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Tamed by the Troll

The Perished Woods, Book 1

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Tamed by the Troll

By: Tracy Lauren
Narrated by: John Masterson, Allison River
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Once the belle of her village, life took a dark turn for Adelaide upon her parent's death. Plagued by lingering grief, there was not a soul who didn't turn their back on her. They called her angry and spiteful . . . Hell, they called her a monster.

One fateful day Adelaide finds herself alone, lingering on the edge of the Perished Woods—a cursed and evil place. Without warning, an orc army attacks.

Her village ablaze, Adelaide races into the Perished Woods, seeking refuge in a place of nightmares. With orcs at her heels, she's desperate to escape. But when the young woman crosses an aging stone bridge in the middle of the cursed forest she's met with an even more fearsome enemy. A troll . . . one who is determined to save her.

©2019 Tracy Lauren (P)2024 Tantor Media Fantasy
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Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Chemistry: 🧪🧪🧪🧪
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙃🙁😀
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Adelaide - her parents died a year ago. She lives in her parents thatched roof cottage home with her aunt Celia. The villagers say that the house is filled with ghosts, but Adelaide knows that it isn’t. Celia moved in after her parents died, supposedly to help her out. In reality Celia was just another in a long line of people who just wanted her parents' home and land. Celia treats Adelaide like a slave, though Adelaide fights against Celia’s attempts to rule her. Celia often tells Adelaide to go off into The Perished Woods and live with the monsters. The villagers also judge Adelaide when she angrily rebukes her aunt, they see only her actions, not her aunts.

The Story: When a horde of Orcs attack her village burning everything in their path, killing and raping as they go. Adelaide runs into The Perished Woods, it was not a typical forest, since it is the home of monsters, a portal to their accursed lands. She knows of the terrible things that happen to women at the hands of the Orcs, so she would rather brave The Perished Woods and try to find her way to Ellen, her other aunt who was once nice to her. She runs and tries to stay ahead of the Orcs when she hears an Orc battle cry behind her. Instead, she runs right into a giant Troll who grabs her and takes her to his lair.

The Hero: Brom - his home is hidden by enchantments in The Perished Woods. His larder contains vials of powders and potions, his precious magic stores that are dwindling. When he saves the human from the Orcs, he has to make sure that the black magic of the Orcs doesn’t get inside him and uses some of his healing potion to get it out. Even the smallest cut from an Orcs blade can kill someone within a day. He tells the human that she belongs to him now since she crossed his bridge without paying the toll.

I liked Adelaide at first when she fought back against her aunt, though for some reason I didn’t like her as much when she fought back against Brom. I think it was because she called him names, like oaf and said things like he is an animal, and other things like that. Not that he was nice to her, he expected her to be a servant to him, so it was right that she fought against being a slave. I just didn’t really like the way she did it.

Adelaide starts out as someone easy to root for—defiant against injustice, refusing to be crushed under Celia's heel. But when she fights Brom, her approach shifts, and it changes how I connected with her. It makes sense; defiance alone doesn’t always make a character likable. How they express it, the emotional undertones, and the level of respect they show—especially to someone who isn’t just another petty oppressor—can alter the way we perceive them. She also tells Brom a lie and doesn’t fess up for far too long.

Adelaide’s insults toward Brom felt less like righteous rebellion and more like misplaced hostility. I expected her to resist in a way that was more strategic, or even grudgingly respectful, given the strange circumstances. She’s in survival mode, sure, but her words might have cheapened the tension between them rather than making her feel powerful in the moment. Though I admit that once they became friends and stopped always arguing and baiting each other, the story got much better, though it was a bit of a slow burn and the story moved about as slowly as the romance, I wanted more action, but it was good enough that I will continue on with this series.

This audiobook was narrated from multiple perspectives, done in dual narration by Allison River and John Masterson. I like Allison Rivers voice; it is soft and feminine. You she does a good job, though isn’t one of my favorite narrators. John Masterson has a super deep voice which I really like for the Troll male, and he speaks in a slow, measured way that just makes them sound more authentic for some reason.

My first troll romance!

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Ummm this was amazing and I will never get over how unbelievably beautiful their love is!!!

Why am I crying but also aroused 😅🖤🥹

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I am so happy I started this series. Tracy Lauren is a top favorite scifi author of mine and I loved this!

The Perished Woods starts with Adelaide and Brom (the Troll). When Adelaide’s village is attacked by an Orc Army, Adelaide makes a run for the Perished Woods. Normally avoiding the woods where the beats reside, she runs for safety and ends up running g across a bridge and right into our super grumpy MMC

Adelaide and Brom are flawed characters and I love seeing their growth throughout the story. This is not an instalove type of story, these characters really had to work for it and I find that extremely refreshing. I loved the writing, story flow, slow burn and the HEA. I also enjoyed the narration, I feel it fit the characters very well.

Tamed by the Troll

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Nice story, good buildup, very fairytale like. I would recomended fairytale readers to read this one , very sweet and whole heartedly story

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A delightful tale, about a young girl’s life full of anger, worry and work. Then Orcs attack her home in village, attacking the women and then killing all the people they find. She runs into the.Perished Woods, even though she knows that it is not safe there. But what choice does she have? If she stays, she’ll be attacked and then killed. So she runs for her life. Only to cross a bridge guarded by a vicious Troll. This is a delightful book and hope you will take a chance and read it.

Tamed By The Troll by Tracy Lauren (The Perished Wood Series book 1)

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I read a variety of genera’s but never this, I usually ready historical romance, rom coms or thrillers but sometimes crave something different. I tried something similar a while back and DNF a chapter in but decided to keep going with this one and it was better than ok although not my favorite. I have tried a few fantasy books but the only one I have ever finished was Quicksilver and it’s one of my favorite books ever. I may try the next in the series the next time I want a break from my usual, I see from reviews that most like it better. Although I think I will stick with traditional reading, the male narrator was a little odd. The cadence was strange. I think he narrates the series.

Not my usual

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