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The Red Sea
- The Cycle of Galand, Book 1
- Narrated by: Tim Gerard Reynolds
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
When Dante Galand was just a boy, his father, Larsin, sailed away to make his fortune. And never returned. Since then, Dante has become a great sorcerer. A ruler. A destroyer of kings. And he's just learned that his father is living on a forbidden island at the edge of the known world. Where he's dying of a mysterious plague.
In the company of his friend, the swordsman Blays, Dante travels to the island. There, his magic can do nothing for his father. As Dante and Blays quest for a cure - beset by strange beasts, angry spirits, and violent coastal raiders known as the Tauren - Dante falls sick, too. To save his father and himself, he'll have to rediscover the island's long-lost magic. But the hunt for its secrets leads Dante on a crash course with the Tauren - and island-wide civil war. And as he's away, an old threat begins to move against his homeland.
Set in a USA Today best-selling world, The Red Sea is the first in a trilogy of warfare, sorcery, and friendship through the darkest times.
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- Keith
- 30-01-16
A really good book
After reading The cycle of Arawyn I was really excited to find out that there was another trilogy in the making.
Continuing the story of Dante and Blays this book did not disappoint.
The narrator was excellent and I'm glad that he was the same narrator that narrated The cycle of Arawyn.
Can't wait for the next books to finish off this trilogy.
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- Alan
- 17-03-16
great listen
was a fantastic continuation of the story. I cannot wait for book two and beyond
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- Euan
- 16-02-16
Listen AFTER the cycle of Arawn
Where does The Red Sea rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The best from the last 4 or five
Have you listened to any of Tim Gerard Reynolds’s other performances? How does this one compare?
Only picked it up because I saw TGR narrated it, have never been let down for the 4 or five different series so far
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After a few duds words can't describe I happy I was when 20 mins into this book I realised it was a follow on from the cycle of Arawn. Enjoyed every second.
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- E. Robinson
- 13-07-16
Not that great
Im not that impressed either with the story, the way in which the characters are drawn, or the authors command of the English language. I really took exception to the very 'modern' words he injected into the characters dialogue and the way he used the word 'shined' instead of shone. Ok if your doing shoes but not for describing light from the sun.
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- Benedict Whitaker
- 07-03-16
A great return to two of my favourite characters
After all the adventures we shared with Dante and Blaze I was excited to see what they'd do next.
My one gripe with this book is that we got a lot less from Blaze. In the last book we got a lot of character development from him and got to see things from his point of view and I really think he could have written some of the chapters from Blazes point of view.
Also Dante seems to have forgotten that he can perform elisions with the neither.
Overall this was a great book and I look forwards to the next instalment. As always the chemistry between the two main characters was absolutely great and I really liked all the new bad guys as well.
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- nitro bri
- 13-02-16
brilliant ☆☆☆☆☆
tim's peformance was outstanding and the storyline was just captivating ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
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- G
- 04-02-18
Awesome
Awesome characters love blaze and Dante’s banter and antics and really good story gonna start book 2 now woohoo
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- Andy Cross
- 09-06-16
Delivery lacks rhythm, story fatigued intrigue
The story is a parody of itself, often lapsing into palsyed dialogue on how endlessly trivial it is.
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- Raine
- 09-02-16
Excellent!
Loved this! Was delighted to.discover that the boys were back! Laugh out loud funnies along with the serious side. Highly recommend this!
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- Texnik
- 10-02-17
Ok audiobook
I enjoyed listening to it, for the most part. The story's main conflict is reasonable. There were enough plot twists to prevent the story from becoming stale. It was worth a credit.
Now for the downsides. The dialogue is clumsy and too often feels artificial. The main characters are often so oblivious to what the author showed us, that they sound like a bunch of fools. But it's not their fault that the reader knows how to solve half of their problems. It is the author's and the editor's fault.
"How are we going to solve this... We tried everything. Aaaaarrrgh!" Well, I don't know... How about the thing you just did a couple of hours ago? The story would have been a few hours shorter if the author hadn't focused so much on obvious mysteries. It sounded patronising and artificial.
It's also one of those books where the characters often make 'witty remarks' out of character for what I can only assume was comic effect. Sometimes I wasn't even sure who was talking. Maybe you like these sort of breaks.
The pace was slightly slower and more longwinded than I would have liked, but not too bad.
I'm sure many people looking for lightly magical fantasy stories will like it. It's a personal quest that does enough things right to be worth a credit and the time it will take to listen to it. Just don't expect anything extraordinary. It might well be a debut novel, for all I know.
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