This Scepter'd Isle Audiobook By Mercedes Lackey, Roberta Gellis cover art

This Scepter'd Isle

The Doubled Edge, Book 1

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This Scepter'd Isle

By: Mercedes Lackey, Roberta Gellis
Narrated by: Jill Tanner
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The evil Unseleighe Sidhe will do anything to prevent the rise to the throne of a red-haired child destined to ascend the throne and usher in a golden age of art, music, and literature, while the good Sidhe of Elhame Avalon race against time to find the child, protect her from the dangers of the human and elven worlds, and ensure that she will become Queen Elizabeth I of England.

©2004 Mercedes Lackey and Roberta Gellis (P)2019 Recorded Books Epic Fantasy England Fantasy Epic Fiction Paranormal & Urban Paranormal
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I was expecting more drawing the listener in like in the Roselynde Chronicles. But I’ll continue with this series.

It was okay

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I usually don't purchase books with so few reviews but these books' pedigrees caught my attention. I know Mercedes Lackey as an author of rip-roaring adventures. check! I know Roberta Gellis is a competent author of historical fiction. check! I've enjoyed Jill Tanner's narration on a couple of books. check! So I took a chance and was not disappointed. The story was engaging. That is no small thing. I have dozens of books in my library (which I can't return) that I've never finished because they didn't hold my attention. I also have another 1 or 2 dozen that I haven't finished because I couldn't get past the narrator. Here Jill Tanner didn't disappoint. She engaged my imagination and brought the characters that Mesdames Lackey and Gellis created to life. I love it when this happens. Sometimes I read reviews from people who complain about how Audible offers books with weak narrators. This isn't Audible's fault. They purchase books from companies who employ their own narrators. A word to the wise: Recorded Books offerings are almost always excellent.

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Good story. Roberta Gellis is always good. Covers actual history to give the story more vertisaltude.

good story

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I am a huge Lackey fan and found this book very disappointing. It is one long narration of what people were thinking or doing. Very little actual action by the characters. The mixture of many names, some historical and others fictional, with very little character development made it difficult to keep track of the story line. I hung on through 16 chapters but could not finish the book.

More a narrated history than Lackey's usual books

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