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The Rune Fire Cycle, Book 1
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Edward James Beesley
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Lance VanGundy
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“Eyes to the horizon” were the last words the king spoke to his wife before the abrogator channeled dark power and murdered them both. Their deaths activated an enchantment that concealed their two sons’ identity and allowed the king’s brother, Kaellor, to escape from Aarindorn with the heirs to the Southlands.
For 12 years, Kaellor raises the boys in relative anonymity. Without explanation, the barrier concealing their identity frays. The abrogators renew their hunt, and the three begin a journey fraught with otherworldly dangers.
Back in Aarindorn, Karragin, daughter of the Regent, ascends to leadership among the Outriders, but political intrigue threatens her family at every step. She survives one assassination attempt but uncovers something even more sinister threatening the kingdom.
Between them all, Laryn struggles to find her path in the Valley of the Cloudwalkers. Her fate is entwined with the others, but first, she must survive the dangers at the summit of the Korjinth Mountains.
How will the brothers react to the trappings of destiny? What hope do two teenagers and a middle-aged map maker have against those aligned with the forces of the underworld?
When you strip everything from a man not once but twice, what are the limits to his vengeance?
Enter Book 1 of the Rune Fire Cycle.
©2020 Lance VanGundy (P)2020 Lance VanGundyListeners also enjoyed...
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Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen Talia was overthrown and slain, and her capital city destroyed by the Knights of the Order of Eternal Vigilance. Anskar DeVantte, raised in the sacred disciplines of the Order, is now ready to face the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer. But the further Anskar rises in the ranks the more his faith wavers. As troubling powers awaken within him, a schism grows between Anskar and his hallowed Order, and he draws the hungry gaze of the vanquished queen’s fanatical followers.
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Michael Kramer!
- By Momof3inSLC on 07-24-20
By: Mitchell Hogan
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A Mark of Kings
- The Shattered Reigns, Book 1
- By: Bryce O'Connor, Luke Chmilenko
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Despite his youth, Declan Idrys knows of the evils of the world. He knows of the bastards and brigands who plague the King's lands, of the monsters skulking in the wooded depths of the realm. Together with his companion, Ryn - a beast of rather peculiar talent - he has spent the last decade of his life beneath the bloody banners of a half-dozen mercenary guilds, hunting precisely such festering wickedness within the borders of Viridian.
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A difficult slog
- By Tony G. on 10-07-19
By: Bryce O'Connor, and others
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Eternal Online: The Complete Series: (A LitRPG Series Box Set: Books 1-3)
- By: TJ Reynolds
- Narrated by: Andrea Parsneau
- Length: 44 hrs and 32 mins
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A broke gamer. A deadly online world. Can Dahlia level up fast enough to keep the debt collectors at bay? Dahlia has to pay off her dead father’s bills or risk her life in the lithium mines. Which...no thank you. Besides, the world is run by tech, and this gamer girl is determined to explore the virtual world her father was so obsessed with - and get rich while she’s at it. So, she sells everything and rents a premium VR pod to play Eternal Online. Enter the toughest realm available? Check. Discover the fastest way to loot without dying? In progress.
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Returned
- By Gridguy on 10-11-21
By: TJ Reynolds
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Fate of the Fallen
- By: Kel Kade
- Narrated by: Nick Podehl
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Everyone loves Mathias. Naturally, when he discovers it’s his destiny to save the world, he dives in headfirst, pulling his best friend, Aaslo, along for the ride. However, saving the world isn’t as easy, or exciting, as it sounds in the stories. The going gets rough, and folks start to believe their best chance for survival is to surrender to the forces of evil, which isn’t how the prophecy goes. At all. As the list of allies grows thin and the friends find themselves staring death in the face, they must decide how to become the heroes they were destined to be.
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Interesting but no KDT
- By Jonathan on 03-11-20
By: Kel Kade
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Plague of Shadows
- By: Howard Andrew Jones
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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The race is on to free Lord Stelan from the grip of a wasting curse, and only his old, half-elf mercenary companion Elyana has the wisdom - and swordcraft - to solve the mystery of his tormentor and free her old friend before three days have passed and the illness takes its course.
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Good -- rough recording IMO
- By Nico Ecenarro on 01-23-17
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Unfettered
- Tales By Masters of Fantasy
- By: Terry Brooks, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Jordan, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim, Marc Vietor, Bronson Pinchot, and others
- Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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You define life or it defines you. In Shawn Speakman’s case, it was both. Lacking health insurance and diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011, Shawn quickly accrued a massive medical debt that he did not have the ability to pay. That’s when New York Times best-selling author Terry Brooks offered to donate a short story that Shawn could sell to help alleviate those bills—and suggested he ask the same of his other writer friends. Unfettered is the result: An anthology built in order to relieve that debt, featuring short stories by some of the best fantasy writers in the genre.
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A TRULY BAD COLLECTION OF DOGS
- By Randall on 12-21-18
By: Terry Brooks, and others
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Altered Destiny
- By: Shawna Thomas
- Narrated by: Uma Incrocci
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
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Selia has run her family's tavern since she was 15 and can hunt and fight as the equal of any male. When she rescues a badly wounded man and nurses him back to health, she has no idea she's about to change not only her life, but also the destinies of two peoples….
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Wow! It was perfect!
- By Racheal on 10-13-11
By: Shawna Thomas
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Stalking the Beast
- By: Howard Andrew Jones
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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When a mysterious monster carves a path of destruction across the southern River Kingdoms, desperate townsfolk look to the famed elven ranger Elyana and her half-orc companion Drelm for salvation. For Drelm, however, the mission is about more than simple justice - it's about protecting the frontier town he's adopted as his home, and the woman he plans to marry.
