Echoes of the Fourth Magic

By: R. A. Salvatore

Narrated by: Lloyd James

Jeff "Del" DelGuidice was proud of his assignment to the research submarine the Unicorn. But his mission had barely begun when the vessel was sucked into a mysterious undersea void where time stood still - before being propelled forward through the centuries. The crew surfaced in a strange, magical world changed forever by nuclear holocaust. Here a race of angelic beings had taken pity on the remnants of humankind, offering a chosen few a precious second chance.

Thus, the Isle of Hope was raised from the poisoned seas and set like a jewel in Earth's ravaged crown. But the jewel had a flaw, a dark vein of evil. For a sinister expert of the mystical arts had embraced the forbidden third magic, the most deadly sorcery of all. Only Del could defeat it - a hero sworn to peace and fated to wield the dazzling power of the fourth magic.

©1990, 1998 R. A. Salvatore (P)2010 Tantor

Characters and plot

The announcement of the CD change ruins the rhythm and build up of the story.

Good but not exceptional

This is a good book with a GREAT narrator. The story itself is interesting enough as Salvatore puts an atypical spin on fantasy book. There is part of me that liked the fact that the book did not follow the traditional path of the hero rising from nothing to defeat the warlock and save the damsel in distress. There is also part of me that wanted a bit more of the "WOW" factor however, I must applaud Salvatore for taking a step outside the box and not falling on his face. I was hoping for some sort of sequel but it looks as if this is stand alone story. As I said above. Good read but definitely not great.

Good story

What would happen if the Bermuda Triangle was a portal for the future? A future where humans from the past can save the future. I’ve read all the books by this author from the Forgotten Realms: Drizzt series. I’ve read all their work outside this series as well. This series came up in an Amazon email about ebooks. It was a good book with a catchy story though it was a little slow to start. The story gives a look at the lessons of this world and how we are just learning them, but this world hasn’t. Here the future world stands at a crossroads regarding what war can do when started falsely. We follow the main character as they try to answer this question and to help a future world not make our mistakes.

Solid 2.

While in some ways I appriciated the non traditional view of fantasy. The story was predictable. The dialogue.....painfully dumb on the human side. The performance, hard to gauge maybe if he had better dialogue it would have been better. Hard to tell, maybe of course I'm not the target audience.

Just not my cup of tea.

I love Salvatore and this is the first book in which I just couldn't get into. This may because I know him so well for Drizzt and his adventures. I think if you like alterative universe style books then you should enjoy this book. I do recommend Salvatore to Sci-Fi and Fantasy fans to try.