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- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jen Williams
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- By Renae on 09-09-22
By: Jen Williams
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The Disappearances
- By: Emily Bain Murphy
- Narrated by: Devon Sorvari
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Aila Quinn's mother, Juliet, has always been a mystery. Vibrant yet guarded, she keeps her secrets beyond Aila's reach. When Juliet dies, Aila and her younger brother, Miles, are sent to live in Sterling, a rural town with mysteries of its own. In Sterling, the experiences that weave life together - scents of flowers and food, reflections from mirrors and lakes, even the ability to dream - vanish every seven years. No one knows what causes these Disappearances or what will slip away next.
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Always
- By Lisa Gay on 09-09-17
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Dog Wizard
- By: Barbara Hambly
- Narrated by: Nicole Poole
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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The Citadel of Wizards was under siege. Deep in the Vaults beneath the walled city, gates into inhuman realities were opening and closing without warning. Monsters emerged from other dimensions; and ancient, malign magics came to life under the influence of cosmic chaos. Someone was tampering with the Void. The Council of Wizards blamed Antryg Windrose, the rebel mage who had fled their justice to find haven in the City of Angels.
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Kept my interest
- By Kenneth on 06-27-13
By: Barbara Hambly
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The Glass Spare
- By: Lauren DeStefano
- Narrated by: Billie Fulford-Brown
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Wilhelmina Heidle, the fourth child and only daughter of the king of the world's wealthiest nation, has grown up in the shadows. Kept hidden from the world in order to serve as a spy for her father - whose obsession with building his empire is causing a war - Wil wants nothing more than to explore the world beyond her kingdom, if only her father would give her the chance. Until one night Wil is attacked, and she discovers a dangerous secret. Her touch turns people into gemstone.
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Story doesn’t finish (and a warning for parents)
- By GLENNO on 03-17-22
By: Lauren DeStefano
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Fire and Bone
- By: Rachel A. Marks
- Narrated by: Will Damron, Kate Rudd
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Sage is eighteen, down on her luck, and struggling to survive on the streets of Los Angeles. Everything changes the night she's invited to a party - one that turns out to be a trap. Thrust into a magical world hidden within the City of Angels, Sage discovers that she's the daughter of a Celtic goddess, with powers that are only in their infancy. Now that she is of age, she's asked to pledge her service to one of the five deities, all keen on winning her favor by any means possible.
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Outstanding !!
- By Kindle Customer on 02-06-19
By: Rachel A. Marks
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Bloodleaf
- By: Crystal Smith
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
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Princess Aurelia is a prisoner to her crown and the heir that nobody wants. Surrounded by spirits and banned from using her blood-magic, Aurelia flees her country after a devastating assassination attempt. To escape her fate, Aurelia disguises herself as a commoner in a new land and discovers a happiness her crown has never allowed. As she forges new bonds and perfects her magic, she begins to fall for a man who is forbidden to rule beside her.
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Not Understanding All the Praise
- By GPChlorine on 08-23-19
By: Crystal Smith
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The Last Namsara
- By: Kristen Ciccarelli
- Narrated by: Pearl Mackie
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In the beginning there was the Namsara: the child of sky and spirit who carried love and laughter wherever he went. But where there is light, there must be darkness - and so there was also the Iskari. The child of blood and moonlight. The destroyer. The death bringer. These are the legends that Asha, daughter of the king of Firgaard, has grown up learning in hushed whispers, drawn to the forbidden figures of the past. But it isn't until she becomes the fiercest, most feared dragon slayer in the land that she takes on the role of the next Iskari.
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Amazing book
- By Bladedragon on 10-20-17
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The Shadow Queen
- By: C. J. Redwine
- Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
- Length: 11 hrs and 29 mins
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Lorelai Diederich, crown princess and fugitive at large, has one mission: kill the wicked queen who took both the Ravenspire throne and her father's life. To do that, Lorelai needs to use the one weapon she and Queen Irina have in common - magic. She'll have to be stronger, faster, and more powerful than Irina, the most dangerous sorceress Ravenspire has ever seen.
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I wish a had read the book.
