Warrior Mage

Chains of Honor, Book 1

By: Lindsay Buroker

Narrated by: Daniel Henning

His mother was one of the most powerful wizards in the Nurian Empire until she abandoned her people to become a notorious pirate. That choice doomed the family she left behind to a life of disgrace.

Yanko White Fox doesn’t remember his mother, but as the only gifted child in the family, he is expected to erase the mark she left on them all. With an affinity for earth magic and communicating with animals, he’s not the most natural candidate to become a warrior mage, but it’s the only sure route back into the Great Chief’s good graces. He has resigned himself to training for that destiny, whether it matches his passions or not.

Long before he’s ready for his first battle, insurrection comes to his distant corner of the empire. Rebels take over the salt mine his family manages and slay the only relative who ever supported Yanko. On the heels of the tragedy, a courier brings a message from the Great Chief’s son. Whether he is prepared or not, Yanko must undertake a quest, one that could save millions of lives…or fail utterly, leaving him dead, his family forgotten, and his people the victims of starvation and endless war.

©2015 Lindsay Buroker (P)2021 Lindsay Buroker

not my favorite one of burokers but still great

it went slow and only 17 chapters but still a great listen absolutely love lindsay burokers books

Good story.

Good story but the narrator is a bad fit and is hard to listen too.

Good start gets better

The narrator doesn’t all right job, but the story is good The next one is much better. 

Hate this narrator Henning

Story was slow and not as good as other Buroker books but a nice return to a familiar world and some fringe characters from the Emperor's Edge series. The main character is a bit annoyingly slow. The narrator is AWFUL. Nasal and snippy voice like listening to a whiny and not-masculine-sounding young social climber man. I tried slowing down the playback speed to make his voice lower but it was still very annoying, not just his pitch but his speaking style and emphasis. He also made all the foreign characters sound like brutish communist block soldiers in 1980s Cold War era tv shows and movies. Other narrators of Buroker's books are not annoying, at worst they might occasionally mispronounce a word, but the occasional slip is no biggie. It's this narrator's incessant condescending-sounding whiny speech that makes this book hard to take.

Narrator need to be replaced

I'm only up to chapter 2. I decided to see if I was being too critical of the narrator, but it turns out I wasn't. He does not do this book any justice. I have plenty of other titles written by Lindsay Buroker and enjoyed them very much. I read a review that the second book is better but I'm not sure since the narrator will be the same. Travis Baldree and Vivienne Leheny are better narrators and there are many others,