Angels of Darkness

By: Ilona Andrews, Nalini Singh, Sharon Shinn

Narrated by: Justine Eyre, Coleen Marlo

Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

They soar through the night, unearthly creatures of legends and lore. Three masters of urban fantasy and paranormal romance explore the rapture of the heavens above, and the darkness below in three all-new stories of angels and guardians, and good and evil. Best-selling author Nalini Singh returns to her Guild Hunter universe to tell the story of vampire Noel, and Sharon Shinn returns to her Samaria series to tell the story of a blind angel and the woman helps him---even though she hates and fears angels. Hear these stories and an all-new novella from New York Times best-selling author Ilona Andrews in this exciting collection sure to delight fans of the paranormal.

©2011 Penguin Group (USA), Inc., Andrew Gordon, Ilona Gordon, Nalini Singh, and Sharon Shinn (P)2011 Tantor

Good stories, mostly good narration

The narrator for Nalini Singh’s story was awful. Her inflection and tone wee so repulsive that I almost quit the story.
The narrators for Ilona Andrews and Sharon Shinn were wonderful.
All of the stories were well thought out, well paced, and complex even though they are novellas or (in the case of Sharon Shinn’s) short stories. I really enjoyed them even though I generally avoid stories with angels or demons. All of the authors were able incorporate backstory without slowing the current plot. Ilona Andrew’s romance felt a bit quick but it was such a great action story with such a natural heroine that the hurried romantic progression is easily forgiven. (It was a reread for me and I enjoyed every bit of it)
They are all a bit hurried because of the length of the stories. The Shinn story felt the most natural.

Can't stand the narrator's voice

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Good book, but Justine Eyre's voice makes it impossible to listen to - I bought a hard copy.

I couldn't stand one of the voices

I don't want to name names because I don't remember for sure which narrator it was, but the narrator of the Nalini Singh story has the most unpleasant voice it has been my misfortune to hear. I can not imagine how she has established a career as a narrator with such a grating and unpleasant voice. The stories were good, and the other narrators were fine. Just skip the Nalini Singh story.

A fun read to tide you over to the next full book

I loved the Nalini Singh and Ilona Andrews stories. Nalini Singh's story, "Angel's Wolf", is a fun addition to her Guild Hunter series, and Justine Eyre is her usual narrator, which makes it fit right in with the readings of the rest of the Guild Hunter series. Ilona Andrews' story "Alphas: Origins" narrated by Renee Raudman (also her usual narrator) was wonderful: while the Alphas world was new to me, the story drew me in right away. The Sharon Shinn story dragged on for me a bit, but that could just be because I'm less familiar with her Samaria series. I don't know if Coleen Marlo is the usual reader for the Samara books, but she's the usual reader for the Wishcraft cozy series, and she's very consistent. All three narrators are good, really, with good quality recordings.

Needed A Little More

The first story was pretty good, the 2nd one could have been left out all together. The 3rd was ok, I just felt like they left me hanging on what happens to all.

Nalini Singh's story increased the rating

The three stories are all different, unique. I am biased as a NS fan, but it could just be the narrators for the other two authors. Some of the word choices would be harmonic together if not presented in a monotone voice & personality. Even with better narrators Nalini Singh is the more gifted.

Sharon Shinn's story was enjoyable & a 5 star

I struggled with Nalini's and ended up skipping the middle part. I never made it past 2 chapters of Ilona's book.

great intro to authors

I read this some time ago while binging paranormal romance books and I've returned to it several times over the years, because i like the short stories enough to go look up some of the authors and read full books of theirs.

It's a great sampler of interesting worlds with female protagonists that discover demons, angels, etc and form bonds in crazy circumstances.

the voice acting is good.

comes with spice. 🌶️

FUN!!!

I haunt the web looking for anything with Ilona Andrews writings, I'm a definite fan! Her stories are always, always full of fun, adventure and romance! She never lets her fans down and I mean Never!

3 various short stories of paranormal romance

Im a huge Nalini Singh fan an read a Shinn book once so I thought I'd check this out. Not bad - the first was more sexual, the second was a bit tedious and seemed to be just a segment where two people meet and lots of stuff is revealed (stuff the reader won't care about unless this has anything to do with a story she already has written), and the third was actually a story I wanted to read more of.