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The Fallon Blood
- Fallon Series, Book 1
- By: Robert Jordan - writing as Reagan O'Neal
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
In 1765, Michael Fallon, an Irishman on the run from brutal English overlords, makes his way to Charleston, South Carolina, as an indentured servant. Bound over to Thomas Carver, a successful merchant, he quickly shows a knack for trade—and a disturbing attraction to Carver's beautiful, sensual daughter, Elizabeth. With luck and intelligence—and not without bloodshed—he rises into the rice-planting aristocracy of the Carolina Lowcountry, where a frontier spirit pulses beneath the superficial trappings of an agrarian society that is heading rapidly toward revolution.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed in content
- By james on 07-13-22
- The Fallon Blood
- Fallon Series, Book 1
- By: Robert Jordan - writing as Reagan O'Neal
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
Bad writing, worse history
Reviewed: 05-02-23
I confess, I couldn’t make it past the first half of the book. The narration was very well done, but the characters lacked depth and the author seemed more concerned with heaving bosoms than with actual storytelling. I found it very disappointing that the author was much more concerned with getting the young ladies undressed in the books than he was with learning ANYTHING at all about what was worn by women of the time. His lack of basic daily life research made it impossible for me to suspend disbelief and become engrossed in the story, with the shoddy descriptions throwing me out of the narrative to much the same effect as a leg cramp throwing one out of a sound sleep.
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