Kings Of The North
Apr. 24th, 2023 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearAfter listening to many hours of the first book of the Paladin's Legacy by Elizabeth Moon, I went straight into listening to the many hours of the second book!
It took a little while for me to get into it, since the narrator was different and I didn't like her as much as the previous one - but that issue faded long before the audiobook was over.
It's a great world with great characters - I was particularly pleased by the continuation of Sergeant Stammel's arc, and I loved the way the disparate storylines started to come together by the end.
My only problem with the series is that there's an awful lot of characters travelling around, having adventures, then meeting up with different characters and telling them the stories of their adventures. The stories are generally summarised and compressed quite a lot, but it's still a fair amount of characters telling each other things the reader already knows.
There's also a bit of a deus ex machina in the climax, but that's mitigated by one of my favourite characters getting to be awesome at the same time.
So, since the third book in the series is back to being read by my preferred narrator - I'm going straight into the next one!
It took a little while for me to get into it, since the narrator was different and I didn't like her as much as the previous one - but that issue faded long before the audiobook was over.
It's a great world with great characters - I was particularly pleased by the continuation of Sergeant Stammel's arc, and I loved the way the disparate storylines started to come together by the end.
My only problem with the series is that there's an awful lot of characters travelling around, having adventures, then meeting up with different characters and telling them the stories of their adventures. The stories are generally summarised and compressed quite a lot, but it's still a fair amount of characters telling each other things the reader already knows.
There's also a bit of a deus ex machina in the climax, but that's mitigated by one of my favourite characters getting to be awesome at the same time.
So, since the third book in the series is back to being read by my preferred narrator - I'm going straight into the next one!
