In the Shadow of the Palace
A Tide of Shadows, Book 1
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Elizabeth Saydah
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Eliza Andrews
About this listen
The one thing Cara knows about herself is that she doesn’t want to grow up to be a prostitute. But as the daughter of a prostitute, growing up in a brothel in one of the seediest districts of Port Lorsin, she has resigned herself to her fate. As soon as her monthly blood comes, she will follow in the footsteps of her mother.
But a client of her mother’s takes pity on Cara. Leveraging his status, he takes Cara somewhere she never thought she’d see up close: the palace of the House of Dorsa. When a crisis strikes, Cara finds herself thrust into the very center of palace politics. What comes next will change Cara—and the course of kingdom history—forever.
This book is the first in A Tide of Shadows, the prequel series to the Chronicles of Dorsa. You do NOT need to have listened to the Chronicles of Dorsa series first to enjoy In the Shadow of the Palace.
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Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier, but she's desperate to leave her haunted past in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside old friends...and old flames. Unfortunately, even the icy ocean can't extinguish some fires. When Kessandra, everyone's favorite princess—and Nix's loathed ex—requests Nix's help investigating a massacre in the abyssal city of Fall, Nix refuses. Vehemently. But Kessandra always gets what she wants.
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Boring romance fantasy action?????
- By Burnt Taco Meat on 01-22-24
By: Rebecca Thorne
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The Crimson Crown
- By: Heather Walter
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Legends tell of a witch who became a queen—the heartless villain in the story of Snow White. But now the wicked queen is stepping out of Snow White’s shadow to become the heroine of her own legend. Her real “once upon a time” begins when she is just Ayleth, a young witch who lives in the forest with her coven. The witches practice their magic in secret, hiding from the White King and his brutal war against witchcraft. Ayleth, however, faces a war of her own.
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it was good buuut
- By Anonymous User on 08-31-24
By: Heather Walter
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The Curse of the Goddess
- The Queen and the Heiress, Book 1
- By: C.C. González
- Narrated by: Ava Flynn
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The Oracle foretold that Princess Valda Aither of the Sky Kingdom would discover her mate on her twenty-fifth birthday. They would lock eyes and find each other, as has happened since the dawn of time. Valda desperately wanted to believe the Oracle, but her hopes of finding her soulmate were shattered when she inexplicably lost her vision during her birthday celebration. Needing time to heal and adapt to her new reality, she was assigned an assistant, a young woman named Maris Era, who set her body and mind ablaze.
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- By HelgaSwell86 on 01-03-25
By: C.C. González
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Contract Bound
- Blood Bound, Book 1
- By: Elle Mae
- Narrated by: Dana Dae, DaeTime Productions
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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If there is one thing you needed to know about me it is this: I hate vampires. They are useless, soul-sucking monsters that destroy everything in their path, even my own family. I joined The Order and became a vampire hunter for revenge, but I never would have guessed that my job would entail baby-sitting the vampire heir to the most powerful clan in the world. And if she thought I was going to break like the other hunters she has been through... she has another thing coming to her.
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Ew, the moans are too much, good thing thats the only thing bad about the performance.
- By Benjamin on 02-11-25
By: Elle Mae
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- P. Fos
- 12-06-24
Finding love and yourself
I loved this whole series. This author has a specific story lone in mind, and it's town and people, and she stays true to it. Well written, I have found all the Dorsa novels to be engaging, this one was like an extra treat added on top. Please write more like these, I love the castle and knights type stories.
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- Аmazon Customer
- 12-11-24
Chef’s Kiss
A master class of epic story telling!
It’s been some time since I’ve listened to the Dorsa series, so I’d forgotten how much I loved Eliza Andrews’ writing.
This one is a roller coaster ride of events! The story is just so well fleshed out- characters, world, storyline- all of it is chef’s kiss. If you want to take a journey and be fully immersed in quality story telling, this is for you. It can be enjoyed as a standalone as well. This made me want to go back and re-listen to the others just to envelop myself in this world again.
Narration 10/10 as always
Story 10/10 as always
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- DB
- 03-23-24
Excellent
Chronicles of Dorsa is one of my favorite series, so it's blissful to be back in that world but awash in a completely different story. This is the foundational book of what promises to be another great series. The plot and its twists are well formed. The characters are well developed, with plenty to love and plenty to hate...and even some in between. The ending leaves you begging for more. I can't wait!
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- joyce ann miller
- 01-14-24
Can’t wait for the sequel
Love all her books. This one left me wanting more. Since it is book 1of the series, I am anxiously awaiting the next book
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- Rachel Montgomery
- 12-30-23
Another bingeworthy book
Overall, amazing, captivating, suspenseful story with just the right amount of authentic queer love. The crossover of the storyline from Chronicles of Dorsa is hard for me because I have to reimagine Dorsa and the princess while I am still mentally wanting to know what happen next with Runaway Queen Adela. Outside of my personal struggle to have the storylines cross, the story was great and I look foreword to hearing what comes next for the main characters.
