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Originally Posted by CRussel
Finished Dragon in Exile, #18 in the Liaden Universe from Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. An excellent book, where many different story lines progress as Clan Korval settles into its new home on Surebleak. The reading is from Kevin T. Collins and while it's better than his reading of Trade Secret, it's still not his best, IMO. His sense of pace has improved, but his sense of narrative "story telling" and dramatic volume is still lacking. Of course, I listened to this in the middle of listening to Patrick Tull's reading of Sharpe's Prey, and there are few better readers ever than Mr. Tull, so that might be influencing my take on this.
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And finished
Sharpe's Prey. Rather more brutal than some of the other books in this series, though it is, frankly, hard to talk about soldiering in this time period and NOT have it be pretty brutal.
Sharpe's Prey covers the English shelling of Copenhagen in 1807, a brutal shelling of a
neutral civilian population for the sole purpose of preventing the French from capturing the Danish naval fleet. This was not England's finest hour, and Cornwell pulls no punches while he positions the intrepid Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, of His Majesty's 95th Riflemen in and out of Copenhagen during the bombardment. We also find out a bit more about Sharpe's childhood in the early part of the book.
This book, along with the previous one,
Sharpe's Trafalgar, is read by Patrick Tull, one of my all time favourite readers. Mr. Tull has a superb sense of the
story he's telling and his readings always add to the enjoyment and understanding of the book.
Next up, something rather different -- the final book of the
Last Herald Mage trilogy by Mercedes Lackey,
Magic's Price. This book is read by Gregory St. John, and the narration is OK, but not outstanding. However, it's a good series. easily the best of the Valdemar series IMO, and I'm looking forward to finishing it off.