Mistress of the Empire

By: Raymond E. Feist, Janny Wurts

Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues

The world on the other side of the rift: Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies. Following the opulent panoply of Daughter Of The Empire and the dazzling pageantry of Servant Of The Empire comes the resounding conclusion to the Empire trilogy.



Besieged by spies and rival houses, stalked by a secret and merciless brotherhood of assassins, the brilliant Lady Mara of the Acoma faces the most deadly challenge she has ever known. The fearsome Black Robes see Mara as the ultimate threat to their ancient power. In search of allies who will join her against them, Mara must travel beyond civilization's borders and even into the hives of the alien cho-ja. As those near and dear to her fall victim to many enemies, Mara cries out for vengeance. Drawing on all of her courage and guile she prepares to fight her greatest battle of all--for her life, her home, and the Empire itself.

Critic reviews

"I enjoyed [Mistress Of The Empire ] enormously . . . I particularly enjoyed Mara's adventures in the land outside the Empire."--Robert Gellis, Author of Masques Of Gold and Fires Of Winter

great performance!

excellent end to the mini series. excellent character development. couldn't ask for a better ending.

Great!!

Great way to end the series! I look forward to listening to the remaining books.

Great book

Long but worth listening to. unforseen ending, the story is unpredictable and very enjoyable

A throughly enjoyable story.

This story is so full of intriguing ups and downs, at times I felt like a yo-yo in the hands of a Master!
For the most part, Tania Rodrigues was very good as the Narrator. She lent her voice and her superb control over it, to enhance the gravitas and the witty repartee, of the by-play between characters, be it the Lords of rival or even allied families, or the interactions between slaves, who were once proud and dignified soldiers and their Officer, who were captured in battle.
With the author’s well written story, conveying the emotions of births and deaths, loves found and loves lost, as well as the bleak future for those in the armies left alive after a defeat and the exhilaration for those who won. This author’s narrative was a Narrator’s dream.
Unfortunately, the Narrator’s superb ability to convey the author’s word pictures of the settings, emotions and story line, couldn’t overcome some very basic flaws she could have avoided.
With a better education or even just a bit of time spent researching unfamiliar words, these calamities could have been avoided. I resent the fact that she obviously couldn’t be bothered to do so.
There were many instances when I was deeply immersed in the story, able to suspend the knowledge that the story was fictional and I even had the beginning of tears in my eyes, (yes, I’m a man, forget what John Wayne said.) when, to my shock and disappointment, the Narrator would mispronounce yet another word. It was a disappointment because most were well known words and even if they were unfamiliar to her, all she had to do was open a dictionary app. Almost all dictionary apps have a little speaker icon, beside the word, to click on and you will hear the exact pronunciation, for every word you’d care to look up.
The last example of her mispronunciations, that really sticks in my mind, is the word “epitome”. The word is pronounced as “e-pit-oh-me” but she made the same mistake Karen Springer, a girl in my 5th grade class did. The Narrator pronounced the word as “epi-tome”
By making a mistake with something as basic as the pronunciation of a word, which is part of the foundation for every Narrator’s skill set, I was going to award the performance with one star. However, with her ability to convey the emotions for all of the ups and downs of this story so well, I had to raise the performance award to three stars.

Spoken words bring the work alive

I have read the series a number of times
I have waited for Audible to
bring the performance to the US market. One worries that the voice one hears when the work is read will be different but this is dead on