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The Darkest Road

By: Guy Gavriel Kay
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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A two-time Aurora Award winner, best-selling author Guy Gavriel Kay has garnered the International Goliardos Prize and World Fantasy Award nominations for his brilliant fiction.

The Darkest Road - the gripping conclusion to Kay's critically acclaimed Fionavar Tapestry fantasy trilogy - finds five university students from our world preparing to sacrifice themselves as they enter into final battle against a power of unimaginable proportions.

©1986 Guy Gavriel Kay (P)2009 Penguin Audio Action & Adventure Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction

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I've read this book dozens of times but the voice acting in this version was even better than I created in my own head

fantastic narrative

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I am in awe of Guy Gavriel Kay and in what he does in this trilogy. I loved the story, characters, and the pacing. Not so much the narrator of this audiobook.

Loved the story

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This third book is far better that the previous two.
The Summer Tree felt a little underdeveloped in the opening but got a lot better.
The Wandering Fire just felt like in a hurry to get this this final book.
And this third and final book sure does deliver. It is absolutely beautifully written and you really get the feeling that it is a well planned and storyline.

Beautiful writing.

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Absolutely ruined the book. Simon Vance seems to think he needs to do accents instead of acting. Half the characters sounded like Welsh villagers the others sounded like Scottish Farmers
Young’s characters sounded like old people with a bad throat. Gods sounded like pantomime villains
Awful awful awful

Good book terrible narrator

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This trilogy is one of the best I have ever read. It took a while to appreciate the voices the narrator used for some of the characters as the ones in my head were so different. This will always be the case for a much loved book. Overall this is a brilliant narration of a fantastic book.

Awesome

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was sad it had finished, enjoyed listening to this greatly written book, narration is perfect

enjoyed it

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Guy Gabriel Kay is such a wonderful writer, he really grabs you with every emotion throughout the story. These books are very well narrated. It is a real pleasure to listen to them after reading the books several times. I will definitely listen to these again.

So sad it had to end.

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I read this many years ago but listening to this masterful performance brought me back to the world of Fionavar in an unexpected way. Truly beautiful.

A beautiful story.

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A wonderful story read by an excellent narrator who really brought the characters to life.

Thrilling conclusion

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The Darkest Road builds beautifully on the previous two hooks, taking the characters that are so brilliantly drawn, to their conclusions. It is so sad in places that I have wept every time I have read or listened to it, A wonderful listen and one of my favourite books of all time. Simon Vance reads it perfectly.

A beautiful, heartbreaking, soul fulfilling end to the trilogy

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