a very good sequal.

A great sequal with some familier characters and some new ones, well read with some funny accents to emphasize the north south devid. Can't wait for the next installment

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Excellent series

I’ve tried listening to several series of audio books so far but always get to a point where I start to lose interest, however this is not the case with this series! It’s got everything going on and fantastic characters and a pace that’s fast but easy to follow. I am loving it so far 5 stars can’t wait to start book 6

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Another great read in the series.

Can't wait for #3 to come out on audible.

Really enjoying this series. Couldn't work out how SQ could take the original trilogy any further, as it was all quite neat. But I think this 2nd trilogy is even better than the first.

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good and frustrating

overall a good story. but some of the tactics or lack of their use of them spoilt the story or made it a little predictable. but it is worth a read/listen

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Cannot wait for the next book

Philip goes from stride to stride with book adding more twists and turns to the story while Steven brings each character to life. on more than one occasion I had goosebumps when threads from the previous books were picked up. cannot wait for the next book!

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Amazing!!

Fantastic I love everyone of these books it's an amazing listen wl worth the credit!!

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Great book

Great series of books. I'm on my last one now, can't wait for next.

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Heavybelly!!!!

I'm totaly lost in this place, love it!
More please, just give me more please.

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Disappointed

I mainly listen to audiobooks when I go to bed on sleep timer for 30 minutes unless it’s a really great story and I listen at work ( ear buds) . I always rewind to the obvious point I fell asleep and go again . I found the endless names very tedious and felt the story has lost its way to the point I wasn’t bothering to rewind in the previous book of this story and again in this one . I’ve always finished a set of books however long but won’t be buying anymore of this set .

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Feels like a really good editor is needed …

There is a creative and imaginative mind behind these stories. There’s enough to keep you listening, especially when it’s Stephen Brand reading: but there’s just so much inconsistency both within the writing and the plot that makes it more of an effort to make it through this novel than it really should.

It absolutely feels that the author firstly needs someone to take the prose in hand and edit it fiercely into a much tighter, snappier, smarter, wittier … and generally better state. This reads like an earnest amateur creative writer’s second draft - it does not reach the literary level that is to be hoped for from a successful published author. I realise it’s fantasy, so we’re not talking expectations of Jane Austen or Hemingway here: but surely a good editor could have left the listener with more than turgid, repetitive prose that it’s regularly impossible to just listen to, as one finds oneself rewriting the sentence in a better form or improving upon the descriptive phrasing that one has just been subjected to.

It’s the same with the plot. There’s just so much random illogicality in the concepts brought forward. There are times where an idea is constructed within the narrative that is both interesting and intriguing. One wants to see how this is applied, given this profound magical capability or novel weaponry that has just appeared. Then, further on, this same element is suddenly no longer anywhere near as potent or impactful, as it had previously been… oh wait, until it suddenly is again. It’s massively irritating, as one almost talks back to the narrator telling him that that couldn’t happen given this… or “hang on, I thought we were just told this”.

Again it feels like a really sound editor would have picked apart this plot and made the author go fix these inconsistencies - it’s a real pity they didn’t.

I won’t spoil the plot at all obviously: but the existence of the “Leviathan”(not plot involved at all in this novel, nor any before) is just plain ridiculous … and surely something an editor would have shut down immediately.

One really, really hopes that the author ends up with a better sounding board / editor to push back on plot and challenge on prose before the works ever make it to release.

The imagination and natural story-telling talent seems real: but in serious need of some professional honing by those well-versed in the editorial craft…!

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