Warbreaker (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

Warbreaker, Book 1, Part 1

De: Brandon Sanderson

Narrado por: Dylan Lynch, James Konicek, Ken Jackson, Karen Carbone, Elizabeth Jernigan, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Scott McCormick, Christopher Graybill

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own.

Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago.

Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.

By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

Performed by Dylan Lynch, James Konicek, Ken Jackson, Karen Carbone, Elizabeth Jernigan, Colleen Delany, Tim Getman, Steven Carpenter, David Coyne, Scott McCormick, Christopher Graybill, Richard Rohan, Mort Shelby, Terence Aselford, Sunny Lasskey, Eric Messner, Tom Simpson, Nanette Savard, Amanda Thickpenny, Andy Clemence.

©2009 Brandon Sanderson (P)2009 Graphic Audio, LLC

An intriguing tale delivered wonderfully.

It's an excellent story and the actors are all top notch.

However, please tell the director, or Lightsongs VA, whoever was in charge of him making chewing sounds into the microphone that it's an awful decision and easily the worst part of the experience.

Keeps you guessing

Creatively keeps you guessing what the characters are capable of and reflect on your personal moral compass

good book, too 'noisy' performance

Book is good. Sound effect too loud. Bad choice of accents. Love the idea though.

No audiobook is better than Graphic audio

I’m a fan of Graphic Audio. They always have the BEST audiobooks of the market. The special effects, sounds, and performances add so much to the story!!

Amazing

I came across this book in my browsing and am so glad I did
It’s a great story and I love the graphic audio version. I did listen to the regular version as well which was also quite good
I’ll be using a credit to add this to my library permanently
Well worth it!!

So far so good

Im impressed by the idea of a graphic audio book, i love how it makes me feel more immersed in the story. However, when following along with the book a few times it skipped over a few paragraphs that subtly changed the meaning of a scene. Other than that, a wonderful experience.

Incredible Voice Acting

The voice actors do a fantastic job! Occasionally the sound effects and music drown out the narrators words for a second or two, but that's the only thing I disliked about this fantastic audio book.

Sound mixing makes some parts unbearable

The story is good. There are parts where the background sounds and music are way too loud so you can’t really hear what is actually happening. The narrator’s voice is also often mixed in too low for his pronunciation. The badly done sound parts really detracts from the story. The worst parts are mostly in the beginning and then you can manage through the rest of the bad mixing. You’ll have to slow down the speed to have a better chance of hearing what’s being said. But the story is worth getting to the end.

surprisingly great in almost every way

I got this 1st part on sale for a couple of bucks just to try. Very glad I did, and will be purchasing the full version momentarily.
The acting/narrations are first rate, and the story is very interesting.
The audio editing is decent, though not the best - some of the voices are hard to hear because background sounds/music are too loud, which is especially noticeable when listening in a car. The music and sound effects themselves are very good however.
Highly recommend (at least this 1st part of) this Audible, just be prepared to have to play with your sound settings (pitch, bass, etc...).
I'm looking forward to listening to the rest of the book.

Musical background annoying

Good story, great performances by all, but dear gods the constant background music and "muttering noises" got old very fast. I've listened to other graphic audio predictions and enjoyed them immensely, but this one? F*ck no.

I won't be finishing the other two parts of this version, I'm getting the standard audio book version.