Winter Queen
Fairy Queens, Book 2
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Amber Argyle
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A healer. Her fellow captive. A deadly bargain...
Never bargain with the fae.
When the battle moves to the heart of her village, Ilyenna looks into her enemy’s eyes and sees more than just cunning. There is also lust - lust for power and lust for her. She could escape. If she's willing to take the fae's impossible bargain.
Dark magic in exchange for her soul.
But she risks losing more than her soul. She would also lose Rone, the man she's been in secretly in love with for years. But as things heat up between Rone and Ilyenna, so does her captor's cruelty. Worse, the feud between clans is merely a distraction from something far worse.
With Rone's life in the balance, Ilyenna must decide whether or not to resurrect the power the fairies left behind. But if she embraces that magic, she risks losing herself to its destroying power.
Forever.
Can Ilyenna save Rone and her people from certain death? Will she keep her humanity or fall prey to the fae's wicked bargains? Listen to Winter Queen to find out!
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- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole, James Fouhey
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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Seventeen years ago an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok's lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna's survival depends on the world believing she is dead.
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Could have been better.
- By Bookworm on 02-21-16
By: Sophie Jordan
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Daughter of the Blood
- Black Jewels, Book 1
- By: Anne Bishop
- Narrated by: John Sharian
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
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Seven hundred years ago, a Black Widow witch saw an ancient prophecy come to life in her web of dreams and visions. Now, the Dark Kingdom readies itself for the arrival of its queen, a witch who will wield more power than even the High Lord of Hell himself. But she is still young, still open to influence - and corruption.
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A Walk on the Dark Side of Fantasy
- By Wrightaway on 06-07-10
By: Anne Bishop
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The Pursuit of Tamsen Littlejohn
- By: Lori Benton
- Narrated by: Kate Forbes
- Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
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Western North Carolina, 1787. To escape a threatening stepfather and an unwanted marriage, Tamsen Littlejohn enlists the aid of Jesse Bird, a frontiersman she barely knows, to spirit her away from Morganton, North Carolina, west beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains. Trouble pursues, as the two men intent on seeing her recovered prove relentless in their hunt. Trouble awaits in the form of a divided frontier community.
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Refreshing
- By AudioBookChik on 07-17-15
By: Lori Benton
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Luck in the Shadows
- Nightrunner, Book 1
- By: Lynn Flewelling
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 18 hrs and 6 mins
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Spy, rogue, thief, and noble, Seregil of Rhiminee is many things, none of them predictable. And when he offers to take on Alec as his apprentice, things may never be the same for either of them. Soon Alec is traveling roads he never knew existed, toward a war he never suspected was brewing. Before long he and Seregil are embroiled in a sinister plot that runs deeper than either can imagine and that may cost them far more than their lives if they fail. But fortune is as unpredictable as Alec's new mentor.
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Fantastic Series! Homophobes, shut up!
- By Ted on 09-23-11
By: Lynn Flewelling
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Of Beast and Beauty
- Daughters of Eville, Book 1
- By: Chanda Hahn
- Narrated by: Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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Everyone dreams of marrying a prince - except for me. I am nothing more than a pawn in my adoptive mother's diabolical plot against the seven kingdoms. I was the chosen tool, her sharpened blade that would cut the deepest into the heart of the kingdom of Baist. But like all deadly weapons, my wedding is two-edged sword that could cost me my soul. For I am Rosalie, one of the adopted daughters of Lady Eville, and it is my duty to enter into a loveless and hate-filled marriage with the narcissistic Crown Prince of Baist.
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OF BEAST AND BEAUTY
- By 🐺 SCARLET PIMPERNEL 🐺 on 11-08-19
By: Chanda Hahn
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Fatemarked
- The Fatemarked Epic, Book 1
- By: David Estes
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
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They are the fatemarked. Misunderstood. Worshipped. Hated. Murdered at birth. Their time to step into the light has come. An ancient prophecy foretold their coming, the chosen few who will bring peace to a land embroiled in a century of mistrust and war. When kings start dying, that hope and belief swiftly turns to fear. Roan Loren is one of the fatemarked, but has hidden his mark of power his entire life, fearing the damage it might cause to those around him. A great evil is coming. He can't hide anymore.
