Nix makes up for his tone pandering in the middle of the story with the climax, which leaves even mature readers with a moment of true disbelief, "Did he really just do what I think he did? but how will he end from here?" he walks you back towards the corner, painting away, till you look up realize he's taken a rope ladder into the rafters and left you holding the brush for one long scary moment. What was one of the most memorable moments of Lord Sunday? a character in truly dire peril spoke with no more emotional pathos than the rock on which they crouched in terror. Characters that I've come to love in print faded into the background because his delivery made their thoughts and dialogue indistinguishable from the descriptions of the setting. What made this listen bad enough that around the middle it became hard to finish was Allan Corduner's stiff performance.
The Story was rather good, even if it felt that Nix might have been talking down to his readers at a few points when a child who had gotten so far in the book should have absolutely no trouble understanding. I love Garth Nix's writing in print, but this was the first of his solo books I heard from Audible. What did you like best about Lord Sunday? What did you like least?
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