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My Dark Beast

A Hades & Persephone Retelling

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My Dark Beast

By: Olivia Wildenstein
Narrated by: Blair Thatcher, Zachary Johnson
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DUET NARRATION WITH A BONUS CHAPTER!

SLEEPING BEAUTY x HADES & PERSEPHONE

Tarian Hadez—thirty-three, real estate mogul, mob lord, most eligible bachelor in New England, god. The god-part is an exaggeration. After all, if true deities existed, then the world would be a magical place, and it's really not. At least, my world isn't.

Calanthe Bloom. That's me. Twenty-four, college graduate drowning in debt, true crime addict, florist by default, single by design. Although not living my best life, I'm enthusiastically pursuing it. Especially, in my dreams, which, since a recent flower-delivery snafu, all feature none other than lethally private Tarian.

Oh, the things he does to me when I sleep.

Wickedly surreal.

Except . . . are they?

Enter a world of gods and monsters where dreams are made of flesh. My Dark Beast is a paranormal romance standalone brimming with spice and intrigue.

Content warning: strong language, sexually explicit scenes, graphic violence, Alzheimer's, alcohol drinking, abduction of an adult, addiction to "magical" drugs (off page), death of a loved one (off page).

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Unique Magic System • Captivating Plot Twists • Perfect Duet Narration • Immersive Fantasy Elements
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Love the voices chosen! They did an awesome job emulating tarian and calamity! Would def listen to both of them again!

Awesome story

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This book will have you on the edge of your seat and leave your heart full of love and adoration for the characters! A TRUE DEFINITION OF A “MUST READ”!

COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!

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I had no idea what I was in for. This was an interesting g book. Something g that I def did not expect. Loved the duet/dual narration which is what I search for most these days!

I had no idea

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A bit of false advertising when saying this is a duet but I guess you could say it's A partial duet? Only Zachary Johnson voiced Tarian and only Blair Thatcher voiced Calanthe but all the other male and female characters were fair game; depending on whose POV the chapter was. Not ideal, but I would take a partial duet any time before duel style. Olivia Wildenstein is new to me and wow...she spun a really good, really detailed unforgettable yarn. Unfortunately, I feel that it was a tad overlong, there were times where the pacing slowed down and seemed to lag a bit so it took away from the momentum of the story. But still, at the end of the day I truly enjoyed this reimagining of Hades and Persephone / Sleeping Beauty.

4 starz - worthy of a repeat listen

Not A True Duet, A Bit Too Long, But I Liked This!

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The characters were really well written.
The romance made me blush and kicked my feet like a school girl.
But I did not like the mystery part of it, I got confused a couple of times because of all the names. But yet again, I don’t like mysteries in general so I might just be biased.

Nice

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The story was fantastic. Loved the writing, a little long. But it was a good story. Unique.

Excellent narration!

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I'm just over here minding my own business, listening to books that I may want to buy special editions copies of for Apollycon, trying out new Authors and wham.......Here comes Olivia Wildenstien with My Dark Beast. A cross between Hades x Persphone x Sleeping Beauty and it's based between human and Fae!!! Are you freaking kidding me?? It had me asking left and right who the actual Villian was!! I loved it!! And now shall be purchasing the Special Edition For Apollycon!!

A Mashup Retelling worth listening too!

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My Dark Beast-Olivia Wildenstein
Narrated by Blair Thatcher and Zachary Johnson

Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Spice 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Narration 🎧🎧🎧🎧

This book was wild! I didn’t know how Olivia was going to cross a Hades/Persephone with Sleeping Beauty, but I’ll be damned…she did. Her world building is phenomenal. The mains get stuck in dreamland for a while and each time you go into a new dream it’s like a whole new world and the descriptions are incredible. And the story telling is just so so good. It is lengthy but honestly I don’t know what could have been eliminated. This was so good. Now I feel like I need to go back and reread it and I’ll probably pick up on so many things I missed the first time through.

The narration was so good. This is my first by these two narrators and I thought they did a stunning job. The narration style was interesting because it wasn’t completely in duet or completely in dual but it was like a mix of both.

Calamity

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𝙂𝙚𝙣𝙧𝙚: Paranormal Romance
𝙎𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙚: Several open door explicit scenes
𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨/𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙩:
🌹Hades/Persephone and Sleeping Beauty retelling
🌹Unique magic system
🌹Dreamsharing
🌹Dual POV
🌹Enemies to lovers
🌹Grumpy/sunshine
🌹Mafia inspired families
🌹Forced proximity
🌹Standalone
🌹HEA

I am already a huge fan of Olivia so when I saw thid audiobook I jumped at the chance and am thrilled that I did.

The narration was amazing! It's a combo style of duet and dual. Blair was phenomenal at changing her tone to match different characters. Zachary was such a perfect Tarian, his timbre made me melt anytime he spoke. They both made the spicy scenes jaw droppingly good.

The story really captivated me and I didn't want to stop listening. The dreamsharing setting was intriguing and I enjoyed how it played out. As always, I love Olivia's writing style and how she weaves these incredible tales. There are always comedic elements to break up the tension sometimes from the sassy FMC Calanthe. My favorite chapters were in Tarian's POV because how he thought and spoke just had me swooning.

Olivia knows how to write spice🔥Even though the scenes were brief, and they often got interrupted, the quality and steam factor were off the charts.

The world was one we already knew with a twist of immortal gods living in it as mafia-inspired families. The story had incredible mystery elements that kept me guessing. At times the family felt like they were on a soap opera and I ate it up and asked for more. The secrets and twists were nonstop! My mouth was agape the entire last third of the book as all the mysteries were revealed. I also wasn't sure that things were going to end well. Luckily for everyone, this book had a fabulous comeuppance with a perfect HEA.

great writing great narration kept me hooked!

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I enjoyed the voice actors very much. The narration was duet… but only for the male main character and the female main character. The female voice actor did both male and female voices for other characters.

Quasi duet narration

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