The Starless Crown

De: James Rollins

Narrado por: James Rollins, Nicola Barber

"The story touches on many familiar fantasy plot points — magic, an ancient language, an ability to commune with wild creatures, a climactic battle between the forces of good and evil — yet manages to be satisfying. It’s aided by a capable reading from Barber, who invests Rollins’ characters with a variety of British accents that help make each a distinguishable, real person."- The Providence Journal

This audiobook includes a special introduction written and read by James Rollins.

An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins.

A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death.

Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts:

A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he’s forbidden to wield and carves a trail back home.

A drunken prince, who steps out from his beloved brother's shadow and claims a purpose of his own.

An imprisoned thief, who escapes the crushing dark and discovers a gleaming artifact - one that will ignite a power struggle across the globe.

On the run, hunted by enemies old and new, they must learn to trust each other in order to survive in a world evolved in strange, beautiful, and deadly ways, and uncover ancient secrets that hold the key to their salvation.

But with each passing moment, doom draws closer.

WHO WILL CLAIM THE STARLESS CROWN?

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

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Praise for James Rollins:

"The story touches on many familiar fantasy plot points — magic, an ancient language, an ability to commune with wild creatures, a climactic battle between the forces of good and evil — yet manages to be satisfying. It’s aided by a capable reading from Barber, who invests Rollins’ characters with a variety of British accents that help make each a distinguishable, real person."- The Providence Journal

"Rollins is what you might wind up with if you tossed Michael Crichton and Dan Brown into a particle accelerator together.” – The New York Times

"Adventurous and enormously engrossing." – NPR

"After Crichton passed away in 2008 he clearly passed the baton to James Rollins, who like Crichton, is a renaissance man." – Huffington Post

Thank you Nicola Barber for narrating this book.

Thank you James Rollins for writing this outstanding story. This book is amazing please listen to this book.

very good

Rollins did a great job with the fantasy! good characters and settings. can't wait to start the next

Wished it will never end!

loved, loved, loved the story, the details, the reader, the world it has created.
can't wait for the next one!!!!

Not the quality I expected

James Rollins is my absolute favorite author so I was excited to read his latest effort. However I barely made it through this read and honestly believe he must have written most of this story long before he became an accomplished author. The overall general story/plot line has been done in many other science fiction books. The character development was good but how much can one read about the special relationship between the girl and her “brother “ because they were next to each other as babies sucking warm bat milk? The narrative is confusing & meandering especially during the battle descriptions. Most importantly, where is the science or anything profound? Unfortunately, not here. I am really vacillating on whether or not I continue this series, “still” (a transition word used about a thousand times) I probably will… because I have hope for the future.

Topical and Poor narration

I really would have liked to see more charecter internal dialogue. Charecter relationships and development seemed very topical and it was hard to really get into the story because it was mostly "and then this happened. and then this happened. and then this happened."
World building was pretty good, I'm looking forward to more explanations regarding world building and the "magic" system in the coming books.
Honestly, narration was one of the worst I've experienced. I think it was her cadence and how she read everything like every line was really dramatic. Also, if I heard her pronounce "strength" with out the "g" one more time I was going to lose it. I will be reading physical copies for the remainder of the series.