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- TWG
- 03-12-24
What a banger of a story!
Great narration! Another amazing story by Eliza Andrews. The characters are layered and fascinating, pacing is perfect. Just fantastic!
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- kelly
- 01-09-24
This book brings to life the capital and its’s history
The imagery is incredible and the story line is both familiar and very new…with depth and differences from the Princess Dorsa series that allowed me to both continue the series I love while experiencing a brand new story. I can’t wait for the next one!
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- ThatOneChick
- 02-23-24
Pestilence, Dark and Gritty, couldn’t put it down!
First and foremost I was not prepared for the description of the wide spread plague to really trigger some good o’ memories of 2020 and Covid but I find it fantastic that Andrews was able to really capture that in the book. Andrews was able to really transport me as a reader into that world more than I feel like they’d done in the past. Maybe because I find Cara so relatable? I’m not sure but I am very happy to have read/listened to this book and I cannot wait for the next.
The book starts smoothly, building the back story of Cara and really letting you get to know her perfectly before it thrusts her forward into a crazy situation.
The story becomes dark and dramatic thrilling and had me on the edge of my seat.
I highly recommend the “Chronicles of Dorsa”anytime anyone asks for book recommendations but now I will be recommending the “A Tide of Shadows” as well!
Bravo Eliza Andrews. Fantastic as always!
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- C.S.L
- 07-18-24
I Fuking, LOVE!!! THIS BOOK DON'T CHANGE THE NARRATOR!!! FOR THE NEXT ONE KEEP THE SAME NARRATOR!!!!!!
okay so cuz it's just so much to cover and I've done this thing over like five times because I can't get it right let's see if I can get it right this time. and sorry for any mistakes. and this is long I'm not sorry. LOL if anyone reads all of this and can understand it cuz it's like 1:00 in the morning you guys are awesome.
had to cut this the full review will be on on Goodreads if you want to read the rest.
should you buy this book hell to the Fucking yes you should buy this book.
did I like the narrator
yes I Fucking love the narrator she was amazing no one else can read this series you hear me audible when the next book in this series come out it better be the same woman. who did the entire series I'm going to be unhappy about it if I get someone else who's doing the reading because let me tell you something the entire performance made me feel like there are multiple people reading this book and it was not it was just ONE.
Her male voices sound like men with different accents different speeches because not everybody speaks the same and most of the men in here a common folk with no education and the ones that do a royalty in the way she balances back and forth between that is amazing and then all the women don't sound like they all have different dialogues different personalities different sass to them it's just was amazing and it just felt alive like reading this on an Eform or even as a book you can kind of imagine your voices. but when you get a really good amazing narrator it just takes and shoots it out of the sky a good narrator will make your book amazing a bad one will break it this one took it to the moon to the stars and then wrapped it around earth that is what this narrator did so no one else can read for this for the series and I mean that seriously no one else.
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there are a lot of characters in here but I'm just going to talk about my favorites. Fin and Cara are the main heroes in the story Cara is where the story picks up on is how the story starts with she is a daughter of a sex worker and because of that she lived her entire life in a brothel I was very shocked by that opening I wasn't expecting the darkness or the cringe-worthy of a young girl barely 18 a child for that matter living in that type of environment being exposed to that type of stuff but it's supposed to make you uncomfortable you're not supposed to like what you reading or what you're hearing and to see where she started and to see where she ended up fabulous.
I'm not too thrilled about what happened with her direction but I'm hoping she doesn't end up doing what she is supposed to do.
I'm hoping that doesn't happen but I won't be surprised if it does because this author is very realistic and she's not going to just not do it. So I'm trying not to give spoilers away. even though this book been out for a while but yet other than that direction that cara goes to at the end of the book I still am really enjoyed her character design and all the kind of switches it up between this book and her other series were in the other series princess of Dorsa that princess in there was very spoiled from what I remember it's been a while since. I read the first book she very naive of the real world and how things work as in this princess is the opposite she knows how this stuff works she understands the underbelly of the world and because of that she has a different look on things and I think that stands out very well. For Finn I absolutely loved Finn's character design. I'm hoping will happen with Finn concerned at the end of this book but at the beginning of this journey with Finn is a tomboy who likes to dress up in men's clothes who was born with a disability. one of her leg is 2 inches shorter than her actual normal leg and it's also bend the ankle is turned inward which makes her walk with the permanent limp and because of these things on top of the fact that Finn is also gay makes her stand out no one knows about her being gay.
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- Georgia
- 12-07-24
Amazing 👏
I loved ever second and I get bored with books in slow spots. Elizabeth Andrews is absolutely one of the best authors I have ever read!
you will not be disdisappointed.
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