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The Staff and the Blade

Irin Chronicles, Book Four

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The Staff and the Blade

By: Elizabeth Hunter
Narrated by: Jay Britton
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Summary

Warriors. Lovers. Enemies. Legends.

Their union became pivotal in Irin history, but to understand Damien and Sari's ending, you must go back to their beginning. Four hundred years ago, a young singer and a hardened warrior met and loved each other, but their life was torn apart by violence.

But no matter how much pain and anger stain their lives, bonds in the Irin race cannot be abandoned. Damien and Sari will never truly leave each other, because those who are destined cannot be ignored.

The Staff and the Blade is the fourth book in the Irin Chronicles.

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It’s always a bit of a gamble continuing a series of books when the narrator changes as you form a relationship with a particular narrator.

This is the 4th book in the Irin Chronicles, and the first after a definitive trilogy. This 4th book, the story of Damien and Sari, is divided into 4 parts, as there is a lot of history between Damien and Sari. It is a fabulous book, with excellent story telling from Elizabeth Hunter.

The narrator, though, is awful. The narrators voice is monotone, almost like an AI voice. The intonation is odd, the stress on the second half of names is odd, the pronunciation of names (including one awful massacre of Malachai) is odd, the inconsistency of the pronunciation of ‘Sari’ is annoying, but the mispronunciation of ‘Irin’ and ‘Irina’ is distracting, and takes away from the storytelling. One would think that if you are taking over the narration half way through a series, the narrator would listen to the previous books to get a feel of how things are presented.

I’m listening to the whole book so I’ll have the whole series, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to listen to it again.

Excellent story, terrible narration

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This is my favourite so far of a fantastic series . Damien and sari are fascinating together and I love the tension and passion between them .Pls give them a happy ending x

Brilliant

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every of this book is so slow for me...I don't know if is the reader or the story...but too slow!
I wanted to know how it was going to end but nothing I started to fall asleep while driving the other day. so stop...enough for me .sorry.

I don't think I will make it trough

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The story is brilliant - giving the background of Damien and Sari, but the change of narrator was a big distraction. I found his narration rather stilted for most of the book and, to me, his voice for Damien seemed to change occasionally. When Rhys appeared he had a Scottish, I think, accent - a complete change from the earlier books where he was English. Ava was girlish when she appeared also. I realise that we all 'see' characters in our own way and this is influenced by narrator, so a change of narrator this far into the series is disappointing. This is the second time I've listened to the series and I'm still so disappointed that I'm submitting this review (again) - I'm sure I submitted a review after my first 'listen', but I can't find it on amazon.

Disappointing

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I absolutely love these books! It days stand alone but I think you do need to have read/listened to the first 3 in order to grasp the full potential of the story.
The only thing I was disappointed in was the narrator. The narrator in the first 3 was fantastic and got the voices and accents for the characters spot on, this one not so much much.

Another great book from Elizabeth Hunter

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