It’s time to listen to and discuss The Stone’s Lament
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The events of The Stone’s Lament occur after those of the following two novels.
The Squire’s Crystal is pretty important…
This is one of those ones I like the idea of more than the execution, but I do enjoy it. It’s exactly the right level of a bit spooky to intrigue me, and of course introduces Adrian!! I don’t think it’s possible to not be at least slightly fond of Adrian Wall
I like this story and was a little surprised to see such a relatively low TARDIS.Guide rating. The atmosphere was creepy, the villain is interesting and somewhat atypical for a Benny story. My only problem with this story is maybe its sound design? IIRC the music was sometimes too loud
I’m sadly not a big fan. I enjoy the idea, but I find the execution lacking. The sound mixing is abysmal! This was my first rodeo with Adrian Wall, and I didn’t quite warm up to him yet. Maybe it’s a process, like with Narvin.
4/10
The Stone’s Lament starts with an intriguing archaeological premise and descends into a muddled, melodramatic mess of AI obsession and sonic overkill. While Lisa Bowerman is typically excellent as Benny, and Harry Myers’ Adrian Wall shows glimmers of future potential, the story itself fumbles both its character arcs and its central concept. The haunted mansion setup is atmospheric but ultimately hollow, and the sound design actively works against the listener.
You’re welcome to read my full review below (spoiler alert!):
Ooh! I just read (well, listened to) The Squire’s Crystal (and The Infernal Nexus, and The Glass Prison), so I suppose I’m perfectly positioned to dive in here.
If anyone’s read a synopsis of (or even the opening paragraph on the wiki for) The Squire’s Crystal and wonders why and how in the heck they pulled off such a dark plot development, as it turns out, it’s not at all dark in the book. It’s practically a joke gone too far. (I detail that in this review:)
I’ve rather enjoyed the Benny novels I’ve listened to so far. It definitely helps that Lisa Bowerman is such a good narrator. The only one I didn’t finish was Gods of the Underworld, and that was because other audios kept taking priority so I kept losing interest in the novel.
I don’t blame you, it took me a while to finish to. It’s very boring….
I honestly quite liked this one, sure so far S2 of the Benny Audios never reached the Highs of its first Series, but I do think this one was quite fun. Yes the Sound Design is poor and does put the Story overall a bit more down for me, but outside of it, I can’t think of too many tun-offs. Quite liked the Idea, while I think it could have had a better execution at times, how it’s told works quite well. The Atmosphere does of course do the heavy lifting for it and of course Lisa is as good as ever, not much of an Opinion on Adrian yet, but he’s alright in my Eyes.
Overall, a fun Story, that maybe falls a bit too short in places.