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Lost Kingdom
- Narrated by: Zachary Johnson
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
One world, two cultures, and a mystery - four thousand years in the making.
When Nolan Hayes crashes his borrowed (don’t say stolen) ship on Janusia, he finds a planet split by a river of epic proportions. Fast, deep, and deadly, the river is home to three kingdoms and a cable system left behind by people from the stars, who left no clues as to its intentions. Now, the river and all it’s connecting ports are controlled by a single guild.
Night after night, ships fall from the sky, breaking apart and scattering bodies across the wide plains, the empty southern ocean, and the warring kingdoms. Some of these ships have survivors, and some of those survivors aren’t victims at all, for their arrival on Janusia is anything but an accident. As Nolan unravels the intrigue of a world at war, he’ll gather powerful allies on his march to the river and to a meeting with destiny - Corra, the woman chosen to lead her people in a fight for justice.
It’s a fight against greed, evil, and a hidden truth that will change history itself on a world at the end of the galaxy - a place where ships die, the river rages, and war is never-ending.
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- Ostfeld
- 19-01-22
A beautiful creation !!!
The Author Terry Maggert have created a masterpiece.
A beautiful imagination, every character is needed for this beautiful story which mixes the future and the past into an awesome science-fiction creation.
And by choosing Zachary Johnson one of the best narrator that I’ve ever heard of for narrating this book wraps the whole thing into a perfect audiobook !
Absolutely
Recommended !!!
Oded Ostfeld.
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- Alan Preece
- 27-11-21
Its Really Just A Matter of Taste
Nolan Hayes is a thief, and he is unapologetic about the fact. With his only companion an AI called Cherry, he has travelled across the universe picking up job after job, always moving further from the slums of his home world This is until he encounters an uncharted wormhole that deposits him on a remote and desolate world that finds itself on the brink of civil war.
Barely escaping the crash of his stolen ship, Nolan becomes embroiled in the growing conflict, discovering that - even though this may be a backward world - the conflict affects worlds much further afield than he could have imagined.
Terry Maggert's Lost Kingdom is the first book from this writer I've experienced, as well as the first time hearing its narrator Zachary Johnson, and - at least to begin with - I was extremely pleased with both. I found the dialogue between Nolan and Cherry a little too "cute" at times, and the profanity seemed out of place to me, but overall I found the characters instantly engaging and Nolan's situation one I wanted to follow.
The story alternates between Nolan's predicament and the machinations of the various factions vying for control in the worlds kingdoms, but I did find Nolan's story the more engaging of the two, the other feeling more of an information dump at times. But this is somewhat necessary, as there is a lot of information to be outlined in preparation of the two world colliding halfway through the book.
For me things ticked along rather nicely until five or six chapters in, and then things changed with the introduction of a character that I disliked instantly. For the remaining book she didn't seen to do anything to earn her inclusion, and it just took attention away from Cherry, who I saw as the books female joint lead. The moment also seemed to signal a change in Nolan's character, moving him from someone who is a lovable rogue to someone who is more cold-bloodied. Personally I didn't like the change in his character (or - at least - how I perceived his character), and I slowly saw less and less of a difference between him and those he fought against.
I think much of this is due to the fact (even though this is not obvious) that this book is the first of a series. So I can only assume certain things are being seeded in this book that will become more pertinent in later books, and this might be the reason I became less engaged throughout the book as I don't tend to read series, I don't mind sequels that develop organically but I usually avoid preplanned series.
Zachary Johnson, on the other hand, does not seem to put a foot wrong for me. His ability to differentiate characters almost puts him in the same league as Sean Duregger (my personal favourite narrator in terms of character), and his ability to do this creates something less like an audiobook and more like a one man play. His narration is always clear and runs at a good speed that give you time to absorb what's being said. Honestly there's nothing I can say negative about his performance, and he is certainly a name to put on the "positives" list of any projected he's connected with.
Overall my opinion of Lost Kingdom is a little middle-of-the-road. I did not hate it but I did not like it as much as I would have hoped, and I think much of this is because I avoid books of its type because of my dislike of series. I do think the structure of such books are different, their use of pace and character designed - necessarily - to encompass several books rather than being self-contained, necessitates a different structure.
If you like books of the type I think you'll probably enjoy Lost Kingdom quite a bit, or at least you'll enjoy it more than I did. Terry Maggert writes engaging characters and - mostly - keeps things light. He can - in my opinion - be somewhat uneven in tone, sometimes the violence becoming a little more than I'd expect in an adventure tale, but again this may be just a matter of taste.
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