I've listened to "King Solomons Mines" by the same author so followed the authors name to this story. Sadly I was disapointed. KSM had been a real adventure, but this story was like a lost forlorn love story with a bit of "darkest africa" thrown in. The story itself started alright with a mystery, but then wondered off in to boring realms. The characters were well done but the story was just lacking as far as I was concerned. Not enough happened. Sadly the recording also suffered. The story was read by various people taking various chapters, which is not normally a problem for me, but in this case as the story itself was not so engaging I found myself being jarred by the change in reader, and the readers styles changed dramaticly. Not a problem with any reader, but because the story was not engaging enough Reading = 1/3 Production = 2/3 Story = 1/3 Total = 4/9 More of my reviews at http://freeaudioreview.blogspot.com Free Audio, Review FNH 2008-05-10 21:27:08 2008-05-10 21:27:08 2 The novel is fascinating. The end is very moving, and remember that I'm no woman. It's a very engaging story. However, I agree with what the previous reviewer said: the recodings here aren't good. They lack "character". The voices aren't "real". It's as if they're reading the phone directory! I was fortunate not to stumble upon the recordings here before I picked up this book. They would have ruined my experience. But I *did* listen to recordings, that are available at http://www.audiobooksforfree.com. They are in extremely poor sound quality (because I didn't pay for a better sound quality), but the reader, Robert Donald, seems to be a very talented reader. I owe him my enjoyment of this novel. She Albert Schlef 2008-09-23 16:12:03 2008-09-23 16:12:03 1 2 1.50