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The Isle of Glass

By: Judith Tarr
Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
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James Patrick Cronin’s grand, larger-than-life performance perfectly captures the spirit and breadth of this ambitious blend of mythology, historical fiction, and fantasy, the first installment of Judith Tarr’s Crusade-set The Hound and the Falcon series, which introduces us to Alfred of St. Ruan, a pious monk turned mighty elven warrior who embarks on a heroic journey to battle the nefarious Hounds of God, the catholic order set on exterminating all magic creatures from the Earthly world.

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Alfred of St. Ruan's has lived his life in the seclusion of the monastery. But a badly wounded knight on a mission from the Elvenking, a beautiful and mysterious stranger who walks as both woman and beast, and a warrior king call him out of the cloister's walls into the wars and storms of the world. For he is neither mortal nor human, though he has long tried to live as both; and he can deny neither his nature nor his powerful magic.

©1985, 2012 Judith Tarr (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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I have to return this one

I have struggled to complete this book, and am returning it unfinished.
Some of the reasons were glaring, but it took me some real soul searching to figure out why.

Quite simply, the author cannot write a masculine male character. The only character with male personality traits is...FEMALE. The Hero in our tale is so angst, guilt and self-loathing ridden as to be a positive irritant. As another reviewer said, "he should be called Angst rather than Alf."

I thought I would complete the book, but it kept nagging at me, it wasn't just Alf...it was every male in the book, except for EVIL characters. These were permitted Anger, violence greed and unmerited self superiority. Even those males who are supposed to be masculine, fail miserably.

I was unimpressed with the performance, but could have survived it's equally flat presentation, but the characters lack of development killed this book for me. Two more books of hand wringing martyrdom are painful to contemplate.

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