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  • Written by: Peter V. Brett
  • Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
  • Length: 25 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (109 ratings)

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The Skull Throne

Written by: Peter V. Brett
Narrated by: Pete Bradbury
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Publisher's Summary

The first three novels in New York Times best-selling author Peter V. Brett's groundbreaking Demon Cycle series - The Warded Man, The Desert Spear, and The Daylight War - set a new standard for heroic fantasy. The powerful saga of humans winnowed to the brink of extinction by night-stalking demons, and the survivors who fight back, has kept listeners breathless. Now the thrilling fourth volume, The Skull Throne, raises the stakes as it carries the action in shocking new directions.

The Skull Throne of Krasia stands empty. Built from the skulls of fallen generals and demon princes, it is a seat of honor and ancient, powerful magic, keeping the demon corelings at bay. From atop the throne, Ahmann Jardir was meant to conquer the known world, forging its isolated peoples into a unified army to rise up and end the demon war once and for all. But Arlen Bales, the Warded Man, stood against this course, challenging Jardir to a duel he could not in honor refuse. Rather than risk defeat, Arlen cast them both from a precipice, leaving the world without a savior and opening a struggle for succession that threatens to tear the Free Cities of Thesa apart.

In the south, Inevera, Jardir's first wife, must find a way to keep their sons from killing each other and plunging their people into civil war as they strive for glory enough to make a claim on the throne. In the north, Leesha Paper and Rojer Inn struggle to forge an alliance between the duchies of Angiers and Miln against the Krasians before it is too late. Caught in the crossfire is the duchy of Lakton - rich and unprotected, ripe for conquest. All the while, the corelings have been growing stronger, and without Arlen and Jardir there may be none strong enough to stop them. Only Renna Bales may know more about the fate of the missing men, but she, too, has disappeared....

©2015 Peter V. Brett (P)2015 Recorded Books

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loved it!

Pete Bradbury is definatly one of my favorites and does an excellent job with this great book

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Turns out it does get worse

I'm surprised I made it to the end of the book. Rules are made up and changed as the writer feels fit. Powers have been introduced and then inexplicably given to everyone despite the intial introduction stating that it would be very hard to get. Predictions of the future become more and more common as the story goes on and what they can tell exactly and in detail becomes more and more inconsistent as the story goes on. Descriptions become even worse, randomly switching perspectives and what they are being compared to in order to attempt to surprise the reader but it is more annoying than anything. Don't forget the inconsistent timelines where one character has gone through 5 years of stuff while another seems to have gone through a month

Honest word becomes so over used it's the answer to everything, used in places where it doesn't make sense and in some places used every other sentence.


Over the book Leesha Paper becomes the character who thinks and feels whatever the author decides at that moment. Even if it contradicts what she felt 2 minutes ago or 2 minutes afterwards. She is the central character for most of the book and is the worse for it. Instead of staying interesting or becoming more interesting her character becomes annoying and you start to look forward to parts of the book where she isn't involved at all. Heaven forbid if she is involved she will either have solved the problem off screen and be getting praise for it, immediately have the answer, or be able to solve the problem but magically be wrapped by guilt or some other strong emotion she didn't feel when she did something similar or complained about someone not doing it 5 minutes before.

By the end of this book I started to wonder why I'm listening to it if I'm not being paid to do so. I enjoyed a good amount of the last 3 books but I would need to be paid more than my day job to listen to this again.


Also turns out a regular soldier can get hit over the back by a over 200 pound chest and brush it off like someone pushed them from behind. This was in the middle of the day as well so no magic.

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things change drastically

this is more of an objective view so take it as you will but suddenly it feels like all the new characters rival the power seen by the mains in the first few books and on top of that the mains seem to drop like flies these times were always frustrating but you could see it coming a mile away itll be interesting to listen to the next book tho i hope it falls more along the lines of the path the first 3 did the objectivity really comes in when i find myself emotional downtrodden chapter after chapter as chaos hits an all time high

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