The Binding Stone

Eberron: The Dragon Below, Book 1

By: Don Bassingthwaite

Narrated by: Adam Epstein

The first book in a series of dark tales and high adventure in the Eberron™ campaign setting. The Binding Stone features the brand-new races that were created specifically for the Eberron campaign setting. It's also the first Eberron novel to take its listeners on an exploration of many uncharted territories in the setting.

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Whiny

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

I'd recommend the physical book but not the audio version. The narrator's portrayal of the characters came across as "whiny". I like the story but not the reading.

Book was great, narrator was not.

There were many characters in the novel and the reader strained to give each one their own accent and style, it went poorly. Book was unlistenable at base speed as the entire thing felt like it was slowed down and slurring, 1.3x or 1.4x were closer to understandable speech.

Great book, poor narration

Good book, but it felt like the narrator just did one take or didn't take it seriously? Geth's voice sounds like a drunk Stallone impression, the narrator keeps calling one of the main characters Singe "sing" and just a bunch of other blunders. Just really makes for an unpleasant listening experience for something that's a clear good read

Not that... Good.

Played on 1.3 speed and the narration wasn't horrible. He took a page. Out of the. William shatner school. Of talking.

Frustrating

This is a decent series of books, one that perhaps could hve done with more descriptive text of the characters, and less reliance o All of this is let down by a narrator that makes everyone sound far older, whinier, and in some cases stupider than they are. The main villain is the only character pulled off well.

Combine all that with baffling mispronunciations of real world words (in a story filled with fantasy jargon) as well as a very slow pace, and you got a somewhat disastrous audiobook. The story is good, but this audiobook has a lot going against it.