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Willa of the Wood, Book 1
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Emily Rankin
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Robert Beatty
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From number one New York Times best-selling author Robert Beatty comes a thrilling new series set in the magical world of Serafina.
Move without a sound. Steal without a trace.
Willa, a young night-spirit of the Great Smoky Mountains, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the homes of day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work - the day-folk kill whatever they do not understand - but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people.
When Willa's curiosity leaves her hurt and stranded in the day world, she calls upon an ancient, unbreakable bond to escape. Only then does she discover the truth: not all day-folk are the same, and the foundations that have guarded the Faeran for eons are under attack.
As forces of unfathomable destruction encroach on her home, Willa must decide who she truly is. To save the day-folk family that has become her own - and lift the curse that has robbed her people of their truth - Willa will meet deadly force with trusted alliance, violence with shelter, and an ever-changing world with a steady heartbeat of courage.
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- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
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The night Quin Kincaid takes her oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she'll be with the boy she loves - who's also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought.
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slow story development
- By Аmazon Customer on 02-02-16
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The Summer Dragon
- First Book of The Evertide
- By: Todd Lockwood
- Narrated by: Ali Ahn
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
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Maia and her family raise dragons for the political war machine. As she comes of age, she anticipates a dragon of her own to add to the stable of breeding parents. Her peaceful life is shattered when the Summer Dragon - one of the rare and mythical High Dragons - makes an appearance in her quiet valley. Political factions vie for control of the implied message, threatening her aspirations, her aerie, her entire way of life.
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5 star plotline, 2 star main character
- By Allison on 12-01-16
By: Todd Lockwood
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The Golden Queen
- The Golden Queen, Book 1
- By: David Farland
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
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Insectoid Dronons have slain the queen Semarritte, throwing into chaos the ten thousand worlds over which she reigned. Desperate to save mankind, Lord Veriasse, Semarritte's near-immortal consort, has created a new queen: Everynne, cloned from her dead mother. Born to rule, Everynne instead is on the run, often only one planet ahead of advancing forces of the invaders, who recognize that Everynne is a powerful rallying point for threatened humanity.
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KISS ME QUICK BIRDS
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-16-14
By: David Farland
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Under the Never Sky
- By: Veronica Rossi
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne Flagler
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Since she’d been on the outside, she’d survived an Aether storm, she’d had a knife held to her throat, and she’d seen men murdered. This was worse. Exiled from her home, the enclosed city of Reverie, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland - known as The Death Shop - are slim. If the cannibals don’t get her, the violent, electrified energy storms will. She’s been taught that the very air she breathes can kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He’s wild - a savage - and her only hope of staying alive.
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Beware of the Triology
- By Katherine on 09-23-12
By: Veronica Rossi
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Children of the Plains
- Dragonlance: Barbarians, Book 1
- By: Paul B. Thompson, Tonya C. Cook
- Narrated by: Alan Robertson
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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From the mists of Krynn's earliest history came the Barbarians. A young brother and sister escape a pack of predators and strike out on their own, their lives taking parallel courses linked to the destiny of different tribes. But dark powers watch the rise of civilization with cold calculation and deadly intent.
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loved it all the way through
- By Pete on 02-11-18
By: Paul B. Thompson, and others
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Dreamwalker
- The Ballad of Sir Benfro, Book 1
- By: J.D. Oswald
- Narrated by: Wayne Forester
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Ballad of Sir Benfro: Dreamwalker, the first installment in the new fantasy series from JD Oswald, read by Wayne Forester. Miles from the great cities of the Twin Kingdoms, a young boy called Errol tries to find his way in the world. He's an outsider, and no one, not even himself, has any knowledge of his true lineage. Deep in the forest, Benfro, the young male dragon begins his training in the subtle arts.
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Entertaining, albeit predictable
- By Marilyn C on 02-05-15
By: J.D. Oswald
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Altar of Influence: The Orsarian War
- A Prelude to the Dying Lands Chronicle
- By: Jacob Cooper
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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Sacrifice. The single act capable of bringing both death and life simultaneously. Thannuel Kerr is handsome, young, and brash, fumbling through childhood toward his inevitable inheritance: the next Lord of the Western Province. He struggles to accept his arranged marriage and to grow into the man he must become. The journey toward that end, however, is fraught with more peril than he could possibly imagine.
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A Compelling Read!
- By Voracious Reader on 10-17-16
By: Jacob Cooper
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Iron Axe
- The Books of Blood and Iron, Book 1
- By: Steven Harper
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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In this brand new series from the author of the Clockwork Empire series, a hopeless outcast must answer Death's call and embark on an epic adventure... Although Danr's mother was human, his father was one of the hated Stane, a troll from the mountains. Now Danr has nothing to look forward to but a life of disapproval and mistrust, answering to "Trollboy" and condemned to hard labor on a farm. Until, without warning, strange creatures come down from the mountains to attack the village.
