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Siege Perilous

The Mongoliad Cycle, Book 5

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By: E. D. deBirmingham
Narrated by: Angela Dawe
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Summary

Ocyrhoe, a young, cunning fugitive from Rome, safeguards a chalice of subtle but great power. Finding herself in France, she allies with the persecuted, pacifist Cathar sect in their legendary mountaintop stronghold, Montségur. There she resists agents of the Roman Church and its Inquisition, fights off escalating, bloody besiegement by troops of the King of France, and shields the mysterious cup from the designs of many. Percival, the heroic Shield-Brethren knight from The Mongoliad, consumed by his mystical visions of the Holy Grail, is also drawn to Montségur - where the chalice holds the key to his destiny.

Arrayed against Percival and Ocyrhoe are enemies both old and new who are determined to reveal the secrets of the Shield-Brethren with the hope of destroying the order once and for all.

Alive with memorable characters, intense with action and intrigue, Siege Perilous conjures a medieval world where the forces of faith confront the forces of fear. Choices made by characters in The Mongoliad reach their ultimate conclusion in this fifth and concluding novel - and all of Christendom is at stake.

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It an interesting book and I liked it, but perhaps not as much as the original Mongoliad trylogy (but better than Katabasis). However, I did not enjoy the narration. For some reason, fully subjective I'm sure, it so annoyed me that I had to stop listening, and just read it myself. Sorry

Nice book, but...

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If you could sum up Siege Perilous in three words, what would they be?

Narrator, Emphasis, Why???

What other book might you compare Siege Perilous to, and why?

The previous books in the series

How could the performance have been better?

For some reason the narrator decided to Declaim Each Phrase in a manner that grated horribly on my sensibilities. She managed the characters conversation competently and believably, so I have no idea why she decided to be quite so strident with the rest of the text.

Thankfully I realised I could bear it if there was other noise to take the edge off it so made it to the end listening with music in the background, rather then giving up on the audiobook and resorting to reading the book to find out what happened next.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

The story was, but the narration nearly stopped me dead within five minutes.

Any additional comments?

If you can survive the narrator's style, there's a cracking story here.

A superb story but a wearing narration

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What on earth possessed the author to allow this girl to narrate this book. Just couldn't bear listening to her. Tales like this preferably should have a male narrator. I am sure I elude have enjoyed the tale if this was so. Instead I returned it before finishing part one

Spoilt by the narration

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Unfortunately I struggled to get through this book, unlike the previous ones which were excellent. I think the story was generally uneventful but the reader was not as good as the previous reader. There were times I felt the book was being read by a bot in some cost cutting fashion. Sorry guys, this is the worst book I have listened to on audible yet and a poor end to the Saga I really enjoyed.

Not as good as the previous books

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I have listened to the previous books in this series and they have been excellent. The story in this was good but I felt it didn't grip me in the same way. A lot of that was due to the narration especially the very strange way she pronounced "she/he said" it was quite bizarre. It was almost an invective "she SAIIIIID", it had a peculiar emphasis as if the phrase left a bad taste in her mouth. Once I had noticed it, it seemed to get worse. But don't let that put you off, it may just be my ears !!!

shame about the narrator

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