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Spice and Wolf, Vol. 1

By: Isuna Hasekura, Paul Starr - translator
Narrated by: J. Michael Tatum
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 The life of a traveling merchant is a lonely one, a fact with which Kraft Lawrence is well acquainted. Wandering from town to town with just his horse, cart, and whatever wares have come his way, the peddler has pretty well settled into his routine-that is, until the night Lawrence finds a wolf goddess asleep in his cart. Taking the form of a fetching girl with wolf ears and a tail, Holo has wearied of tending to harvests in the countryside and strikes up a bargain with the merchant to lend him the cunning of "Holo the Wisewolf" to increase his profits in exchange for taking her along on his travels. What kind of businessman could turn down such an offer? Lawrence soon learns, though, that having an ancient goddess as a traveling companion can be a bit of a mixed blessing. Will this wolf girl turn out to be too wild to tame? Fantasy Fiction Historical Wolf
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Best narration I've heard yet, after hearing a swathe of Stephen Fry narration, and even Dune.
Was gripped and made my car journeys something I looked forward to.

Unexpectedly great!

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So I like anime and watched the series years ago and wanted more (it's a great story with loveable characters with a different spin to things I'd seen before). I then bought the books so I could read them all, being dyslexic this never happened, as with many other book series I own they just make a nice addition to my bookcase.

This is perfect it's well read and just as enjoyable as the anime, I can't wait for them all to be ready to listen too. As a dyslexic this is about as good news as you get, as I can now enjoy the books with out struggling and my inability to imagine while reading ruining the story (I eventually learned to read but cannot imagine the story and situation while reading, instead it's more like reading a list of something while the words move around the page and irritate me). So thank you for this, my only other option was to read it out loud my self and then listen to it back again, which would be aweful!

By the way, I feel like a review of this may put people off if you went into detail. So I'd say this is a clever story about two people who are lonely finding eachother, one is a competent merchant the other is the very smart wolf god of harvest. Character development is good and it's well written and read, I've been dieing to read the whole thing for years and now I don't have to lol :-)

So happy that these are coming out!

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Really enjoyable to hear Lawrence's VA doing this and does it really well. would really like to see Holo's VA do some too, maybe the volumes theatre told from her perspective? either way, I really look forward to the next volumes!

100% worth it for the fans and newcomers

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As a blind fan of Anime I've always felt detatched from the source material. I love the 'Spice & Wolf' series, however due to accesability issues I was never able to appreciate the light novels that inspired the show and so was unable to continue following the characters journeys. So when I learned that they were making audiobooks of the light novels to say i was excited was an understatement!!

This audiobook was great. The delivery of the narrator was on point, seemlesly witching from dramatic tones to humours breaks without any pause between. It was also a nice touch to have the orginal voice actor reprise the role of Laurence to narrate the book. Would have liekd the voice of Holo too but not going to complain too much.

The story at times was a bit clogged with buisness terms and explanations of financial structures, however it is all seemlesly fed into the narrative and does actually give you a deeper understanding of the story and the high stake involved. With the arching stroy focusing on the character development rather than action or high fantasy this layering of world building really increased my enjoyment of the stroy.

So yeah, loved the book would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good character driven drama but also with a hint of the fantastical about it....Holo is a shapeshifting wolf who's existance is simply accepted as normal. Definately one to read and a great place to start for people who may not have read light novels before.

Worth The Wait

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Little sad that Brina didnt reprise Holo for her dialogue but still a great listen. Loved the anime, loved the manga, and if I could bring myself to read the enormous omnibus of the LNs in my bookcase I am sure I'd love that too. Truly my go to feel-good romance story. We need more fantasy tales that just focus on the quiet life, it's so refreshing.

Lacking Brina as Holo, but still a classic!

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