Schism

By: Catherine Asaro

Narrated by: Suzanne Weintraub

Schism (Triad, Book I) is the tenth novel in Catherine Asaro's multiple-award-winning Skolian saga, and represents an excellent entry point into the series. An epic story of how the Ruby Dynasty reached maturity, Triad, divided into two books, reveals how a war of galactic proportions first explodes between two great empires.

Schism is how it all began, harkening back to the early years of the Skolian Empire, back to the beginning of the war between Skolia and the Euban Traders. Twenty-three years have passed since the fateful vote in the Skolian Assembly that Roca missed in Skyfall. It created the first open hostility between Eube and Skolia, which has only deepened in the ensuing years.

Now Eube senses an opportunity, for strife has riven the first family of the Skolian Empire. Sauscony, the daughter of Roca and Eldrinson, is ready to seek her fortune as an officer-in-training in the Skolian military. When her father forbids her to undertake such a dangerous path, a rupture develops as Soz chooses duty over family. Eube hopes to make this divide permanent, leaving the Empire ripe for conquest. And they're willing to kill anyone to make it happen.

©2010 Catherine Asaro (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Too much information

Good for Skolian fans and I am one vibrator does go on and on about Ruby Dynasty attributes and we really just want the plot.

Going to need a P-sychologist after listening to this narrator

I like the series and the story is good but the people producing the recording should stay away from science fiction. They clearly did not know or care that the narrator was clueless and mispronouncing multiple words. Pronouncing the p when it’s supposed to be silent, over and over and over again is like having someone poke you in the ear when you’re trying to listen to the story. Maddening.

this narrator drives me uP the wall

the P in psion is silent!!!!
but she ENUNCIATES every single silent p in the whole book.
the were so many mispronounced words that I had to replay to try to figure out what was said based on context clues because I couldn't even understand what she had intended the word to be.
narrators really need to know how to pronounce the material they are supposed to be reading,
and editors should be catching this.

The p is psilent!

However well Catherine Asaro may write, something is to be desired in the performance done during this book by the narrator. Truly awful. The P is silent. Unfortunately the narrator does not seem to understand this theme among any of the words in this book. And in fact by not enunciating correctly she has ruined my experience throughout this entire book.

Catherine Asaro should be embarrased

I would think that Catherine Asaro would be mortified to have this horrendous rendition of a reading associated with her work.

To me, Anna Fields' work is the standard that every audio book of the Ruby Dynasty should aspire to.