Curse of Sekhmet

Casters of Syndrial, Book 3

By: Rain Oxford

Narrated by: J. Scott Bennett

Nathan is preparing to fight a dangerous caster, but the real threat to Syndrial takes everyone by surprise. When he writes about murders that start coming true, he has to stop a killer that is closer than he thinks. Time is against him.

To save Syndrial from a devastating threat, Nathan and his brother will have to work with some unusual allies. As they face old and new opponents, they uncover secrets that hit a little too close to home for Nathan. His Writer ability has been a powerful tool, but this time it might be a curse.

©2018 Rain Oxford (P)2018 Rain Oxford

Writer and Painter are back!

Writer and painter are back. This time their whole birth world is in danger of destruction. There is only one person who can save it and neither of them is that person. They have a short time to find this person and get him/her where they need to be. Trials to pass and patron god to choose. Things will occur that could not be predicted or prophesied. Get ready for a great tale! Well written and well narrated. I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator or publisher

Let this cast a great listen

This is a great audio. The author wrote a great story. It is book 3. I have not listened to book 1 or 3 . But you can listen to this as a stand-alone. It seems you should listen to the other 2. Scott Bennett as a narrator was great . He had a clear voice . Scott played the parts fantastically.

This is a story about the hero that wants to help his brother out. There is gods in this one and other entities that play a big part in the listen His brother has two sides to him . Grab it and see how it plays in the story

a good book

I was given this free review copy audio book at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

I ended up skipping book 2 to listen to this one. Thankfully, the author does a great job of filling in the pertinent details from the last 2 books so even a new reader won't be lost. This story was just as entertaining as the first and the narrator did a good job. Better, in fact, than the first book. Definitely worth checking out if you like a good fantasy story.

Thrilling story

This is an exciting continuation of the Casters of Syndrial series, but don’t worry if you haven’t listened to the first two books as you will still be able to follow the story because the author recaps the prior books well. Writer and Painter are great characters, they compliment each other perfectly and you can’t help but like them. Their relationship grows and they learn to work together better as they strive to help save their world from an apocalyptic event that they cannot resolve alone. With an untrained power, uncooperative gods, revelations, trials and dangers, this story is exciting and has lots of action. The narrator did a great job with the whole series, creating tension in all the right places but also showing the humor in the story very well. His voices are consistent from book to book, making the characters easily recognizable and giving them individual voices. I really enjoyed the repartee, the relationships, magic, dangers and intrigue in this entertaining story.

What Appears to Be Can Be Decieving

If like me you are coming upon this series on this, its third installment, then you will appreciate the fast and concise summary that readers are given at the start of the major events that came before. This becomes especially true when people and their stories (as the audience knows them) become twisted. When you mix this with the training of the under-trained, the paranoia of the targeted, and the frustration of the under-informed, then put all of these volatile elements under the pressure of a prophecy of doom, and you can get some explosive results.

As always the narrator performs excellently. Unfortunately due to several high-speed conversations between family members of the same gender and similar temperament, even the skills of this very skilled and versatile narrator are not enough to keep the differentiation clear and distinct.

Although this story is in-depth enough and engaging enough to stand on its own, I made a realization as I listened that both saddened and irritated me. One of the supporting characters that seems to play an ongoing role in the series, looks to be very underdeveloped in this story. Fortunately for me, I had already ready a considerable length into one of this author's other series (Elemental) in which this character, his magic, his family, and his world are more thoroughly explained as well as how certain styles of magic work. This information would be extremely useful in understanding many elements of This story.