The Summoning

Forgotten Realms: The Return of the Archwizards, Book 1

By: Troy Denning

Narrated by: Kevin Kraft

From the depths of the demiplane of shadow comes a new magic so mysterious it confounds even the Chosen of Mystra.

From beneath the dune seas of Anauroch escapes one of Toril's most powerful and ancient evils - the phaerimm. From Evereska, the last elven refuge on comes word of invasion. From nowhere appears a group of enigmatic sorcerers determined to destroy the phaerimm and save Evereska... for purposes known only to themselves.

From the author of Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad, Beyond the High Road, and Death of the Dragon (with Ed Greenwood) comes the most Realms-shaking event since The Threat from the Sea.

©2011 Wizards of the Coast LLC (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Jumps around a little but good story

The story starts well, but as it goes on it jumps to many different lines and gets a bit jumbled. Overall good story, the narrator’s pronunciation threw me off a bit but was easy enough to understand otherwise.

Great storytelling!

I loved the narrators voices. He novel has fast pacing and great story development. I highly recommend.

mostly good.

the story was great. the performance was, unfortunately inconsistent. I really wish wizards gave the performers decent pronunciation guides. it's evident that they don't.

Ugh

Any story which reduces beholders and mind-flayers to cannon-fodder mooks is, by default, mediocre at best.

Painful to listen too...

Would you try another book from Troy Denning and/or Kevin Kraft?

No, Author went way over the top in trying to make it seem like a different world by making the characters speak in such an odd way, I mean yes the words are in English but this is like listening to Shakespeare, you need to devote 150% of your attention to what is being said just to understand the story. I have had to re-listen to some sections so many times that it was not work the effort.

If I ever meet this author I would demand he return my money and compensate me for the time I spent listening to his book.

Would you ever listen to anything by Troy Denning again?

No, I would rather stick knitting needles in my ears

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Kevin Kraft?

Yes, I have to given Kevin 5 stars, he did not write the book but he did give it his all and he did have to suffer thought the entire 3 books.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Summoning?

All of them