He has excellent timing and emotional control over the narration and that helps the listener really engage with the characters and the story. If the rest of the books in the series are like this one, I will buy them all! Joel Leslie brings the characters to life with his accents and seamlessly narrating and then speaking as one character or another.
The story has a depth or richness to it that includes a quite interesting world where dragons are the power to the mages and the bond is special. and although it's not an insta-love type of book where "BAM! True Love" happens, sparks do fly. A male unknown-until-now mage meets the king of the fire dragons. The characters are unique and interesting, the action is pretty decent - not high voltage intense action, but a few very edge of your seat-what happens next-type of scenes. WOWOWOWOWOWOW! I love the story - filled with words that paint vivid pictures in the mind. Joel Leslie (one of my most beloved narrators) finished his audio version of ORIGIN, which has been on my TBR list/shelf for a while now, and I just couldn't wait any more. I sometimes have a book on my shelf that is outside of my preferred genre that I have never had time to read. Overall, this is very much worth the credit or purchase. The next thing is that his pronunciation of German words is great in the beginning, not so much by the end. Now, I love a good British accent, fake or not (Joel isn't British), but Cameron, who is American, should think in an American voice. That being said, Joel adopts an English accent for Cameron's parts. He's a good narrator in that he pours his heart into the story and makes you grip the edge of your seat unable to stop listening.
This is my first audiobook by this author and I will be getting the next one in the series.
The story has lots of action and a nice slow built to the romance. Now the rogue mages once thought wiped out are rising again and Cameron and his family as well as the rest of the dragons are all in serious danger. Unwilling at first to accept he is a mage until a kidnap attempt proves the existence of magic. Cameron, who dreamed of seeing dragons is befriended by none other than Alric the King of the fire dragons. Thought dead, there are still two clans, two very small clans, still left. In this alternate earth dragons exist or rather they did until the great war between an extremist group of rogue mages the the dragons.
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