I enjoyed this one enough to leave it on my iPod and listen to it again a few weeks later. I enjoyed it just as much the second time. This is the highest rating on my scale.
The world-building was a nice counterpoint to the touching personal drama. I, too, want more fantasy fiction like this.
In regard to the comments about the reading, I believe the reader's change in reading style was meant to indicate a switch to the point of view of the more boisterous pirate, while the more somber reading was for the melancholy sorceress.