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The Magic of Recluce
- Saga of Recluce, Book 1
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
Young Lerris is dissatisfied with his life and trade, and yearns to find a place in the world better suited to his skills and temperament. But in Recluce a change in circumstances means taking one of two options: permanent exile from Recluce or braving the dangergeld, a complex, rule-laden wanderjahr in the lands beyond Recluce, with the aim of learning how the world works and what his place in it might be. Many do not survive. Lerris chooses the dangergeld.
When Lerris is sent into intensive training for his quest, it soon becomes clear that he has a natural talent for magic. And he will need magic in the lands beyond, where the power of the Chaos Wizards reigns unchecked. Though it goes against all of his instincts, Lerris must learn to use his powers in an orderly way before his wanderjahr, or fall prey to Chaos.
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- Kevin
- 14-04-24
Great story, worth a listen
Read this book years ago and remember enjoying it at the time. Easy to read and an engaging story.
Since then I’ve read a lot more in the fantasy / world building genre and still enjoyed coming back to this book
A very flawed main character and a large number of fantasy tropes still provides a great story to get into.
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- Rob Falla
- 12-06-23
Slowly builds up
I got a lot more out of the second half of the story. The animal sounds were really off putting.
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- Roger
- 04-05-14
Enthralling Story
When I first listened to the first chapter, I wasn't sure if I liked the narrator. However, I soon got fully into the storyline and found the narrative very suited to the character in the book.
I enjoy fantasy stories and this had me looking forward to listening as often as possible to find out what happened next. If you like fantasy then I can recommend this, and I went on to the next book, so that should tell you everything.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-02-23
Great story; terrible performance
The story is interesting and has enough originality to avoid being ‘just another fantasy’ adventure. I’d have liked a bit more complexity in the character development.
The narrator is terrible - only tolerable when sped up to 1.5x. Was he paid by the hour?
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Kiz
- 06-05-17
Excellent narrator
I have loved this story for years - it's a novel take on the standard quest/coming of age high fantasy trope,with a very different magical structure - and thought that Kirby Heyborne did an excellent job of narrating it.
Unfortunately, listening to, rather than reading the story I realised that I have outgrown it slightly. Lerris is arrogant, immature, and his attitude towards women is a horrible mix of boob-obsessed adolescent male and smugly patriarchal elder. His internal monologue veers between self-pity and taking the weight of the world upon himself. The supporting characters are well done, though, with Justen and Krista being favourites of mine.
L.E Modesitt Jr has a horrible habit of referring to people as 'the redhead', 'the grey wizard', etc., which grated. There's also places where a good editor may have made the prose less clunkily ponderous and repetitive. He also uses sound effects...these were okay if weird to read, but poor Kirby Heyborne got stuck impersonating horses, birds, creaky floorboards, swords clashing and more.
All that aside, its still an entertaining story with flashes of excellence, you just need to make allowances for an immature, self-obsessed hero, a LOT of woodwork, and some truly odd authorial quirks.
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- jess
- 20-09-23
I’m over 6 hours in and nothing has happened!
I mean literally nothing but lots of woodwork. It is becoming more of a chore now
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- Alan Gater
- 15-02-24
Weird and off-puting delivery of an ok fantasy.
Appalling efforts at verbal sound effects go from merely annoying to completely destroying the flow of the story. Lunacy. I think the story holds up, but had to abandon. The reader suddenly shouting CLICK CLICK, CAW CAW or whinneying like a hourse at random intervals and at tripple volume, can really ruin a book. Kind of Tourette's delivery for masochists.
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- Badwolfe
- 04-12-23
Never met a main character who gets ‘bored’ so often
Not a bad storyline and it’s your typical fantasy but the main character could do with a little more depth.
One niggle with the story is that you start to wonder how many different things the guy is going to find boring
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- Verity
- 29-03-17
Immerse yourself in this world
Lovely writing, good story but not very action based. Strong Canadian accent will make hard to hear at first.
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- Tommi Elonen
- 18-03-23
Good world building
The book was exceptionally realistic in world building. The characters were realistically limited, no omnipotent evil guys to fight here. Liked the book more than expected, will continue the series.
The book apparently contained descriptions of sound here and there: those were challenging to the narrator, but this did not subtract from enjoyment too much.
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