The Woodcutter

By: Kate Danley

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Deep within the Wood, a young woman lies dead. Not a mark on her body. No trace of her murderer. Only her chipped glass slippers hint at her identity.

The Woodcutter, keeper of the peace between the Twelve Kingdoms of Man and the Realm of the Faerie, must find the maiden’s killer before others share her fate. Guided by the wind and aided by three charmed axes won from the River God, the Woodcutter begins his hunt, searching for clues in the whispering dominions of the enchanted unknown.

But quickly he finds that one murdered maiden is not the only nefarious mystery afoot: one of Odin’s hellhounds has escaped, a pixie-dust drug trade runs rampant, and more young girls go missing. Looming in the shadows is a malevolent, power-hungry queen, and she will stop at nothing to destroy the Twelve Kingdoms and annihilate the Royal Fae…unless the Woodcutter can outmaneuver her and save the gentle souls of the Wood.

©2012 Kate Danley (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Great reading

This was a good book. The reader excelled in audio. Very enjoyable! It's a book to listen to x2

Wonderful Story; Excellent Reader

Danley wove multiple familiar tales into a single, masterful tale with enough turns to keep me guessing.
Coomes was an excellent choice to read the epic, though I would not have chosen a French accent for the queen--but that is just my taste.
A great fireside book!

One of the best!

An excellent conglomeration of all our favorite fairy tales. Coombs (sorry if mispelled) is an audiist to aspire to!!!!!

Loved it!

So much fun to listen to, with all the interweaving fairy tales. I'd definitely listen to more of her work.

Brilliant...

An awesomely woven tale of wit & prose - an extreme enjoyable way to enjoy your treasured childhood fairytales.

Beautiful, fascinating, entertaining

Beautiful prose and a fascinating and entertaining story. Narrator brings the fairy tale to life.

Lovely story, overly breathy Narration

I really enjoyed this story, a rehashing and a nice interweaving of classical fairytales. The characters were unique, their desires understandable, the world an exciting mix of familiar and new.

But the narration really threw me out of it. The narration was over done the ENTIRE time. For critical moments, it would have been fine, after listening it to hours and hours, it really wears down on a person. I found I couldn't take this story very seriously, because I found the narration for baffling.

I want to recommend this so much, but I can't recommend the narration.

All the elements

Of our best loved classic fairy tales re-imagined...
The underlying rules, the roles played by each character now bent to a new tale. A lush and lyrical fairy tale that will have lovers of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson nodding to themselves as they recognize the scraps used the make this lovely quilt.

A twist on old familiar fairy tales!

The Woodcutter tale is a fairy tale in itself but uses several of the fairy tales we grew up with, like Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and gives them a back story. All these fables end up having a common thread, and their happy endings, as we know them, are dependent on the Woodcutter and his enchanted forest. The narrator does a wonderful job changing voices for each character and each being in-character. Fun story, for young and old.

This book was made to be an Audiobook

I absolutely loved this story! It was unique and fascinating! There were more than a few parts that shocked me and I loved that. And Sarah did an absolutely amazing job performing it!