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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
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- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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"A fairy tale in the oldest and truest sense: a haunting dream full of blood and love, vicious truths and beautiful lies. It swallowed me whole, and I went willingly." — Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of Starling House
“Decadence laced with horror . . . A delightfully meta fairy tale . . . Magic emanates from every exquisitely crafted sentence.” — Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post
In the tradition of sumptuous gothic novels like Starling House and The Bloody Chamber comes a dark fairy tale-infused story about a cursed friendship and a marriage steeped in secrets—the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.
Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. He was a scholar of myths. She was an heiress. In exchange for her love, Indigo extracted a promise: that her bridegroom would never pry into her past.
But when the couple returns to Indigo’s childhood home, the House of Dreams, the bridegroom will soon find himself unable to resist. For within the crumbling manor’s extravagant rooms lurks the shadow of another girl: Azure, Indigo’s dearest childhood friend, who suddenly disappeared. As the house slowly reveals his wife’s secrets, the bridegroom will be forced to choose between reality and fantasy, even if doing so threatens to destroy their marriage . . . or their lives.
Through a tapestry of secrets woven around dangerous shards of truth, Chokshi crafts an atmospheric fever dream of a novel about love and lies, secrets and betrayal, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.
"Chokshi's tale is as sweet as a piece of fairy fruit, and just as wicked. Every bite is velvet, every swallow is gold, and the taste lingers like a fever dream." — V. E. Schwab, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
"Gorgeous and ornate, this sensual fairy tale illuminates the corrosive and redemptive power of both love and lies." — Holly Black, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book of Night
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One year ago, the person Olivia adores most in the world, her father, left home for a meditation retreat in the mountains and never returned. Yearning to make sense of his shocking departure and to escape her overbearing mother - a woman as grounded as her father is mercurial - Olivia runs away from home and retraces his path to a place known as the Levitation Center. Once there, she enrolls in their summer program for troubled teens, which Olivia refers to as “Buddhist Boot Camp for Bad Girls”.
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Perfect combination
- By Lauren yett on 06-22-20
By: Emily Temple
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Tales from the Hinterland
- The Hazel Wood
- By: Melissa Albert
- Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal and beautiful world where a young woman spends a night with Death, brides are wed to a mysterious house in the trees, and an enchantress is killed twice - and still lives.
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Does not disappoint
- By Harley Easton on 02-22-21
By: Melissa Albert
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A Phoenix First Must Burn
- Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope
- By: Patrice Caldwell - editor
- Narrated by: York Whitaker
- Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
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Evoking Beyoncé’s Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler’s heirs have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that puts Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals at its center. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex and true-to-life characters through which you cannot help but see yourself reflected.
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Absolutely brilliant
- By Ruthi on 03-11-20
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The Whispering Dark
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- Narrated by: Nora Hunter
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Delaney Meyers-Petrov is tired of being seen as fragile just because she's Deaf. So when she's accepted into a prestigious program at Godbole University that trains students to slip between parallel worlds, she's excited for the chance to prove herself. But her semester gets off to a rocky start as she faces professors who won't accommodate her disability, and a pretentious upperclassman fascinated by Delaney's unusual talents.
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hauntingly beautiful dark academia
- By Kay Leyda on 01-23-23
By: Kelly Andrew
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The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be “normal”. But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs a full star’s help to heal him. A star like her mother, who returned to the sky long ago. Sheetal’s quest to save her father will take her to a celestial court of shining wonders and dark shadows, where she must take the stage as her family’s champion in a competition to decide the next ruling house of the heavens - and win, or risk never returning to Earth at all.
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Everything that makes YA awful and so much more.
- By mat on 08-14-20
By: Shveta Thakrar
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
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The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather’s house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the day she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather’s room. She opens it - and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan god of death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother.
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I can’t finish this
- By zoomcity on 08-07-19
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Bloodleaf
- By: Crystal Smith
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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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
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By: Crystal Smith
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In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.
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A princess in a castle can't fend for herself
- By Summer on 11-11-19
By: Alix E. Harrow
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The Invasion of Heaven
- Part One of the Newirth Mythology
- By: Michael B. Koep
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Psychologist Loche Newirth becomes hunted when he sees a painting that opens a window onto the afterlife. An ancient order of men seeking to control the art pursue him across the world, through centuries, into madness, and beyond. The first part of Michael B. Koep's the Newirth Mythology The Invasion of Heaven is mystery, adventure, myth, betrayal, murder, and madness. Loche Newirth wonders if it was his fall: The 50-foot drop from the rocky cliff to the icy water below. Is this why he has been hallucinating?
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Good story - well written
- By Amy Q on 05-17-20
By: Michael B. Koep
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All the Murmuring Bones
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Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result. When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plan to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom.
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Drags on and on.
