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The Wizard King of the North

Ranger Series, Book 4

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The Wizard King of the North

By: Charles Lamb
Narrated by: Todd McLaren
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Newly crowned Wizard King of the North, Alex Rogers, has a real mess on his hands. The surprise successor to the vanquished Vassal King Ailmer, he inherits a kingdom in shambles. Bankrupt from the looted treasury and past mismanagement of the northern kingdom, he must find a way to restore prosperity in a place where almost no one seeks his involvement.

Besides the financial woes, he is besieged by the Lords of Gundor, all seeking a return to the days when there was no central kingdom and the Lords themselves ruled unchallenged on their holdings in the Gundor Valley. Undermined from his first day on the throne, Alex must put them in check with no army, no money, and few allies to draw upon.

As if a bankrupt kingdom and unruly Lords seeking his overthrow were not enough, his newly born child has become the focal point of interest to parties unknown. This unseen threat snatches the newborn child out from under the watchful eye of parents desperate to reclaim their heir.

It's now up to Cassie and Alex to move heaven and earth to reclaim their child and put an end to any plans to alter their heir's destiny.

©2022 CW Lamb (P)2022 Tantor Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Royalty Magic Wizardry Magic Users
Engaging Storyline • Well-developed Characters • Great Voice • Exciting Plot • Good World Building • Good Enunciation
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its really hard when they change readers in series, if posdoble please stay with same person throught series

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all 4 books were great. I wish there were more
this is a series i would recommend.

loved all 4

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The new voice actor has a great voice and enunciates well. compared to the original, the new one sounds more like they're reading an instruction manual. then they're acting out the story in The Voice of the characters. I don't know if it's this drastic change that makes the story feel like it was put together because the author was contracted to make one more book and had to satisfy a contract or if that's just how the story goes this time. unfortunately, and makes it harder to get through in long stretches and takes away from the enjoyment of the story. if this kind of thing does not affect you, I really hope you enjoy the book 🙂

The change of voice actors makes this one much harder

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The story was good, a decent conclusion to the series.
But, changing narrators took a lot away especially because this narrator didn't even try to mimic voices.
It had only been months since book #3, yet Alex sounds as though he's aged decades!
I get Travis is in high demand & anyone filling in for him has huge shoes to fill. BUT AT LEAST TRY!

Good, but....

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This narrator kept putting me to sleep. I'm only attempting to finish it because I loved the story. I will say he's not the worst I've heard. But this pacing is so slow when on normal. where the emotion, where's the ability to not make all characters sound alike. I wanted to be drawn in and not be put to sleep listening to a good a story.

i should have bought a physical book

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All around a well imagined and well told story I would recommend reading this book

Good story well put together

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Good story but this was the worst’s reading I’ve ever listened to. If this was book one I would have missed a great series.

Good story terrible performance

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The storyline is great, love the series. Travis Baldree was amazing in the first three books. The new narrator is horrible… He gives no life to the characters, takes unnecessary pauses, overall disappointing.

Great story. Bad narrator

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This book like the others was well written. I think the ending could have been a hair bit better, but that's my opinion. I wish they would have kept Travis as a narrator for this book as well because Travis first off did the first three and second off just brings characters life. This narrator wasn't bad but he wasn't the best either. all in all, if you read the first three books then stick it out and read this one. It does bring a conclusion to the story maybe not one you hope, but nevertheless a good ending for a good story

Good but not the best

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Charles Lamb’s story was as excellent as the three before. Great characters, good plot, good pacing, great world building. But the performance was a huge disappointment. The previous three novels were performed by Travis Baldree, who is known for his excellent work. The new performer Todd McLaren unfortunately is not in the same league as Travis Baldree. He can pull off the narration (he sounds like a news caster or NPR radio host) and he can make male character voices (fair to middling), but his attempts at performing the female characters are abhorrent. Without considering the previous three performances in the series he changed pronunciation of names and places (you know you hate that too) as well as the character’s personalities, tone, and accents so much that a seductress with an melodic English accent becomes a husky woman with a Transvaal accent and the dignified and powerful Wood Elf King is transformed into a week sounding doddering old dodger. Strong and confident female characters now sound weak, pleading and hysterical. Audible or Tantor, or whoever the producer was, please don’t use this guy to perform books featuring female characters. He would be pretty good ready something like An audible tour of the Great Lakes or something like that. It is my recommendation, that if you are already completely dedicated to the story then can probably live through his butchering of the character performances. I made it through but was grumpy (and I’m usually pretty easy going about most performer’s shortcomings). But if you’re not already loving the story from the previous novels you will just get angry so I recommend reading this one in book form if you can instead of listening to this version. I hope that helps.

Great story, performed by much less talented voice actor.

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