Knights of Ghosts and Shadows
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Knights of Ghosts and Shadows
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Narrated by:
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Kevin R. Free
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Written by:
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Ellen Guon
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Mercedes Lackey
About this listen
Eric Banyon, musician, is out playing the blues on his flute one day, but he couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free a young elven noble from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries - nor does he believe it!
©1990 Ellen Guon and Mercedes Lackey (P)2021 Recorded Books Inc.What listeners say about Knights of Ghosts and Shadows
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Pineapple
- 2022-07-29
Fantastic
Love it, it's definitely different to hear it, than to read it, can't wait for the next book
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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Story2 out of 5 stars
- Martin S.
- 2025-02-09
So much wasted potential
Kevin R. Free is a super fun narrator with great energy, and he’s why this didn’t end up a DNF for me.
The premise (Eric Banyon is a free-spirit flautist in L.A. who accidentally awakens dormant elven spirits, reigniting a war to save good magic), is amazing but the prose and incessant inner monologuing is beyond pretentious. Also there’s a few connected love triangles going on that are…cringeworthy at best. And all that is a bummer because I enjoyed quite a lot of this…but you’ve gotta slog through a lot of dreck. The idea that music is magic (and vice-versa) is an interesting concept, as is the idea that while elves can handle booze and drugs, it’s caffeine that really dopes them up.
What I don’t understand is how the female characters devolved by the end, as they were so strong and then it’s like a handsome smile is their kryptonite. Also they introduced a character in the last chapter (instead of developing established characters), which is a “kiss of death” for me whenever I read a book. There’s some great battles near the end and while the ending does set up a sequel…I will sadly not be consuming it.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- David Zulak
- 2023-03-06
Narration ruined this book
it isn't just that the accents were appalling (and they were absolutely appalling), the voices of several of the female characters were intollerable: some were screechy, one young singer had the voice of a 3 pack a day smoker, and most just sounded like men.
It sounded like a parody
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Stacy
- 2024-06-08
I Didn't Finish This
The premise drew me in. I spent over an hour waiting for something interesting to happen but instead, we got a protagonist who can be summed up as sad, pretty, pitiful, useless. I'm into Ren Faires and all the really happened was descriptions of how Ren Faire people are different than everyone else (if you love the culture, why not explain it? Share it, or explore it instead of deriding everyone else for being too stupid to "get" it).
If I knew the protagonist in real life, there'd be no reason for me to invest in that relationship. Everyone was unrealisticly dramatic. Consent was not a priority for anyone. I listen to books while I commute and I gave this several trips longer than I should have, waiting for a pay off. I don't know what the authors were intending but it wasn't a celebration of historical communities or character growth. I got the book as a free download so I'm only out time and patience.
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