Brimstone Angels: Lesser Evils

A Forgotten Realms Novel

By: Erin M. Evans

Narrated by: Dina Pearlman

Rejected at birth and raised in a village of tiefling misfits, Farideh expects a life without friends, love, or control over her destiny. Then she makes a pact with a devil named Lorcan, and everything changes.

Lorcan promises all she ever dreamed of and asks for nothing in return. Her twin sister, Havilar, urges Farideh to resist the devil’s sway. But Farideh’s not so sure. Lorcan may be dangerous but the power he offers is exhilarating.

In the ruins of Neverwinter, Farideh’s doubts get tangled up in a devilish snare six layers deep. A succubus playing human pawns against an otherworldly foe sees the twins as obstacles in her path. And Lorcan’s monstrous sisters have their eyes on the city - and on Farideh. There’s no time to question her pact with Lorcan - it will take every ounce of Farideh’s newfound powers to get out of Neverwinter alive.

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good faerun lore and well written, too bad for bad narration and the main characters flare for highschool drama..

Narrator is terrible. story is good aside from the overdramatic teenage stuff.. the lore and fights are fantastic. most characters are fine but occasionally get written into some awkward "highschool drama" corner .. slightly less so than the first book at least. my main gripe so far is with this narrator though .. just some wierd stresses on parts of a sentance, awkward pauses, only uses one voice for when any male character is mad, seems to exacerbate the characters immaturity at times .. at first I thought that it was just her choice of voice for Lorkin the Cambian but then it ended up being me disliking most of her choices for voices .. idk maybe its just me but I find myself rolling my eyes all too often at her readings.

overall its a good listen. worth toughing it out through all this. good story, big events happening to keep you engaged, lots of different points of intrigue .. its good.

Feels like several sessions of D&D

This book hits on multiple d&d tropes throughout the entire story and is broken up into two parts: city and spy intrige and then later basically a hostile dungeon. They also frequently flash back over from other charcters to the hells. Some may find it confusing but I find it reliatively easy to figure out what is happening because of the distinctive names. Multiple characters may be doing random different stuff, and its sometimes unclear what the goal is but if you think of it as a d&d session and the characters are just doing downtime activities like shopping, it makes perfect sense.

You really get a feel for the world in this book. I basically know nothing about the zentarum or harpers but this book shows you a more nuanced not strictly good or evil take on them both. The book really goes deep on dnd lore but you dont have to have known it to enjoy this book. Does it really matter if you don't know selune is godess of the moon? Not really. But the book says it anyway.

Unlike R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt series, the characters in this series has more magical characters. They all have a complicated relationship with magic. Drizzt characters see magic as something useful but not something they can do without items. In this Ferideh covets magic as a force to help her friends, and it gets her into trouble. Dahl, Tam and Bryn all use divine magic and have complicated feelings about it. The characters in this feel more like dnd classes than in other forgotten realms books I've read. Like even down to warlocks, sorcerers and wizards all being different.

Overall I enjoyed this. I also had no problems with the narration as the voices for other characters were good. Ferideh and Havilar's voices were great.

Narrator needs work

The book has a solid story but the narrator seem to yell unnecessarily at times and had a few pronunciation slip ups

Exposition: The Book

Loved the deep dive into the world and characters, but a little slow for me.

Another Hit!

I really enjoyed the book and how it manages to keep many different plot threads and back storys in check. Got a little slow near the middle but it was key information to Know to keep the story fluid. Definitely worth a listen/read