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The Isles of the Cutlass Sea

13th Paladin Series, Book 5

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The Isles of the Cutlass Sea

By: Torsten Weitze, Tim Casey - translator
Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
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Ahren can hardly believe his luck. His apprenticeship finally comes to an end, and Khara's interest in him is growing by the minute. He and his companions leave the Southern Jungles and sail westward, this time in search of two Paladins, who are apparently living a peaceful existence on one of the Isles of the Cutlass Sea.

Yet their quest proves full of difficulties, for a war among the pirates has transformed the Cutlass Sea into a bubbling cauldron, hiding its own tragic drama. While Ahren and his friends do their utmost to win over the two Paladins in their attempts to defeat HIM, WHO FORCES, the High Fang, SVEN, is nearing the consummation of his fiendish plan.

©2020 Torsten Weitze (P)2021 Tantor Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction
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Some weird narrative choices

I felt the paladins did a number of things that were way out of character from the way they had behaved up until this book.

There are also a number of narration issues in this edition not present in previous books.

Enjoyable but lower quality than the first few books.

Another good installment

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, but there are so many snippets of mistakes, retakes and repeated lines during Chapter 13 it’s as though the editor had entirely given up caring about the project by this point. It clearly hadn’t been checked by anyone else before its release either. Almost every paragraph in the first 20 mins of that chapter has a mistake of some sort. It was so distracting and off putting I had to stop listening for several weeks, fortunately the rest of the book is free of these mistakes and is still worth a listen.

A good book ruined by poor editing

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the constant repeating of words due to errors in the recording in later chapters is disorientating

errors in recording

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I absolutely love this series, and although it took me a while to warm to the reader, I really like his style of reading too, as it feels right for this particular series. But this is the first book of the series that has had several serious recording/editing errors which could be easily edited out. E.g. Starting a sentence wrong and then starting it again. This happened several times in this recording — it simply hasn't been edited properly. Still a great listen, but it does interrupt the flow a bit.

Some recording errors

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Story was great as always, so far in this series. But for some reason the editing was atrocious here, repeating the start of sentences during the last few chapters so often that I had to stop listening for a while. Was so frustrating.

Bad editing during the final chapters

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