
Thief
The Scarred Mage of Roseward, Book One
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Narrated by:
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Heather Costa
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By:
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Sylvia Mercedes
A clever thief. A disgraced mage. A kiss of poison....
Don't miss this romantic Beauty and the Beast trilogy!
Peronelle Beck longs for nothing more than to leave behind her thieving ways and pursue a life of honest work. But when her father lands himself neck-deep in debt, Nelle must take on a dangerous job if she hopes to save his life...a job that brings her to the shores of Roseward Isle.
For 15 years, Soran Silveri has fought to suppress the nightmarish monster stalking Roseward. His weapons are few and running low, and the curse placed upon him cripples his once unmatched power. Isolation has driven him to the brink of madness, and he knows he won’t be able to hold on much longer.
When a sharp-tongued, uncouth, and undeniably beautiful young woman shows up on his shore, Soran resolves to drive her away. He won’t be responsible for another death!
But Nelle is equally determined not to be frightened off by the hideously scarred mage. Not until she gets what she came for....
Can two outcasts thrown together in a tangle of lies discover they are each other’s only hope? Or will the haunted darkness of Roseward tear them apart?
For fans of Emma Hamm, Miranda Honfleur, Audrey Grey, and Grace Draven.
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The Narrator Killed This
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I'm still interested in hearing the rest of the series, mostly because this book didn't have any payoff of it's own, and I feel a little resentful of that.
The only other thing holding me back from jumping on the next one of these is how disappointed I was by the narrator. It's easy to hear that the main character is written to have an accent- probably something like a cockney accent or even Irish- which helps set her class apart from her well-educated love interest. It's really weird that the narration doesn't keep up with that, considering that the main character uses slang that sounds really weird in a flat American accent. It made much of the book's content sound awkward, when it should have been flavorful and fun.
Feels like a prequel
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Great narration
Classically Intriguing
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Slow but gets better
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Loved this whole series
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it might be for not others
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First it advertises itself as a Beauty and the Beast retelling. I guess on a very basic plot level it is. But it didn't feel like a B&B story.
Nell our Beauty stand-in is very unlikeable, I can not stand her. She is rude, brash, and despite her insisting that she isn't "that kind of girl" all she can think about is how her feminine Wiles are the only tool she has to get anywhere in the men's world.
the Beast character isn't a beast either. he's scarred. which makes him an overly sympathetic character. He has such a hard life it really isn't fair. (until you get to the end and realize what he did but by then you've wasted so much pity on him that you still can't be mad.)
Add that the setting is the boundary between waking and dream, fairyland and the mortal world. you can't trust what you see, you don't know how's awake it's much less fairytale and much more fae lore.
Second reason I won't be finishing the series, it just doesn't feel clean.
Nell uses no real curse words, but she does have a plethora of made up curse words. So many. if you replaced every single one with a word that rhymes with duck, well that's one dirty mouth.
This is not erotica but it feels like it wants to be. This book is too sensual for my tastes. the Beast character is starved for company any company. The Beauty character has been mistreated by men her whole life, and just really needs a stable guy. you can cut the tension with a knife.
the narrator.Heather Costa, reads well. I mean she sounds professional and does voices and all the good stuff. but her voice and a reading style made me never want my mother to walk in in me listening to this. if it's not a.smut book please don't read like it's a smut book.
other than those two reasons there is some interesting lore here. some nice story set up and some character development that make Nell half way likeable.
barely a beast
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Disliked narration
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