I started the Dark Road series by Bruno Miller with high hopes. The first few books? Solid—though let’s be honest, they probably could’ve been crammed into one. The later ones? Repetitive, drawn out, and starring a main character who manages to be both tough and annoyingly whiny. And if I had a dollar for every time the Nalgene bottle was name-dropped, I could’ve bought my own wilderness survival kit. The only thing that kept me going was Andrew Tell’s narration—absolutely fantastic and the real star of the series.