The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David A. WoodmanMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
Narrated by Julian Elfer
Presented by Highbridge Audio
DNF @ 56%
I heard more about DIPLOMAS and COINS than the actual subject of this book.
Halfway through, and I couldn't tell you a single thing about this man.
This is dull and dry and talks more about the way information is gathered rather than presenting any kind of interesting narrative. It's so concerned with giving the source of the information that it forgets to actually tell any of the story. I was tuning out from the beginning, and persisted way longer than I should have.
The narrator does an okay job, given the dull content, but it still all just sounds like getting stuck in a conversation with someone who is passionate about something incredibly dull and not knowing how to get out of it. You're nodding along but really your mind is thinking, 'Is he going to say anything I understand? Is there a point to all this superfluous information? Is it going to stop? Am I going to be here til dinnertime? What am I going to have for dinner? Did I remember to pull the meat out of the freezer? What show am I going to watch tonight? Is Stranger Things Season 5 out yet? ...' I did a lot of thinking about everything other than this audiobook.
Maybe history buffs will appreciate this more - particularly the scholarly type that derive joy from boring facts about historical legal sources. This was absolutely not my cup of tea at all.
With thanks to NetGalley for an audio ARC
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