Liberty … or Monarchy? Should the wisest of races choose such a path, or return to the traditional council? Their queen has lost the Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain to a power-hungry wizard. After all, one can be deceived, but twenty?With the stones missing, a fatal drought grips Andoriah, the new elfin home. Death to all is imminent. Who will retrieve the Stones when the Gold Elfs won’t act? Will … won’t act? Will heroes arise before Andoriah burns in eternal fire? Can the missing elf queen and her daughter be found?
The Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain is the long awaited prequel, and final installment in Anna del C.’s elf series. Discover the Elfs, an eternal race who chose to live in a world of woes away from their motherland. Love them, feel their pain and their happiness in a land that will test the core of their beliefs and bravery. Written in the genre of The Lord of the Rings and the Shannara series, The Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain comes alive with battles, heroism, action and romance.
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This is a book I’d say has some Lord of the Rings inspiration. The band of characters who go on an adventure together is referred to as “the fellowship”. Overall, the adventure is interesting, the characters are likable and their interactions are believable. My personal flavorite character is the mute warrior who is introduced at some point in the story. It captures what a pain in the ass it is being a mute and how difficult it is to communicate. Though the characters in this story (and any story I’ve ever seen with a fellow mute) are way more accommodating than people actually are.
The biggest failing of the books is the way the dialogue is written. There’s way too much “character name said” nonsense going on every time characters in a group are talking. When conversations consist entirely of “character 1 said.” xxxx “Character name 2 replied.” yyy “Character name 3 added.” zzzz “Character name 1 said.” it makes the dialogue utterly insufferable to listen to because (character name) said, exclaimed, added, etc. is used like punctuation.
The audio of the narration was just garbage. It sounded like the narrator was talking through a fish tank. I normally listen at 2.55x speed but I had to slow it down to 1.5 and managed to creep up to 2.05. Anything faster than that and I couldn’t understand a word he was saying. He did a great job with voices. It was always easy to tell who was taslking. The final annoyance with this audio I have is how he says the wh sound. He says hhhhwhite and hhhhwhen or whhhhen and it’s insufferable. There’s only 1 h in these words and he puts waaaaaay to much emphasis on it. It’s distracting.
I definitely recommend this book. But you’re probably off better with a physical or Kindle copy. The (character name) said stuff wouldn’t be as annoying because you wouldn’t have the benefit of a narrator’s voice to tell you who’s speaking. I get the impression books with that type of writing are made into audiobooks as an afterthought.
NOTE: This copy was provided to me free of charge as a digital review copy. The opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone, I was not paid or requested to give this book a certain rating, suggestion, or approval.
This was an interesting story. What a great group of friends who took on the task of getting the stones back. They all wondered who the masked bandit was. A surprise for them when they found out who it was. A great read with interesting characters.
In order to save their lands, there is a epic quest to recover the lost Roilden Stones of Elf Mountain. There plenty of action, adventure, battles, mystery, and even a bit of romance.
Anna del C. Dye’s story is very reminiscent of Tolkien’s work. I enjoyed getting to know the characters and the adventure they embarked on.
I was entertained by George C. Tintura’s narration. I thought the accents/voices really fit the characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.