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I DON'T WANT YOU TO FOLLOW ME,
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 07-22-17
By: Steven Harper
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The Way into Chaos
- The Great Way, Book 1
- By: Harry Connolly
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears, and a monopoly on magic...until in a single day it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of incredible power and ferocity. Neither soldier nor spell caster can stand against them. The empire's armies are crushed, its people scattered, its king and queen killed. Freed for the first time in generations, city-states scramble to seize neighboring territories and capture imperial spell casters.
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Made me want to buy more credits
- By Daniel Olson on 09-16-16
By: Harry Connolly
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The Ninth Rain
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Jen Williams
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins
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Jen Williams, acclaimed author of The Copper Cat trilogy, featuring The Copper Promise, The Iron Ghost and The Silver Tide, returns with the first in a blistering new trilogy. The great city of Ebora once glittered with gold. Now its streets are stalked by wolves. Tormalin the Oathless has no taste for sitting around waiting to die while the realm of his storied ancestors falls to pieces - talk about a guilt trip. Better to be amongst the living, where there are taverns full of women and wine.
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Couldn’t put it down!
- By Renae on 09-09-22
By: Jen Williams
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Water Keep
- Farworld, Volume 1
- By: J. Scott Savage
- Narrated by: Mark Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Even though thirteen-year-old Marcus Kanenas is confined to a wheelchair, he sees himself as a survivor and a dreamer. In fact, his favorite dream is of a world far away, a world where magic is as common as air, where animals tell jokes, and where trees beg people to pick their fruit. He even has a name for this place - Farworld. When Marcus magically travels to Farworld, he meets Kyja, a girl without magic in a world where spells, charms, and potions are everywhere.
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I have been looking for a fix since Brandon Mull
- By james on 12-16-15
By: J. Scott Savage
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- Anonymous User
- 09-21-18
Beautiful, lyrical, completely unique!
This is a gorgeous piece of writing. Excellent narration underpins flawless storytelling based in the mountains of my home in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina. It's totally worth the credit.
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- tiffany
- 12-21-18
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A great read for any age. Young, old, or in between. Loved the ending. Warmed my heart! ❤️❤️❤️
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- Elizabeth
- 02-14-20
😍This is now my favorite book 😍
Robert Beatty's book was overall amazing and Emily Rankin read the book beautifully. This is now my favorite book. I would not recommend to small children because there was a lot of bloody parts and many people died. That's all I wanted to share I highly recommend reading"Willa of the Wood".
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- Preston C Miller
- 04-30-21
Amazing
I have read this book and the narrator isn’t what I sounded like, but the story is wonderful. If you have read this book keep looking.
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- Casey West
- 08-08-24
Amazing story of determination and learning to love.
Willa is a character movies are based upon. Family, finding one’s self, magic, environment, finding truth, resilience…this story has it all. The tone of the audio is quite solemn but expressive and reflective of the sadness Willa experiences and her uncertainty. As an elementary librarian, I would recommend this story for grades 3 and up, but it would be a wonderful read aloud for attentive 2nd graders too. I’d be shocked if this story did not make it to the big screen in the future.
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- E.F.B.
- 05-29-21
Excellent!
Note: I listened to this on audio haven't the foggiest clue how to spell any fantasy words that aren't mentioned in the synopsis. Please forgive any terrible or silly misspellings.
I first heard of this book very recently when the Parade section in the newspaper interviewed actress Amy Adams about what she's been doing lately. Adams was working on a screenplay for a children's book called "Willa of the Wood". I hadn't heard of that, but decided to look it up and ultimately was curious enough to get it on audio. Interesting thing, though: I didn't realize until after I'd used my monthly Audible credit that the author is the same one who wrote the "Serafina" series. I'd heard about Serafina several years ago, and my mom actually tried to read the first book because it was set in the historical Biltmore Estate and she thought that sounded interesting. Unfortunately, she ended up DNFing it because it got creepy halfway through and she didn't like that. I never read it either, because I don't do creepy. Supposedly, Willa is also set in the same world as Serafina. Cue me being nervous. BUT it appeared completely different than Serafina, so I decided to give it a chance knowing that if I totally hated it I could always get my Audible credit back.
I'm happy to say that I didn't hate it. Even though it's supposedly in the same world as Serafina, it bears very little resemblance to that series. It took some time for me to warm up to because the tone was darker than I was expecting (not creepy, thankfully, just darker), but once I adjusted my expectations, I was surprised at how much I liked it.
Willa is a member of the Faeran clan. The Faeran are a fantasy race that lives in the great Smoky Mountains (circa 1901, if I understand correctly). Their natural skin color is a mottled green, but those who remember the old ways and the old language are able to blend into their background so as to become invisible even to their own people. They can also talk to/manipulate wood and understand animals. Unfortunately, many of the Faeran have forgotten the old ways. However, Willa's Mamaw still remembers and has taught them to Willa.