- By Jennifer on 08-20-16
By: C. J. Redwine
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The Soldier's Wife
- By: Margaret Leroy
- Narrated by: Alison Larkin
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As World War II draws closer and closer to Guernsey, Vivienne de la Mare knows that there will be sacrifices to be made. Not just for herself, but for her two young daughters and for her mother-in-law, for whom she cares while her husband is away fighting. What she does not expect is that she will fall in love with one of the enigmatic German soldiers who take up residence in the house next door to her home. As their relationship intensifies, so do the pressures on Vivienne.
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Fail
- By Simone on 08-01-15
By: Margaret Leroy
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Ironskin
- By: Tina Connolly
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
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Jane Eliot wears an iron mask. It's the only way to contain the fey curse that scars her cheek. The Great War is five years gone, but its scattered victims remain—the ironskin. When a carefully worded listing appears for a governess to assist with a “delicate situation”—a child born during the Great War—Jane is certain the child is fey-cursed, and that she can help.
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Light Fantasy With A Compelling Story
- By Jeff Jackson on 11-14-12
By: Tina Connolly
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Wintersong
- By: S. Jae-Jones
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
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All her life, 19-year-old Liesl has heard tales of the beautiful, mysterious Goblin King. He is the Lord of Mischief, the Ruler Underground, and the muse around which her music is composed. Yet, as Liesl helps shoulder the burden of running her family's inn, her dreams of composition and childish fancies about the Goblin King must be set aside in favor of more practical concerns. But when her sister Kathe is taken by the goblins, Liesl journeys to their realm to rescue her sister and return her to the world above.
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Muddled
- By Ingrid on 03-13-17
By: S. Jae-Jones
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- Emily
- 11-06-22
A Spooky Gothic Time...
The was one of my most anticipated reads from 2021 and it didn't disappoint. This is all about those bleak, dark and tragic gothic vibes paired with painful beauty. You get lovely descriptions of beautiful flowers in the secret garden, moonlit kisses, and Violetta's new lace dresses and then in the next scene are met with viscous mud, dark water running down walls, and blood sacrifice. The atmosphere is top notch and it's definitely a little creepy at times.
The one thing that did annoy me was Violetta herself. She is so self-sacrificing and self-righteous that she annoyed the living daylights out of me at certain points in the book. She kept doing stupid things and seemed to insist that only she could do anything of note. But I will say, her romance with Rowan was absolutely adorable. Their banter was so entertaining.
Overall, this did end up feeling like a very dramatic and dark mixture of "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Secret Garden." It was good and I would read the second one, though Violetta isn't a heroine I'm keen to read from again anytime soon.
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- Jbay
- 08-22-23
An unwinding family tragedy
A Beautifully sketched tale from past to future. A family saga unraveled with delicate timing.
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- Cheri Smith
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the voice acting
the story was meh for me but the voice acting was great. 2-3 stars for me.
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- A.R. Greyson
- 05-17-22
Insufferable main character.
The main character is insufferable. She treats everyone disrespectfully, even her brother, who she'd supposedly do anything for. She ignores him when he tells her to stop and what he wants. She loses it, going way beyond hysterical, and attacks the male lead when she sees him walking with her brother and a woman she seems to trust upon first meeting her. And for some reason, everyone loves her even when they are temporarily upset with her. Though she doesn't even need to apologize and can keep making the same "mistakes" and bad judgment calls over and over and over, and still earns their forgiveness.
The male lead just randomly falls in love with her even though she's unhinged and keeps secrets just cuz she wants to and doesn't have any reason to. It doesn't make any sense why she expects everyone to just trust her when she doesn't trust them enough to tell them anything they deserve to know.
I also didn't understand how she went through the first third of the book acting like she didn't know what she did a few years prior, and then suddenly she just remembers all the details after acting clueless for so long. it doesn't make any sense for her to pretend to herself she didn't know any of it for so much of the book, only to spend the next third of the book, intentionally keeping every detail about it from everyone else and then slowly telling them a few details here and there.
And somehow the end of the book reveals that she's the most special snowflake to ever exist, and she acts like she also knew that the entire time. This could have been a great gothic story if the brother had been the main character and Letta just never existed.
The amount of time the word "litany" is used in this book is over the top. After a while, it felt like it was at least once a page or more.
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