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    Siege Perilous
    Siege Perilous
    Siege Perilous
    Audiobook14 hours

    Siege Perilous

    Written by E.D. deBirmingham

    Narrated by Angela Dawe

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Ocyrhoe, a young, cunning fugitive from Rome, safeguards a chalice of subtle but great power. Finding herself in France, she allies with the persecuted, pacifist Cathar sect in their legendary mountaintop stronghold, Montségur. There she resists agents of the Roman Church and its Inquisition, fights off escalating, bloody besiegement by troops of the King of France, and shields the mysterious cup from the designs of many.

    Percival, the heroic Shield-Brethren knight from The Mongoliad, consumed by his mystical visions of the Holy Grail, is also drawn to Montségur—where the chalice holds the key to his destiny.

    Arrayed against Percival and Ocyrhoe are enemies both old and new who are determined to reveal the secrets of the Shield-Brethren with the hope of destroying the order once and for all.

    Alive with memorable characters, intense with action and intrigue, Siege Perilous conjures a medieval world where the forces of faith confront the forces of fear. Choices made by characters in The Mongoliad reach their ultimate conclusion in this fifth and concluding novel—and all of Christendom is at stake.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 28, 2014
    ISBN9781480581814
    Siege Perilous
    Author

    E.D. deBirmingham

    Born and raised in the rural northeastern United States, E. D. deBirmingham has been long involved in theatre and in writing. She has also been a Buddhist nun and an equestrian instructor. Siege Perilous is E. D.’s first solo novel, following her work on The Mongoliad trilogy.

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    • 2/5
      I really wanted to like this last instalment, but was terribly put off by the reader‘s non-stop shouting as well as mispronunciations of ancient terms. Also, she has given all the females sweet, mincing voice, especially Vera, which is not at all in line with the portrayal by the other reader of much of this cycle. This volume, like some of the others, is written unevenly, and it jars to hear supposed medieval characters use, for example, „ok“ as an affirmation. Shame, it could have been a solid finale to an informative as well as rollicking tale.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      I'm not really sure about the quality of the story, because the audiobook performance is unlistenable. Absolutely the worst I can recall.

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    • 2/5
      Narrator Impossible and Grating. This was so disappointing as the finale was good.
    • 2/5
      Can't listen to this narrator I'd rather read it myself
    • 3/5
      I previously read the first book of ‘The Mongoliad’ and thought it had a lot of promise, but suffered a bit from committee-itis. (too many authors, not enough focus).
      So, I skipped forward to this one, which is #5 in the series, and written by a single author. It is, indeed, much more focused. The story is solely about the character Ocyrhoe, and although I clearly missed some events since the first book, I thought it worked fine as a self-contained, stand-alone work.
      Ocyrhoe ends up at Montségur, during the famous siege of the heretical Cathars at the end of the Albigensian crusade. It’s a fascinating moment in history, but although events are complicated both by Ocyrhoe’s being the custodian of a cup that may or may not be the holy Grail, and her new-found emotions for her old friend Ferenc, whom she’s coincidentally been reunited with, well, being besieged can get a little tedious.
      I also felt that the book is stylistically consistent with the first novel in this series – which is undoubtedly appropriate, but it just didn’t fully resonate with me. It’s not bad, and it’s definitely recommended for fans of the series – I just didn’t love it as much as I wanted to.

      Copy received through GoodReads’ First Reads program. Many thanks to GoodReads and 47North.