What did you like best about The Heir to the North? What did you like least?
We come across places that Baum tells of Malessar’s magic, but we don’t see them in action as he tells they can be. We get the lay of the land here, setting up for what’s to come. (feel at 6 hrs, 15 mins) Doesn’t feel as there’s any high stakes danger, just curiosity from Cassia as they travel. We don’t even know the plan Baum has in mind to rise the North again.

I liked the ending, how it all comes together, but I felt most of the story was overly predictable, even the ending. It felt slow too, with the style of stories told and learned. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just not my pacing.

What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
These people kept me a bit curious in the book. I had my thoughts about them and wanted to know for sure if I was right.

Meredith comes across odd. There is something different about him. He doesn’t know about traps to get food, yet after Cassia tells him about it the next night he bring food in. Though he didn’t set traps… How?

Baum is the wise old mind here. He is special, and you get a hint as to why from the prologue. He does believe that the North can rise again, and he’s put things into motion over the last few years to make it so. Baum wants a storyteller along to watch and recite what they witness to the world, so the world may know the truth.

Karrak is a character I came to really like. He’s learned many things over the years and as we see more of him we see that he cares.

Would you listen to another book narrated by Diana Croft?
This is the first time for me listening to Diana narrate, I would gladly try more of her work. She has an accent that lends to an older feel of the story. It feels to fit the time and characters. Diana does make slight tone and scratchy differences to her voice for the characters, though they are mostly similar in tone. The audio is clean and clear, nothing disrupting when listening.
Any additional comments?
*This audiobook was provided by the author, narrator, or publisher at no cost in exchange for an unbiased review courtesy of AudiobookBlast dot com, at my request.

With Cassia being a daughter of a storyteller it gives the author a way to tell the past to the reader. We get stories of long ago, though those told by the tellers now are not always right. Baum helps clarify those tales and the way of old. We don’t see a lot of action in this story. We get more story of the characters and history of the High Kings and Malessar. I know this will all come together somewhere, but it doesn’t all fit together perfectly for me yet, at 4 1/2 hours into the story.