The plot: For the Faeran, "There is no 'I', only 'we.'" They're taught from birth that the individual can only survive with the help of the clan. Willa, however, has been taught by her Mamaw, that no matter what the clan may say, it's important for Willa to hold on to her her ability to think as an individual and hold on to the natural kindness and concern for others that she's always had in her heart. This is where Willa's troubles start, as the story begins with her going off on her own to steal from the "day-folk" (human settlers) living nearby. She gets caught by one of the humans, who shoots her, not knowing who or what she is, but when he corners her and sees that she's a young girl, rather than finish the job, he's startled long enough for her to escape. When she returns to her clan, they're less worried about Willa's injuries than the fact that she didn't team up with one of the other "Yaeters" (sp?), a small group of members of the clan whose job it is to steal sustenance and valuables from the day-folk for the benefit of the entire Faeran clan. But she didn't team up because the other Yaeters have been stealing from her take, making her look bad and receive scorn from the leader of the clan (supposedly a god), the Padaran. She's able to prove this, though, and then produce something the Padaran values even more than food: Gold. And suddenly she's back in his good graces. More than that, he decides to honor her by inviting her to participate in a new plan he has for the good of the clan: Killing and selling the pelts of the woodland animals who just helped save Willa's life. It is then that Willa realizes for the first time that she cannot obey her leader. In her moment of rebellion, she discovers wicked secrets the Padaran himself has been hiding from the clan. He's been disguising his appearance, for one thing, and worse, there are human children locked up in cells hidden in tunnels under the place where the Faeran live. Suddenly, Willa realizes she can't stay with this clan that she no longer knows or can trust, and the one person she could trust is now gone. But how will she survive on her own? Could it be possible that the humans she's been taught all her life were her enemies might be more than she thought? Could they help her? Could she help them? I guess you'll have to read the book to find out. 😉
What I liked:
I liked this unique society that Beatty created. He did a great job of making the Faeran's distinct from the real world societies around them. I also thought he did very well at not falling into the unfortunate, but far too common issue of making one race or another the villain. Willa's people are a fantastical race, but we see people of real world races, including various indigenous peoples (Cherokee are mentioned, and I think one other tribe from the Smoky Mountain region was mentioned too, but my memory is failing me as to which one.) and white settlers. The people here really are allowed to be people. All capable of doing wrong and all capable of doing right. The only villains are the individuals who chose to do wrong and hurtful things, and their actions do not reflect on their race as a whole.
I liked that a big theme in the story was that individuals need to be able to think for themselves rather than blindly following what any one society says is right, and that we need to stand up for the innocent even when they're different from us.
I loved the alliances Willa made outside of her clan. I don't want to spoil it for anyone by giving too many details, but it was so nice to watch her learn about other people and see that different doesn't automatically mean bad, it's just different. She didn't have to completely understand or agree with everyone in order to care about them as people and develop friendships with them. Most of all, I loved the aspect of "found family" in this story. Again, no spoilers, but because of this, the ending was SO STINKING SWEET GAH! It truly made the whole book for me.
And a small but fun detail my fellow Tolkien fans will appreciate: There was a wolf in here named Luthien. :)
What I didn't like:
Mainly, I thought it was a tad dark for what I personally feel is appropriate for middle grade. Willa's age may make it fall under that category, but my personal opinion is that it feels YA in tone (lower YA, but still YA), so if you're looking at this for a child under the age of 12, you will want to keep in mind their individual maturity and sensitivities. I will give the author credit, though, for holding back on the description in the one scene in the book that *could* have been disturbingly graphic, and for doing it in a way that made sense for the character. (He simply has Willa refuse to look at the injuries of a dying person so she doesn't have to remember the individual that way.) This won him some trust in mind.
I may have liked the theme of the individual thinking for themselves instead of blindly following society's ways, BUT it still pushes the common notion that in order to judge what is right, you need to listen to your heart, which, as a Christian, I don't agree that the human heart is the best guide for morality. (The padaran's heart was full of greed and desire to control others, and look where listening to it got him...) I do think this could be a great jumping off point for a healthy discussion between kids and parents, though.
In conclusion I didn't know what to expect going into this book. It was truly an impulse buy and I was very nervous that I would dislike it when I realized the author was the same who'd written a different book that didn't fit my mom's and my personal tastes. But I'm happy to say that this one did work for me. There were some small things that that made it a four star instead of five star read for me, but I did overall enjoy it enough that I feel it was a good buy, and I believe I'm interested enough to check out the sequel (which just released this month, apparently) at some point in the future. I'm also interested to see what Amy Adams does with her screenplay and personally think this would translate well to animation.
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- LBo28210
- 08-21-19
Delightful world building
Willa is very connected to nature. She is an adventurer separated from her family and community. But she builds a new family.
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- Eaglebeauties
- 07-15-18
Enchanting Page Turner
This is a wonderful book. I love the intrigue, all of the characters, including the bad. Willa is a very interesting character. Young or old, if you love the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains, you will love this book. I can imagine the folklore handed down through the generations of mountain people. I have read all of Robert Beatty’s books and love them. I am a grandmother of four. Never too old to enjoy a beautifully written book.
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- Lady
- 05-28-19
Great family book!
This book is full of excitement,twists, and turns and will not disappoint perfect for when your in a car.
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- Connie Carrico
- 08-18-18
Fantastic depart from today’s stressors
Once I started this book I couldn’t wait to get up the next morning to finish it this is an incredible story and I happen to be a Gatlinburg Sevierville smoky mountains fan so it fit right into my idea of a good read
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