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Written to fit an ideology, not the story it tells
- By znidarsic.blaz on 04-30-18
By: David Estes
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Entreat Me
- By: Grace Draven
- Narrated by: Stacey Holmes
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
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Afflicted by a centuries-old curse, a warlord slowly surrenders his humanity and descends toward madness. Ballard of Ketach Tor holds no hope of escaping his fate until his son returns home one day, accompanied by a woman of incomparable beauty. His family believes her arrival may herald Ballard’s salvation...until they confront her elder sister.
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Not For Me
- By Hope on 04-21-19
By: Grace Draven
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Phoenix Unbound
- The Fallen Empire Series, Book 1
- By: Grace Draven
- Narrated by: Katharine Lee McEwan
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
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Every year, each village is required to send a young woman to the Empire's capital - her fate to be burned alive for the entertainment of the masses. For the last five years, one small village's tithe has been the same woman. Gilene's sacrifice protects all the other young women of her village, and her secret to staying alive lies with the magic only she possesses. But this year is different. Azarion, the Empire's most famous gladiator, has somehow seen through her illusion - and is set on blackmailing Gilene into using her abilities to help him escape his life of slavery.
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Nothing special. Highly predictable
- By J. C. Schmidt on 10-10-18
By: Grace Draven
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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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The Great Hunt
- By: Wendy Higgins
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 9 hrs
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When a monstrous beast attacks in Eurona, desperate measures must be taken. The king sends a proclamation to the best and bravest hunters: Whoever kills the creature will win the hand of his daughter, Princess Aerity, as a reward. The princess recognizes her duty but cannot bear the idea of marrying a stranger - she was meant to marry for love - until a brooding local hunter, Paxton Seabolt, catches her attention.
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Brother Grimm inspired YA fairy tale fantasy
- By lisse on 03-10-16
By: Wendy Higgins
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- naiveblueeyes08
- 06-06-17
Gut wrenching read!
This story had so many twists and turns and constantly kept me guessing as to what was coming next. I cried through most of the book. It absolutely broke my heart what Ilyenna suffered at the hands of Darrien, yet she stayed strong for her clan, her family and the man she loved. And she's not even twenty years old! No one should have to endure that much pain much less someone so young. This is a book that will stay with you long after reading it. So make sure you have plenty of Kleenex on hand. Also, be prepared to binge listen because once you start, you won't want to stop for anything!
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- Kaldax
- 07-24-16
Perfect for a nurse who loves high fantasy
Who was your favorite character and why?
Ilyena. I identify with her very much. She was the perfect iteration of a nurse, but set in a high fantasy world, which is my favorite setting. As a nurse myself, I know that not many authors can get this right.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
When Ilyena healed the woman and her baby. That woman had been her enemy. She was brutal to Ilyena and even made the decision to starve her for several days, working her to the bone in the meantime. She asked Ilyena why she would heal her after all that, and Ilyena's honest response was that she did it because she was a healer. This is the essence of what a nurse is. We care for all people. We don't care if they are nice or mean or even downright cruel to us. We will help them anyway. Ilyena gave up her only chance at healing herself in the future, putting the woman's health before her own. This is a trait of nurses. We skip meals, breaks, trips to the bathroom, and even the chance for a drink of water in order to help those who need us. Their health is placed above our own. Not many people who aren't nurses understand it so well. Amber Argyle nailed this.
Any additional comments?
The very first thing I have to say about this book is that Ilyena (the main character) is a healer, and since I am a nurse, I immediately identified with her. Argyle did an exquisite job relaying the motivations, emotions, heart, and mind of a nurse. I can't believe someone who is not in the medical field could get it so right. It is very rare to find a believable nurse in fiction.
Now, to the story: Ilyena and her clan are almost immediately drawn into war and none of it makes any sense. They should not be fighting with those they are fighting with, yet their neighboring clan was attacked brutally, and they must offer their support. When things don't go well, and important people die or are close to death, political intrigue begins. To protect those she loves, Ilyena offers herself as a servant in her father's stead. The exchange calls for a fair use of her work by the opposing clan, meant to teach her a lesson. But Darrien, the future clan leader, instead uses her (and many others he has captured) as a slave. He beats them brutally, and she often fears her virtue will be stolen, too. He continually tries to force her into marriage.
