bad translation

i love this writer but this is just google translate in audio. Its hard to understand why anyone would turn this mess of jumbled words in to a audio book. I would recommend waiting for the translated version and not support lazy junk..

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Good story hindered by poor translation.

Not up to the standards set by Way of the shaman series when it comes to the translation but even despite that fact good if just barely. You will notice this wasn't originally written in English. I just feel there's so much lost even if I technically understand everything and because of that fact I stuggled to continue in places. Here's to hoping that the translation will be handed to someone else next book.

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Its decent but...

Overall this story is decent, but for some reason I haven't been able to figure out, the author decided to make the main character quite sexist. I didn't sense the same sexism in other stories by this author, but in this particular trilogy, the main character is so completely sexist, at times it wasn't comfortable.

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whaa?

i struggle to understand this steaming pile in need of an editor. mahanenko's shaman series is quite good, and i also have enjoyed his sci-fi lit rpg. this series is just odd. the narrator is not very good. the story is twisty...but not in an "oceans 11" way...more in a "spin the wheel and pick your plot point" kind of way. the final scenes were bizarre and almost redeemed the book, but didnt quite make it. the main character is a misogynistic pig w h o has embraced the dark side without really giving us much insight except for convenience. he has all the character development of a soggy graham cracker. i doubt that i will read any more in this series, and it has left such an icky taste in my mouth im not sure ill read anything else by mahanenko either.

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Same interesting writer, same bad translator

I already reviewed the first volume of this series and this second one is no different. It is the kind of writing we expect from Mahanenko. A bit sloppy but inventive and in my opinion original and creative enough to be interesting and entertaining.

However, the translation is horrendous. This woman obviously has barely a grasp of basic English. It is clear that the fault lies in translation since time and time again the reader will hear better sentence structures and superior choice of phrasing in his or her own head while listening to this book.
I beg all publishers to encourage this "translator" to stick to disgracing her native language and leave English translation to the true professionals. Shame on her for defiling a writers work.

Good not Great

Better than the first but yet again the plot was not easy to follow. Alot of things do not make 100 sense.

translation and performance

this book is terrible. the translation is poor and the narrator is worse. skip this

from dry to moist.

this book was better then the first one. but I also find the first one really dry.

aawesome

narrator takes a bit getting used to, but Beyond that the story is addictive, it's just a great read

Decent storyline

I bought these books because I really want to support Vasily. His shaman books are freaking awesome. These books are good but they could be better with a different narrator. He's really needs to slow down and be better with his inflection, and pauses in each sentence. I feel he is rushing the entire time and I am not sure why. Maybe he is trying to pump out as many book narrations as he can in a year. Vasily, you're still one of my favorite writers, keep em brotha!

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