Wonderful fantasy series

I listened to all 3 books and can't wait for #4. between David and Tim you they make this series so much fun. it has everything, suspense, love, danger, wonderful fantasy and a beautiful fantasy story.

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entertainment.

This was a good continuation of the story line and character development. Worthy of a listen.

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Great Addition to the Series

If you enjoyed the first two books in this series, you'll enjoy this one too. Lot's of action in this installment! There is, however, a rape scene, but the author warns you at the beginning of the book to skip X chapter if you're not comfortable listening to it. It is not graphic whatsoever, and I think the entire scene, as a whole, adds to the book in a profound way by becoming a catalyst for a significant character evolution. With that being said, I'm not a woman and have no idea how this scene will affect one of the fairer sex. Also, I have not read / listened to Fatemarked, and while it hasn't caused any issues with my reading experience, I feel like I'm missing some great references that could be understood for those who've read the previous series.

As far as the narration / performance go... TGR, 'nuff said!

On a separate note, I truly appreciate how quickly the author and TGR are pumping out these books! I despise waiting years for additional installments of books to come out (ahem, Kingkiller / Chaos / KDT). Once an author starts publishing and selling their work, they have a duty to their readers / listeners to complete that story in a timely manner.

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Still great! Keep it going!

I can’t wait to see how this book ends, what and imaginative way of doing the dragon thing. The (spoiler) blood magic in taking the dragons’ soul to make themselves demons.

The magic in this world makes sense. I love these characters, the dragon mistress is my girl. The story arcs for each of the MCs are fantastic and easy to follow progression. Just good all around. I can’t wait till the 4th book comes out. I’m at the edge of my seat to see how this ends.

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Epic fantasy at its best!!

I’m not sure why I’m always surprised whenever I read a new David Estes book that I always think it’s his best book ever. It’s because his writing and his stories just keep getting better and better and his latest and greatest is, once again, his best book EVER!

Magefall continues the Kingfall epic tales with our favorites, Peony, Dane, Danius, King Jarrod, Sampson, Roman, Quill, and so many others…. I seriously cannot love these characters any more than I do, or that’s what I thought. And then there I go falling in love with each one and each story even more than I did.

I’m not sure where David’s ideas come from, but some of the storylines absolutely blew me away (and some gave me nightmares- moths anyone?). The dragons?

I’ve read all of David’s books, and I love love love his dystopian and sci-fi tales. But… I think high fantasy is where he absolutely excels! His idea of Godblades is so completely creative, I can’t even imagine how he’ll top these first three books of this five book series. With two more to come, I have no doubts he will. Can’t wait for Nightfall in 2022!!

And then… In addition to having the best books possible, his publisher manages to secure Tim Gerard Reynolds to perform the Kingfall books!! All five of them!! For me, these are the best audiobooks out there! I may have dragged on my listen for longer than I normally do, but that’s because I refused to speed up these books as I had to listen to them as TGR and David Estes intended. So many nights I fell asleep to Tim’s soothing voice, and if there was any chance I missed even a minute, I’d rewind the next day and listen to the last part just to be sure.

How am I going to be able to wait for Nightfall? Another WELL DONE from one of your biggest fans, David!!

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Fabulous but

The multiple plot lines are great. Once again Estes has drawn me into a story that's so immersive that it's like I'm watching a movie--not listening to an audiobook. But with this third book, the mystery, magic and suspense in each plot line are beginning to wear on me. Perhaps I just need to take a break from this series. I didn't particularly like the ending of this book. Kind of hokey. Not up to par with story development. My comments are just my personal opinions. I still recommend listening to all three books in this immersive series.

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Its like reading 3 books at once.

I can never decide who is my favorite character be it human, dragon or sword.

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This is a good one

Everything about the books are great except when it takes to long to get to a conclusion in the fight scenes, you want to hear the villains get killed and it takes forever to get there.

If you like cry babies..

Stop whining already. Almost every character constantly whines and constantly feel sorry for themselves. The author attempts to make these out to be strong, but they are all weak willed whiners.

The story premise isn't bad, but the telling is laughable. One of my favorites is how a girl through a sword straight and managed to hit 3 beings flying in a V formation. Nothing is a surprise in this story, yet the author needlessly explains things that are painfully obvious already.

Good Story line, there is way to much rambling

So I love the story, the narrator is amazing as always. Now the back stories and filler for me is two much. Where some of the backstory was needed most of the individual back stories could have been left out and were overall not important to the story line.