4/5 Music is even better if you read the story first
  by L. Vokoun
I am enjoying this CD. The melodies don't grab as quickly as those on the Christmas CD's but they fit the story. The story booklet in the CD had some pages missing but you can read the whole story on the TSO web page. Knowing the story makes the music more meaningful.

The song "Believe" is the best on the album, better than the Savatage version. I have found myself listening to it several times a day and it keeps sounding better.

5/5 Outstanding CD!!
  by Dennis Devries
This CD has been a long time in the making, but well worth the wait. The music is amazing, as you would expect from TSO, and the story is detailed and well-told. The CD includes a 60+ page booklet with both all of the lyrics and a very detailed story that ties all of the music together. And the bonus tracks are almost worth the very low price of the 2-CD set themselves. All in all, an amazing CD set that is more than worth the cost.

5/5 Awsome CD
  by Murphy J. Smith
This is a Awsome CD waited a long time for it to come out!!!! well worth the wait.

4/5 Mary
  by M. Fouch (Mount Sterling, KY USA)
I purchased two of the Night Castle, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, for gifts and then later ordered one for myself. I really like this music and the price was very good from Amazon.

2/5 Could have created this CD on a Korg Triton
  by Corey Ebling (Myerstown, PA United States)
I have thoroughly enjoyed TSO's previous releases. The music was stirring, had original arrangements, and featured well sung and well written lyrics. However this new album just falls flat in every category.

First off, the instruments (especially the drum kit) sounds like they were programed on a Korg Triton keyborad. There is no way you could convince me that the strings on the album were studio recorded, something I would expect from the a band that hires out an orchestra at every concert! Then the songs, so incredibly repetitive that they bore me and I find myself skipping ahead in the album. The vocalists sound like they are trying to bring emotion into these emotionless songs so I can't fault them for making the attempt. About half the songs sound like I've heard them before.

The whole thing just seems like it was rushed through but we've been waiting for 5 years for this. I'm completely disseminated and I'm now just hopeful of something better in the future.