Chosen of Chaos

Eve of Destruction, Book 1

By: Benjamin Medrano

Narrated by: Abby Craden

Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins

Publisher's summary

Evelyn enjoyed living a nice quiet life in an anarchic pirate port, far from the world she’d once conquered.

Then came an attack by mercenaries that made her angry. By the time the dust settled, she had a group of former slaves which she’d freed, her djinn assistant had convinced several of the women that they should join Evelyn’s brand-new harem, and she was looking for a new home, likely aboard a ship.

If nothing else, it was going to make Evelyn’s life more interesting, and she almost looked forward to it. If the rest of the cluster was sweating bullets at the reemergence of a notorious warlord, that was their problem, not hers.

©2021 Benjamin Medrano (P)2021 Podium Audio

Sci-Fi Fantasy At Its Best

Excellent start to a series from an author that never fails to deliver. If you have ever wanted a book that does a good job at melding magic and ftl together then look no further. Abby also does an amazing job at bringing the whole cast to life and love all the accents she gave the characters.

Will eagerly await the next installment and hope Podium and Abby continue bringing it to life.

Fantastic

Look, if you haven't read any of this author's books yet, then what are you even doing with your life? lol. That said, I think this is my favorite yet, and Abby Craden was the perfect narrator for it. Love her work, and the voices were just amazing. The only downside is having to wait for the next book in the series.

Narration sealed the deal.

Interesting story, the main character is awesome. Abby Crayden thoroughly drew me in and raised the level of enjoyment.

A fun book...

A fun book where the MC already has the power. Fairly wholesome, even with the harem aspects, which is very light. Continuing the series to see what adventures they have next.

A fun start

I really enjoyed this first book and I’m looking forward to the next one from this amazing author!

Awesome start

I loved this book. Abby Craden did a fantastic job narrating this book. I loved this story and all the shenanigans that this crew gets up to. I can't wait for book 2 in this series.

Love it

I was very pleasantly surprised to find such a great series. the interaction between the characters is great, the relationship building is there, the narrator is awesome, and best of all the main character is badass without all the wining which you don't see in many female main characters. I highly recommend this series.

Great adventure!

I saw Abby Craden narrated this series and I bought the first book based solely on the narrator. I am glad I did it was a fantastic listen and I’m off to start book two. ;)

Fantastic

Fun characters, lovely narrator and fantastic writing as always. A great melding of sci-fy and traditional fantasy, looking forward to the rest of the series.

pretty good

good voice acting, although having so many characters all introduced at the same time made it hard to keep them straight.

the whole harem thing was a but uncomfortable, but it was nice that it also made the protagonist themselves uncomfortable, and I appreciated the care that was taken around the topic of consent.

the parts were little story arcs, and were fun although pretty light in substance. each part picks up immediately after the previous one, but no strong plot threads span all the parts, so there is no grand resolution at the end.

still a fun listen, I may pick up the sequel.