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House of Bane and Blood

Order and Chaos Series, Book 1

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House of Bane and Blood

By: Alexis Menard
Narrated by: Jacci Prior, James Cavenaugh
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In a city split into two opposing sides, power comes in many forms: bloodlines, money, love, and—most importantly—secrets.

An heiress in the most notorious family in Lynchaven, Camilla Marchese is doing all she can to keep her family's syndicate, the Iron Saint Railway, from slipping into bankruptcy. When the gorgeous and depraved Nicolai Attano, the leader of a rival family, offers to pay off the inspector in exchange for her hand, she has no choice but to give up not only her throne—but her name.

Nico has his own motivations for their union beyond maintaining peace with her family. A serial kidnapper known as The Collector has been ravaging the streets of Remnant Row, stirring up mistrust between natives and descendants. If Milla can help restore safety to his streets, he'll have no need for her or her family's company. Find the Collector, prevent a war between their sides of the city, and pay off the family debt before she turns twenty-one. If Milla can fulfill her end of the bargain, she'll walk away with more freedom than she's ever had before.

This deal plunges Milla into the city's dark underbelly where remnant magic and arcane science compete in a deadly game of depravity. When forbidden feelings rise for her new husband and dark family secrets come to light, Milla must discover the truth about her past before it gets them both killed or worse—collected.

Set in a post-industrial age setting on a magical isle, Peaky Blinders meets the magic system of the Grishaverse in this rivals-to-lovers adult fantasy romance.

©2023 Alexis L. Menard (P)2024 Podium Audio
Fantasy Gaslamp Romance Fiction City

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Amazing narration!

The narrators really brought this story to life! So well done. Can't wait for the next book!

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ENCASED!!!

I could see and feel ever detail of this story. ACTOR meets my favorite man of all time from Peaky Blinders. This was delicious and I am DYING for the next release!!!!! Bring on City of Mirth!!!

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Enjoyable

Overall, this was a great listen. My only issue is that it seemed a bit familiar. More and more stories like this are saturating the genre. Some are terribly written and lose plot to overdo spice. This story does not fall into this category. Decent plot, great character development, and general writing ability. There's not too much spice, but the slow burn is pretty good. Although, I have no clue why the author chose the female main character's kink. I have noticed more books including this particular kink, and, to me it's just unappealing. After all the great steamy build up and then the bizarre pivot into a kink that seemed forced, I was disappointed. Anyway, the story was good though. I kind of felt like ACOTAR and Crescent City got together with a little Steampunk and had a baby with the storyline. I'll most likely continue the series.

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Outstanding

Can’t wait for book two, I loved the book but hate that book two was not available to follow up on the story. I hope it comes out soon before I get caught up in other audio books and forget about this one and how Camila story ends.

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The story, characters and narrators were fantastic!

I had such a good time listening to this book! The narrators did a wonderful job, the characters and banter between them was fantastic, and the story overall was a good time. Well done everyone!

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REFRESHING STORY WITH AMAZING NARRATION!

Holy CRAP. This book absolutely blew me away. If you are looking for mafia romance vibes, plus industrial vibes, and an enemies to lovers romance, then this book is for you. The duet narration is amazingly done and I loved listening to them tell the story that I grew to love.

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syndicate romance, enemies to lovers, slow burn

syndicate romance, enemies to lovers, slow burn, peaky blinders aesthetic, Russian mob vibes. MMC Anakin Skywalker coded.

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I. Am. Here. For. This. Peaky blinders meets magic meets amazing narration

Originally I read this book on my kindle. I'd had it preordered for a few months and had my own little countdown for it to come out. Guess what?!? It was so good that I had to buy it in print to live in my bookshelf as the trophy it is. But then. Then the audiobook came out and as a person who lives for audiobooks I had it preordered the day it was announced. And the narrations just adds so freaking much to this book. Sometimes I don’t love when women do male voices or when men do female voices but this time both were phenomenal. Sometimes I found myself asking “wait is this a duet” (it’s not).

Now I'm not going to give you a big ol' review, there are people who are way better at that stuff but I will tell you that this book was like reading a fantasy Peaky Blinders and I AM HERE. FOR. IT. 5 Stars. Take all my money. I can't wait for the next book.

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Amazing!!

Great book. Binged it in like 2 days somehow. Fantastic narration. I need book 2 immediately!!!!

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The VA for Nicolai 🤤😰

This was an interesting and original take on an overly saturated genre.

The only reason I can’t rate this 5 stars is because Camilla took a little too long to grow on me.

I would classify this as more of historical fantasy than romantasy, but that’s just me.

A solid 4 star read, and that epilogue…. I’m glad I was given an Advance Reader’s copy of The City of Mirth and Malice!

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