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Phoebe Strole
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James Fouhey
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Sophie Jordan
About this listen
Destiny and darkness collide in this romantic, sweeping new fantasy series from New York Times best-selling author Sophie Jordan, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo.
Seventeen years ago an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead.
But that doesn't stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized.
With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.
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Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a drakia descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form.
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GREAT STORY! READ THE ABRIDGED VERSION THOUGH
- By JENNIFER WINTERS on 05-19-11
By: Sophie Jordan
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Everless
- By: Sara Holland
- Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
- Length: 10 hrs
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In the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency - extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one's own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings' palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night.
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Really solid YA
- By E. Zinnia on 01-14-18
By: Sara Holland
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Recurve
- The Elemental Series, Book 1
- By: Shannon Mayer
- Narrated by: Lauren Fortgang
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
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"My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental." My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. I've been accused of attacking the queen, my wicked stepmother, and my life is suddenly on the line. I have only two options left to me: banishment, or training to become one of the King's Elite Guards, an Ender. Option one will kill me. Option two is meant to break me, but is the only way to survive.
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Avatar on Steroids
- By MVA on 05-11-17
By: Shannon Mayer
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Hollen the Soulless
- Dokiri Brides, Book 1
- By: Denali Day
- Narrated by: Shane East
- Length: 19 hrs and 55 mins
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Always the dutiful daughter, Lady Joselyn is weeks away from marrying a rival lord in order to save her house. However, she suddenly finds herself in the clutches of an ancient beast she’s only ever heard of in legends. More terrifying than that is the beast’s master, a wild man who insists Joselyn is his bride by right, and plans to seal his claim in blood. Dragon-rider Hollen has finally captured the woman of his dreams, though he quickly learns waiting for her was less than half the battle.
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Love It!
- By Lily U. on 05-20-21
By: Denali Day
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Hunted
- By: Meagan Spooner
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld, Will Damron
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones - and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman.
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Slow but imaginative, a little unsatisfying
- By Emily on 07-31-20
By: Meagan Spooner
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The Vagrant
- By: Peter Newman
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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The Vagrant is his name. He has no other. Years have passed since humanity's destruction emerged from the Breach. Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape. A s each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity, bent and twisted by the new order, corrupted by the Usurper, the enemy, and his infernal horde. His purpose is to reach the Shining City, last bastion of the human race, and deliver the only weapon that may make a difference in the ongoing war.
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It was the concept and the prose that kept me goin
- By Alexandra on 08-18-15
By: Peter Newman
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Lichgates
- Book One of the Grimoire Saga
- By: S.M. Boyce
- Narrated by: Kara Kovacich Stewart
- Length: 13 hrs and 18 mins
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When Kara Magari uncovers a secret door in the middle of the forest, she discovers (and trips through) a portal to a hidden world full of terrifying things: Ourea. She just wants to go home, but the natives have other plans for her. She clashes with immortal shapeshifters, is carried off by a dragon, nearly dies on several occasions, and somehow becomes the master of an ancient book of magic called the Grimoire. Every time she thinks she's safe, her new "friends" show their true colors.
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A twisting tale
- By James on 11-19-15
By: S.M. Boyce
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The Captive Omnibus
- Books 1-3
- By: Erica Stevens
- Narrated by: Luci Christian
- Length: 23 hrs and 3 mins
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Books 1-3 of the Captive series. Blood slave. Captured, taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria's biggest fear is not the imminent death facing her but that she will be chosen as a blood slave for a member of the ruling vampire race.
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The Hero of the Book Is A Pedophile
- By Book Gobbler on 03-24-16
By: Erica Stevens
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Worldship: Udo the Digger
- Worldship, Book 1
- By: Joshua Gayou
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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Udo's biggest problem isn't being a digger (that's low class), or staying drunk (that's damn expensive), or avoiding the Dwergaz (they're monsters), or even pissing off the supposed Gods. It's that his reality...well, it isn't what he thought. And now, he can't even afford to drink because his so-called friend Nicz is cutting into his business, digging up tin, iron, and copper. So Udo forms a new plan: clay. After all, clay jars are used to store everything: meat, herbs, and, his personal favorite, ale.
