traitor Son Cycle, Book 1
- Length: 30 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fantasy
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Summary
Forget George and the dragon. Forget Sir Lancelot and tales of knightly exploits. This is dirty, bloody work. This is violent, visceral action. This is a mercenary knight as you've never seen one before.
Twenty-eight florins a month is a huge price to pay for a man to stand between you and the Wild.
Twenty-eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders.
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- Paul
- 19-02-20
Must read this review
I feel I have to mention this to save others from dissapointment. Please however, listen and make your own judgements.
So, having really enjoyed the first two books in the series narrated by Matt Wolf. the decision to change narrators for book three is an epic fail. Mr Wolf brought feeling to the characters in line with some of the best narrators that I've had the pleasure to listen to. However, Mr Dickson lack that ability to provide a good range of voices so all the characters sound pretty much the same. Like angry pirates. I use the word angry as he shouts most of the dialogue and makes everything sound aggressive and confrontational when it's not supposed to be. This in turn means that all characters lose the emotion that was built brilliantly by Mr Wolf in the first two books.
Unfortunately, this is so bad and annoying this book will have to be returned and the 60 hours invested in what was turning out to be an epic knight’s tale wasted.
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- K
- 05-10-15
Epic!
What made the experience of listening to The Red Knight the most enjoyable?
It's the marriage between authentic detail, subtle humour and a range of different and carefully wrought story-lines that makes this one of the best books I've listen to in a while. It's a rather novel take on the fantasy genre, too. It's a fantasy/historic novel cross-over and not the worse for it.
What did you like best about this story?
It's really engaging and the characterisation avoids stereotypes. There are heroes dressed as anti-heroes and vice-versa. There are as many powerful women as men, which always gets my vote. Equally, there are vain and shallow women but just as many men sharing the same unflattering characteristics. There are a range of interesting themes such as the class-system, dysfunctional relationships and the rights and wrongs of other cultural, moral and social constructs. The story-lines are carefully constructed and despite the length of this book, they never seem laboured.
What about Matthew Wolf’s performance did you like?
Wolf's performance is another highlight. He has to cope with a massive range of characters and the variety of accents he manages are believable and generally well maintained. Yes, there are a few accent inconsistencies but there are so MANY characters this minor criticism hardly seems worth mentioning.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
King Arthur meets Patrick Bateman
Any additional comments?
The best value for money I've had in a long while.
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- bill
- 20-07-15
Outsharps Richard Sharpe
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I recommend this book to anyone who wants a great story, well written and well read. I bought the second book because the first was so good; roll on number three.
Who was your favorite character and why?
The Red Knight as the central character was written in such a way the other characters played off him and brought out their own personalities.
Which character – as performed by Matthew Wolf – was your favourite?
Thorn, even as an evil character was played in a way that you wanted to know how far he would go despite the material he had to work with.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
This book was too long to read in one sitting but it was finished within a couple of days; in time to get right into the Fell Sword.
Any additional comments?
I object to having to wait patiently for Book three.
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- MISS S TABRAH
- 17-01-17
Couldn't get into it
This book just wasn't for me. I found it hard to listen to, and the characters were not interesting enough to make it worth persevering.
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- john
- 01-11-16
baffling
made it to chapter 4, but already there are too many characters to keep track of.
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- Jaakko
- 24-01-16
Too many povs and too much of hema
Didn't finnish. The world itself seemed interesting, but it was too difficult to get a hold of it because points of view jumped too much to care about characters or story. It's clear that writer knows his medieval martial arts, but unfortunately other aspects of description lack the same detail.
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- Ian
- 30-08-18
Complicated
base story was ok but too many characters viewpoints made it over complicated and hard to follow. there are better siege stories out there.
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- Craig
- 28-03-22
Great story, terrible editing
Great story, really enjoyed it but the editing was horrendous
So many sentences cut off randomly, at first I thought it was meant to be that way
Doesn't take away from the story too much, still recommend it
Sort out your editing, ruining good authors books
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- Felix
- 06-02-22
Brilliant ensemble piece
I loved it from beginning to end. The ending manages to set up for more without leaving a cliff-hanger.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-01-22
Good shit
Liked the idea of mercenary captain as a main character which thankfully was well executed. Thought some of the other POVs were a bit boring at times, though I can see why they’re needed. Strong 4/5, might read again someday.
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- Igor de Britto
- 20-09-21
Very captivating characters and world setting
voice acting
+ great performance
- too many characters ended up creating similar voices
story
+ nice fantasy
+ Christianity is a way to add lots of context while keeping information intake low
- sensitive christians might have issues with the misusage of their characters
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- Gert Grobler
- 15-09-19
Love Knights? Listen to this!
Great story of Knights and chivalry. Well written and well preformed. The author did great research to make this seem real.
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- luke
- 30-10-18
Great writing, interesting concept but....
...it did not hook me. I just could not get past the first few chapters. You cannot fault the reader, who is excellent. The story is strong and the characters are well defined. The author unfortunately could not make me care about any of it.
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- Karen
- 18-10-15
as it says on the box
Buckets of blood, battles with horrible monsters. It's all there. Not for the faint hearted but I thoroughly enjoyed The Red Knight. I will be keeping an eye on Miles Cameron for more. I also have a new favourite narrator in Matthew Wolf. Recommended for fantasy lovers.
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- Atle
- 24-09-17
I thought this was a New instalment
Sigh... I already bought this on audible. But they changed the cover and didn't tell me I owned å different version... please give me my credit back. :/