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The Bitter Twins
- The Winnowing Flame Trilogy, Book 2
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 23 hrs and 53 mins
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Summary
From Jen Williams, highlyacclaimed author of the Copper Cat trilogy and three-time British Fantasy Award finalist, comes the second novel in the electrifying Winnowing Flame trilogy - the sequel to The Ninth Rain. Epic fantasy for fans of Robin Hobb and Adrian Tchaikovsky.
The Ninth Rain has fallen. The Jure'lia are awake. Nothing can be the same again.
Tormalin the Oathless and the fell-witch Noon have their work cut out rallying the first war-beasts to be born in Ebora for three centuries. But these are not the great winged warriors of old. Hatched too soon and with no memory of their past incarnations, these onetime defenders of Sarn can barely stop bickering, let alone face an ancient enemy who grow stronger each day.
The key to uniting them, according to the scholar Vintage, may lie in a part of Sarn no one really believes exists - a distant island, mysteriously connected to the fate of two legendary Eborans who disappeared long ago. But finding it will mean a perilous journey in a time of war while new monsters lie in wait for those left behind.
Join the heroes of The Ninth Rain as they battle a terrible evil, the likes of which Sarn has never known.
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Critic reviews
"Fantasy adventure at its very best." (Starburst)
"Williams excels at eldritch world-building." (The Guardian)
"An absolute joy to read...jam-packed with breath-taking inventiveness." (James Oswald)
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- lee moore
- 30-04-20
Excellent
Excellent 2nd book. 3rd book purchased, downloaded and ready to press play for what I'm hoping to be an explosive final book. I can't wait.
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- Andy Barnes
- 08-02-24
Lived up to Book One
More interesting plot and character developments. The series is keeping me enthralled. How is it going to conclude? Ordered book 3 before I got to the end.
I have binged this trilogy, great stuff.
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- Browne87
- 13-04-23
Good follow up
Enjoyed and downloaded the last in the trilogy soon after. Looking forward to finding out everyone's fate.
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- Domonkos Kiss UK
- 02-11-18
Getting deeper in the world of Saarn
The second book is as good as the first one. It builds up the world perfectly and we learn more about the history.
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The storyline is more or less predictable, there isn't really a big surprise or drama, just an excellent story.
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- Eddie
- 12-02-20
Exceptional
Just as good as book 1 - The Ninth Rain. Excellent cast throughout although Noon is my favourite. An honourable mention to Vintage’s exclamations which are often laugh out loud funny. It keeps up the pace of book 1 with no sagging.
I listened in conjunction with reading the Kindle version because I just had to keep going. You have to know what happens next as you have no idea where Jen Williams is going to take the story making the whole thing a joy from start to finish.
Jot Davis’ narration brings everyone to life with his narration and giving the Eborans a rich Welsh accent is a master stroke. And as for his voice for Helcate - so cute. When I switch to Kindle I have Jot’s voice in my head.
I’m moving straight onto book 3 but I of don’t want to as I really don’t want the story to end.
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- Jonathan Jackson
- 29-08-24
A slow, world building story that gets better and better
I had a love and hate relationship with this sequel.
The first half of the book took me over a month to listen to as Jen builds the world and story in such fine detail. But then as a result, the second half was completed in a week, I couldn’t get enough of the story.
Can’t wait to listen to the next one.
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- Pvi
- 12-05-22
pretty good but performance suffered
I generally enjoyed the story and charactes but the narrator 's warbeast voices/creatures were in my personal opinion really bad and made it really hard to enjoy listening to it ):. I hope warbeasts dont speak that much on the next one because listening to their dialogue really threw me off the story.
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- 07-05-19
Brilliant
I need the next book desperately! So much happened, the twists are heartbreaking and vexing and I need to know the end.
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- jennifer
- 03-08-19
fantastic
A great read, carries on the trilogy with no lessening of imagery, the strength of the opposes, and the price they paid in the face of unequal odds.
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- Chris Newman
- 15-11-19
Fantastic !!
The second installment of this trilogy brings back the characters you fell in love with in the first book and some how makes you fall in love with them all over again.
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