Almost Unpalatable

I really had to force myself to finish this one. for 2 reasons.

1. The actual story was terrible until the last 5 hours. Just so much brooding and self loathing and over thinking, paired with nothing actually happening. We got a few flash backs to their earlier years but the "present" was so boring. Finally they decide to actually do something and the story continues but not until almost the end. It was like this was a filler book to get from book 3 to 5.

2. The female narrator has gotten worse. She over enunciates every single word, like every sentence is the most dramatic thing to ever happen. And yet somehow there's hardly any emotion. I had to speed it up to 1.3× speed in order to handle it. Plus she mispronounces several words. Easy words. I mean, it's your job to read words and somehow you are saying them wrong? It gets hard to focus on the story.

I'm disappointed in this book and it's too bad because I like the series. Hoping the next one makes up for this one!

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Loved it but….

The way the female narrator pronounces some of the words was completely taking me out of the story and making me question my own linguistic knowledge… at first it made me laugh, but then it made me question reality. male narrator was great

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Narrator

The female narrator is very monotone. The story and overall was amazing! I can’t wait for the next book!

LOVED IT

5/5 ⭐️
3/5🌶️

Slade and Auren are just so good together. I love this world that Raven created and I am obsessed with the story and all the size characters.

I thoroughly enjoyed seeing Auren learning her magic and powers and seeing one to wield them and use them to her advantage. I loved seeing Slade support and love her throughout it all and the unconditional love he gave her.

I really enjoyed the side characters too and seeing the way the story played out. The cliffhanger was rough and I’m sad the next book isn’t out yet, but I can’t wait to see what happens next!

good story, performance so so

male performances were good. female performance was.. off... there were several points where it was grating and annoying. I love this series but even then it was hard to push through.

So insanely good!

This series has breathed new life into my love of books! 10/10 recommend 👌🏻

Interesting and yet disappointing

The overall story is interesting, but the introduction of a new story line with established characters was unneeded in some cases and ridiculous in others. Zara Blake’s narration has gone from bad to downright unbearable. I’m not sure if there are misspellings in the book or she is just pronouncing words incorrectly, but the editing of this book should have caught those. Aside from the jarring number of those mistakes there, her cadence and speed is grating. I’ve had the speed increased for the entire series because of how ridiculous her narration is. I go through a lot of audiobooks and this is by far the most annoying overall performance I’ve ever heard. It takes so much away from the overall feel of the story and makes you annoyed at the characters.

Fantastic Storyline, Drawling Narrator

I love the storyline and am always excited about what's going to happen next. The narrator does the different voices very well, spinning each with their own personality. However, at times, the narrator draws out the words of certain characters (Queen Molina for example) so much that I get irritated and have to raise the speed of the narration.

Captivating

This entire series has been a captivating roller coaster of emotions. I can’t stop listening to these books after I’ve started. The wait for the next book will be torture.

Captivating

I could wait to get home from work to finish this book. I couldn’t get enough.