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I am confused.
- By Ahkia on 06-02-20
By: Joshua Gayou
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The Inventor's Secret
- By: Andrea Cremer
- Narrated by: Leslie Bellair
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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In this world, sixteen-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees have scraped out an existence on the edge of Britain’s industrial empire. Though they live by the skin of their teeth, they have their health (at least when they can find enough food and avoid the Imperial Labor Gatherers) and each other. When a new exile with no memory of his escape or even his own name seeks shelter in their camp he brings new dangers with him and secrets about the terrible future that awaits all those who have struggled has to live free of the bonds of the empire’s Machineworks.
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Devolved into a 16 year old girls' love triangle
- By Amazon Customer on 06-17-21
By: Andrea Cremer
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The Fate's Forsaken Omnibus
- Books 1-2 and Prequel Novella
- By: Shae Ford
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 37 hrs and 58 mins
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Books 1, 2, and the prequel novella of the Fate's Forsaken series. The series follows the adventures of Kael: a young man who is thrust from his home in the Unforgivable Mountains and onto a hero's path. The journey is long, the battles are fierce - nearly all of his companions are outlaws. And Kael's rotten bad luck seems to make everything worse. This is his story.
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Fantasy with light romance
- By Skipper on 09-23-15
By: Shae Ford
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Sea of Shadows
- Age of Legends, Book 1
- By: Kelley Armstrong
- Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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In the Forest of the Dead, where the empire’s worst criminals are exiled, twin sisters Moria and Ashyn are charged with a dangerous task. For they are the Keeper and the Seeker, and each year they must quiet the enraged souls of the damned. Only this year, the souls will not be quieted. Ambushed and separated by an ancient evil, the sisters’ journey to find each other sends them far from the only home they’ve ever known.
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What happened???
- By Beth on 05-09-14
By: Kelley Armstrong
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The Oremere Chronicles Omnibus
- The Complete Series
- By: Helen Scheuerer
- Narrated by: Angele Masters
- Length: 52 hrs and 4 mins
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At 16, Bleak lost the only person she cared for when her mentor died at sea. Now 19, she still misses him terribly. She needs him more than ever. That’s why Bleak drinks. But the haze of the mead and wine has hidden something from her. Her powers have grown more than she knows. Others have noticed. When the king sends his top commander to take her, Bleak is too hungover to resist. But he isn’t the only one who needs her for their plans. What does he want?
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“Whut?”
- By Anonymous User on 02-08-23
By: Helen Scheuerer
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- Heather
- 05-06-16
Needs more background
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Overall, the book was okay. My first impression was a retold, darker version of Rapunzel and I had a hard time getting into it. I would have liked to known more about the eclipse, dwellers, and the current king's intentions. Why is he so threatened by Luna? He had no issue with her parents and killed them to obtain the throne. I understand she's heir but should be no match for him. Where did these dwellers come from? Were they once human and evolved into these blind, flesh eating monsters once the eclipse happened? The ending does give hope for a second book or continued series. Maybe more of a background will come from there.
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- Bookworm
- 02-21-16
Could have been better.
Reign of Shadows is a dark and mysterious retelling of Rapunzel. In this world, darkness rules for 23 hours a day because of an eclipse, leaving only an hour of daylight. During these 23 hours of darkness, creatures called dwellers emerge from the ground and roam the world, hunting all living beings as food. Meet our MC, Luna (aka Matt Murdock), a 17-year old blind princess who has grown up hiding in a tower under the care and tutelage of Perla and Sivo, the pair who rescued her from being murdered by the Chancellor who killed her parents and took their throne when she was a baby.
