The Fall of the House of Cabal
The Johannes Cabal Novels, Book 5
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Narrated by:
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Nicholas Guy Smith
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The fifth novel in the acclaimed cult favorite series starring Johannes Cabal, necromancer.
Johannes Cabal, a necromancer of some little infamy, has come into possession of a vital clue that may lead him to his ultimate goal: a cure for death. The path is vague, however, and certainly treacherous as it takes him into strange territories that, quite literally, no one has ever seen before. The task is too dangerous to venture upon alone, so he must seek assistance - comrades for the coming travails.
Assisted - ably and otherwise - by his vampiric brother, Horst, and by the kindly accompaniment of a criminologist and a devil, they will encounter ruins and diableries, mystery and murder, the depths of the lowest pit, and a city of horrors - London, to be exact.
Yet even though Cabal has risked such peril believing he understands the dangers he faces, he is still underestimating them. He is walking into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors. As it closes slowly and subtly around them, it may be that there will be no survivors at all.
©2016 Jonathan L. Howard (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc., and Skyboat Media, Inc.What listeners say about The Fall of the House of Cabal
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Story5 out of 5 stars
- John
- 01-12-2016
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Just great fun. Hope it's not the last. Enjoyed the story and the great narration.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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Performance1 out of 5 stars
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Story1 out of 5 stars
- Paul McMahon
- 03-04-2019
Narrator takes Socfistication to slapstick
I really enjoyed Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, the first book of this series. The voices were perfect.
Here Nicholas Guy Smith has taken subltle humour and braoadened it out with the choices of "voice" for the caharacters.
Horst, an established refined German, superbly done in the first book by Christopher Cazenove, has moved from being a urbane, moral, rhy figure, to one of "accent".
AudioFile (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AudioFile) magazine praised the narration by Christopher Cazenove in Bk1: "delivers a wickedly clever, macabre tale of horror and suspense."
Why on earth was this decision made? I can se a narrator would like to make a reading their own, but this is terrible; just too different from the well established, fitting, voices in Book1.
I jumped to bk4, after bk2, which wasn’t so much a Johannes story as just a Victorian WhoDunIt, because I saw Horst was back, but this was a great disappointment. I didn’t get past the first hour.
I took up The Fall of the House of Cabal in the hope that the "cockney" had been replaced. It does seem toned down, but I don't think I will be able to stand it long enough to finish the book; hence the one star for Overall and Story ... but I really do mean the one star for Performance.
Please have these redone. Bring back Christopher Cazenove.
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