I love this story

Brilliant read, the story is captivating, the world-building is phenomenal, and the characters are fantastic. You need to read this if you like fantasy. This story kept me on edge, all the twists and turns where giving me whiplash in the best possible way, I love how original and refreshing this story is going. On the top reads of the year, the narration by Olivia King was good, I recommend you get the audiobook to go with the book, they compliment each other perfectly.

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A good story

A good book, The narrator was good but I found it a little bit off putting that a lot of words were mispronounced making me wonder if it was an American putting on an English accent

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Unique and interesting

I found this to be an interesting and most importantly a unique story. It contains familiar themes but was a new tale with its own rich lore. I enjoyed the variety of characters and motivations.

I didn’t mind the narrator at all and will happily buy the next book to continue the series.

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Loved it

Slow burn story full of intricate details. The girl can be a little daft, but otherwise great read.

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Horrible narration

The pronunciation through this was so jarringly bizarre even as a "posh british" baseline. Much, much later in the book I realise it's more of an accent within the books (posh fae schooling) world but by that point I had already switched to the kindle version. Honestly just a baseline voice would have worked better for narration purposes rather than emphasising vowels or adding in "r"s. I would have returned but unfortunately not a credit buy.

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Enjoyable

First of all the story is nice but what ruined it for me was the accent of the narrator. A story set in “middle aged” Italy read by a narrator with British accent. I mean she did a great job with the narration but I was picturing England throughout the whole story 😂 her accent was also hard to understand. I had to stop several times and relisten because I couldn’t understand her properly. I think in this case it might be better to read the book. But maybe other listeners have a completely different experience.

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The worst narration I have ever heard!

This is a great book and the story, well written. If I would have read it physically, I would have loved it. BUT, the narration was HORRIFIC. The mis pronunciation was so frustrating that there were moments where I was screaming out loud! I am British. I am from Britain. What on earth is Her-arse-ment? - the word you need is harassment! or Eye-laaarshes? ITS EYELASHES! The word "clad" is not "claaard". Pants are not "paaarnts". like seriously? I have NEVER left a review on audible this long. It is infuriating and frustrating and has definitely made me switch back to books. I feel like I have wasted a credit and I'm massively annoyed.

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Dodgy narration

The narrator overdid the English accent leading to some very strange pronunciations that detracted from what was otherwise an excellent story.

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Great world and characters

Loved the story building. Interesting world and engaging characters. Female narrator was superb but the male narrator doing the epilogue was very hard to understand. Overall very enjoyable but hope a different male narrator is used going forward.

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if you love high fantasy with some acotar vibes!

this book was wonderful! it quenched my thirst for a book similar to acotar! this is the book for you! high fantasy with some amazing twists and great characters!

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