At the start of the story, Luna sneaks out of the tower to fetch a birthday present for Sivo, and stumbles into a young archer named Fowler and a pair of siblings, who are being attacked by Dwellers. Luna helps them and offers refuge in her tower. But the safety of the tower doesn't last, as they are attacked, and Fowler and Luna are forced to escape the tower in search of a rumored island free of dwellers. And then the rest of the story revolves around Luna and Fowler fighting for their lives and falling in love as they trek through the dangerous landscape. This is where the book suffers, because there's not much a plot or a resolution. The romance takes over, and though it's a decent romance (a bit insta-lovey but that's understandable given Luna's been locked up in a tower all her life), it left me wanting more from the story.
This dark world swarming with dwellers is, imo, a great and intriguing concept, but sadly it wasn't explored or explained. How did the dwellers come to be? Did they exist before the eclipse? How are trees and plants still around in a world with one hour of daylight?
And then there's Luna's blindness. Though she can't see, she is somehow an expert at throwing weapons, has augmented hearing and smell, she can travel unknown landscapes without tripping, and has an uncanny sense of direction; it's never explained how she can do these things. The author paints this as though Luna's blindness is what makes her strong and unique, suggesting her lack of sight is what improved her hearing and smell. I can see someone being more attentive/focused when you don't have sight to rely on, but that doesn't explain supernatural abilities; perhaps this will be revealed in the next book? Luna is a little too much of a selfless do-gooder, but I was ok with her. I really liked Fowler, he's a good romantic interest, and the author does a good job of differentiating his POV from Luna's. The one thing I did not like about Fowler was the occasional flowery monologue that sounded too feminine for a male character.
Bottom line: the plot and world building are lacking, but the characters and romance were decent enough to keep my interest. I plan on listening to the next one, whenever it comes out.
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- Diana Camila
- 03-16-16
It was amazing
It's like Rapunzel but not really I enjoyed the characters so much that I give it five stars because it was just amazing and I love it and if you love romance action and tree wolves and other monsters and murderers then you will love this book... It's totally worth a credit or to buy it's just amazing
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- RosePrincess
- 06-19-17
Rich Fantasy World Very Well Done
Well drawn fantasy world. Interesting character POVS. Well worth the read/listen. Romance wasn't high on my priority list here, but it's there, a little thick in a couple chapters, but otherwise not an impedement. Looking forward to the next book!
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- Natalie C
- 02-16-16
Romance is the only substance
The book is not bad. But I feel that I could have simply waited for the local library to make this book available rather than purchase it on audible. The book is more about developing the romance between the two main characters rather than what's going on in their world.
Hence, both spend a lot of time alone together on the road.
This is not to say I didn't like Luna and Fowler's developing relationship. Because I do. But I feel that that is the only draw this book has. And that may not be enough for most people especially if the reader wants to learn more about the book universe's history and culture.
It seems to me that the setting (a land in a perpetual solar eclipse) and the circumstance (Luna's a princess in hiding from the chancellor who murdered her parents and usurped the throne while Fowler has some of his secrets too) are nothing more than a prop for the romance.
Which does seem to leave a lot lacking in my opinion.
I'm interested enough in Luna and Fowler to see what happens in the next book. But I think I'll just borrow the next book in the library.
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- Eve
- 02-21-17
Fast listen
I enjoyed the story for sure and managed to listen to it in one sitting. I did find I enjoyed the female narrator a bit more though she just seemed to sound a bit younger compared to the male lead and the back and forth made me notice how much older he sounded for the 19 year old lead. I enjoyed his cadence and such but it would jar me a bit when it went back and forth between them as she just sounded more like the 17 year old then to someone more mature not bad just when back to back it drew my attention. Overall really enjoyed it and look forward to reading or listening to the next one.
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- JennyMarie
- 03-14-16
Loved it!
Love Phoebe Strole and LOVED this book. I can't wait to see what happens in the deep, dark, down under 😜
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