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Battlemage
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
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"I can command storms, summon fire and unmake stone," Balfruss growled. "It's dangerous to meddle with things you don't understand."
Balfruss is a battlemage, sworn to fight and die for a country that fears and despises his kind.
Vargus is a common soldier - while mages shoot lightning from the walls of the city, he's down in the front lines getting blood on his blade.
Talandra is a princess and spymaster, but the war may force her to risk everything and make the greatest sacrifice of all.
Magic and mayhem collide in this explosive epic fantasy from a major new talent.
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Akiri is a blistering new heroic fantasy novel from the multiple award-winning international best sellers Brian D. Anderson and Steven Savile who have come together to create the first adrenalin-filled standalone novel in Akiri's tortured world. Can one betrayal can save a kingdom? Will two destroy it?
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Buy this story!!!
- By wlantz on 11-02-16
By: Brian D. Anderson, and others
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Tower of the Forgotten
- The Tainted Cabal Prequel Novella
- By: Mitchell Hogan
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Niklaus, master swordsman, has not aged a day since being chosen by his mercurial goddess. A slave to her will, he moves from one cryptic mission to the next in the hope of ascending to become her equal. But even a man who has lived for centuries can sometimes find himself out of his depth. When Niklaus is sent to kill a sorcerer of the Tainted Cabal, overconfidence leads to a fatal mistake, and neither experience nor skill with a blade can prevail against the forces unleashed against him.
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What's Next?
- By James on 06-04-17
By: Mitchell Hogan
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Wytchfire
- The Dragonkin Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Michael Meyerhofer
- Narrated by: Craig Beck
- Length: 11 hrs and 34 mins
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In a land haunted by the legacy of dead dragons, Rowen Locke has been many things: orphan, gravedigger, mercenary. All he ever wanted was to become a Knight of Crane and wield a kingsteel sword against the kind of grown horrors his childhood knows all too well. But that dream crumbled - replaced by a new nightmare. War is overrunning the realms, an unprecedented duel of desire and revenge, steel and sorcery. And for one disgraced man who would be a knight, in a world where no one is blameless, the time has come to decide which side he's on.
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Can't judge a book by it's cover.
- By Fantasy Reader on 08-29-15
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Throne of the Crescent Moon
- By: Saladin Ahmed
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master thief known as the Falcon Prince. In the midst of this brewing rebellion a series of brutal supernatural murders strikes at the heart of the Kingdoms. It is up to a handful of heroes to learn the truth behind these killings: Doctor Adoulla Makhslood, Raseed bas Raseed, Adoulla’s young assistant, and Zamia Badawi, Protector of the Band.
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A welcome new voice in fantasy, read with aplomb
- By Samuel Montgomery-Blinn on 02-07-12
By: Saladin Ahmed
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I, Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire
- Ravenloft: Strahd, Book 1
- By: P. N. Elrod
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no ornate illuminations, no fussy borders, only lines of plain text in hard black ink. The flowing handwriting was a bit difficult to follow at first; the writer's style of calligraphy had not been in common use for 300 years. No table of contents, but from the dates it looked to be some kind of history.
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Love it...just one complaint....
- By Ryan Conrad on 03-15-14
By: P. N. Elrod
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Web of Eyes
- By: Rhett C. Bruno, Jaime Castle
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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When a piece of the crown prince's soul is stolen by a traitorous warlock, disgraced knight Torsten Unger makes it his sworn duty to get it back and save the last hope for the kingdom. But he can't do it alone. Self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Thief" Whitney Fierstown sits in the castle dungeon, destined for the gallows until Torsten offers this choice: rot and die in a dank cell or join him on a dangerous expedition to put his skills to good use and earn his freedom.
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A Fantasy Version of 48 Hours
- By John Kang on 12-24-18
By: Rhett C. Bruno, and others
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Rosemarked
- By: Livia Blackburne
- Narrated by: Angela Lin, Vikas Adam
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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When Zivah falls prey to the deadly rose plague, she knows it's only a matter of time before she fully succumbs. Now she's destined to live her last days in isolation, cut off from her people and unable to practice her art - until a threat to her village creates a need that only she can fill. Broken by torture at the hands of the Amparan Empire, Dineas thirsts for revenge against his captors. Now escaped and reunited with his tribe, he'll do anything to free them from Amparan rule - even if it means undertaking a plan that risks not only his life but his very self.
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My first book review ever (CONTAINS SPOILERS)
- By Ileana on 11-21-17
By: Livia Blackburne
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Cry Havoc
- Jack Frey, Book 1
- By: Mike Morris
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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They say when the demons come, you either fight or you die.The Black Dogs know this all too well. For three hundred years, the warrior priests have sacrificed their lives to keep the island nation of Abios safe from the flesh-eating Nostros, while the rest of the world fell under the demons' savagery. However, an armada now stands poised to invade mankind's last bastion.
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truly evil enemies
- By VJG on 02-01-18
By: Mike Morris
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The Mortal Tally
- By: Sam Sykes
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
- Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
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Cier'Djaal, once the crowning glory of the civilized world, has gone from a city to a battlefield and a battlefield to a graveyard. Foreign armies clash relentlessly on streets laden with the bodies of innocents caught in the crossfire. Cultists and thieves wage shadow wars, tribal armies foment outside the city's walls, and haughty aristocrats watch the world burn from on high. As his companions struggle to keep the city from destroying itself, Lenk travels to the Forbidden East in search of the demon who caused it all. But even as he pursues Khoth-Kapira, dark whispers plague his thoughts.
