It’s time to listen to and discuss The Roof of the World
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Better than I remembered from my first listen:
The Roof of the World is so, so good… for half of its runtime.
I’ve just finished parts three and four of this one. I’m glad I listened to it over two days because, after the first half, I was debating if I wanted to continue with this or not. Come today, it wasn’t as bad as my first impression made it out to be.
That being said, it was just “fine” to me. That’s all I can say about it. It’s mostly dialogue between Erimem and the villain, and Peri, Five, and the rest of the team with not much else happening in the way of action.[1] I did like the obligatory Perimem line in the first part (and throughout the audio as Peri tries to save her friend’s life), further solidifying the fact that they’re BFFs at first sight.
Peri and Erimem can now commiserate together over the fact that they’ve both experienced a shape-shifting villain claiming to be their father.
which isn’t necessarily a complaint because I love books and films where “nothing happens” ↩︎
Not the most exciting of audios. Starts out strong and fizzles out. A bit of a waste of a strong setting. Great piece for Erimem, though, and Edward de Souza is always great to have back!
While The Roof of the World does a great job of developing Erimem’s character and deepening her relationship with Peri, it struggles as an adventure. The Himalayan setting is wasted, the plot loses steam after a strong start, and the villain lacks presence. The audio leans too heavily on long conversations at the expense of pacing and excitement, making it a slow and often uneventful listen.
Please, feel free to read my full review below:
It’s got a nice setting and some good experimentalism with the structure but delves into mediocrity as it goes along. Not one I’ll likely be fondly remembering but I’m glad for the character work it did with Erimem.
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Mediocre. It’s got some really interesting ideas and a spectacular performance from Caroline Morris. I wish there was an actual story in there though. As it stands, it feels like an outline wasn’t fully fleshed out they just wrote lines to explain everything.
The Roof of the World is a perfect Example of a Story that should be good or great, but just is okay. Its Execution is really the Thing that holds it back from the most Part, so many great Things here to be used, some of which, I admit, get touched greatly before it drives into Mediocrity. It’s okay! 
I enjoyed Erimem in this… that’s about all I did enjoy. Found this overwhelmingly boring and despite the fact I am enjoying this team’s dynamic their stories aren’t engaging me that much.
I just checked Erimem’s character page – you’ve got Three’s a Crowd next, which is… not my favourite of their stories by a long stretch (though some people like it!). But then there’s The Council of Nicea and The Kingmaker which are bangers IMO!
I’m the same way. I love the threesome and especially Perimem, but their audios really leave more to be desired. I only really liked two/three of them, and one of those involved everyone being in separate places for the duration of the story. TRotW, though, I think I rated this higher than most other audios from this team, which isn’t saying much.
Getting the Audio Club badge reminds me I haven’t said what I think of this story! I should relisten to it at some point because I remember adoring episode 2 (poor poor Erimem goes through so much in that one), but finding the second half, as you say, quite dull.
I keep seeing this said about Peri/Erimem stories but I’m not sure I can get behind it.
The majority of Erimem’s stories are 3/5 or above for me and the only ones below that are notorious stinker: Nekromanteia, and then Three’s a Crowd and The Axis of Insanity. And there are still some strong ones to come, as has been said - Council of Nicaea and The Kingmaker, but also Son of the Dragon is great and I quite like The Bride of Peladon.
Looking back at my rankings, I suppose I’m not as harsh on them as my comment appeared.
One star - Peladon
Two - Kingmaker, Nicaea, Axis of Insanity, Nekromanteia, Scorpion
Three - Son of the Dragon, TRotW, Church and Crown (3.5)
Four - The Mind’s Eye
Five - Three’s a Crowd
The historicals were just boring to me for the most part (or borderline obnoxious).
100% disagree - the historicals are the best Erimem stories!
I think it just let my mind wander at the start of this and then had no clue what was going on for the rest of it but I just found it so boring, why do I hate all the Fifth Doctor things!?
I should listen to it again to get a proper rating but I’d rather do literally anything else 
Agreed! Erimem has a really bad middle in her journeys, but a fantastic start and a wonderful last batch of stories. This team is super unique for me because they’re always nonstopping going through historicals and it’s always a banger.
The Mind’s Eye is the only non-historical I think is good. The Axis of Insanity is fine, it just leaves me with a headache.
And I think I said this before about The Roof of the World, but I found the first hour super strong… and then it dies a agonizing slow death to boredom.
And I love The Bride of Peladon. I don’t know why, maybe because we’re always visiting it in different points of its history, but every time I slot Peladon with the historicals lol
It does have a very medieval vibe.