What nobody knows is that Ilyena killed Darrien's brother in the original scuffle, and when she was near death, she was saved by winter fairies. There was a bargain struck, and now she is their queen, but she could not go away with them even though winter was ending. This comes up a few times throughout the book, and is woven beautifully into the story. Ilyena is both human and other.
Once back in Darrien's village, she finds friends from the clan they tried to help. Among them is her brother's childhood best friend, Rone, who she has always loved. Their relationship blooms throughout the book, as he protects her fiercely and cares for her tenderly. What a perfect love interest for her!
Throughout most of the book, they are waiting for the clan council to make a ruling on the incidents that lead to Ilyena and the others' enslavement, along with the devastation wreaked on the villages. Circumstances finally lead Ilyena to run away, but she has such integrity that she shows up to the council meeting anyway, and she is prepared for whatever their decision might be. Even if it means she has to marry the evil Darrien to protect those she loves.
The council seems to be leaning her way until Darrien tells a terrible lie. It is a lie that ruins everything she has fought for and now Ilyena, Rone, and all the others she was trying so fiercely to protect are hopeless and helpless. But there is one final line of defense. In desperation, Ilyena finally takes a path she has been fighting to comprehend the whole time.
Fairy Queen is part of a seven book series, but stands perfectly well on its own. I found it to be completely satisfying in the end.
I was gifted this audio book in exchange for my honest review, which I have given.
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- Natalie @ ABookLoversLife
- 07-25-16
Captivating!!
What an intense and heartbreaking read. I finished this a week ago and had to take that length of time to gather my thoughts.
First off, let's take a moment to stare at that gorgeous cover!! Isn't it stunning. Even before you read the blurb, you will want to read this. Lol. Anyway, back to the review.
I loved this book, though it did break my heart numerous times.
Character wise, we have a lot of them but I'll focus on the main 2 and the villian.
Ilyenna is a clan mistress for the Shyle Clan. She never wanted the responsibility but has no choice but to step up to the role. I loved that Ilyenna was so willing to do whats needed for her clan, no matter what. Despite being so young and her reservations, she is a worthy mistress. My heart absolutely shattered for her and what she went through at the hands of Darrien, yet no matter what, she stayed strong and wouldn't bend. I loved her strength and tenacity.
Rone is a childhood friend of Ilyennas brother and she always had a crush on him. When they meet again, Rone becomes something of her protector and she relies on him. I also loved Rone. He is so strong, brave and loyal. He is also a captive and does what he can to ease the suffering of his clan and also Ilyennas clan.
The villian of the piece is Darrien. Now I have never hated a character as much as I hated him. Don't get me wrong, I loved the book but loathed him. I wanted to jump into the story and give him a taste of his own medicine. He was a brute and a beast. He treated women as nothing, lower than the low. He beat them, took advantage of them and was just an all round animal. He is pure evil and I hated him!! He is one of the worst, vilest characters I've ever read. It's a testimony to Ambers writing that even though I despised the character, I adored the book. He is there to be hated and she in no way makes him other than what he is.
Plot wise, it was amazing. Absolutely gripping. One clan attacks another and the Shyle go to help. The clan that attacked come to the Shyle village because they say that they attacked first. They take Tiams (slaves) from the village but Ilyenna refuses to let any of her clan suffer. The other clan chief says that if Ilyenna comes in their stead then the village and people will be left alone. She immediately agrees and ends up as a Tiam. Add in the winter faeries wanting Ilyenna as their queen and the summer faeries making an appearance and you have a truly unique tale. I can;t say too much about the plot because I know I will spoil something, but I will say that it was engrossing, enchanting and down right heart breaking at times. It's a book you need to experience rather than hearing about it.
In all, a heart wrenching, tear jerking read. At first you wonder where do the faeries come in and where the story is going, but it all comes together in the end. There is so much going on and so many twists that you will be captivated. It's a wonderfully written book and one that will stay with me. The author has created an amazing world and one I can't wait to jump back into. It's an intense and emotionally engrossing read and one I can't recommend enough.
Elizabeth Evans was really good. She was clear and concise and had distinctive tones, but the problem I had with her was at times she sounded so breathless. She seemed to stop to take a breath after every sentence and it was quite annoying, but easy to overlook in all. I hope she gets better as the series goes on.
*I received a coy of this for review. This in no way affected my thoughts.*
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