The City of Cutthroats

The 13th Paladin, Volume 11

By: Torsten Weitze, Tim Casey - translator

Narrated by: Stewart Crank

Length: 21 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

Ahren and his companions journey on to Evergreen, finding new courage after the traumas of the Green Sea. Setting off, then, to traverse the continent in search of the missing Paladin Yollock, it isn't long before they find themselves sucked into a maelstrom of adventures involving a woman who has been robbed, a desperate Cape Verstaad grandee, not to mention a cutthroat city which proves itself a veritable nest of ne'er-do-wells. Controlled by the brilliant assassin Reik Silvermantle, this hub of lawlessness and immorality presents Ahren and his friends with one of their greatest challenges . . .

©2023 Torsten Weitze (P)2023 Tantor

Still a great story

I was wary based on all the bad reviews due to the change in narrator, and of course I love the original narrator, but this one wasn't as bad as I was expecting! After I got used to the difference in character voice, which didn't really take too long, then I really enjoyed the story. I could still tell when different characters spoke, and by the end I was enjoying the narrator as well as the story. Great series!! I'll buy the next book regardless of which narrator performs it.

mid at best

I have thoroughly enjoyed this series since the first book. I didn't like this book because of the narrator change. if this was the only narrator that would have been fine but getting used to one voice for 10 books and then switching ...wasn't great.

Enjoyed the Development, struggled to understand

While I normally have trouble understanding Gildart, especially around the r's, he does an excellent job of inflection and keeping the voices distinct. Here, I was struggling to understand words all over the place, especially with names/words loaned from other languages. While I can understand Anje being pronounced as either Angie or Anya, I'm especially frustrated by "dwarves" taking 3 syllables among things I couldn't figure out (to whar-fah?). Keeping voices distinct was also a real issue sometimes, like when Falk and Trogdon have the same partial Scottish accent for example.

I think the development going on in the story was a but lopsided. I think all the character development happened in the first half of the book and all the plot development happened in the second half. While that inconsistency is weird to think about, all the main points that needed to happen in the series here did happen in this book. Otherwise, I just didn't like how the first chapter fit chronologically. It was amusing, but awkward as a cold open.

thank you for murdering my friends

when a new reader takes over a series, they should be required to at least listen to the previous book so they don't go on a massacre of our friends. in the previous books. The accents aren't the same. the voices are not even remotely similar. they completely changed some characters. plain and simple A tragedy in the reading

great story, horrible narration

why you would change narrators after 10 books? The story is negatively impacted by the terrible narration.

The narration was so bad….

Of course the story was great, but the new narrator mispronounced words, whispered most of the story as if he were telling it during bed time (including when the dialog states the characters are yelling), changed the diverse accents and various characters, and really just overall threw me out of the story relentlessly.

Narrator change detracts from the telling

it is so difficult to tell which character is "speaking" now. There were differences between the characters voices and pace of speech. Now it is barely noticable from one to the next.

what were they thinking when they switched the narrator

did the new narrator even listen to any of the other books to try to catch the persona of the original characters some of them that are supposed to be strong and very bullheaded the way he reads it they sound timid he couldn't even pronounce the word dwarf properly and then pronouncing names from other characters he mispronounces it just doesn't make sense why you wouldn't at least try listening to some of the other books

How much difference and narrator makes a story

No disrespect to anyone who helped make this audiobook, but this audiobook is not up to the standard you guys have set. The narrator was not on the same level as the last narrator. He didn’t bring the book to life as it’s normally is, when I listened to it. The book by itself is awesome. It was like makers tried to remake a really good recipe but re-created it with crappy ingredients. I hope for the rest of the series, the makers return to Gilbert Jackson, as narrator. Other than the narration, everything else was awesome as usual.

Narrator sucks

Narrator sucks, glad he isn’t in the next book! Good book otherwise. Looking forward to a sequel book to help bring the series to an end