couldn't finish

I got about 20 chapters in, fully emerged in the story, when I had to quit. The female narration is just too hard for me, personally. So monotone, so unaffected. I just couldn't finish.

10 people found this helpful

Narrator has room to improve

The female narrator had too clear enunciation at times. Often her was tone overly formal.

6 people found this helpful

Solid magic, flimsy romance

An entertaining and easy listen. I felt a lot of the ideas for the magic and fantasy were really fresh and fun. Loved the thief kingdom concept. I do want to note the similarities between this story and The Bridge Kingdom—a gorgeous blond spy infiltrating a stormy kingdom that ends up falling for the broken leader. I also found myself wishing some of the romantic interactions with the characters would just stop because they were so vanilla. So very boring and lacking any sort of heat. Mellow, turn up the heat, girl.

I look forward to the next book!

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Great Story

This is the first audible I have finished! It’s creates a picture in your head and the female voice is great! The male performer is good as well, I just hate that when performers use their voice for for her characters it isn’t consistent and I had to think about which character is talking.

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No, just no.

I’m confused as to whether or not this story is set in some magic realm, or in the deep south. This is terrible.

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Good

I really thought this book was very interesting. The author was very creative when it came to this book. I did like all of the characters especially the two main ones. I did like how Darius first met lark. I also liked the hawk that lark had. I did like the narrators of this book they did a very good job. Sometimes it seemed like the female reader was a little too dramatic in some areas.

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Good Story

Took me a few chapters in to get into this book. It was like dropping down in the middle of the book and trying to catch up. once I did, halfway in , I enjoyed the story.

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DNF

I was bored and the narration did not help. I am very disappointed. Normally, this is my kind of read but I’ve chosen the wrong book this time.

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good story, bad narration

I enjoyed this light romantasy story, but thank the Lost Gods that I can speed up the narration. I usually listen to things at x1.25 or x1.5 but even that was too slow for this narrator. I listened at x1.7 speed to feel like it matched my expectations. Normal speed was having me rolling my eyes and falling asleep.

Awful narrator, characters lack depth

Story was ok… lackluster. It could have been good and almost was. The characters lack depth or any real development. They are difficult to relate to. The author is all over the place trying to be dark and mysterious but doesn’t commit long enough to achieve that. The sisters are meant to be exceedingly witty but their quips aren’t even intelligent. The narrator reads this like a it’s a children’s story rather than dark fantasy which kills the story even more. I started the second book in the series hoping it would be better. It’s not.