Worth the wait?

I feel like I have been waiting for this book to come out as an audio book FOREVER, so when I saw that it was available I was ecstatic! Right up to the point where I realized that the narrator was different from every other book in the Elemental World & Elemental Mysteries series.

I am a big proponent of consistency, and this is exactly why. Though Ava Lucas did a good job narrating this book, the consistency that we had flowing through the other books is gone. It was obvious to me from the very beginning that the narrator did not listen to any of the other books in either series to get a feel for the pronunciations, personalities or background of these much beloved characters. This was most obvious in her pronunciation of Lucien Thrax's name, but it didn't stop there, and though I have no intention of naming every little mispronunciation she made, just know that they were on many of the keywords that have been used throughout these series.

However, what's done is done and there is no use crying over spilt milk. And if I was just judging this narrator on this book alone, without its relationship to this series and universe as a whole, I would say that Ava Lucas did a good job keeping the voices for the characters in this book consistent and adding her own unique brand of dramatic flair to draw you into the story.

As for the book as a whole, Elizabeth Hunter, as always, did a wonderful job of drawing you in and holding on to you through out the book… Not to mention giving you ample reasons to want to return to this amazing universe!

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poor narrator

the narrator was horrible. Mostly monotone and horrible fake accents. the story wasn't as good as the others in the series.

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Not the best Naruto

Although I love the series, I really didn't like the narrator and the sound quality was terrible. To mooted. It was hard to hear the vpoce. they should've use this regular narrator for the series. The story is good though.

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Narration was not up to par

If I hadn't invested so much time and money in both Elemental series, I probably would have returned this the first hour in. I couldn't stand the awful accents, or the change in a character's voice (sometimes so shrill and out of place it made me jump). The overall lack of sharpness/clarity took away from the enjoyment in a big way. Eventually I stopped going back when I missed what was said because I just wanted it over. The story itself was good, though not great like her other novels.

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Love This Book

This was a unique and multi-layered story. I haven't read or listen to any of the previous book, but now want to go back and start with book one. Love these characters and narrator, what a epic love story.

🎧 AudiobookObsession 🎧

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Different Narrator

This book in the series had a different Narrator. It took me several chapters to “know” the characters again. Sort of a bummer.

Fantastic Finish to the Elixir Story Arc

As a fairly huge fan of Elizabeth Hunter and the entire Elemental World series with all of its entities, I realized the other day after reading a missed book from the series that somehow I had missed a few of the last books in a couple of the different spinoffs. So, I decided that I better rectify that...stat :)

This book was the culmination of the Elixir story arc (and for those of us fans, that WAS a while ago) I truly am not sure how I missed this, but of well. What I can say was that it was such a joy to be back in that world and to meet a new couple - Dr. Lucian Thrax and Dr. Makeda Abel. They are scientists being tasked to find a sloution....any solution to combat the deaths that are occurring in both the Vampire and Human world.

There were a lot of things that I enjoyed about this book, but one of the very best, was getting to see the Ancients - Saba, Arosh, and Kato - and getting to see just how powerful these ancients really are. The next thing that I loved was that while it was a story between Lucian and Makeda, we also got to see several of out favorite characters come out to play. There was Brigid, Carwyn, Tenzin (yay!- still in her kind of crazy phase...), and Baojia. We also peripherally heard about Giovanni and a couple of others.

Can this be read as a stand alone? Probably. But why would you want to? Ms. Hunter has created such an amazing world of complex and fantastic characters in such a world of non stop drama and action but most of all family. Yes...family. In this dangerous world of death, betrayal and deadly plots the trait that is the strongest is the creation of the bonds that are bonds of choice and stronger than steel. I LOVE THAT....

About this book, it's been a while since I've been in this world, but I remember Lucian as being pretty arrogant. This book delves into him in a much deeper fashion and we get to see who he really is. And Saba. It is hard for me to imagine someone older than Tenzin - and she's over 5000 years old. Mind boggling...just seriously...

So, the Elixir arc is completed, but there are several Easter Eggs thrown out about the next direction for this World and having already read those, all I can say is... THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!!

I wanted more

Lucien and Makeda had the kind of sweet love that makes me read these books. The story was different which is refreshing to me. The narration was good except Luciens was a little rough. I will check out more work from this author. I wanted another chapter before the end.

Awesome!

I really enjoyed this book!! it is so good! Very interesting and you can't put it down!! Love this couple!!

Entertaining

Lucien and Makeda’s story is full of unusual events and frenemies to lovers prose that is riveting. I really enjoyed the characters and we even got to be entertained by many past favorites. I have both the ebook and audiobook versions and loved the ability to switch between the two so that I could continue this story. The audiobook narrator did a great job!