Love Feists books

Love the books and love the narrators voice. Only thing that throws me off is the narrators pronunciation of names and places.

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An Unforgettable Story of a Classic Computer Game

When Dynamix released "Betrayal at Krondor", I could not wait to play it. The time was 1995, a full 2 years after the game had been released. My reasons for playing the game were much different than other players of the day. I wanted to play the game because I had met Feist in the late 80s, in a small writer's cafe San Diego.

He spoke to a group of us. I was a published short story writer and military journalist, then. I wanted more. I wanted to be an author. At the time that I played the game, I felt "Betrayal at Krondor" was a masterpiece. Dynamix created an detailed video of an old, creaky book that splayed open an introduction of the adventure you were about to start. I began to play a game, developed much like a book. As I played, I watched my characters grow as I moved forward along the storyline of the game.

Krondor, The Betrayal more than follows the game, it enhances and adds much more detail to the world that I played, delving even deeper into thr motivating thoughts, feeling and actions of Raymond E. Feist's world.

As I listened to Peter Joyce's rendition of "Keondor the Betrayal", it took me a little while to adjust to his storytelling style. By the end of this audiobook presentation, I grew to appreciate his change of intonation, voice and inflection used in his illustration of eachband every character. In pondering R.E. Feist's novels, I began to wonder how well they might play into today's offering's of Series-based programming. I could see how eell the Riftwar Saga could introduce a worldwide audirnce and perhaps renewed interest in the series that R.E. Feist started so many decades ago.

Great Book but not so great narrator

I love the book. The story was well written. However the narrator totally butchered all the names of the characters and cities from the original rift war saga books narration.

Based on a video-game, fyi

This book is counterpart to an old PC game (Betrayal at Krondor) based off of the original 4 books. I'm not certain, but I think the game was made and then the book was written as an enhancement to the story. It's an extremely dated game, but a solid classic RPG, if you can get over the age. It's very much written like a video-game, jumping from quest-giver to quest-giver but it has a certain quality and depth compared to similarly styled works.('The Madalorian' for example)

Peter Joyce is fantastic! I don't care about his pronunciations, regardless of how I originally read the names. I just assume they are old-english pronunciations that I was unaware of when I first read these books. It adds to the world-building in my opinion. Not to mention the overall quality of his voice ages up for it - I have no idea what Mr. Joyce looks like, but he sounds like he's about 8 feet tall with a personality larger than life!

love the story but

I've reread the series a few times, but every time he pronounces the prince's name as Aru-ta it's like nails on a chalk board. not going to listen to the rest, I'll stick to reading them.

Pretty bad

The reader is terrible at multiple voices. The story drags and is stupid. I have liked much of Feist. Not this. It’s just boring.

5 stars for fans of the Game

loved this game as a child... this book was an excellent remastering of that experience

Books in a series...

The story is fantastic... but this is book 11ish in the series. The narrator came up with his own pronunciations instead of listening to book one and keeping the continuity.

Best so far!

Of the dozen or so books by Feist I have listened to, I would say this was the best so far; A few small mysteries running in-tandem with the main story, favorite characters returning, and even an ending which was both good and slightly sad. Looking forward to tge rest of this series.

Fills a need but not for me

If you are in need of more questing and your life is filled with a paucity of bravado, swaggering and staggering, then this book is certainly made to order. I have positive recollections of the Riftwar series. But now I am wanting more not less touching on the human experience, beyond “who will attack me next”.