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Blackstaff

Forgotten Realms: The Wizards, Book 1

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Blackstaff

By: Steven E. Schend
Narrated by: Bruce Miles
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Khelben Arunsun, Chosen of Mystra, Archmage of Waterdeep, is as close to a demigod as you're likely to meet on the streets of Faern's mightiest city. But when the skies rain lightning and a long-forgotten city arises from the earth, he can seem like just another wizard.

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Stories on top of stores. Tons of characters. Enjoyed the lore. Sometimes confusing, overall a pretty good listen.

A history lesson.

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good book for forgotten realms nerds. very sad ending though. I enjoyed all the lore I got to look into because of this book

cool but sad

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It was a good novel. I enjoyed the heavy focus on khelben. The narrator's pronunciations were bizarre rather often, but once you heard him say things a couple times you got used to it.

Good novel. No complaints.

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I found it very difficult to connect to the story, characters and follow along in general due to narration. The narrators inflection, or lack thereof, drew the story to a singular flat plane. I am slightly familiar with the forgotten realms lore as well as it’s characters. But not familiar enough to follow such shallow reading.

I ended up having to buy the kindle version in order to gain context and keep up with what’s happening. Maybe I’m spoiled by Kate Reading and Michael Kramer who would have given a story like this and intense depth given its Lore. It’s made even worse to its old English style speech!

A big disappointment, as I feel this could be a good book. But I will not know until I sit and read it to myself.

This book needs a different narrator!

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It was very confusing what was going on. The speaker had too dry of a voice, I kept drifting off and couldn't pay attention. Quit about 1/5 the way through.

wasn't great

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