Victory's Bright Dawn

Siobhan Dunmoore, Book 4

By: Eric Thomson

Narrated by: Stephen Floyd

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave her no choice, Dunmoore knows she must finish the cleanup job Fleet Headquarters ordered her to abandon years ago.

Fortunately, Iolanthe and her crew are the perfect instruments with which to dispense much-needed retribution, despite General Orders and the Fleet's bureaucracy doing their best to tie a captain's hands. With her ship taking on the guise of a privateer, she sets out on a merciless hunt to eliminate a band of soulless soldiers of fortune and teach the ghosts of her past a lesson they will never forget.

©2017 Eric Thomson (P)2023 Eric Thomson

WHY!?

This is one of the few reviews I have been motivated to write, and it is for one reason. The narration and production of this book was HORRIBLE. The first narrator was decent, it's always tough for a male narrator to portray a lead female character, but he did a good job. Unfortunately that came to a very abrupt end here. From the very start I was put off. The narration was monotone, and this male narrator should not portray female lead characters. The main character, which was very well written, became a different person just by her conversation style. I had to bump up the playback speed up to 1.2 just to make it bearable.
On top of the poor narration, the production value was poor. There was background noise, some hissing at times, and very often you could hear the narrator shifting, swallowing, breathing etc. What is worse and inexplicable after ALL of the ratings, is that the NEXT FOUR books have the same narration. I soldiered through this one, but I will not be getting the next four, which is a shame, because I WOULD have with the former narrator, or probably just about any narrator who is competent portraying female leads, or even an AI narrator which are typically substandard, but couldn't be worse.

Victory’s Bright Dawn

The story was great but narrator was changed from the previous books in the series and the new one wasn’t nearly as good to listen too. He was somewhat monotone and the different characters all sounded similar. Please return to the previous narrator for future books as he made the story’s much more enjoyable and he really pulled you into the action.

not worth a credit

too short too slow repetitive, kept you waiting for something that never came incomplete, I'd recommend waiting for a bundle of part 5 through whatever number it ends, too pricey for a tidbit

love the series but the narration was abysmal

love this series and have read and listeneded to it repeatedly. was excited when this was released and figured I would give this narrator a shot.

I struggled... I really struggled. the narrator was so monotone that I ended up using this to fall asleep to. his pronunciation was really rough and sounded like someone recorded this on a cell phone in thier bedroom. there isna weird background noise that kinda removes the Emerson. after such high quality the first part of this series was this is a massive step back.

The story is fun but OMG narration is awful.

Narration is abysmal. Do Not Get audible versions after the third book. The narrator doesn't know what a narration is. I wonder who approved it !!!

Story Decent Narration Very Poor

Very jarring change from first three books on audible. The story continues well enough, but the narration in this one if really rough around the edges. Feels like it was done at home without a sound engineer or director.

Sloppy pronunciation, swords slurred together, constant siblance (whisting sounds) were a huge distraction. The master chief voice is somewhat consistent but everyone else seemed kind all over the place when the narrator even bothers to do any voice acting. Most of the time lines are delivered like everyone is distracted or bored.

I do now appreciate even more how important a good narrator is. . . so that's something I guess.

I'd just stop at book three if I were you. I'd be furious if I was the author of this book.

Decent enough story. Atrocious recording.

The book itself is fine, but the recording quality is horrendous and the narrator put very little effort into his work. Quality control is also lacking, with several severe audio glitches present in the recording.

Great series, trrrible narration

Really enjoying this series! I hope if Audible publishes the rest they go back to Eric Michael Summerer as narrator. Stephen Floyd really detracted from The pleasure of this book.

Returning the book terrible narration.

Good book bad narration. Returning the book for a refund. I’m so very very disappointed.

The moral of the story is Quality Control

I don’t usually bother to write a review, but. I will say after reading the first three books I enjoyed the works. The fourth book is where I will stop. Quality control went right out the airlock with switching narrators. To the point I will not suffer through another book to find out if it was correct in book 5. This is totally upsetting that an author, who’s work I rather enjoyed, has been destroyed by what appears to be a low quality job by the publisher. Sanddiver Books Inc. You would think with all the reviews before this one it would have been corrected by now. I like many before me enjoyed books 1-3. Book 4 killed the series after that. I am not willing to waste a credit to find out if other books in this series are any better. Hopefully Eric Thomson gets on his publisher’s case about fixing the problem in the future, because in my opinion they made a mistake.