Narrator: Paul Michael My Reading Speed: 1.5x Have I Read The Book Before Listening to the Audio? Yes, many years ago Overall Audio Impression: I loved reading this book when I was younger, and though I still enjoyed this reread through the audiobook it wasn’t as good as I remembered it. Also, for some reason each ‘chapter’ on Audible was more like 5 chapters in one which made navigating to specific parts of the audiobook hard to do. It is more of a classic boys adventure book with a lot of things the main character could suddenly do that he’d never been able to do before, many fight scenes, and the whole world against him. I also hadn’t noticed until this read through, but I believe that Alfred may actually be on the autism spectrum in some way with how he was acting/reacting to some of the things that happened over the course of this story? (Though nothing is specified anywhere about this possibility, it’s just something I was thinking about.) But again, overall this was still an enjoyable journey to follow! Favorite Scenes: stealing the sword last one left end battle Reader’s Notes: -this is the first of a trilogy, but can be read as a stand-alone -this is told from Alfred’s point of view of view -Alfred’s mother passed due to cancer & he never knew his father -there is some fantasy violence & death (characters putting a swords through another & mentions of decapitations – not graphic in description; there is also gun fights & death by gunshot(s)); blood mainly mentioned in one instance that happens directly to Alfred