Dragons of Spring Dawning: Dragonlance: Chronicles, Book 3 (Unabridged‪)‬

This review covers Chronicles and Legends because most people interested in buying this series want at least those 6-7 books. I do not review the books, only Audible's product.

Ax Norman - thankfully - no longer reads Chronicles. At some point in 2018, possibly early 2019, Chronicles was rerecorded with Paul Boehmer. Disregard any review before that point for Chronicles.

Boehmer is well above average, especially considering how difficult Dragonlance is to do. If you need someone to voice a dragon, a kender, a gnome and an elven princess (to say nothing of the rest) you're either going to want Harry Shear (who gets about a half-million per episode of the simpsons) or you're going to have to get a jack-of-many-trades-and-master-of-none. Considering this, Boehmer is simply outstanding, going well beyond what I could've hoped for.

But the Legends trilogy, as of this writing, is still read by Ax Norman. He is appalling. Outside of doing commercials for Doublemint gum, I'm not sure what merits his voice has. He does no character voices; everybody sounds exactly the same which can be confusing. He mispronounces names, and worst of all he sounds like he's reading it for the first time, pausing at the end of a line in the text rather than at the designated punctuation.

I've never met a Dragonlance fan who didn't think the Legends trilogy was as good as Dragonlance got. But Audible probably figures fixing Chronicles was 'good enough'.

DO NOT BUY LEGENDS AS L0NG AS IT'S AX NORMAN.

The chapter breaks are off by about 10-15 minutes per track, ending chapters mid-track vs at the actual track break.

Narrator does a good job.

I’m miffed, I originally purchased these books years ago. The narrator was Ax Norman. But when I try to download them to re listen to them again, it’s this Paul Boehmer, who is simply horrible.

Luckily I still had it loaded on my old iPod, but I truly hope they can fix this, it isn’t what I paid for!!!!