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a difficult yet fascinating work read by an incompetent narrator

Revisado: 08-07-24

I will not review Agrippa or his three books here as so much has been said. if the subject fascinates you - it is a must read. admittedly, it can become a slog with chapters and chapters just naming correspondances.

the narrator is very unfit, though. It is simply too evident that he has no idea what the hell is he reading and the meaning of the words he reads is lost on him. He misreads, mispronounces famous names(Avicena and Circe made me shudder), makes stops in awkward unfit places in the sentence making it confusing to understand the structure, when he tries to explain images, he doesn't even know the names of the zodiac signs, even though he has just read them in the preceding paragraph. Editing also left some failed takes in. The intonation is atrocious, too.

overall, such books should be narrated by someone who is somewhat familiar with thr content and through clear narration can help the listener, rather than confuse further. Of course, I'm glad that such niche literature is available as audiobook at all, but can't help, but be upset that, once again, Agrippa's literature did not get the dedication it deserves

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Pages and pages and pages of...nothing

Revisado: 12-06-20

It's perplexing to me how it's possible to write this many pages and fill them no substance. This comes from an AVID lover of the first three books in the series but anything afterwards is barely readable, for this one I had to switch to audiobook after about 1/4 of the physical book because it was a torture to read and I just wanted to get through it.

I expected a lot from the life of Armand, because there were so much different settings he lived through. Well, first half of the book was him being Marius' gay lover and literally doing nothing and everything else was quickly brushed over.

I wish she stopped with the series after she became a born again christian, because the way she tries to undermine the previous atheist philosophy of her vampires by trying to be religiously profound and grandiose, but also making it about sex somehow is just.....yeah, nonsensical and distasteful even.

In general, her increasing obsession with her own characters, with sex, with religion, with homosexual relationships(that is also at the same time verging on child/caretaker relationship), with endless visual descriptions makes her books lack any serious story and irritating to read. You can skip a couple of pages and you miss nothing, which is one of the greatest sins of writing.


As for the reader, I think it was made clear already that, first of all, his voice is just too manly for a youth like Armand and it was a bit cringy when childlike Armand pleaded with his master, but we had to hear it in a middle aged man's voice. The way he'd sometimes start to elongate the ending of every single word was a bit annoying to me, but we have to give him some slack because he was probably as annoyed with reading this book as we are with listening to it. if it was any other book he would probably be pretty good.

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A misleading description

Revisado: 05-13-20

The description makes it out to be a good review and explanation essay + an addition of the actual SY text, but in reality the majority of this is the SY text with a little bit of history. So if you've already read the SY and are looking for further investigation into it this will be quite dissappointing.

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