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Wind & Wildfire
- A Mages of the Wheel Prequel
- De: J.D. Evans
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Caren Naess
- Duración: 14 h y 44 m
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He is the future sultan, a man who wields brutal magic and only knows how to be what they’ve made him. She is a commoner, a woman who champions the vulnerable and treads where she does not belong. Dilay Akar is the daughter of a judge. By day, she trains the wealthy in magic, and by night, she breaks the Sultan’s laws. But even those closest to her do not always appreciate what she is striving for, or believe that she can achieve it.
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Great story and narrator!
- De Lucy en 04-15-25
- Wind & Wildfire
- A Mages of the Wheel Prequel
- De: J.D. Evans
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Caren Naess
Such a special series
Revisado: 01-11-25
This entire series has stolen my heart. The writing is so beautiful— the world created, the believable and nuanced characters, the unique system of magic…the romance. I love everything about it.
On top of that, the narration is SO well done. My favorite of any audio book I’ve listened to.
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The Lochlann Treaty: Complete Series
- De: Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison
- Narrado por: Oliva King, Adam Gold
- Duración: 23 h y 58 m
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Princess Charlotte’s entire life had been planned. Right up until the moment her fiancé is kidnapped on her wedding day, sending the entire kingdom hurtling toward disaster. Charlie has never left the protective grounds of the castle, but to save her intended, she’ll trade her crown for a sword and forge into dangerous rebel lands alongside her fiancé’s arrogant older brother, Logan. He thinks she’s a spoiled princess. She’s about to prove him wrong. But each step deeper into the enemy’s world confirms nothing is what it seems.
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Decent story
- De C Ricketts en 02-18-23
- The Lochlann Treaty: Complete Series
- De: Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison
- Narrado por: Oliva King, Adam Gold
Not good…bordering on really bad
Revisado: 12-27-24
It takes forever for anything to actually happen. Feels like 3/4s of it is just the main character’s infuriating whining.
I can have patience, but the plot and characters both just feel extremely “basic”. There’s a lack of emotional depth that drives me crazy. And the plot line is just so straightforward…I realize it’s YA, but honestly at many points it read like something intended for a child.
I kept hoping it was going to get better due to all the good reviews, but it just didn’t. Not for me.
EDIT: I hadn’t finished the whole thing yet when I first left my review. Now that I have, it somehow got even worse. The timeline jumps around in super bizarre ways that make 0 sense.
But what bugs me the most is how one dimensional the characters are. Benevolent monarchs and evil rebels that only exist in kids’ fairytales. Real humans are much more complex.
The romance is also terrible. The first 1/2 she absolutely hates Logan and can’t shut up about her perfect, sweet, missing prince. Then she does a 180 and she’s actually been in love with Logan the whole time, even though all the flashbacks had been building her love story with the prince and all her interactions with Logan had been downright hostile. It reads like a 12 year old’s version of romance, where kids are still mean when they have a crush and feelings can change dramatically from one day to the next.
The world building is awful. I’m still not sure if it’s supposed to take place in a slightly factionalized version of our world in the past, or be a completely different world.
There’s faeries thrown in for no reason at all. Plays no part in the plot. It’s like the publisher told the author they had to do that so they could sell it as a fantasy novel.
SPOILER: Also the queen/ollie’s mother makes no sense. It’s implied she loved her brother in law and bore his son, yet she had no reaction when she found him dead by the hand of a woman she’d always openly hated. For a brief moment, I thought the plot was actually going to surprise me with a rare moment of depth/a plot line I hadn’t seen coming since page 5– I thought it meant the Queen hadn’t consented to being w Eric/that Eric had tried tan attack her in the same manner he did Charlie. While I would never wish SA on a character, it would explain so much about her character’s motivations through the novel. Instead, it was just….she loves her son so much and wants political stability for his safety. So she remained a totally one note character (possessive mother in law from hell that was obsessed w her son to the point of hating any woman that came near him).
I do NOT understand all the great reviews, and find the comparisons to ACOTAR/TOG offensive lol.
EDIT: While I found this book intolerable (I rarely write reviews, much less essays like the one above lol), for some reason I started the next in the series, Rowan. It’s SO so so so so much better. So to anyone else that hated this book, Rowan is a cute, often funny YA tale. Still firmly YA, but in a way that my cold 35yo heart finds charming. The characters, romance, and world building are all leaps and bounds better. It’s like an actual adult wrote it and then took it to be edited by yet another actual adult.
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Reign & Ruin
- Mages of the Wheel, Book 1
- De: J.D. Evans
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Caren Naess
- Duración: 14 h y 47 m
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She is heir to a Sultanate that once ruled the world. He is an unwanted prince with the power to destroy. She is order and intellect, a woman fit to rule in a man's place. He is chaos and violence and will stop at nothing to protect his people. His magic answers hers with shadow for light. They need each other, but the cost of balance may be too high a price. Magic is dying and the only way to save it is to enlist mages who wield the forbidden power of death, mages cast out centuries ago in a brutal and bloody war.
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One of my favorite audiobooks - EVER!
- De JM en 08-14-24
- Reign & Ruin
- Mages of the Wheel, Book 1
- De: J.D. Evans
- Narrado por: Tim Campbell, Caren Naess
Incredibly worth the listen/read
Revisado: 12-21-24
I’m shocked this book/series doesn’t have more fanfare. It’s beautifully written, and does a great job of balancing fantasy, politics, and romance. The leads are engaging, believable characters and the romance rings true. If you’re a fan of the TOG or ACOTAR series, do yourself a favor and read this.
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It Starts with Us
- A Novel
- De: Colleen Hoover
- Narrado por: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.
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Good narration. Story was meh.
- De CSH en 10-19-22
- It Starts with Us
- A Novel
- De: Colleen Hoover
- Narrado por: Colin Donnell, Olivia Song
Long Epilogue
Revisado: 08-17-24
I saw another review state this reads like a long , and that’s spot on. The only reason I enjoyed it was because I’d just finished It Ends with Us and was already emotionally invested in the characters.
There’s just not…much meat to the plot line, If you r lead IEWU then I recommend this. Otherwise I’d pass.
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