Really, don't miss this one!Ī Christian Alternate World Amnesiac Hero Romp Honestly, I could listen to this storyteller all day! This is a classic from the Golden Age of Fantasy, and the narrator is golden. The other accents and voices are distinctive and each evokes a particular sense of that character. In this book, the hero's slight Danish inflection is done perfectly. I've listened to several of his audiobooks, and he just flabbergasts me with the range of his characterizations. See what I mean? Clever.) That said, I have to say that Bronson Pinchot is completely phenomenal. (See, for example, his analysis of the source of the curse on the Giant's gold. His empirical understanding of things that look magical are clever. I like the scientific-nerd-in-a-magical-environment. I like that there are many different encounters with many different challenges instead of one huge mega-battle.

I like the slowly revealing details of the quest as the hero recovers memories. It's a great story, a stand-out among many of the same genre from the same time.

This was a favorite book of mine many (MANY) years ago, and I was interested in remembering why I liked it so much.

Three hearts three lions