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The Shadow of Saganami

By: David Weber
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
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 The Star Kingdom has a new generation of officers! And this elite group hand-picked and trained by Honor Harrington herself is going to be needed immediately, as their first assignment turns out to be more dangerous than anyone expected.

What was supposed to be a quiet outpost, far from the blazing conflict between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven has actually been targeted by an unholy alliance between the slaveholders of Manpower, the rival star kingdoms of Mesa and Monica, and the bureaucrats of the Solarian League.

The alliance stands to benefit if the Havenites defeat Manticore, and are preparing for a surprise attack from the rear to divide Manticore's forces, which are already strained nearly to their limits. With their captain, the young Manticoran officers will risk their careers, if not their lives, on an unauthorized mission to expose and counter the threat to their Star Kingdom. Follow their journey as they show what they're made of.

New York Times best-selling author David Weber begins a new series that will be a must-buy for the hundreds of thousands of Honor Harrington fans.

©2005 David Weber (P)2009 Audible, Inc. Adventure Fiction Military Science Fiction Space Opera Space Royalty

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The voice actor seems to struggle a little to voice the female characters without making them seem like characters in a period drama.

Too much falsetto

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David Weber does it again kept me enthralled all the way to the end. Looking forward to the next book.

Great story again

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strongly recommend reading this in chronological order (check on wikipedia where it sits). the performance is good and the story is interesting.

Great book if you like the Honour Harrington serie

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Anyone who complains about his performance hasn't gone through one of the books narrated by Peter. Exceptional story as always from David Weber I really like this Honorverse.. I think I will keep it.

Jay is a great narrator

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

OK well i love David Weber books and stories so never likely to get less than 5 stars from me. This is no different.
However Having read them all several times before my sight failed i was wary of trying to listen to them. Alyson Johnson's superb voice acting and consistent voicing over several books though converted me. I bought them all.
Then i listened to this one. WHERE IS ALYSON? Jay is a fine reader and good at characterization.. but his voice is too deep to convincingly voice girls The falsetto's grate. Weber's books have far too many girls vital to the plots for such a deep voiced man to voice... and its a problem after hearing Alyson's brilliant convincing different accents for Honor .. Elizabeth...Michelle and then suddenly hear them all sounding like Danny LaRue or Dame Edna
I have other books read by Jay with mainly male characters.. and he is very very good. For Webers books he is a mistake.

Did Jay Snyder do a good job differentiating each of the characters? How?

see above voice too deep for the females

Where has Alyson gone?

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Absolutely outstanding, multiple story lines , all converging to a ultimate climax, but with story lines that branch off into HONOR HARRINGTON

IVARS TERACOFF AND CREW

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Great story, but much inclined to agree with the criticisms of the narrator's attempts at female voices - many of them sounded more like children than women.

Inclined to agree

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I got 10 min into the story and out of 3 female characters, two of them strong women in positions of power, one of them the legendary Honor Harrington, and all 3 were read as prissy weaklings. it was painful to hear and it's evident Snyder hadn't done any research into what he was reading. That this recording is still available and not reread by a competent narrator is ridiculous.
it is possible for male narrators to do excellent and convincing female voices, see Stephen Fry and RC Bray, so there is no excuse for such lazy narration styles.
I just cannot continue with this book. Hopefully they will have it reread by a professional narrator. I'll rebuy the book then, meanwhile, I'm returning this version.

why Jay Snyder?

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Unsuitable naration. He just can't do women's voices. love the series but gave up in chapter 2

Grating naration. Gave up by chapter 2.

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I found the Honorverse really recently and raced through he main books. Finding the Saganami series I was pleased and immediately started 'listening'. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the excellent voice acting in the main series but I have listened to many books and many narrators/voice actors. I'm not sure whether this narrator is just not up to the job of doing women's voices or if it is a particularly bad match between narrator and the requirements of the book. I am so disappointed I won't be able to listen to the other Saganami series especially the one about Mike. I do wish authors would listen more closely to their narrators when they choose them... honestly its like I'm listening to a dame at a panto.

Narrator ruined this for me

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