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The Summer Tree Audiobook
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Two-time Aurora Award-winning author Guy Gavriel Kay has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award three times. In the first book of his Fionavar Tapestry series, five college students meet a wizard who takes them to the heart of the first of all worlds-a place called Fionavar. The students soon discover that they have been pre-ordained as part of the pattern called the Fionavar Tapestry-and if they don't fulfill their destinies, the world will suffer devastating consequences.
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"I've read The Summer Tree several times before and love the book. But the audio performance was such a disappointment. SImon Vance has a good voice and when he's narrating he is great but the ruins it when he speaks in the voices of characters. All the women sound very odd, is if they're out of breath. The Canadians sound like Bart Simpson, the Lios sound comically Welsh and the Dalrei all sound like Billy Connolly. Was this really necessary? Instead of 'acting' the emotion of the line, he just relies of pantomime voices and accent to do the work which completely ruins the book."
— Reading adict (4 out of 5 stars)
The Summer Tree Listener Reviews
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" I read some half of this book. The prose was pretty good, but the story was not quite believable, what with the sudden immersion into this totally foreign world. I stopped reading it because I found the blatant paganism and frequent sexual situations too off-putting. "
— Yitzchak, 4/27/2011 -
" Take this as 4.5 stars, if you will, because I did enjoy this book, though the language, at times, was a bit much. (And by that, I mean it was overly formal and flowery, not that there was a lot of swearing.) A fine story, though. We'll see how Book 2 goes. "
— Matthew, 4/18/2011 -
" One of my favorite fantasy series by one of my favorite fantasy authors. "
— Ken, 4/11/2011 -
" The beginning of an amazing trilogy. It captivated me from the first chapter and I was hooked! "
— Kkenny, 3/14/2011 -
" The best fantasy I have read since Lord of the Rings. "
— Ladygrace, 3/2/2011 -
" I'm hooked. Need to go on to Book 2. Probably give it a 3.5 as I"m stingy with ratings. "
— Cdelory, 2/4/2011 -
" My favorite fantasy series of all time, by one of my favorite authors. Such a beautiful story and so deeply researched. Just AMAZING!!! "
— Abigail, 2/3/2011 -
" Probably the only Fantasy book I've read so far, besides LOTR :D and I quite liked it!!! I really enjoy the mixture of worlds one feels in this book since there are also "tales" from the humans that are revealed little by little along the story. "
— Mady, 1/16/2011 -
" I tried to like it. Instead I found it hard to follow and most of the characters not very interesting or believable. Made it half-way through the book before giving up. "
— Debbi, 1/11/2011
About Guy Gavriel Kay
Guy Gavriel Kay is the internationally bestselling author of numerous novels. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in fantasy literature, as well as the World Fantasy Award in 2008. He has twice won the Aurora Award, and in 2014, he was named to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. His works have been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
About Simon Vance
Simon Vance (a.k.a. Robert Whitfield) is an award-winning actor and narrator. He has earned more than fifty Earphones Awards and won the prestigious Audie Award for best narration thirteen times. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and has been named an AudioFile Golden Voice as well as an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London. He is also an actor who has appeared on both stage and television.