Review: Your Fate is Your Own
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 23, 2013
This is a review of the AUDIOBOOK version; the other reviewers have done a good job of summing up why this book deserves 4-5 stars. As with other work by Mr. Yeomans that I've read, BEAR defies genre boundaries, equal parts epic fantasy, children's story, Native American lore, and even a little sci-fi with the bending of space-time. As a fan of the Samuel McCord tales, I was pleased to find the witty shaman Elu in this novel as well.I've listened to more than a few audiobooks over the years, and this narrator, Jack de Golia, did a fantastic job with BEAR. Some narrators drone on and don't give 100% when it comes to characters' voices, but de Golia does Yeomans' characters justice, each with his/her own timbre and personality. And no droning at all during narration!The price is a little steep for the audiobook version, but at over 9 hours long, that's less than two bucks an hour. If you're on the road a lot, having something engaging, entertaining, and well-produced to listen to is well worth it. And on my Kindle, de Golia's voice and pronunciations are MUCH better than the robotic text-to-speech feature.