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Amazing
- By Aaron on 04-10-20
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Prince of Wolves
- By: Dave Gross
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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For elven pathfinder Varian Jeggare and his devil-blooded assistant Radovan, things are rarely as they seem. Yet not even the notorious crime-solving duo is prepared for what they find when a search for a missing pathfinder takes them into the mist-shrouded mountains of gothic Ustalav.
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Like the tabletop RPG Adventure I always wanted.
- By Steven on 04-07-16
By: Dave Gross
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The Troll Hunter
- By: Keith C. Blackmore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
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A warrior with a secret, a ruthless band of cutthroats, and a monster of ancient legend converge in this fantasy from the author of the Mountain Man series. It’s a time of war. After years of relentless battle, the tired nation of Sunja realizes its spine is close to breaking. Desperate for aid, the country’s king dispatches a company of soldiers to the north in a desperate plea for help from its neighbors.
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My opinion:Blackmore,is the best in the business!
- By eric on 07-10-19
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The Complete Chronicles of Corin An Fol
- Legends of Ansu
- By: J.W. Webb
- Narrated by: Andrew McDermott
- Length: 68 hrs and 9 mins
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Six volumes together in one collection! Follow the adventures of Corin an Fol as he avenges his family, learns the way of the sword, and battles evil across the world of Ansu. Includes: Gray Wolf, Legends of the Longsword, Wolves and Assassins, The Shattered Crown, The Lost Prince, and The Glass Throne.
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Deep, Celtic, Epic Fantasy
- By Armour Bearer on 04-19-21
By: J.W. Webb
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The Wrath of the Orphans
- Book One of Elmoryn's The Kinless Trilogy
- By: Chris Philbrook
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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What do you do when everything you've ever known is ripped away from you, leaving nothing but ashes and charred memories behind? You get angry. So very angry. Malwynn and his twin sister, Umaryn, live in a small town in Northern Varrland. In idyllic New Picknell nearly nothing happens, and when their day-to-day routine is interrupted by a skirmish between an invading patrol of the dead from The Amaranth Empire and a defending force from Varrland, their world begins to come undone.
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FURIOUS TICKLING ENSUED
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 09-27-17
By: Chris Philbrook
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The Lost War
- The Eidyn Saga, Book 1
- By: Justin Lee Anderson
- Narrated by: Euan Morton
- Length: 20 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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With a ragged peace in place, demons burn farmlands, violent Reivers roam the wilds and plague has spread beyond the Black Meadows. The country is on its knees. In a society that fears and shuns him, Aranok is the first magically-skilled draoidh to be named King's Envoy. Now, charged with restoring an exiled foreign queen to her throne, he leads a group of strangers across the ravaged country. But at every step, a new mystery complicates their mission.
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Holy Cow!
- By Lisa M. Perkey on 05-11-20
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Divine by Mistake
- Partholon, Book 1
- By: P. C. Cast
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
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Surrounded by old folks and even older artifacts at an auction, high school English teacher Shannon Parker never expects to find something that shocks her down to her very core: an ancient vase, complete with a beautiful painting of a goddess that looks just like her. And just as she's stealing away with her seriously suspicious purchase, she's magically thrown into the world of Partholon, where not only has she taken the place of Rhiannon, Goddess Incarnate and Epona's Chosen, but she's due to be married to a surly (but oh-so-handsome) High Shaman centaur, ClanFintan.
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Skip if rape is a trigger
- By Renee Smith on 12-11-19
By: P. C. Cast
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-13-21
Can’t Wait for More!
I can’t stop thinking about the story and the characters!! This book has everything a fantasy lover wants - characters that grab you, action, cool powers, good vs evil, and romance. The plot totally has me and I can’t wait for the next book!!
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- Samaritan
- 08-23-22
Cool introduction to a new series
This book opens the door to a rich world with fantasy trappings: a magic system with dark and light, swordplay, intelligent creatures, maybe a budding romance, destiny, and more. The world-building is rich and I enjoyed feeling "placed" into different scenes.
The narrator was slightly grandiose at times for my taste but his unique voices, the ease of telling different characters apart - that made up for it and he gets better. Not a lot of narrators place as much energy into varying the cast of characters, so kudos. (I forgot to write this review until after book 2 which is much better).
I found maps and character art on the author's web page - loved that.
Can't wait for the rest of the series!
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- Kern
- 04-09-21
What is the audio book version of a page turner?
I really enjoyed this book! I'm a Sci-fi guy from way back and rarely step over to the fantasy side of things. Tolkien and Lewis are about it. But VanGundy got me hooked on these characters from the very beginning. He's crafted a rich and vivid universe. Often an author has a good story to tell but needs several outings to fill out the world/universe his stories are set in. Here is a large, complex world I look forward to discovering as the series continues.
The narrator comes off as a little campy for my tastes. He does great voices for the various characters, but the narration of the action is a bit overwrought.
This book is written for adults or late teens and is not for the very young. As a paramedic I can see VanGundy's experience in emergency medicine in several scenes which accurately describe injuries and what they would like in the real world. For me, this adds to the richness of the narration, but I would not read this my kids as I would Lewis.
Bottom line: This is the audio book version of a page turner. Eager for rest of the series!
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- La
- 02-11-24
Fantasy comes to life!
The author wrote this in a way to bring the characters and mythical creatures come to life! The description of their activity is so precise, I could see it. This is a new type book for me I absolutely loved it and highly recommend it. I am now eagerly starting Book ll! This author has an incredible imagination!
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