A Great Read

This was a terrific story filled with light-hearted fun and easy to understand characters. Fun narration added to the enjoyment.

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Excellent fantasy

This highly under-rated series has almost everything you could want in a fantasy - action, magic, mystery, friendships, danger, romance...the list goes on. I particularly enjoy the world building in this series. I'm still amazed that I hadn't heard of it earlier, but once I started listening, I wasn't able to stop!

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Lasgol makes me want to be a better man

What a legend of a main character! He holds no grudges when everyone else would. He just keeps going and going!

I stopped reading, because Urvi puts his “said” before the noun and it bugged me, but I came back and I am so glad that I did.

Lasgol is a hero worth emulating. Viggo is a jerk that I have grown great admiration for, and I have a crush on Astrid, too.

Story and performance are both brilliant!

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Great!

This book was very entertaining, but followed the same basic story as most books from this genre, an underdog who is called on to became a hero in the attempt to discover the truth of his fathers death.
The world building is very interesting and exciting to listen to, and the characters all interesting in their own way. The question, however, still looms, was the Lasgol’s father really a traitor?

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I loved this book!

I'd recommend this series to any young listener. a stroy line that isn't always predictable keeps you on the edge of your seat!

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Over all good

A little slow to start but leads to a interesting world and story. If you like rangers apprentice you will enjoy this. Overall good and I will be reading the second book.

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What exactly does an Editor do?

I enjoyed this book for the relative wholesomeness. Cussing, sex and excessive violence are detractors for me. But quite frequently I found myself rolling my eyes and going down a mental rabbit hole as I imagined what I would do differently if I were the editor of this book… I mean did they even read it?
SPOILERS…
There was this one scene where the snow panthers were being questioned after an assassination attempt by the school leaders. And after they all give their account of events the school leaders launch into this long discussion of state affairs, war drama and the like and I was left wondering if I’d missed something… were the kids still in the room? Surely the adults aren’t discussing this in front of them… but no, turns out they were there, soaking it all in. Okay, implausible but fine, this should advance the plot at some point. Then not a few chapters later one of the Panthers responds cluelessly to a friend mentioning the war rumors as though none of these state secrets were just spelled out in front of him. So clueless he was that I was waiting for either the punchline of a terrible joke or some clever explanation for why he’d pretend not to know something that was explained to his whole group. Or! Was this a mistake missed by the terrible editor who didn’t read the darn book before rubber stamping his approval?!

Oh! And one more that grated on me was the revelation of ability. We first get an inkling of it during his encounter with a wolf, where the writer gives the impression that this is as much a surprise to the character as it is to us. Cool we’ll go on the journey of discovery with him☺️. Then many chapters later we learn that it’s not a surprise after all, no he’s known about it since he was 5. 🤔😐🫤. Ok so, a competent editor would catch this and alert the author that he can’t have it both ways. Either the character does or he doesn’t know about his abilities. If he knows, his reactions to many situations he’s put in make ZERO sense. 😑 heavy sigh. I’ve always assumed it’s the editors job to read and catch mistakes. For that failure, it’s the plot holes and inconsistencies that stand out and have me imagining rewrites in my head.

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A good story

A good story at time it can be hard when listening all the MC face so much hate and even at one point it got a little boring then they turn it all around and made it better and got me going straight to the next book it has plenty of good character with there own personality

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The book

This is the best book I’ve ever listened to because it is a great story.

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Its very good story

Some time lost in names as its difficult other then that its very good one.

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