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I suppose the risk of binge listening to a whole series is that the story starts to feel a little bit "samey" compared with previous instalments....it all just sort of blurs into one long battle.

That said, if I really stop and think objectively about this book #5, there's nothing wrong with it. The story is completely consistent with what has gone before; the plot is developing and the characters are developing. Tavi is just as creative in his solutions as before, and he's growing up too. The Canim add a new dimension to the story too - and the author has tackled their societal interplay with the Aleran's cleverly. Nothing to dislike. Perhaps I'm just experiencing battle fatigue.?

And....straight onto book #6 (clearly not that fatigued).

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Great story - shame about the editing

The Alera Codex is a great story, I have read the series and really enjoyed revisiting the story with audible. The editing really lets it down though. Throughout the series there are clipped words, skipped pauses and an odd disjointed feel. Also the trumpets…why they are included at all I’m not sure as they don’t add anything but they are also put in the strangest of places so that a big break/change of scene gets nothing whilst there are trumpets in the middle of nowhere? Doesn’t stop me enjoying it but could be better.

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good, with random trumpets

good book, rolled along nicely, I kept feeling that a line two was missing sometimes. the narrator did a good job on the voices, not so good on the spacing between pov sections and chapters. and the editor loved random trumpet fanfares

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Terrible audio quality

Choppy audio here and there, like a scratched CD. Sometimes words are missing. In the middle of a conversation you get a 10 second pause where they start playing the trumpet - in fact the same trumpet clip again and again, played wherever it interrupts the story the most.

The book itself and the narration are both really good, but the editing is amazingly bad.

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A great read

Jim Butcher doesn’t disappoint with the Alera codex. I can’t wait to read the next one.

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Great episode from a great series

Characters and the plot were as good as I have come to expect. There was a little padding here and there but not enough to make me want to skip forward.
The only really annoying thing was the stupid trumpets which seemed to appear from nowhere and did absolutely nothing for either the plot or the performance.

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Narrator

I found the narration to be excellent as with her previous books in this series.

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Great series. Took a while to get into it

Took a while to get into it but then couldn't stop. Very different to the Dresden Files

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Loving it but the the editing is bad

The book is good but the Production is lacking. It will some times skip ahead randomly although not often. And I was hoping that we were done with those damn horns after they were not in the last book, but no they are back.

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My favourite of the series so far.

And I’ve loved the series so far. I’m attached to so many characters, well done Jim.

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