- By Amanda Turner on 04-10-21
By: A.G. Slatter
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Elfland
- Aetherial Tales, Book 1
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Elfland is an intimate, sensual novel of people—both human and Aetherial—caught between duty and desire. It is a story of families, and of Rose Fox, a woman born to magic but tormented by her place in her adopted world.Led by Auberon Fox, a group of Aetherials—call them the Fair Folk, if you will—live among us, indistinguishable from humans. Every seven years, on the Night of the Summer Stars, Lawrence Wilder, the Gatekeeper, throws open all gates to the Other World. But this time, something has gone wrong.
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Miscommunication is an obnoxious plot device
- By Robin on 05-26-16
By: Freda Warrington
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Song of the Forever Rains
- The Mousai, Book 1
- By: E.J. Mellow
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The Thief Kingdom is a place hidden within the world of Aadilor. Many whisper of its existence, but few have found this place, where magic and pleasure abound. There, the mysterious Thief King reigns supreme with the help of the Mousai, a trio of revered and feared sorceresses. Larkyra Bassette may be the youngest of the Mousai, but when she sings her voice has the power to slay monsters. When it’s discovered the Duke of Lachlan is siphoning a poisonous drug from the Thief Kingdom and using it to abuse his tenants, Larkyra is offered her first solo mission to stop the duke.
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couldn't finish
- By Mae Fishel on 08-25-21
By: E.J. Mellow
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The Lost Wife
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In pre-war Prague, the dreams of two young lovers are shattered when they are separated by the Nazi invasion. Then, decades later, thousands of miles away in New York, there's an inescapable glance of recognition between two strangers. Providence is giving Lenka and Josef one more chance. From the glamorous ease of life in Prague before the Occupation, to the horrors of Nazi Europe, The Lost Wife explores the power of first love, the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength of memory.
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Love, Strength & Survival
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By: Alyson Richman
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Ironskin
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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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- V. Assuncao
- 12-23-23
Starts slow but ends with a twist
I thought I wouldn't like this because it started so slow and the Narrators talk soooo slow but after I took a break from the story and bumped the speed up to 1.5 I was truly able to enjoy the story. The magical realism of this novel reminds me of Haruki Murakami's works and how much I loved his novels as well. I recommend this book to those who love magical realism, coming of age stories and can stomach slow starting books.
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- A. Sicotte
- 12-23-23
Dark and magical
I would describe this as kind of a Gothic fairy tale. It's both dark and magical with a bit of mystery tied in. The ending wasn't disappointing either. I loved every bit of this book.
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- Lyn Evans
- 05-15-23
Put me to sleep
Fairly good, well written story but I had to fight to stay awake. This was a Once Upon a Book Club selection and the gifts were interesting and well attuned to the book. I want to read another of her books to see how I really feel about her.
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- Brad J.
- 10-31-23
Oh my God a fantastic book!
I listen to this book because it was a book that we were doing in my book club. have chose this on my own but at first I wasn’t sure what to think of it but it was amazing.. the ending blew my mind I recommend this to anyone give me a 10 out of 10.
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- Bruce Elgort
- 08-15-24
Wow!
Loved the twists and turns! Kept me on the seat of my chair through the book!
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- Tammy Falcon
- 03-14-23
Such a let down
This book had all the ingredients to be something truly special but instead it’s a predictable story with unlikable characteristics.
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- Morgan
- 09-21-23
Performance was decent, story was meh
It was the writing style for me. I just couldn’t get into it. The descriptions were too flowery, too descriptive just for the sake of being flowery and descriptive. I don’t think it helped move the storyline along.
The characters were okay, but I felt a lack of emotional ties to them. I think my favorite character was the house.
The one big twist at the end was unexpected, but it didn’t make up for the struggling journey to get there.
The story has so much potential, but it wasn’t there for me.
The performance of the two voice actors was decent, although I liked Azure’s voice actress best.
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- BBS
- 02-21-23
Be prepared to have all your senses engaged.
I can never go wrong with Steve West, but The Bridegroom is a character made for him to read/play.
Dark, sensuous, mysterious.
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- Maria Hernandez
- 08-25-23
Dark and exciting!
A dark and suspenseful story! Don’t ask me about my past? You can have me, but don’t ask, don’t look, don’t pry! Sounds creepy! Even if she is beautifully intriguing. I was captivated right up to the end. I really enjoyed how the house was giving him clues throughout the whole story! So good!
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- Sleepingbeauty
- 02-16-23
different..
in the first few chapters I wasn't sure if I wanted to keep listening..so i sped up the narration and kept going...this story is put together piece by piece..if I had to compare it to a movie id compare it to something like "Mother" or "Midsommer" not alike in story but in how it comes together. The author creates a descriptively beautiful world and slowly feeds you a story.
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