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The Collarbound

By: Rebecca Zahabi
Narrated by: Lara Sawalha, Peter Kenny
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A man marked by magic. A woman marked by her past.

On the other side of the Shadowpass, rebellion is brewing and refugees have begun to trickle into the city at the edge of the world. Looming high on the cliff is The Nest, a fortress full of mages who offer protection, but also embody everything the rebellion is fighting against: a strict hierarchy based on magic abilities.

When Isha arrives as a refugee, she attempts to fit in amongst the other mages, but her Kher tattoo brands her as an outcast. She can't remember her past or why she has the tattoo. All she knows is that she survived. She doesn't intend to give up now.

Tatters, who wears the golden collar of a slave, knows that this rebellion is different from past skirmishes. He was once one of the rebels, and technically, they still own him. He plans to stay in the shadows, until Isha appears in his tavern. He's never seen a human with a tattoo, and the markings look eerily familiar....

As the rebellion carves a path of destruction towards the city, an unlikely friendship forms between a man trying to escape his past and a woman trying to uncover hers, until their secrets threaten to tear them apart.

The Collarbound hooks from the start and will appeal to fans of magical, brink-of-war settings, like that of The Poppy War and The City of Brass.

©2022 Rebecca Zahabi (P)2022 Orion Publishing Group Limited
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"A fast-paced, riveting read, with writing that leaps off the page and one of the most compelling magic systems I've encountered in years, this is a must for fantasy fans!" (Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire)

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Wait for book two before listening.

Although I enjoyed the worldbuilding, and characters, the story itself feels more like the first act of a book, rather than a book in itself. It builds and gives background but nothing really happens. Things start to ramp up in the last part of the book but then it ends and you need to wait till volume 2 to see how things continue. It's like a cliffhanger before ypu actually get to the cliff. It's fine, but I'd wait until book 2 comes out before listening to this.

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