Dragon Forged

By: Dan Michaelson, D.K. Holmberg

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

The dragons are gone, leaving behind their essence for those who follow.

Firewater is sacred. Touched by the power of the dragons, those who consume it can become more like those ancient beings. Most become dragon forged, their bodies strengthened to help fight the dangerous creatures attacking the valley.

But firewater didn’t change Rob.

When invaders threaten to destroy his people, what Rob discovers may save all he cares about—and provide the key to forging his own power.

Dragon Forged is book 1 in an exciting new progression fantasy series!

Virtual narrator was terrible, flat and emotionless.

I actually enjoyed the story though I think I would have enjoyed it more if it was narrated by an actual person. The virtual narrator was so flat and emotionless. Didn’t emphasize at the right times or differentiate between characters which made it seem poorly written though I’m sure it really was just the AI. Want to read the next book but not sure I will if not done with a real narrator.

great story line

narration lack emotions , not a fan of the AI narrator. some time voice changes mid sentence with same character. needs work.

Very boring narrator. Monotone

Narrator is a virtual voice and it shows. Only slight inflection if any, no distinction between characters, pause after every sentence. Glad it was free with subscription, because I would not have purchased this audible version.

Reminds me of Cradle

Reminds me of Cradle: boy without power, isolated Valley... But all in all nice story.

Sloooow

It’s almost like the author is just trying to fill pages, repeating the same thing just different ways

Didn’t like the computer generated voice

I didn’t care for the computer generated voice. No warmth or emotion to the words. I would like to hear this being told by a real person.

great reading

good story of life after Dragons are gone. Clueless people wondering what is going on

Badly edited virtual voice

The story line for this book is good, but not excellent and the virtual voice is actually better than expected except for the fact that it is badly put together. The authors are probably trying to minimize costs and probably edited the audio themselves. I am guessing that they had mistakes throughout the book and then they went back to redo the virtual voice for those sections. Unfortunately, these sections have an unpleasant muffled voice. Switching between good quality audio to bad quality audio is annoying.

Dear authors if you are not going to pay someone to professionally generate and edit the audio, please make sure it sounds good first and don't release the audiobook until it is done correctly.

its ok

the ai audio is terrible verry monotone and next to no inflection and when there is its not done in the right areas, also it has 0 character defining in the way its done the AI needs so much more work before its really a good use in this way. the story is also ok could be better if it didn't repeat a lot of its stuff in serval areas it circles in repetive explanatory text that is just not nessisary.

The virtual voice narration is the worst.

Overall the content of the book wasn’t bad, but the virtual voice narration is the worst. I’ve got well over a 100 books in my listening library and the virtual voice of this book should be reading anything more than a cooking recipe. If it hadn’t been free, I wouldn’t have listened to it.