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Great Middle Entry
- By Casey on 04-15-18
By: Sam Sykes
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Children of Fire
- The Chaos Born, Book 1
- By: Drew Karpyshyn
- Narrated by: Phil Gigante
- Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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Long ago the gods chose a great hero to act as their agent in the mortal world and to stand against the demonic spawn of Chaos. The gods gifted their champion, Daemron, with three magical Talismans: a sword, a ring, and a crown. But the awesome power at his command corrupted Daemron, turning him from savior to destroyer. Filled with pride, he dared to challenge the gods themselves. Siding with the Chaos spawn, Daemron waged a titanic battle against the Immortals. In the end, Daemron was defeated, the Talismans were lost, and Chaos was sealed off behind the Legacy - a magical barrier the gods sacrificed themselves to create.
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Not a Good Book - Amateurish and Derivative
- By Grace Ausley on 01-06-14
By: Drew Karpyshyn
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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
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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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- Binlin
- 11-16-15
Great book
This was a great audiobook. The narrator did a great job! Story line was well written by the author.
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- Edgar
- 05-25-16
A little slow.
Story line good, story too slow. Performance was nice, characters made to come to life, once again, too slow.
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- Alma
- 05-10-21
Mediocre at best
I feel like this book bounced around a whole lot, and wasn’t clear when on when it changed characters.. Wish I hadn’t have wasted my time and money on this book, based on this one I will not be buying any more of Stephen Aryan stuff.
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- Alex Nordgrän
- 01-12-21
Felt Like A Lot
This idea of this story was interesting, covering the viewpoints of several people amidst a raging war. It was a change to listen to a story that was all about a war and how the characters handle the differently situations they are put up against.
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It was a bit much to deal with not only 3 main characters, but several side characters as well. Upon listening, I recall meeting at least over 10 different characters and experience the world in their perspectives. It was difficult to keep track of who was who, and the story often times jumped from one character to the next in the same chapter.
Magic in this world is interesting; a battlemage possess the ability to access the energy that ties all things together, and shape that energy into whatever they can imagine. Yes, it is stated that mages have a limit of this energy they can access before it kills them, but honestly, that limit didn't seem very limited at all. The battlemages were extremely powerful, and it's no wonder that the immortals fear that the mages would claim themselves as gods. It seemed extremely easy for a mage to go beyond their limits and survive. Limits are suppose to be in place to prevent someone from becoming godly, but that didn't seem like a thing.
This book was also in an section for supporting LGBTQIA+, a couple characters give the idea they are gay, but turns out only one is, and it's the princess. And even then, she can't be with the one she loves? She had to cast her lover aside, for viable reasons, but it just felt like the writer didn't want to show actual gay lovers. He would rather talk about tits and men laying with women.
In the end, the story was flooded with characters and useless information. The ending felt rushed, though left open, there isn't really much else to deal with when the evil, crazy, emporer is dead.
I love magic and battles, but I expected more. And would like to read more about gay relationships that are allowed to happen, instead of just being cast aside, like in almost every book I've read that claimed to support the LGBT.
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- Mario
- 10-09-15
It's Good But Why Should I Care.....
What made the experience of listening to Battlemage the most enjoyable?
Matt Addis's performance is what made this book enjoyable.
Would you recommend Battlemage to your friends? Why or why not?
Yes.... If they like Game of Thrones.....
That should say it all
Have you listened to any of Matt Addis’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
No...
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
There are a lot of moments that made really feel apart of the world. Anytime Vargus talked about brotherhood I felt like I was there apart of something bigger
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My problem with this book is how much of a downer it ends on. If your a fan of game of thrones this will be right up your ally.
This is suppose to be the first part of a trilogy but having read the description of the next and knowing I will be dealing with new characters with new issues I just don't know why I should care.
The books greatest weakness is the fair number of segments that could have been cutout. They makes the book feel longer than it is and more than once I checked to see how much time was left. Sadly most of the are Talandra POV so at first I thought I just didn't like Talandra herself.
I really don't know what to make of this book but again I say if you like game of thrones and want something like that but with more magic then this would be a good choice.
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- Lasheida
- 09-14-16
Awesome book
I really enjoyed this audio book! I do have to add in my two cents about a few misleading reviews. I noticed that a lot of reviews are saying that this is like Game of Thrones and so on....The only thing this story and GOT have in common are British voices and swords. However, if one is familiar with the lore from Bioware's Dragon Age, then you will notice a lot of similarities with the mention of fear of mages, the maker, the veil and more...this just has a lot more gore :).
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- J. Payne Jr.
- 01-09-19
Straight fire
Loved it. And I finish in a place where it can be a one off or series.
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- Jason
- 04-25-24
Nice writing but bad story
Some very good, vivid writing but the story itself wasn't great. The author did manage to pull together an emotionally satisfying ending but the journey getting there was depressing. It was such a slog to get to the end that I can't recommend it. I was originally going to give it one or two stars but the ending was tight and rewarding so I'm giving it 3.
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- DangFineGuy
- 10-21-15
Outstanding Story & Performance
This book was a pleasant surprise. The author did an outstanding job of creating interesting and fully fleshed out protagonists, and placed them into a well thought out conflict. The performance was well done but not acted out, and refreshingly free of mispronounced words.
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- Kyle
- 11-08-15
Awesome book! Would have made an amazing trilogy.
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Great listen! Matt Addis performs masterfully. Stephen Aryan paints the story so vividly you can see it easily in your mind. The only thing that could have made this story better was if it had been in three parts. I want more!
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